Questions about Photoshop bridge
XoechZ
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Hello!
I have DAZ Studio 4.6 64bit, Photoshop CC 64bit and 2 questions:
1. Does the Photoshop bridge work now with CC? I have read much about problems here on the forums.
2. What are the real benefits of using the bridge from DAZ Studio to Photoshop? That means, what does this bridge do for me that I cannot do without it?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
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Photoshop CC is not supported, but I thought you got a install version with CC. The plugin works with CS4 to CS6 versions of the standalone Photoshop's at this time.
Ok, thank you. Then I do not have to waste time with trying it.
But which install version do you mean? Adobe Bridge? I did not install that, but I think this is just some kind of image organizing tool.
I'm talking the Bridge. It only works in or for the versions I listed. Of course the Bit version must match the Bit of your PS installed and the Bridge version must also match the version of DAZ Studio in use. I thought this was about the Bridge that comes with DAZ Studio as a plug in. Am I wrong?
Well, at first I was talking about the 3D Photoshop Bridge that comes as a plug in with DAZ Studio. You said that it does not work, because CC is not supported, only C6 is. Then you said you think there is an install version that comes with CC. So, then I thought you talk about Adobe Bridge, because that comes with CC and not with DAZ Studio. But Adobe Bridge has nothing to do with the 3D Photoshop Bridge for DAZ Studio.
Hm, now I am a bit confused...
What I mean is I thought if a person was paying for Photoshop CC service the person got a Install version of Photoshop. It was only what I thought from reading other threads. I'm not up on what you get with the CC service. Sorry to confuse you.
Oh, ok, now I understand. No problem :-)
If you subsrcibe to the Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) and pay for Photoshop CC (monthly payment) then of course you get Photoshop installed on your PC. This works just like DAZ Studio via DIM. You install DIM and DIM downloads and installs DAZ Studio for you and in the end you have DAZ Studio installed on your PC. Same with Photoshop. You install the Creative Cloud software and it installs all Adobe applications that you have subscribed to.
I know that some people still believe that Photoshop CC only works "in the cloud" and that you have nothing installed and that you can work only online. But that is simply not true.
There is a thread on this over on the Adobe forums. The later updates to CS6 is where the bridge stopped working. To the best of what I was able to tell, it does not work in any of the CC versions. It did work in several of the early releases of CS6. Adobe claims that they didn't do anything to break it. What? It worked... and now it doesn't? Well, ok... software is tricky... hey... every time I reboot my computer there seems to be 2 or 3 new software repairs from Adobe? :) Instead the fellow just keeps repeating that DAZ broke it. That's really helpful... I just want to do my work please? To the best of my knowledge there aren't any recent updates to the bridge and it still works in CS4? And it still works in some early versions of CS6?
The thing that really bothers me about all of this is so many softwares are inter-related. The cloud based system Adobe has set up allows no method for installing an older version, if it came from the cloud. You can get the CS6 version, if you pound on the Adobe site long enough, but in this case it is the latest CS6 version, which does not work. I don't think I ever got an answer from Adobe about getting an older version.
So, my biggest concern is only being able to do a rollback via the OS... and I generally do not include every software in those roll backs. Adobe is being quite pompous about the whole thing. I believe they hired the Artful Dodger. Our company has a number of full CC suite licenses... and there is nothing I'd like to do more than cut that cord. But, we don't yet have true replacements for a couple of things... Photoshop being at the top of that list.
Well I do know that the CC version is not supported. Just CS4 to CS6. I'm not sure why but I'm sure of that much.
EDIT: And the Above is much better info than I had until just now...
HAH!!! And I'm really sad that I know so much about it. I was pretty determined (as well as a number of other folks) over in the Adobe forums. Seems they have their head in the clouds. ;) I do hope they come down to earth again. I guess you can tell, I'm not very happy with them at the moment. LOL!!! But seriously, I don't want to hang my livelihood on uncontrollable software updates. I simply want a roll back if I need it.
Thanks for your answers!
The thing is that the CC subscription is the only affordable version for me.10 dollars a month is not that much, in fact not much more than a Platinum Club membership. But I could never pay hundreds of dollars at once for another version like CS6.
So, leaving all those problems aside, I am happy to be able to use Photoshop with this payment method. This way Adobe has opened PS for a broad number of hobbyist users like me.
You mean for free? No, that is CS2.
CS2 is not legally free to anyone who doesn't already have a license for it.
What Jaderail is saying is that it is possible to obtain a legal version of CS4, not a free version.
eg http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-Systems-Inc-Photoshop-CS4/dp/B001G8Y7IG
Oh, I understand :-)
But CS4 is still too expensive for an "old" program. To me the subscription method is perfect. As I said before, it is not much more than a Platinum Club membership, and that is affordable for me.
DO you use more than photoshop to need the CS. If you don't use the other features you can just buy Photoshop on its own and is much cheaper
I have just downloaded the 3d Bridge to Photoshop and I have discovered that it's not working. I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and I was wondering if that would be part of the problem.
Yes, as far as I know the supported versions are Photoshop CS4-CS6