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Cursor Too Small? Make It Bigger

At long last, bigger brush cursors are here. Just go to Preferences under the Photoshop menu (or under the Edit menu in Windows), under Display & Cursors, and choose Full Size Brush Tip. You also have the option of adding a crosshair to the center of your brush cursor by turning on that option (which appears just below the Full Size Brush Tip).

June 26th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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)

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Viewing and Basking in your Image

When I’m done working with an image, I like to sit and admire it (hey, I spent six hours working on it, I should). To do that, I hit the Tab key, then hit the F key three times. This hides all of the panels and toolbars and lets you see the image by itself surrounded by black. To get back to regular mode, press the F key and the Tab key one more time.