In response to our post, we received from a reader: Hi – is it really true that Adobe Bridge (the full version) is totally free to download and use forever, and I don’t have to pay for it or have a subscription? The answer is yes, it’s – although not that many people know about it because Adobe hasn’t really publicized it widely is Adobe’s flagship desktop media browser and powerful digital asset manager that allows you to efficiently locate, organize, browse, preview, and batch process your content files – including most image, vector, audio and video files. You can view (in fullscreen) and manage Photoshop PSD, Camera RAW, Illustrator AI, InDesign INDD, Adobe XD, Acrobat PDF, Flash SWF/FLV, and many other types of files and documents, all without paid programs. While Bridge won’t edit the content of these files on its own, it works beautifully as an easy-to-use visual gateway to all your creative assets – a very handy utility for quickly viewing and working with your creative files in many different formats (Adobe and otherwise). Bridge can also, create collections, add image watermarks, rate & label photographs, do slideshows, perform batch file operations including renaming, browse directories without importing, support multi-user workflows, and more. And it’s available worldwide in dozens of languages, with for both Windows and macOS: What’s less known is that the license to run/use Bridge and never expires! It doesn’t matter whether you’re running a or a paid subscription (or even any other Adobe software at all).

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Regardless, Bridge CC will legally continue to work and be able to manage and view your media and Adobe files even if/when your trial or subscription ends. Well it used to be (with CS6 and older) that Adobe Bridge was bundled together with paid programs like Photoshop and After Effects. But Adobe decided to unbundle Bridge and make it a separate download for Creative Cloud, so now this product doesn’t even require a paid subscription. This basically means that Bridge comes with all CC plans – including the popular – and even the of Creative Cloud. Related: Do you believe any of these?

You can install Bridge CC either standalone by itself, or together with other applications like Photo­shop CC (and all the rest), or even Photoshop Elements Either way, Bridge CC requires no purchase, no membership or subscrip­tion, and not even any other Adobe tools on the same system. It installs and runs fine, and even allows updating to the latest version of the app itself plus the ACR plugin for the display and previewing of raw files within Bridge. Adobe recommends that photographers use the more sophisticated to manage their photos, and that’s a product and workflow which work amazingly well for many customers. But folks who want a simple solution including designers who work with many different applications and file types will still want to use Bridge. Plus, you can install and use it on as many computers as you like, your friends and colleagues can use it, your clients and customers can use it, all at the same time (and even with the same files collaboratively) – there is no cost or limit or restriction. So how to take advantage of it? To get your permanently-free Adobe Bridge CC (100% legitimate and authentic full version), you can – look for the big blue “Download” button at the upper right, which will give you Bridge via the.

Alternatively, you can use the. Either way works fine – and it’s not a free trial, nor has any expiration date – as promised above! Bridge is free. And yes, we’ve definitely checked thoroughly with Adobe about this. The cost of Bridge changed in 2013 when Adobe unbundled it from Photoshop, and made it a separate free download that does not require a subscription Anybody can. Bridge is first-and-foremost a media manager, browser and previewer – and in that capacity it will work with any Adobe files/software of any version, as well as all non-Adobe files/software.

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In fact, Creative Cloud customers can use Bridge to manage and view/preview their CC files even if/after their subscription lapses. The article above was originally published in 2015. Adobe has absolutely seen it and repeated the same thing: If you have anything definitive to the contrary, then you’re welcome to post it here and we’ll help clear it up for you. The article is not misleading. Bridge definitely does download, install and use the latest Camera Raw for its own functionality, and within Bridge, the ACR plug-in works in a read-only way in order to display and preview the content within your Adobe files. Bridge CC can also edit image metadata and the like, however to make changes to the image pixels (and actually open the file for editing) you would use your version of Adobe Photoshop and/or the Camera Raw plug-in that comes with it. So whenever there is a new update to ACR, then your Bridge CC will definitely receive that update for those purposes.

By using the current release of the ACR plug-in, the free Bridge CC will always be able to properly manage, display and preview the latest Camera Raw images within its media browser. The key to remember is that ACR is used by several Creative Cloud/Suite apps and is technically separate from Bridge.

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Bottom line, you can absolutely for life. And Bridge will install the ACR plugin alongside for its own specific needs. But again, you would not get to use the full editing functionality of Adobe Camera Raw without making a purchase, as that would be giving away the keys to the store – and we never said otherwise. Bridge CC is completely free, and you can make changes to image metadata using it, as well as all the other Bridge functions described in the article above It is Adobe’s flagship desktop media browser and a powerful digital asset manager. However, without a subscription to Photoshop CC, you cannot use Bridge to do editing with Camera Raw. The standalone version of Bridge CC includes and uses the Camera Raw plug-in in read-only fashion for accurately displaying and previewing your images within the application.

If you want to make changes to your photos using Camera Raw, then you need Photoshop, which also uses the same ACR plug-in as Bridge, but with full editing functionality. This is similar to (read that for more details), but hope that clears it up once and for all! Bridge CC is free.

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And when you download Bridge CC 2018 using, and then install it standalone onto your computer, the process does not require an Adobe ID nor does it require logging in at any point – neither for downloading, installing, nor running the program. (if that’s truly important to you) Besides, this is not a ‘campaign’ that Adobe promotes. It’s something that we published, and Adobe acknowledges. And it’s a useful product to have, at no cost to you or anyone, for the reasons outlined in the article. But Adobe is not out there pushing it, and most people don’t realize it. In the October 2018 release of Bridge (version 9.0, aka CC 2019) – some other major features: – Bridge now has an modern, enhanced user interface to provide you a similar experience like other Creative Cloud applications. – You can now cut, copy, or move files and folders across Bridge and Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder.

– Bridge now supports preview, thumbnail generation, metadata tagging, and keyword generation for files. – The Libraries workspace in Bridge now displays a high-quality preview of Creative Cloud Libraries items. – You can now share a cache with other Bridge users and let them use the shared cache instead of creating a cache.

– Bridge now lets you change the capture time of the JPEG and RAW image files, just like the way it is done in Lightroom. – Bridge now processes and maintains a media cache of all audio and video playback files.