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Viewing and editing files in Adobe Bridge
The left side of the browser window displays palettes that you can rearrange, resize, and group within Adobe Bridge, using the same techniques as with Photoshop palettes. The palettes in Adobe Bridge help you navigate, preview, search, and manage information for your image files and folders.
Customizing Adobe Bridge views and spaces
The ideal arrangement and relative sizes of items and areas of Adobe Bridge depend on your work style and preferences. Depending on the tasks you''re doing, it may be important to see what images are in a file; at other times, viewing information about the file may take priority. You can customize Adobe Bridge to increase your efficiency in these different situations.In this procedure, you''ll try out some of the custom views you can use in Adobe Bridge. The default configuration of Adobe Bridge areas appears in the following figure, although you won''t see these particular thumbnails onscreen yet.A. Menu bar B. Favorites palette C. Folders palette D. Preview palette E. Metadata palette F. Keywords palette G. Filter view menu H. Compact mode button I. Rotation buttons J. Thumbnail preview pane K. Thumbnail slider L. View option buttons[View full size image]
NoteIf you do not see the tabbed palettes on the left side of the browser window, click the Show/hide panels button (
) in the lower left corner.1. Click the Folders tab in the upper left corner of the Bridge browser window to bring that palette forward, and navigate to the Lessons/Lesson02/Digital_Camera folder that you copied to your hard drive from the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book CD. To navigate, either click the arrows (Mac OS) or plus signs (Windows) to open nested folders in the Folders palette, or double-click the folder thumbnail icons in the thumbnail preview area on the right side of the browser window.[View full size image]
The Bridge preview pane updates interactively, showing you thumbnail previews of asset files. Adobe Bridge displays previews of image files such as those in PSD, TIFF, and JPEG formats as well as Adobe Illustrator vector files, multipage Adobe PDF files, and Microsoft Office documents.2. At the bottom of the browser window, drag the thumbnail slider to reduce and then enlarge the thumbnail previews. Then, choose the Details view, then the Filmstrip view.Details view[View full size image]
Filmstrip view[View full size image]
NoteAdobe Bridge also offers a Versions and Alternates view for those who work with Version Cue CS2. For more about Version Cue, see the "Understanding Adobe Version Cue CS2 File Manager" white paper on the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book CD.3. Choose Window > Workspace > Lightbox. Then, in succession, choose the File Navigator, Metadata Focus, and Filmstrip Focus workspaces.Adobe Bridge can be customized to suit virtually any workflow or preference.4. When you''re finished experimenting, reset to the default workspace (press Command-F1 on the Mac or Ctrl-F1 in Windows).5. Select any thumbnail by clicking it once.A larger preview appears in the Preview palette, filling the available area.6. Enlarge the Preview palette by dragging the horizontal and vertical bars that separate it from the other panes of the browser window. The pointer appears as double lines with arrows (
) when positioned over the bars.
7. Continue to adjust the panes, palettes, and thumbnails in Adobe Bridge until the arrangement suits you.Adobe Bridge modes
You can work in Photoshop with Adobe Bridge open in Full Mode in the background, at the ready for you to jump to and use to locate and open files. Or you can switch to Compact or Ultra-Compact mode by clicking those buttons in the upper right corner of the Bridge browser window. Both compact modes display Bridge as a floating palette over Photoshop. Ultra-Compact mode (
) displays only the Go Back and Go Forward buttons as well as the Recent Folders menu. Compact mode (
) shows thumbnail previews of the selected folder. As soon as you start to navigate to a folder in Ultra-Compact mode, Bridge automatically switches to Compact mode so that you can see thumbnail previews. Both modes provide a button to toggle back to Full mode (
).Compact mode
Ultra-Compact mode
Rotating and opening images
In addition to controlling the workspace and appearance of image previews in Bridge, you can also change the orientation of selected images and open them in Photoshop. Rotating the thumbnail previews in Adobe Bridge does not affect the resolution or quality of the files, but the rotation is permanent unless or until you undo it.
