About Adobe Bridge CS4

Adobe Bridge, provided with Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, lets you organize, browse, and locate the assets you use to create content for print, the web, television, DVD, film, and mobile devices. Adobe Bridge keeps native Adobe files (such as PSD and PDF) as well as non‑Adobe files available for easy access. You can drag assets into your layouts, projects, and compositions as needed, preview files, and even add metadata (file information), making the files easier to locate.

For a video overview of Adobe Bridge, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4011_bri.

File browsing

From Adobe Bridge you can view, search, sort, filter, manage, and process image, page layout, PDF, and dynamic media files. You can use Adobe Bridge to rename, move, and delete files; edit metadata; rotate images; and run batch commands. You can also view files and data imported from your digital still or video camera.

Version Cue

Use Adobe Bridge as a central location from which to work with Adobe Version Cue. From Adobe Bridge, you can browse all project files, including non‑Adobe files, in one place without having to start the native application for each file. You can create new Version Cue projects, delete projects, and create versions in Adobe Bridge. Use the Inspector in Adobe Bridge to view and act on context-sensitive information about Adobe Version Cue Servers, projects, and Version Cue-managed assets.

Camera raw

If you have Adobe Photoshop® CS4, Adobe After Effects® CS4, or an edition of Adobe Creative Suite 4 installed (except Creative Suite 4 Web Standard), you can open or import camera raw files from Adobe Bridge, edit them, and save them in a Photoshop-compatible format. You can edit the images directly in the Camera Raw dialog box without starting Photoshop or After Effects, and copy settings from one image to another. If you don’t have Photoshop or After Effects installed, you can still preview the camera raw files in Adobe Bridge.

Color management

If you have an edition of Adobe Creative Suite 4 (except Creative Suite 4 Web Standard), you can use Adobe Bridge to synchronize color settings across color-managed Adobe Creative Suite 4 components. This synchronization ensures that colors look the same in all Adobe Creative Suite 4 components.