A fix for blurry full-screen previews in Bridge

There is a feature in Adobe Bridge that allows you to see a preview of the selected image by hitting the spacebar. The problem is that the previews always look blurry, or soft, when previewing if you use the default settings that Bridge ships with.

The fix for this is simple, but you have to know where to look. Here’s where:

1. Start Bridge, and open the Preferences.
2. Go to the “Advanced” section and turn on “Generate Monitor-Size Previews”
3. Click “OK’ to save

Now the drag about this is you have to re-create your entire cache. So first, purge it:

1. Open the Preferences again
2. Go to the “Cache” section and click “Purge Cache”
3. Click “OK’ to save

If you want to bulk-create thumbnails and previews, do this:

1. In Bridge, select the folder
2. In the menu, select “Tools, Cache, Build and export cache”
3. Make sure to leave both options un-checked, and click OK

This will scan all subfolders to create the cache for the files found.

I hope this helps!

…Mike

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