You can then browse only the images within several directories simultaneously - a really handy feature. Select Match Any or All under Results - and the browser window will display all the images (and only the mages) within the subfolders: Enter the file type suffixes under the Criteria (you can search for either Keywords or File Types - amongst many other options). feature:Īs you can see above, this feature allows you to introduce 'AND' & 'OR' methods of searching. If you need a more comprehensive tool, use the Edit/Find. feature to display multiple image types - and hide the others JPG file formats present - but not so good if there are any others: This is fine if you know for sure that there are only. However, this method will only return one image file type - and hide the others. Alternatively, type PNG or JPEG (or any others) for different image types.
If you enter JPG into the field, only JPGs from the selected directories will remain visible.
The quickest way to hide everything else (and show a single file type) is to use the search field (top right of the Bridge browser window). Use the Search field to hide other file types Although this would group all the JPEGs / JPGs / PNGs etc together, all other file types will also be present. You could select a file type from Sort by Type in the top right corner. However, if you're browsing for images only and there are other files included in the subfolders, you'll have to sift through all the other file types as well: The number of files that appear in the browser window will immediately include everything from within every subfolder contained in the selected directory.
Is Adobe Bridge a free alternative to Lightroom. If you have a working directory containing several sub-directories and you can't be bothered to click on each one in turn, you can view all the files at once by selecting View/Show Items from Subfolders: For those looking to cut costs or avoid getting into subscriptions, Adobe Bridge CC seems a perfect fit. View multiple files from numerous folders sumultaneously I'm using Bridge CS6 for the purposes of this demonstration.
Bridge (what I call the full-sized Adobe.
This page briefly explains how to achieve this. they added Mini Bridge, and in CS6, its faster, easier to use. However, I use it primarily to browse images at high speed within one or more folders - simultaneously. ACR and Bridge use 8-pixel-tall type, which is simply blown up (not redrawn with sharper edges) if you use less than the native 2560 x 1600 screen setting.Using Adobe Bridge to view images and hide other filesĪdobe Bridge is an excellent file browser - and can be used for numerous purposes. Put another way - PS6 uses, say, 8-point type, drawn with whatever pixels your screen setting makes available. ACR and Bridge use 8-pixel-tall type, which is simply blown up (not redrawn with sharper edges) if you use less than the native 2560 x 1600 screen setting. If you use a lower screen res like 1440 x 800, Photoshop will (or should) adapt the user-interface text size cleanly - Bridge and ACR will simply "blow up" the pixels by close to 200%, resulting in the jaggies.Īlthough you can look through these Apple and Adobe information pages to see if I missed something. You can likely get clean, unpixellated (but half the size) text in your version of Bridge by changing your resolution setting to the maximum (and native) setting for the 13" Retina Screen - 2560 x 1600. Bridge only supports it in the CC version (the permanent-license "DVD" CS6 version of Bridge does not and never will). 8.7 but only IF you are using the CC version of Photoshop. Speaking about Adobe Illustrator Subscription, the major advantage is limitless cloud storage and stable updates (support), while a CS6 version is unique because it is fully autonomous and doesn’t require any regular payments. Photoshop CS6 itself supports the new screen behavior.
The native resolution of the 13" Retina Display is 2560 x 1600 (or even higher in newer Mac Book Pros.) Much sharper, but smaller, pixels than previous displays (essentially, it is the resolution of my 20" Cinema display, shrunk to fit within a 13" screen).Īdobe has been playing catch-up with the new "invisibly-small pixels" (HiDPI) of the Retina screens over time - but not equally across the independent parts of CS6 (Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, Bridge), which are, after all, really separate programs. I think I know what is going on here - now.