Installing Bridge
In order to keep the file sizes of Adobe’s downloadable Creative Cloud programs as slim and trim as possible, Bridge is no longer automatically installed when you load Photoshop onto your machine. The installation process is simple: Open the Creative Cloud application and click Apps, and then scroll down until you see Bridge CC. Click Install, and then follow the onscreen directions. That’s it!
Happily, Bridge CS6 and Bridge CC seem to coexist peacefully on a single machine, so if you need the missing features mentioned earlier, feel absolutely free to keep the CS6 version hanging around.
Note
Adobe removed all the Flash-based panels in Photoshop CC 2014, so you can no longer open a miniature version of Bridge (aptly named Mini Bridge) inside Photoshop. Bummer!
Unfortunately, Bridge doesn’t have an equivalent of Photoshop’s Migrate Presets feature (Sharing Presets), so if you’ve customized an earlier version of Bridge with favorites (Browsing through Photos), collections (Sorting and Filtering Images), and so on, you need to copy those files over to the new version manually. To do that on a Mac, find the Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Bridge CS6 Extensions folder, and then open it to reveal your presets folder. Drag those files into the same folders inside the Bridge CC Extensions folder, and then restart Bridge.
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