Bridge

Run automated tasks

The Tools menu contains submenus for various commands available in different Adobe Creative Suite 3 components. For instance, if you have Adobe Photoshop installed, you can use the commands under the Tools > Photoshop submenu to make picture packages and create Photomerge® panoramas using photos you select in Bridge. Running these tasks from Bridge saves time because you don’t have to open each file individually.

Note: Third parties can also create and add their own items to the Tools menu for added functionality in Bridge. For information about creating your own scripts, see the “Bridge JavaScript Reference.”
  1. Select the files or folders you want to use. If you select a folder, the command is applied where possible to all files in the folder.
  2. Choose Tools > [Component], followed by the command you want. (If your component doesn’t have any automated tasks available, no component name appears in the menu.)

For information about a particular command, see the documentation for that component.

You can quickly vectorize a movie by using Bridge to run the LiveTrace command on a movie exported as a series of still files (PSD, BMP, TGA, or TIF) from After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro: After creating a LiveTrace preset for one of the still files in Adobe Illustrator, select the series of still files in Bridge and choose Tools > Illustrator > Live Trace. To compile your images back into a video clip, import the Illustrator files you just created as an Adobe Illustrator sequence in After Effects or Premiere Pro. Note that there is a 10‑frame limit when you run the LiveTrace command in Bridge.