1. Select the 244_0107.jpg thumbnail in the Lesson02/Digital_Camera folder.[View full size image]
2. Click the Rotate 90° Counterclockwise button (
) at the top of the browser window.[View full size image]
3. In the thumbnail preview pane, select the 244_0111.jpg thumbnail.4. Click the Rotate 90° Clockwise button (
).5. (Optional) To open any .PSD, .TIF, or .JPG image at any time into Photoshop from within Adobe Bridge, double-click its thumbnail preview.NoteAdobe Bridge will also automatically open .AI files into Adobe Illustrator, .PDF files into Adobe Acrobat, .INDD files into Adobe InDesign, and .DOC and .XLS documents into Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, respectively, if you have those applications. You can control file associations in Adobe Bridge preferences.
You can select multiple thumbnails in Adobe Bridge and open or rotate them together. Select the files by using the usual methods: Click and then Shift-click, or drag the cursor across image thumbnails, to select contiguous files; or Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select discontiguous images.Deleting images
You can use Adobe Bridge to remove files or folders from your system exactly as you would remove them from your desktop. Deleting images in Adobe Bridge sends the files to the Recycle Bin (Windows) or Trash (Mac OS).Using Adobe Bridge to examine your images, you can confidently select and delete files that you no longer need or that you find unsatisfactory.
1. Select the thumbnail for 244_0109.jpg, which is poorly composed, out of focus, and underexposeda real loser.2. Click the Delete Item button (
) at the top of the Bridge browser window. When a message appears asking you to confirm this action, click OK.At this point, the deleted file is not yet removed from your computer, although it is not visible in Adobe Bridge. You can find and retrieve deleted files by switching to the desktop and dragging them out of the Recycle Bin (Windows) or Trash (Mac OS). When you empty your desktop trash container, the files will be permanently deleted from your computer.Rearranging and renaming image files
You can rearrange thumbnails in Adobe Bridge as freely as you might move negatives or slides on a light table. You can also use a batch-renaming process to give image files friendlier but well-organized filenames. In this exercise, you''ll rearrange the thumbnails according to subject mattercolored glass containers, flowers, and cloudy skiesand then rename them.
1. In the thumbnail preview area of the browser window, drag the thumbnails of cloudy-sky photographs one by one until they are next to each other.2. Select the first sky thumbnail in the group and then Shift-click the last sky thumbnail to select the entire group.[View full size image]
3. Choose Tools > Batch Rename.4. Under New Filenames in the Batch Rename dialog box, choose Text from the Current Filename pop-up menu, and type Clouds in the text field.5. Click the plus button (
)at the far right side of the New Filenames area, and choose Sequence Number from the pop-up menu. Make sure the default, 1, is selected for the starting sequence number, or type 1 now.6. Click the plus button to create a third criterion, and then choose New Extension from the pop-up menu. Type jpg (no period necessary) into the extension text field. (This preserves the .jpg file extension in the filename.)[View full size image]
7. For Compatibility, select the check boxes for other operating systems: Windows, Mac OS, and Unix. (The operating system you are using will be dimmed but checked.)8. Review the sample in the Preview area to make sure that it reads "Clouds1.jpg," and then click Rename.9. Choose View > Sort > By Filename to arrange the thumbnails in alphanumeric order.10. Using the techniques described in Steps 18, select and batch-rename the remaining photographs according to the subject matter pictured: flowers and ornamental glassware. When you set options in the Batch Rename dialog box, type Plants instead of Clouds to name the flower images, and type Glass for the glassware images. Otherwise, use the same options as in Steps 57.The Batch Rename command behaves differently depending on what is selected when you choose the command: If no thumbnails are selected, the naming scheme you specify in the Batch Rename dialog box applies the name change to all the files in the selected folder. If severalbut not allthumbnails are selected, the command renames only the selected files.
