Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is a media management application that comes bundled with various Adobe standalone applications (Adobe Photoshop CS5, CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5.5, Flash Professional CS5.5, Premiere Pro CS5.5, After Effects CS5.5, InCopy CS5.5) and Creative Suite editions (Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium, Standard, Web Premium, Production Premium and Master Collection)

Bridge’s robust and flexible interface is perfect for sorting, rating and keywording digital image files, as well as any other kind of media file on your workstation. Bridge builds a “contact sheet” on the fly simply by dragging a volume, folder, or image file onto the application icon. It then allows you to navigate from this location with sophisticated browsing capabilities. Keeping track of and assigning keywords is one of its greatest and most intuitive features.

Bridge integrates seamlessly with the Mac OS. You can batch-rename thousands of files at a time, saving hours of work, and rate and label them for further processing. Its ability to resolve duplicate filenames prevents valuable data from being overwritten.

You can set up “favorites” of folders specific to you photographic workflow. This frees you to set up your OS in a way that meets your general needs.