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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 (1)

Deleting Unwanted Photos Fast

Let’s say you’ve opened the photos from your latest shoot (after you’ve backed them up to CD, of course), and you realize there’s only five or six photos that you really want to keep, and you want to delete the rest. Use this tip to make quick work of getting rid the hundreds you don’t want—just Command-click (PC: Control-click) on the five or six you want to keep, then go under the Edit menu and choose Invert Selection. This command selects every photo but those five or six you selected. Now you can just press Command-Delete (PC: Control-Delete) to delete all the ones you don’t want. Big time saver.

June 4th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Duplicate Any Photo Fast!

Want to duplicate an image in Bridge? Just click on it and press Command-D (PC: Control-D) and it will appear at the bottom of your Bridge window. This used to be the shortcut for Deselect All back in the File Browser of CS, but now it duplicates the image. That’s probably got you thinking, “Hey, so if Command-D doesn’t deselect all, what shortcut does?” It’s Command-Shift A (PC: Control-Shift-A).

June 1st, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Collections Are Live, Baby!

If you create a collection (let’s say it’s a collection of all photos on your hard disk that have your son’s or daughter’s name as the keyword), this collection is “live” and by that I mean that anytime you import a new photo and assign that same keyword (your son’s or daughter’s name), that photo will automatically also appear in that collection (well, technically it updates the next time you click on that collection, but that’s technical, right?). To create a collection, just do a search for the keyword you want by pressing Command-F (Control-F), enter your criteria in the Find dialog, and then once the results window appears, click on the Save As Collection button in the top-right corner. To see if your imported image appeared in your collection, click on Collections in the Favorites pane, and double-click on the collection to open it in its own window.

May 31st, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Getting Back To Your Bridge Window After Searching

When you perform a search (by pressing Command-F [PC: Control-F]), although it at first seems that your results appear within your same Bridge window—they don’t. They appear in their own separate window, so if you want to get back to working in Bridge, you have to close the results window.

May 30th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Adding Keywords to Multiple files

In Bridge, you can add keywords to images to make searching for pictures a little less cumbersome. You don’t, however, want the process to become tedious as well. By either Command-clicking (PC: Ctrl-clicking) or Shift-clicking on images, you can select multiple files inside Bridge. Once you have the files selected, you can go to the Keywords panel and turn on any keyword you like. This will apply the keyword to all of the files that you have selected. It takes away a little bit of the pain of categorization, but just a little.