Bridge CC Free File Organizer for Adobe CC

File and photo organizer is not a new thing. It’s been there from the beginning of image based editing softwares. A simple google search will list some of the popular programs, some of them are paid, some free and some have special abilities like they are optimized for handling photos rather than files. A few examples are XnView, Lightroom, ACDsee. But Bridge CC is a new name.

But what makes Bridge unique from all it’s competitors is that it’s designed by Adobe, is free and its integration with entire Adobe Creative Cloud is unparalleled. Lightroom is also an excellent product from Adobe but it’s optimized for Photography whereas Bridge handles both file and photo related tasks quite well.

Bridge CC

Let’s dive deep into the pool of awesome features and capabilities that Bridge CC has to offer

1. Free for anyone to use for any purpose.
2. Tight integration with Adobe Creative Cloud.
3. The famous camera raw plugin with support for a large number of camera and with continuous updates, new models are added all the time.
4. Ability to import photos directly from your camera, batch rename, organized by date all from one dialog.
5. Preset workspaces for handling different types of editing style such as organizing and sorting, metadata editing and light table.
6. Stacking features that helps in creating quick groups of several photos with ability to edit the stack as a whole such as opening, closing and promoting stack to top.
7. File menu has a loads of useful feature with some unique ones such as Copy to & Move to, to move files between recent folders.
8. It also has a handy feature with which you can open the current file in windows explorer to work with commands that only windows explorer supports.
9. Boomerang mode to switch back and forth between the Photoshop CC and the Bridge CC.
10. It also has xmp powered metadata editing capabilities.
11. It has countless tags for sorting and organizing your files and photos and you can create custom tags too.
12. Review mode let’s you view your selected photos in a 3D view and it has this lens feature to observe details.
13. Besides files and photos, it also supports video files, there is a myriad of tasks that you can do with video files like previewing them right inside Bridge CC and sending it to Premiere Pro CC or After Effects CC for further editing.
14. It allows for running more than 1 instance of Bridge CC to make it easy to work with multiples folders and files.
15. It has this awesome global rating and labelling feature which enables you to use your ratings and labels in a third party application to quickly get to what you want to do.
16. It has some batch processes that are usually included in photoshop like image processor, lens correction, photomerge and merge HDR pro.