Mini Bridge panel

The main Bridge program now has a little cousin called Mini Bridge, which rather than being an alternative, standalone application, is made available as a Photoshop extension panel. This can be viewed as an add-on feature for Bridge rather than a replacement as such. I see this as offering a simpler user interface for doing the types of things photographers need to do most. It provides a simplified interface for image browsing, but without offering refinement features such as keyword sorting, metadata editing, or Web and print output. While Mini Bridge is unlikely to replace all your main Bridge needs, it arguably allows you to browse more conveniently from within the Photoshop interface. Hopefully, it will encourage more Photoshop users to work with Bridge.

One important thing to note here is that since the introuduction of Photoshop CC, Mini Bridge now has to be installed separately, along with main Bridge.

To launch Mini Bridge you can go to the Window menu and choose Extensions Mini Bridge. For more information about Mini Bridge, please refer to the latter section of Chapter 11.

Figure 1 This shows the Mini Bridge extension panel.