Step-by-Step: Using Bridge in Photoshop CS3
- Launching Bridge
- The Bridge window
- Opening files from Bridge
- Choosing a workspace for Bridge
- Examining thumbnails
- Customizing the Bridge window
- Moving and copying files
- Filtering the display of thumbnails
- Grouping thumbnails into stacks
- Managing files
- Searching for files
- Exporting the Bridge cache
- Assigning keywords to files
- Opening PDF and Illustrator files
IN THIS CHAPTER
Launching Bridge |
63 |
The Bridge window |
64 |
Opening files from Bridge |
66 |
Choosing a workspace for Bridge |
67 |
Examining thumbnails |
68 |
Customizing the Bridge window |
69 |
Moving and copying files |
71 |
Filtering the display of thumbnails |
72 |
Grouping thumbnails into stacks |
74 |
Managing files |
75 |
Searching for files |
77 |
Exporting the Bridge cache |
78 |
Assigning keywords to files |
79 |
Opening PDF and Illustrator files |
80 |
The Bridge application ships with Photoshop and is aptly named because it serves as a conduit among all the programs in the Adobe Creative Suite. In Chapter 2, you learned how to use Bridge to synchronize the color settings for the whole Creative Suite. With its large thumbnail previews of files from Adobe Creative Suite applications, Bridge is also the best vehicle for opening files—plus it offers many other useful features.A In Bridge you can display, arrange, rate, and sort thumbnails; organize thumbnails into collapsible stacks;★ rate or reject images; assign keywords to files; use a loupe to examine details on any image thumbnail; and view data (metadata) about any image, such as the shooting conditions a camera recorded into a digital photo.★ You don’t need to learn everything in this chapter at once. Master the basics in the first half of the chapter, then explore other features at your leisure.
Launching Bridge
To launch Bridge
Do one of the following:
- In Photoshop, near the middle of the Options bar, click the Go to Bridge button (Ctrl-Alt-O/ Cmd-Option-O).
- Double-click the Bridge application icon in Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CS3 in Windows; Applications/Adobe Bridge CS3 in the Mac OS.
- In the Mac OS, click the Bridge icon on the Dock. The Bridge window opens.