Adobe Bridge is a program that comes with the Adobe suite. It allows users to organize, browse, and find content. You can add tags and keywords to files and documents which makes files easier to find when searching. This program is useful when using the same images and other files for use in other programs. For example, if you’re using an image for a spread in InDesign but need to edit it in Photoshop. This program is a good middle ground so you can have all of the edited images in a folder and they are easy to find when you need to place them into InDesign.

If organized well, this program would be very helpful if a few years down the road you need to find a certain image for a friend or colleague. All you would need to do is search for a tag that the image would have or you can also filter the files by information such as “date created”, “file type” or you can create your own filter to search by. For instance, if you want only images created by a specific person you could create a filter for that.

A fun feature of Adobe Bridge is the ability to create a gallery of images. Here you can select a group of images and Adobe Bridge will put them into a slideshow template for you. It’s not recommended to use this over creating your own with your own since the code used to create this is quite atrocious but if you need something quick and aren’t worrried about the back end it would be quite useful. Below is a screen shot of the gallery I made of some pictures from our AIGA group’s recent trip to Chicago. The image shown is of a group of classmates and I with Steve Frykholm of Herman Miller in Holland, Michigan.