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Saving Bridge Workspaces

In Bridge, your custom setups can be saved as workspaces. For example, if you shoot a lot of portraits, you could use the previous tip to set up your Bridge window to your liking and then save it by going to the Window menu, under Workspace, and choosing Save Workspace (name it something you’ll remember, like “Bridge Portrait”). Then, next time you’re looking through some proofs, you can have huge previews in just one click. You can do the same thing for wide horizontal photos—just drag the divider bar along the Panel area to the right until the preview takes up most of the Bridge window. Now switching between huge portrait and landscape previews only takes one click.

June 25th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Making The Preview Palette Bigger

Want a taller preview in Bridge for photos taken in a portrait orientation (tall rather than wide)? Just double-click on the Folders (or Favorites) tab, then double-click the Metadata (or Keywords) tab), and they will both “roll up,” allowing the Preview pane to expand, giving you a preview that’s twice as tall.

June 22nd, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Nesting Your Bridge Panes

Nesting palettes (putting commonly used palettes together in one palette, with just their tabs showing) is very popular in Photoshop, and you’re able to do that within Bridge as well. Just drag-and-drop the tab of one palette onto another palette (just like you would outside Bridge). For example, if you’d like all four Bridge pane tabs side-by-side at the top of the Bridge’s Panel area, just drag the lower three tabs up to the Folders pane, one by one.

June 21st, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Changing Metadata Font Sizes

If you’re older than 17, chances are you’ll find the font size Adobe uses for the Metadata palette in Bridge way, way too small. Luckily, Adobe doesn’t have many 17-year-olds on the payroll, so they included a way to increase the font size for the metadata. Just click on the flyout menu (it’s the little round button with a right-facing triangle in it on the top-right side of the Metadata palette) and choose Increase Font Size from the contextual menu. The cool thing is—you can choose this command more than once, making your font size bigger and bigger each time you choose it.

June 20th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Batch Renaming Earns A Shortcut

Finally, the Batch Rename command (where you rename multiple photos at once) has a keyboard shortcut. It’s Command-Shift-R (PC: Control-Shift-R), which brings up the Batch Rename dialog.

June 19th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Scrolling Thru The Views

Want to quickly scroll through the different thumbnail views in Bridge? Press-and-hold Command (PC: Control) and the Backslash key (\). Hey, don’t scoff at this seemingly innocent shortcut—Mac users have been waiting years for any shortcut that makes use of the Backslash key. In the captures shown here, I’ve scrolled from Thumbnails view to Filmstrip view.

June 18th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

One-Button Refresh for the Bridge

When you’re working in CS2’s Bridge, you’ve probably noticed that when you plug in a jump drive, memory card, etc., your Folders pane doesn’t always update immediately. If that’s the case, there’s a simple one-button trick—press F5. If you’re charging by the hour, you could always choose Refresh from the Folder palette’s flyout menu, but that just takes too long. Instead, just press F5 for an instant refresh anytime.

June 15th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Jumping Between Bridge and Photoshop

Here’s a shortcut you’ll want to start using to jump you back and forth between Photoshop and Bridge (when they’re both already open). It’s Command-Option-O (PC: Control-Alt-O).

June 14th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Batch Renaming Earns a Shortcut

Finally, the Batch Rename command (where you rename multiple photos at once) has a keyboard shortcut. It’s Command-Shift-R (PC: Control-Shift-R), which brings up the Batch Rename dialog (as shown here).

June 13th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How to Keep From Losing Your Bridge Changes

Before there was Bridge, there was the File Browser. One downfall of the File Browser was that if you moved photos from one folder to another, you lost all the changes (and cached thumbnails) you had made while in the Browser because you lost the link to the invisible files that stored that information. But you can change that in Bridge, so your edits (and thumbnail cache) follow wherever you move your folder of images. First, press Command-K (PC: Control-K) to bring up Bridge’s Preferences. On the left side of the dialog, click on Advanced, and then click on the Use Distributed Cache Files When Possible option under the Cache section. This makes two normally invisible files now visible, and when you move your folder of images, they move right along with them.

June 12th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Jump to the Largest Thumbnail Size in One Click

If you want to see your thumbnails as large as they can possibly fit within Bridge’s main window, just go down to the Thumbnail Size slider (along the bottom of the window) and click on the little rectangle icon that appears at the end of the slider on the right side. This jumps you instantly to the largest possible thumbnail size in just one click.

June 11th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Switching Between Open Bridge Windows

As you learned earlier, you can have more than one Bridge window open at a time (which is great for looking at different collections of images at the same time). Well, if you’re going to be working with multiple windows, you’re going to want to know this shortcut, which toggles you back and forth between open Bridge windows. It’s Command-Shift-˜ (that’s the Tilde key, found right above the Tab key on your keyboard). Note: Unfortunately for PC users, this shortcut doesn’t work.

June 8th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Rename any Photo Fast

Want to rename a photo? Just click on its thumbnail then press the Spacebar. Its name will highlight and you can just type in a new one. When you’re done, just press the Enter key.

June 7th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Ejecting Discs from within the Bridge

If you’ve got a CD, jump drive, a camera memory card, etc., hooked up to your computer, you can eject it without leaving Bridge. Just go to the Folders pane, click on the disc you want to eject, then go under Bridge’s File menu and choose Eject.

June 6th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Emailing From Bridge

Okay, you can’t exactly email from Bridge, but this is the closest thing—you can drag images directly from Bridge right into your email message window. Just open your email program, create a new message, then go to Bridge, find the photo you want, drag-and-drop the thumbnail in your email message window, and it attaches to your message. Note: This can vary depending on the email program you use.

June 5th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Photoshop Tutorials

Design Effects
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Stylized Comic Book Effect
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Text Shape Layers
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Borders Under a Minute
Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually any one of your photos or even video for that matter.

Halftone Smudge Brush

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Scale Effects

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Design Elements from Photos

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Acrobat 9 PDF Security
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Flash Video the Easy Way, Pt. 3
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Premiere Pro CS4 Nest Command
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Imageready’s Supercharged Eyedropper

In previous versions of Photoshop, you could only use the Eyedropper tool to sample a color from other open images in Photoshop, but for some reason, ImageReady had a supercharged Eyedropper. If you clicked the mouse button within your image and held it down, you could leave your image window and sample colors from, well… just about anything—including your computer desktop or any other open application. Freaky! Fortunately, Adobe finally added this same power to Photoshop’s Eyedropper tool.