is an organizational program created and released by
Adobe Systems as a part of the
Adobe Creative Suite 2 (CS2) in May, 2005. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of
Adobe Photoshop . It is accessible from all other components of the Creative Suite.
Adobe Bridge also allows for access to
Adobe Stock Photos , a collection of royalty-free images available on-line.
The Bridge has many functions such as batch rename and other utilites to help with organisation. Others include labeling a image with the colour red for easy identification, and the abilty to change the metadata within an image file.
The files can be shown in different sized thumbnails, slide shows or lists. Each folder, which can be bookmarked, has a cache file for speeding up rendering time of images when viewing a thumbnail. The cache can be in one central location can get very large, or in individual folders.
Adobe Bridge is extensively customizable using a Javascript API (JSAPI). The Adobe Stock Photos service is implemented as a Bridge Extension. The Bridge scripting guide is available online as well as in paperback.
