Adobe Photoshop CS2 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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In the Favorites palette of Adobe Bridge, click Adobe Stock Photos.

The home page for Adobe Stock photos highlights new content and lets you browse and search for royalty-free stock content.

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In the search box at the top of the page, type the keywords ferris wheel, and then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS), or click the Start Search button.

Adobe Stock Photos search results appear in the Bridge browser window, offering all of the same customizable previews controls, including scalable thumbnails, that are available to local image files.

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With an image thumbnail selected (or two or three thumbnails), click the Download Comp button ().

Comps may be downloaded for free from Adobe Stock Photos and used without watermarked logos in layouts and proofs. Comps are saved to the Downloaded Comps folder, which is in the My Documents/Adobe Stock Photos folder (Windows) or Documents/Adobe Stock Photos folder (Mac OS).

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In the Favorites palette, click Downloaded Comps to see your comps.

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To open these comps in Photoshop, simply double-click on a thumbnail preview as you would any other image file. You can also rename downloaded comps more intuitively, move them to other folders on your hard drive or network, and even place them in page layout files. Adobe Stock Photos preserves the original file information so that when you're ready to purchase an image, you can do it from Bridge.

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To purchase any image, select its thumbnail preview and click the Add to Cart button().

NoteYou will be prompted to choose a country the first time you try to purchase a stock photo. Choose from among the 27 countries in the pop-up menu, then click Continue.

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When Adobe Stock Photos tells you that the image has been added to your cart, click the View Shopping Cart button to see what's there.

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Adobe Stock Photos has added a low-resolution version of the image to your cart.

You can delete images from your shopping cart, choose a different size or resolution, continue shopping, or proceed to checkout from the shopping cart page. Adobe Stock Photos lets you purchase images as a guest, or you can set up an account. Either way, you can purchase images from multiple stock photo libraries in a single transaction. All purchased images are placed in the Purchased Images folder.

Congratulationsyou've finished this lesson on Adobe Bridge. As you work through this book, you'll have many more opportunities to use Bridge and to discover what a time-saver it can be.