"The first version of Bridge may have left a lot to be desired, but this version has blossomed into a nimble creature that ties the Creative Suite together like a brightly colored ribbon on a luxurious gift."
Dingbat
Product overview
Manage media visually
Adobe® Bridge CS3 is a powerful, easy-to-use media manager for visual people, letting you easily organize, browse, locate, and view creative assets. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 software and all professional Adobe creative applications, Bridge provides centralized access to project files, applications, and settings, as well as XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.
Bridge also serves as a hub for these timesaving Adobe features and services:
- Bridge Home for developing expertise with Adobe tools
- Adobe Version Cue® CS3 for workgroup file management
- Adobe Device Central CS3 for previewing and testing mobile content
- Adobe Acrobat® Connect™ for web conferencing
Adobe Bridge CS3 is included in the following Creative Suite 3 products:
Standalone CS3 software
- Adobe InDesign® CS3
- Adobe InCopy® CS3
- Adobe Photoshop® CS3 Extended
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Illustrator® CS3
- Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro*
- Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional
- Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3
- Adobe Fireworks® CS3
- Adobe Contribute® CS3
- Adobe After Effects® CS3 Professional
- Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3
- Adobe Soundbooth™ CS3
- Adobe Encore® CS3
*Only available when Acrobat is installed as part of Creative Suite 3. Bridge is not available in stand alone versions of Acrobat.
Suite editions
Features
Top new features
Bridge Home
Bridge Home
Visit Bridge Home, a destination area that offers up-to-date tips and resources for making the most of Creative Suite 3 software. Watch video tutorials, learn efficient workflow techniques, get inspired by leading designers' podcasts, and more.
New Filter panel for faster file selection
New Filter panel for faster file selection
Quickly locate files using the powerful new Filter panel, which lets you filter content by metadata properties such as file type, file modification date, keywords, aspect ratio, and orientation. Sort results by criteria ranging from filename and creation date to label and rating.
Customizable workspace
View and manage images more efficiently in a redesigned interface that you can customize to your liking and save for reuse.
Image stacking
Image stacking
Group related images into collapsible stacks. Use stacks to organize multiple versions of the same file, group related files, or gather files to send to Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 or Adobe Illustrator® CS3 for batch processing.
Flat view of nested folders and contents
Display the contents of folders and subfolders in a flat view so you can find what you're looking for without burrowing deep into your filing system.
Enhanced previews
Evaluate images more effectively in the enhanced Preview panel, which can quickly be sized to full screen and offers a new Loupe tool to zoom in on details. Compare images side by side, preview and play back SWF and FLV files, and preview and scrub image sequences.
Improved support for XMP metadata
View and search by new types of metadata criteria, including Illustrator swatches and the DICOM medical imaging format. The enhanced Find command now lets you search images using more types of metadata criteria, including EXIF camera settings such as exposure, focal length, and aperture.
Real-time, interactive web meetings
Real-time, interactive web meetings using Adobe Acrobat Connect*
Use Bridge to launch Adobe Acrobat® Connect™, the web-based conferencing system for real-time, interactive meetings such as design reviews. For a low monthly fee, host online conferences in a meeting room that you set up once and is readily available. For example, display your Bridge Content panel in Light Table view, and collaboratively select images in an Acrobat Connect meeting.
Adobe Bridge features exclusively in Creative Suite 3 editions
Mobile content previewing with Adobe Device Central CS3
Access Device Central CS3 from within Bridge to easily preview images, animations, and other content you're developing for mobile devices. With Device Central, you can preview, test, and optimize your designs, including Adobe Flash® Lite™ applications, for a variety of mobile devices.
Centralized color settings
Set color preferences from a centralized panel in Bridge for more consistent color in your projects and files. This single set of preferences controls color settings for Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, InDesign® CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional, so colors match closely onscreen as you work with the same file in different tools.
Workgroup file management with Adobe Version Cue CS3
Access Adobe Version Cue® CS3 from inside Bridge to manage file handling within creative teams. Track multiple versions, prevent overwriting, find the files you need quickly, conduct browser-based Adobe PDF reviews, and control access to files on a project-by-project basis.
