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Faster Color Labeling Shortcut

By default, the shortcuts for applying a color label require you to hold down the Command key (PC: Control key), so you’d press Command-6 for Red, Command-7 for Yellow, etc. (PC: Control-6, -7, etc.). But if you find yourself using color labels a lot, you can change it so it only takes one key—the number, rather than Command/Control. Just press Command-K (PC: Control-K) to go to the Bridge Preferences, click on Labels (from the list on the left side of the dialog), and then turn off the checkbox for Require the Command Key (PC: Control Key) to Apply Labels and Ratings.

May 29th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

I Wanna Go Back

If you’re on a webpage and you want to go back to the previous page, you just hit the Back button, right? Well, luckily Adobe added a Back button to Bridge as well, so to get back to your previous folder of images, just click the Go Back button (it’s the left-facing arrow) at the top-left corner of your Bridge window. You can also go to your next folder by clicking the Go Forward button (it’s the right-facing arrow), but did I really have to tell you that?

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

Opening An Image And Hide Your Bridge Window

One thing that really adds to your desktop clutter is the fact that when you open a photo from Bridge, your Bridge window remains open behind your photo. In most cases, you can still see the top, right-hand side, bottom, or all sides (depending on the size of your image) peeking out from behind your photo. But it doesn’t have to be that way. To open a photo and have Bridge automatically close its window, don’t just double-click on the thumbnail to open it; instead, Option-double-click (PC: Alt-double-click) on the thumbnail.

May 24th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How To Know If A Photo Is Open In Photoshop

If you’re in Bridge and notice a little round icon with a bent page has appeared in the bottom-right corner of your thumbnail, that’s Bridge’s way of telling you that the image is currently open in Photoshop.

May 23rd, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

How To Get More Than Three Panes

That headline is a setup I can hardly resist, but I’m going to totally ignore it and jump right to the tip, although it panes me. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.) By default, Bridge (and the File Browsers that came before it) has three panes visible on the left side of the window (with the Folders and Favorites panels on top, Preview in the middle, and the Metadata and Keywords panels below that). But in CS2 it doesn’t have to be just three—you can add more panes (ideal if you’re working on a really large monitor). Here’s how: Just click-and-drag the tab of the pane you want to have in its own section until it appears right beneath one of the existing panes. When you see a thick, blue horizontal line appear between the two panes, that’s your cue—release the mouse button, and your pane has a new home.

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

Seeing Your PDF Pages Bigger

If you’re using the previous tip to view PDF documents within Bridge, here’s a tip you’ll probably want to know to make your PDF’s pages appear larger onscreen. If your PDF contains regular letter-sized pages, click the Switch Filmstrip Orientation icon found to the right of the arrow buttons below the PDF. This switches your view so your thumbnails appear along the side, which makes your letter-sized pages larger. Now you can grab the bottom-right corner of the Bridge window and expand it to make your view even bigger, so it’s “biggity big” (that’s a technical term, not to be used lightly).

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

Viewing The Pages Of PDFs From Within Bridge

Got a multipage PDF and want to see inside it? No sweat—just switch to Filmstrip view (click the Filmstrip icon near the bottom-right corner of the Bridge window), click on the PDF’s thumbnail in Bridge, and little arrow buttons will appear beneath the PDF, which let you move from page to page inside the PDF.

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

Seeing More Than One Folder Of Images At A Time

If you’d like to see more than one folder of photos onscreen at the same time, it’s no problem, because in CS2 you can have multiple Bridge windows open at the same time. Just press Command-N (PC: Control-N) and a new Bridge window will appear (your previous Bridge window will still be there). Now, navigate to the folder you want to display in this window, and you’re set-your original window is still open, and your new window is showing some new photos. Mighty darn handy stuff for a Buckaroo like yourself.

May 17th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Deleting Folders From The Bridge

This is one Adobe snuck into CS2, and they made so little fuss about it, hardly anyone realizes they did it—you can now delete entire folders from right within Bridge. Just click on the folder and press Command-Delete (PC: Control-Delete). Now, with great power comes great responsibility, so don’t just start deleting stuff all willy-nilly (by the way, I have no idea what willy-nilly means), because those folders have photos in ’em. Even though you’ll get a warning dialog before the folder disappears, make sure that before you click OK to delete a folder, that’s really what you want to do.

May 16th, 2007 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Resetting Bridge’s Preferences

Want all the options in Bridge set back to the factory defaults? Then close Bridge, hold down Command-Option-Shift (PC: Control-Alt-Shift) and then launch Bridge again. A dialog will appear asking what you want to do. Turn on the Reset Preferences checkbox and click OK. Now when Bridge appears, the preferences are factory-fresh.

May 15th, 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.