A Guide to the Adobe Bridge File Renaming Methods

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Adobe Bridge is a creative asset management software from Adobe. It helps you visualize your creative assets, quickly import digital photos, batch rename, batch convert and export image files, and organize other assets in one place. The advanced filters make it easy to quickly locate an asset, without much effort.

Adobe Bridge comes preinstalled with Adobe Photoshop, without any extra cost. It is a digital asset management software, or simply, a file browser that lets you view, organize and manage digital assets on your computer.


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EFR follows Google Software Principles. It will not ask you to provide email address to download the software.

Features

  • Add labels and keywords
  • Add ratings to your assets
  • View and edit file metadata
  • Search your assets
  • Easy and user-friendly interface
  • Drag and drop controls
  • Narrow down your search using filters
  • Publish to Adobe Stock with a few simple steps
  • Batch tools to resize images
  • Change file type associations
  • View video thumbnails to quickly get a glimpse of the video contents
  • Edit your videos further into Adobe Premiere Pro or any other Adobe-family application

What File Types Are Viewable in Adobe Bridge?

Adobe Bridge supports viewing any file type supported by other Adobe-family applications. You can see different images (such as PNG, JPEG and TIFF), PDF documents, native Photoshop files (.PSD), RAW files generated by your digital camera, and almost any kind of file. Not only can you view your files, but also change the file type associations to prevent the wrong software from trying to load your asset.

How to Batch Rename Files in Adobe Bridge?

1. Adobe Bridge has an in-house powerful photo renaming functionality. Here’s how to use it:

2. Open Adobe Bridge and load all the images that you want to rename.

3. Adobe Bridge will display a thumbnail preview of your images.

4. Select the first image in the role and press and hold the Shift key.

5. Go to the Tools menu and select Batch Rename.

6. You’ll see a new dialog on your screen prompting you to enter the destination folder for renamed files.

  • Rename in the same folder: Bridge will rename your original files in the same directory.
  •  Move to another folder: Use this option if you want to move your files to some other folder and batch rename them. Similar to the above option, it’ll impact the original files.
  • Copy to another folder: We recommend this option as it does not alter your original files. Instead, Bridge copies your files to another directory of your -choice and then renames your files.

7. After specifying a destination directory, it’s time to choose your file naming structure. You can use different parameters such as text, date-time, metadata, etc. Select your desired parameter, enter custom text and then enter the required details. You can also add or remove rows, as you require.

8. Once you’re done, click on the Preview button to see how the changes look like.

How to Batch Rename Files with Easy File Renamer?

In contrast to Adobe Bridge, Easy File Renamer has an easy and beginner-friendly interface. EFR comes with plenty of file renaming rules that you can use to batch rename your files. Besides file renaming, Easy File Renamer comes with other add-on features to edit music file tags, move/ copy large files without errors, and a complimentary subscription to a cloud-based file renaming utility which you can use to rename files on Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and other cloud platforms.

  1. Download and install Easy File Renamer on your computer.
  2. Click on the System Renamer tab.
  3. Select Files, followed by Add Files.
  4. In the file browser dialog, select the files that you want to rename.
  5. Repeat over the same process for other files in different folders, drives.
  6. Use the Rules drop-down box on the left-hand side of your screen to select your desired file renaming pattern. For example, to add a prefix 2019 to all photos, select the Prefix option, and enter 2019 in the textbox.
  7. Click on Add Rule to confirm.
  8. You can add multiple rules simultaneously. 
  9. To proceed, click on Rename and EFR will automatically batch rename your files.

Benefits:

  • 10+ file renaming rules you can choose from
  • Easy and simple interface with no cluttered options
  • Batch rename files and folders
  • Batch rename files from multiple drives and folders without needing to independently perform the task over and again