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Embedding information for easy identification
Adobe Bridge gives you numerous tools for retrieving the images you need to find. This is critical when you have a large number of stored images and no time to waste on browsing through hundreds or thousands of files.In this section, you''''ll work with three more ways to embed information in files so that you can quickly find them later: rankings, metadata, and keywords.
Ranking and sorting image files
Adobe Bridge has a star-ranking feature that you can use to group and sort image thumbnails. This gives you an alternative way to organize images in the thumbnail preview area. In this exercise, five stars will stand for the best and most usable images, three stars for medium-quality images, and one star for the poorest-quality or least desirable photographs. How many stars you assign to each image is a personal judgment, so there are no right or wrong answers for star rankings, andas opposed to the real world, perhapsno one will take offense at your choices.
1. Make sure you have large, clear thumbnail previews, and then click to select one that''''s of particularly good quality, such as the red glass pitcher.2. Click one of the dots that appear below the image thumbnail. When you click, the dot turns into a star. Click to turn all five dots into stars.
3. Select additional high-quality files, including one or two images in each category (glass, flowers, and skies).NoteUse Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select discontiguous thumbnails, if desired.4. Choose Label > 
to apply the five-star ranking to all selected images at once. Click OK to dismiss the XMP warning dialog box if it appears.5. Choose View > Sort > By Rating to rearrange the thumbnails so that the best images are grouped together. Toggle off View > Sort > Ascending Order to have the five-starred images appear at the top of the thumbnail preview area.[View full size image]
6. Continue to assign five-, three-, and one-star rankings to all the files in the folder, either by ranking them individually (as in Steps 1 and 2) or in multiples (as in Steps 3 and 4).NoteYou can delete stars at any time by selecting the thumbnail, moving the cursor over the stars, and clicking the gray circle with a slash through it (
) that appears to the left.7. Choose View > Sort > By Rating again to arrange the files in reverse alphabetical order of their rankings.[View full size image]
Quality is not the only consideration by which you might want to rank images. You can use star rankings to indicate anythingsubject matter, client, project name, or time of day, for example. Indeed, if you want to organize your images by multiple factorssay, by quality and by project, you can also apply colored labels your images. Yellow labels might be applied to assets that will be used for a Web project, for example, while red labels could indicate that the image will be used for a print brochure.8. Click to select the thumbnail of any image, such as the red pitcher, and then choose Label > Yellow. Click OK to dismiss the XMP warning dialog box if it appears.A yellow label appears behind the five-star ranking of the thumbnail preview.
9. Continue to assign colored labelsyellow or otherwiseto additional files in the folder, either by selecting them individually or in multiples and then choosing a color from the Label menu.NoteYou can also apply colored labels by selecting one or more thumbnails and Control-clicking (Mac OS) or right-clicking (Windows) and choosing Label and a color from the contextual pop-up menu.10. Choose View > Sort > By Label to arrange the files in the thumbnail preview area by their colored labels.[View full size image]
In addition to sorting your view by rankings and labels, you can filter the view to see only those thumbnails of a specific ranking or color. Let''''s experiment with those filters now.11. Choose Show 5 Stars from the Unfiltered pop-up menu to show thumbnails of only those thumbnails with a five-star ranking.[View full size image][View full size image]
12. Choose Filtered > Show Red Label.13. Choose Filtered > Show All Items so that you can see all of your image files.Reviewing and editing metadata
You can quickly see file information in one of several ways: Simply hover the mouse cursor over an image thumbnail in the Thumbnails view, and it will pop up; or switch to the Details view and the same metadata file information appears next to the image thumbnail preview. Or you can use the Metadata palette, which displays more complete metadata. Next, you will compare the two displays of metadata information.The information in the Metadata palette is nested under headings that you can expand or collapse by clicking the arrow next to a heading. There are three headings for images: File Properties, IPTC, and Camera Data (Exif). Additional headings are available for stock photo images. In Bridge, you can directly edit only some of the IPTC metadata.
1. Make sure you''''re in Details view, and click to select the thumbnail of one of the five-starred glassware images.2. If necessary, click the Metadata tab to bring that palette forward in the lower left pane of the browser window. If any of the major headings are collapsed, click the arrows (
) to expand them so that you can compare the information here to the information listed in the Details view of the thumbnails.[View full size image]
When you work with large amounts of metadata, it helps to enlarge the Metadata palette, even if it reduces or eliminates the Preview, Favorites, and Folders palettes. This can reduce the amount of scrolling needed to review and edit the information.3. Scroll down the Metadata palette to the IPTC heading so that you can see the items listed under it. The pencil icons (
) on the left indicate items that you can edit.4. Click the blank space for Description and type a few words describing the image, such as red pitcher.[View full size image]
5. At the bottom of the Metadata palette, click the Apply button (
) to enter the information you typed.Creating and applying keywords
Keywords can streamline your searches for images. If you have a large collection of images, the few seconds required to enter some well-chosen keywords can save you hours later as you try to locate specific images.The Keywords palette organizes keywords in categories that you can expand and collapse as you did on the Metadata palette. The Keywords palette standardizes keywords so that you can apply identical terms to specific types of images. This greatly reduces the risks of occasional typographical errors or inconsistencies that can turn keyword searches from a dream come true into a nightmare.
1. Click the Keywords tab to bring that palette forward.2. Click the Keywords palette menu button (
), and choose New Keyword Set. Or, click the New Keyword Set button (
) at the bottom of the Keywords palette.3. Type Glass Project in the new blank to name the keyword set, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS). Leave the Glass Project keyword set selected, or reselect it if necessary.4. Click the New Keyword button (
) to create a keyword under the Glass Project category, type Red, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS). Then, select the Glass Project category again and repeat the process until you have created five more new keywords, naming them Green, Blue, Orange, Purple, and Yellow.
5. Select the thumbnail for the photograph of the green vase and the red pitcher.6. In the Keywords palette, click the boxes for both the Red and Green keywords to apply them to the image metadata. Or, double-click each of those keywords.[View full size image]
A check mark appears next to the applied keywords. The bold hyphen next to the Glass Project category indicates that some (but not all) of the keywords in that set apply to the selected file.7. One by one, select each of the other glassware images and apply the appropriate keywords for the glass colors in those photographs. Or, you can select multiple filessuch as all the images with blue glassware, if there are severaland simultaneously apply the keyword Blue to each of them.Deleting keywords
The lists on the Keywords palette are application-wide, so the same keyword choices are available regardless of what folder you''''re browsing. Many of the preset keywords may not be useful to you. Fortunately, you can delete keywords you won''''t need. Since there is no orange glass in the images, you can delete Orange.You don''''t have to worry about deleting a keyword that is currently applied to some files. In those cases, the keyword is deleted from the heading but shows up under a new heading named Other Keywords. You''''ll see that in this exercise.
1. In the Keywords palette, select the Orange keyword, and then click the Delete Keyword button (
) at the bottom of the palette. Click OK to dismiss the warning that appears.2. Repeat Step 1, but this time delete the Red keyword.3. Select one of the thumbnails showing a red glass item. (You previously assigned Red to this file.)4. In the Keywords palette, find the Other Keywords category and locate the Red keyword. Drag the keyword back into the Glass Project category to group it with the other color keywords.[View full size image]
You can also edit keywords. This is easy to do, but there''''s a little trick to it. Since double-clicking a keyword applies it to any currently selected files, you need to select the keyword and then choose Rename from the Keywords palette menu or context menu. Then, type in your new text.
