Description
Professional Film Conversion Inside Adobe Bridge
Negmaster Bridge 2.0 is a complete negative conversion suite that turns Adobe Bridge into a workflow system for film photographers, labs, and enthusiasts who’ve invested in quality scanning equipment – and want software that actually delivers on that investment.
Select your scanned images, click “Convert,” and get technically precise results — automatically adapted to film type, scanner, and image content. Film borders, sprocket holes, dust, and scratches are intelligently detected and excluded from color and density calculations, but can be retained if desired.
Supported Film Types
Color negative, black & white negative and slides
Supported File Formats
NEGMASTER-BR supports a wide range of file formats for digital cameras and film scanners alike.
Digital cameras: ARW, CR2, CR3, DNG, NEF, ORF, PEF, RAF, RW2, SRW, .FFF
Film Scanners: DNG, TIF, TIFF
Lab Scanners: Konica .B48, Creo .DT, Pakon .raw, Noritsu .RAW, Hasselblad .fff
All formats generate accurate jpg thumbnails automatically, even when Adobe Bridge cannot display them native.
Two exceptions: Please note, Silverfast 4-channel 64bit files won’t convert (yet). Also Multishot images from the H2D and H4D Hasselblad Multishoot Back won’t work.
Automated Color and Tonal Control
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Intelligent White Balance (IWB) in LAB color space
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Automatic clipping and gamma management
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Consistency function for batch conversions ensures uniform results
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Save edits as presets and apply automatically in future conversions
Included Modules
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Master Module: core conversion engine and basic editing tools
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Peeker: live conversion previews, live editing converted scans, zoom up to 200%, rotation, flip, direct export to TIFF/JPEG
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Wheeler Module: color wheels for white balance/tint. Shadows and highlights color and gradation correction
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Slider Module: detailed tonal and color adjustments, including sharpening and detail control
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Matcher Module: compare colors in 2D and 3D between reference and target images, experience histograms in RGB, CMY, LAB
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Separator Module: separate your images in 3D layers of neutral, cool and warm tones. Adjust saturation threshold to find hidden color casts.
Workflow & Automation
- With the Master module open, select an arbitrary number of scans and hit convert. No preparation needed.
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Or use hotfolder monitoring for automatic batch processing when a new scan shows up.
- After conversion, edit the results with the Wheeler oder Slider module non-destructively.
- Investigate for hidden color casts with the Separator module.
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Use the Matcher module with 3D Histograms in LAB/RGB and Reference/Sample function to nail your tones across images.
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Fully compatible with Adobe XMP metadata in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw.
- Full ICC management. Use input profiles (many canned profiles included) and also apply a second ICC profile that can contain a LUT..
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Export in TIFF or JPEG.
License & Trial
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One-time purchase, lifetime updates
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License usable on two computers, deactivatable and transferable
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Free trial: convert up to 36 frames within 72 hours, fully functional
Why Negmaster Bridge?
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No subscription required – Works entirely inside the free version of Adobe Bridge.
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One-time purchase, lifetime updates – Use it on two computers, transfer or even resell your license anytime.
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True-to-film results – Intelligent automatic conversion that respects grain, tone, and dynamic range.
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Works with nearly any scan source – DSLR copy stand, flatbed, drum, Noritsu, Pakon, Creo, Hasselblad Flextight, and more.
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Supports rare Lab scanner RAW formats – Including Konica .B48, Creo .DT, Hasselblad .FFF, Noritsu .RAW, Pakon .raw
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Authentic workflow, not an AI look generator – Full control through color wheels and 30+ sliders. If you want to generate a look – you can. Either save your edits as presets and apply them automatically on conversion or apply a ICC correction profile that can contain a LUT with the look you want.
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Batch or single-frame conversion – Convert multiple scans, watch hotfolders, auto apply editing presets on conversion time, or edit frame by frame.
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Preview conversion results while changing conversion settings.
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Fully nondestructive – Original RAWs remain untouched. All edits saved as Adobe-compatible XMP metadata.
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Fast, local, and private – Nothing leaves your computer other than activation information. No data collection.
No cloud subscription needed
Before we built the plugin, we had a serious look at user feedback and requests in the last years. One of the most repeated feature requests was integration with programs outside the Adobe subscription model. But we decided for Adobe Bridge. Here is why:
Well, in case you didn’t know: Bridge is for free! Yes, it really is!
All you need to do is head over to Adobe and register. Then you can download the Adobe Cloud application. And with the Cloud application, you can install Bridge without paying anything.
This is no hack, there is no money trap. Adobe simply offers some programs for free and Bridge is one of them.
And what’s cool about Bridge is, that it’s very easy to use for managing and exporting your scans without catalogs like in Lightroom. But it will still understand xmp sidecar files from Lightroom and will serve well as an image browser for your converted scans or for preparation for other editing software.
Olivér Kiss (verified owner) –
Finally I’m getting great results with “one click”! I love the simplicity and speed of this plugin and the fact I don’t have to use Lightroom/Photoshop makes it even better. The untweaked automatic output results are already satisfying and changing some settings if needed is very easy and straightforward compared to other known plugins. Support from André is excellent, he answers every question in the Negmasters FB group.
Anna Morrison (verified owner) –
I’ve been scanning medium format film for years and never found a conversion tool that truly respects the tones of Portra and HP5. Negmaster Bridge just nails it. The colors are neutral, subtle, and not overbaked. It feels like darkroom printing – only faster.
Ryan Kowalski (verified owner) –
I didn’t know it was possible to turn Adobe Bridge into a complete film editing environment, but here we are. Negmaster Bridge is snappy, stable, and …quite logical. The license model is old school. I paid once, and that’s it.
Lucia Ramirez (verified owner) –
We process thousands of scans weekly from different sources: Noritsu, Pakon, even old Creo files. Negmaster reads them all. No other software can even preview those formats. This replaced our old, scripted conversion chain completely.
Marco Tortelli (verified owner) –
I shoot and scan all my 35mm film with a Nikon D850 setup. Negmaster BR gives me consistent conversions that look similar to a Frontier scanner.
Kim Laurent (verified owner) –
Negmaster Bridge quietly does what others overcomplicate. One-click conversion, clean colors, and film that looks like film. Every photographer working with scans should try it once.
Sarah Patterson (verified owner) –
Negmaster isn’t trying to impress with AI hype. It’s made by someone who actually understands film density, chemistry, and scanning. It feels reliable a proper tool, not a toy.
Tom Henderson (verified owner) –
The Wheeler and Matcher tools give me grading control I’ve never seen in any film plugin. It’s like Resolve color wheels, but tailored for scanned film. You can match portraits across cameras in minutes.
Ethan Sullivan (verified owner) –
The free 36-frame trial did convince me. It’s a full version, not a crippled demo. Bought it the same day. A no-brainer.
Julien Dubois (verified owner) –
The speed is unreal. My Pakon files open instantly. Colors are great IMHO.
Luke Trexler (verified owner) –
The customer service and the community are what makes this program so great. Does it also produce images with great color and texture? Yes. Is it easy to use? Yes. All for an affordable one time purchase, no subscription required. I was already an owner of this product, but the customer service is what keeps me loyal to the brand. After I encountered an issue with one of the updates, the creator himself answered my message and walked me through how to fix it. André is a genius and he’s constantly working to make this the best program it can possibly be. So go ahead and try it already. You won’t be disappointed!