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Adobe Bridge

All About Metadata," later in this chapter.

Bridge is a surprisingly deep application that serves the entire Adobe Creative Suite, not just Photoshop, and a comprehensive guide to its features would require a book in its own right. Nevertheless, we want to guide you through a number of our favorite features and describe how we use this powerful application.

Launching Bridge

On single-monitor systems, we usually keep Bridge hidden unless we're actually using it. On dual-monitor systems, we keep Bridge open on the second monitor all the time.

The simplest way to launch Bridge is to do so the way you launch any other application on your platform of choice. However, you have the following additional options (see Figure 11-40):

Choose Browse from Photoshop's File menu.

Click the Go to Bridge button in the Options bar (it's the icon that looks like a magnifying glass over an open folder).

Turn on the Automatically Launch Bridge option in Photoshop's General Preferencesthat way, whenever you launch Photoshop, Bridge automatically launches too.