You’ll also see the metadata for the selected image displayed in the metadata panel.When you select a thumbnail in the central grid, you see a preview in the Preview panel.The contents of the folder then display in the central area of the screen as thumbnails. You can use this to select and brows folders on your computers drives. There’s a range of panels on either side the interface arranged into tabs.Most of the things you’ll need to do can probably done using the Essentials section.

Along the top of the interface are different views you can choose.

Below you can see the layout of the Adobe Bridge interface which I’ve numbered.

This isn’t an Adobe Bridge tutorial (I’ll be publishing some of those in the future), but a couple of introductory points may help you. Now you’re ready to start using Affinity Photo with Adobe Bridge. If you’re wondering about the best way see my article explaining how to manage your photos. Whilst this isn’t essential, it will help as your photo library grows. You can then download and install Adobe Bridge for free. How you do this changes from time to time but currently you need to set up an Adobe account. Download and Install Adobe Bridge if you haven’t already.Getting Started with Asset Managementīefore we look at how to integrate Affinity Photo with Adobe Bridge there are a couple of things you need to do: If you don’t have the latest version of Affinity Photo you can download a trial from the Affinity Photo website. Best of all, Adobe Bridge is free so you can still avoid the Adobe monthly subscription. That’s why this article explains how to use Affinity Photo with Adobe Bridge to provide the missing DAM features. As great as Affinity Photo is, it doesn’t have the digital asset management (DAM) tools needed to organise thousands of images effectively. If you made the switch to Affinity Photo to avoid the Adobe Subscription costs, it’s possible you’re missing Lightroom.

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