Preview in full screen

Another option in the Bridge is the “Preview in full screen.”

This allows us to view the photo in detail.

First select the photo in the thumbnail view, click the “View” button in the menu bar and select “Preview in full screen” in the drop-down menu. A much faster way, of course, is to select the picture and press the spacebar on your keyboard.

By scrolling the mouse wheel or by clicking the plus and minus key 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.

To move 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, while holding 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 ask for a confirmation, click “Delete” if you’d like to remove or “Cancel” if you do not want to.

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

Rejected pictures are not deleted.

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

 

Collections

Another tab in the Bridge, the “Collections” and “Smart Collections”.

This allows us to visually collect photographs from one or more folders.

What you need is the panel “Collections”. If this is not open for you, click the “Window” button in the menu bar and choose “Collections” in the drop-down menu.

With a “New Smart Collection”, the Bridge will search and get the neccessary photographs based on a number of criteria you have entered, and for a “New Collection”, you must select the photos first.

An example makes this clear.

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

This opens a dialog where you start to choose the folder for the Bridge to start searching.

In the section “Criteria” you give the desired rules. I think this is clear.

To add an entry, click the plus icon next to a rule. To delete a rule, click the adjacent minus icon. The rest of the options in this dialog box are clear.

Click the “Save” button when everything is set.

To create a “New Collection”, first select the photos, and click the button “New Collection”.

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 and selected this option in the panel, you can type a more meaningful name.

To delete a collection, right click in this pane, and select “Remove” in the drop-down menu.

 

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