Photoshop - CS4

Lesson 18: The Bridge (5)

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Preview in full screen

New in “The Bridge” is the “Full screen Preview”.

This allows us to view the photo in detail.

Select the first photo in the thumbnail view, click the button “View” in the menu bar and select “Full Screen Preview” in the drop-down menu. You can do it much faster if you select the picture and click the spacebar on your keyboard.

By scrolling the mouse wheel or by clicking the plus and minus keys on your keyboard, you can zoom in and out. To quickly zoom

in to a 100% zoom level, click in the picture.

To navigate to another location in the photo, click and drag your mouse pointer.

To navigate to the next or previous photo, click the arrow keys on your keyboard.

To return to “The Bridge” click Esc key on your keyboard.

Move, copy and delete

To move a picture to another folder, click and drag it from the “Contents Section” in The Bridge to another folder in the “Folder” panel.
This moves the snapshot to another folder.

To move a picture in the Contents section of The Bridge, click and drag it to where you want it.

You can also drag a photo into another open program, such as Indesign, or Paint Shop Pro. Click and drag the photo in this program.
To copy a picture to another folder, click and drag the photo to the specific folder, but before you click this hold the Ctrl key on your keyboard pressed.
To delete a photo select the photo and click the Delete key on your keyboard.
Adobe Bridge will get a confirmation, click “Delete” if you’d like to delete or “Cancel” if you do not want to.

The “Reject” places the text “Reject” below and gives a kind of miniature “Rating” on the photo. You can show or hide these “rejected” by clicking on “View” in the menu bar and select “Rejected files”.

Rejected pictures are not removed.

When pictures are moved, deleted or copied in The Bridge, this relates to the pictures on your hard disk.

Collections

Also new in the Bridge are, the “Collections” and “Smart Collections”.
This allows us to visually collect photographs from one or more folders.
What you need is the “Collections” panel. If this is not open for you, click the “Window” button in the menu bar and choose “Collections” in the drop-down menu.

The difference is that, with a “New Smart Collection”, the Bridge will search and gather the necessary photographs based on a number of criteria you have entered and with a” New Collection”, you must select the photos first.

An example makes this clear.

Click the “New Smart Collection” button at the bottom of “Collections” panel.

This opens a dialog where, you choose the folder the Bridge to start searching in the top box.

In the section “Criteria” you give the desired rules.

To add an entry, click the plus icon next to a rule. To delete a rule, click the adjacent minus icon. Actually, all the options in this dialog are clear.

Click the “Save” button when everything is set.

To create a “New Collection”, first select the photos and click the “New Collection” button.
The Bridge will ask if you want to save the selected photos in the new collection.

Click the “Yes” button.
If you have made a collection, it has a name selected in the panel and you can type a more meaningful name.
To delete a collection, right click in this pane, and select “Delete” in the drop-down menu.

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