Experience PS CS2 Bridge file browser 2

Browser 2, File and folder basic Operation

This is the basic function of Adobe Bridge, where you can view, search, sort, manage, and process picture files. You can use Bridge to create new folders, rename, move, delete files, or edit metadata metadata, rotate pictures, run batch commands, and so on. You can also view information about image files imported from your camera.

　　① find the files you need

The most basic way to find the files you need is to use the "Folders" panel. In this panel, you can open the tree like a resource manager using Windows, locate and click the folder in which the file resides, and display the file you are looking for in the content area, as shown in Figure 11.

If you want to see the contents of a picture, you can change how the picture is displayed and display the contents of the picture as thumbnails or as a slideshow, as shown in section ②. If you are unsure which folder the file is located in, you can use the search functionality provided by ADOBW Bridge to find it, see section ⑧.

　　② file Display (View)

　　Display files in a different way

You can switch different view modes by using the different view control icons at the bottom right of the bridge window. In each view, use the slider below the window to zoom picture thumbnail display, press the shortcut key ctrl+l can switch to full screen mode to browse the picture, in Full-screen mode, press the H key can show operation shortcut keys, press the space bar can control play or pause.

Each of the four views is described below.

• Thumbnail view (thumbnail views): displays a file as thumbnails, similar to the effect of browsing a picture in thumbnail mode in the Windows XP Explorer, as shown in Figure 12.

• filmstrip view (slide view): using Slide view, you can preview and automatically play pictures as you would with the picture and Fax Viewer or ACDSee in Windows, as shown in Figure 11.

• Details view (Details views): Displays thumbnails that you can scroll through and displays information about the selected files on the right side of the thumbnail, such as creation date, date Modified, file type, pixel size, file size, color mode, author, source, keyword, and so on, as shown in Figure 13.

• versions and alternates view (versions and alternating views): Displays a list of scrollable thumbnails and displays Version Cue on the right (see part One, Version Cue 2.0) or alternately (alternates ) information, as shown in Figure 14.

　　

(Figure 14 from the Adobe official website)

Specify the type of file to display

We can specify the type of files or folders to display in the content area, or you can specify the order in which they are arranged. The show command on the View menu allows you to specify the type of file or folder to display, as shown in Figure 15. The Sort command on the View menu allows you to specify what the file or folder is in order, as shown in Figure 16.

　　③ Open the file in bridge

Using the menu "file" → "open" in Adobe Bridge or simply double-clicking the file, selecting the file and pressing ENTER will open the file with Photoshop CS2. You can also open using a different application by using the menu "File" → "Open with" and then selecting another program from the submenu, as shown in Figure 17, to see that the Adobe Photoshop CS2 is set as the default open program. If you use "File" → "Open in Camera Raw", you can edit the raw format file settings for your digital camera.

　　④ uses bridge to manage files

Using Adobe Bridge, you can easily move files between folders by dragging and dropping them, just as you would use a resource manager in Windows. You can copy, paste, cut, delete, rename files, and so on, because these operations are similar to the use of resource manager, so do not repeat.

　　⑤ rotation (Rotate) picture

In bridge, JPEG, PSD, TIFF files and digital camera RAW format files can be rotated, and rotation does not affect the image file data.

When you select a picture, click or button on the toolbar to rotate the picture 90 degrees counterclockwise (or clockwise). To rotate 180 degrees, use the menu command "Edit" → "Rotate 180°."

　　⑥ Add and remove labels for pictures (label)

Using Adobe Bridge to label picture files with different colors is an efficient and flexible way to quickly identify a large number of pictures. You can choose to display only files labeled with a color label by using the Unfilter button on the command or toolbar in the menu "View" → "Sort" submenu.

You can label selected files by using the label menu, or by using the Label submenu in the right-click menu on a file, and there are five colors you can choose from: Red, yellow, green, blue, purple. Use shortcut keys to quickly label files, Red is ctrl+6, yellow is ctrl+7, green is ctrl+8, Blue is ctrl+9.

For example, suppose we import a lot of pictures from a digital camera and then browse them in bridge. When we browse, we can make a good picture of our own feeling is marked with a color label, as the future to be retained, not labeled on a later to delete. Once all are marked, you can use show unlabeled items only in the Unfilter button (only items that are not tagged), as shown in Figure 19, display only the pictures that are not tagged, and then select them all and delete them. If a picture is divided into categories, you can label it with a different color and then process it for some purpose. For example, to rotate 90 degrees of all red, and then all of them are selected to rotate together, and the need to rotate 180 degrees is marked blue, to show the difference.

The label file, you can also clear the label, by selecting the file to clear the label, use the menu command "label" → "No Label" (label → do not use the label).

　　⑦ number of pictures (Rate)

We can grade the picture, or call the score. There are one to five stars, five levels, and the more stars, the better the picture. After rating the star, you can use the menu "View" → "Sort" → "by Rating" to sort the picture by rank, or you can use the Unfilter button on the toolbar to display only a single star image, or only a picture with no rating. This function is certainly very helpful for the management of pictures, for example, when we look at each new picture, we can rate it according to our preferences, and then we can just browse and process the favorite pictures (like five stars), somewhat similar to scoring songs in the MP3 player.

To score a picture, you can use the related commands in the Label menu, as shown in Figure 20. However, the use of shortcut keys is very convenient, the figure has won the various grades and to improve and lower the level or cancel the level of the shortcut keys, but also easier to remember, for the user quickly for the picture scoring provides convenience.

　　 tips: In fact, there is a way to quickly rate the picture, select the picture, you will find the picture below the star where there are some small dots, directly on the label of a location click on these dots can add stars, as shown in Figure 21.

　　⑧ uses bridge to search for files and folders

In bridge, you can use the search function it provides to quickly find the desired picture files. Use the menu "Edit" → "find" to open the "Get" dialog box as shown in Figure 22, when searching, you can specify multiple search criteria, including file names, file sizes, creation or modification dates, keywords, meta data information, ratings, labels, data, file types, keywords, comments, and descriptions.

In the Source area, you can select the folder you want to search for, and by default, the folder that is currently open is displayed. Click the Browse button on the right to browse to a different folder.

There are several check boxes in the dialog box for your convenience, as described below.

• Include all subfolders: Select this to include all subfolders of the selected folder when searching.
• Search past versions of version Cue files: Check this to include older versions of the Adobe version Cue file.
• Show found in a new Browser window: Check this to display the results of the search in a new bridge window. If you do not select the item, the search results appear in the content area of the current window.

The Drop-down list on the right side of Match is very important, with two choices, "if any criteria are met" is a search for files that meet any of the criteria, and "If all are met" is a search for files that meet all the criteria, The results of these two choices are naturally vastly different.