How to install Adobe Bridge CC

We install Bridge CC using an application Creative Cloud . To open the Creative Cloud app from within Photoshop, go to the menu Instructions in the menu bar along the top of the screen and select Updates :

When the Creative Cloud app opens, go to the Creative Cloud section Applications above:

Scroll through the list of applications that you have installed on your computer. If you see Bridge CC in the list (and it has a open next to it), Bridge CC is already installed and you're good to go:

If you don't see Bridge CC in the list of installed apps, scroll down to the list of additional apps. When you find Bridge CC, click the button install . Then just sit back and relax for a few minutes during the installation. Thats all about it:

How to open Adobe Bridge

Now that we know Bridge is installed, to open Bridge from within Photoshop, go to the menu Fillet And choose Browse in Bridge :

This opens the Bridge, which consists of a group of paintings . We have panels for navigating to our images, panels for viewing our images, panels for displaying additional information about our images, and more:

Find our images using Bridge

To navigate to our images in Bridge, we use a panel Folders . You'll find it in the upper left, overlapping the Favorites panel. By default, the Favorites panel is the open panel. To switch to the folder panel, tap Tab Folders at the top:

The Folders panel displays the folders and directories on your computer in a top-down view, starting with the main directories such as the desktop and our computer's hard drive.

Indicates existing triangle to the left of the folder or directory name indicates that there are subfolders within it. Click the triangle to rotate the folder, open it, and view its subfolders. Continue working your way through your folders until you reach the folder containing your photos.

In my case, I know that my pictures are in a folder named "Open from Bridge" inside a folder named "Photos" on my desktop. To access my "Open from Bridge" folder, I'll start by clicking the triangle next to my desktop to open my desktop. Next, I'll click on the triangle next to my "Photos" folder to twirl it's a Open, where do I find my "Open from Bridge" folder sitting inside it:

View your photos in Bridge

To view images within a folder, click the folder name in the Folders panel. In my case, I'd click on the "Open from Bridge" folder:

The folder's contents appear as thumbnails in a panel Content in the middle of the Bridge interface. Here we see that I have five images in the folder, each displayed as a thumbnail:

Change the thumbnail size

By default, thumbnails are fairly small. We can resize it using Slider bottom right of the Bridge interface. Drag the slider to the right to make the thumbnails larger or to the left to make them smaller:

Here we see that after dragging the slider to the right, my thumbnails are now much larger:

Choose a picture

To select an image, simply click on its thumbnail in the content panel. Here I'm clicking on my "flowers.jpg" image, second from the left, top row:

A preview of the selected image appears in a panel Preview in the upper right of the Bridge. Note that the Preview panel is overlapped with the Publish panel. You may need to click tab Preview panel at the top to open it:

Besides the preview in the preview panel, you'll find plenty of additional information about the selected image, including exposure settings, pixel dimensions and file size, the type of camera and lens used, and much more, in the preview panel. Metadata Just below the Preview panel. Use the scroll bar along the right to scroll through all the information:

View a full screen preview

Along with the thumbnails in the content panel and the preview in the preview panel, we can also display Full screen preview for the selected image. All you have to do is click on spacebar on the keyboard. This will hide the Bridge interface and a full screen view of your image. To exit full screen mode, press the spacebar again:

How to open an image in Photoshop

Finally, to open an image from Bridge to Photoshop, Double click Its thumbnail in the Content panel. I'll double click on my "flowers.jpg" image:

And here we see my image now open in Photoshop, ready for editing:

Close the image and return to the bridge

To close the image in Photoshop and return to Bridge, go to the menu Fillet And choose Close :

Then, to go back to Bridge, go back to Menu Fillet And choose Browse in Bridge :

Or, to close your image and return to Bridge in one take, go to Menu Fillet And choose Close and go to Bridge :

This takes you back to Bridge where you can choose the following image you want to open in Photoshop: