FIGURE 1-8: Move images from one folder to another in Adobe Bridge.
Making a favorite
When working in the Creative Cloud, you may return to certain folders over and over again. In that situation, it would help to have some Favorite folders established and saved in the Favorites panel. When your most popular folders are saved as favorites, accessing them requires only one click.
Follow these steps in order to save your own favorite. In the following steps, the files from the DummiesCCFile are used. You can follow along with your own files and folders if you like.
1 Using the Folders panel, navigate your file directory system until you locate the DummiesCCFile folder. If you have followed instructions it should be easy to find on the Desktop.In the example shown in Figure 1-9, the folder is located on the desktop.
2 Make sure that the Favorites panel is forward. Check this by clicking on the tab that says Favorites.
3 Click on the DummiesCCFiles folder and drag it to the Favorites panel. Release the mouse when you see a blue line that indicates where the favorite will appear in the present list, as shown in Figure 1-9.
FIGURE 1-9: Click and drag a folder into the Favorites panel.
Now that you have saved the DummiesCCFiles as a favorite, you can access the folder anytime you like simply by clicking on the folder name in the Favorites panel.
Investigating the Application bar
Now that you have spent a little bit of time working in Bridge, the Application bar and its tools will make more sense to you. The Application bar runs along the top of the Bridge workspace. The tools and features are shown in Figure 1-10.
FIGURE 1-10: The Application bar.
There are many features included in the Application bar that help you with navigating, acquiring, and organizing your files. Some important features include Get Photos from Camera, which is covered in Chapter 3 of this minibook, and Sort Criteria, which is covered in Chapter 2.
Developing a Bridge habit
Now that you have experienced using Adobe Bridge, try making it a habit. Instead of selecting File ⇒ Open, choose File ⇒ Browse in Bridge and start recognizing the time savings.
Chapter 2
Taking Advantage of Metadata in Adobe Bridge
IN THIS CHAPTER
Metadata is information that can be stored with images. This information travels with the file and makes it easy to search for and identify the file. Use metadata features and templates to help you save and find your files more easily.
You find out how to attach metadata to your images by following some step-by-step lessons included in this chapter. If you would like to follow along with them, you can download work files at https://www.agitraining.com/dummies.
Locating Your Files
You can follow these steps with your own files, or you can download the DummiesCCfiles folder, as instructed in Chapter 1 of this minibook.
1 In Bridge choose Window ⇒ Workspace ⇒ Reset Standard Workspaces.This ensures that you are in the Essentials view and that all the default panels for Adobe Bridge are visible. Alternatively, click Essentials in the Application bar at the top-right of the Bridge workspace. You might need to maximize your Bridge window after you reset the workspace.
2 Click the Folders tab to make sure it is brought forward.If you have files located on your hard drive, you can navigate to them using the named folders icons in the Folders panel.
3 Click Documents in the Folders panel to see saved documents that are stored in that folder. If you saved your DummiesCCFiles on the desktop, click Desktop to see in the center Content pane the files you have sitting on the desktop.
4 In the Content pane, double-click the DummiesCCFiles folder to open the contents.You see additional folders that contain files that will be referenced throughout the book.
5 Double-click the folder named Book02_Bridge to open it and see the images within that folder, as well as a subfolder named Hockey.
6 Double-click on the folder named Hockey to see the images that are located inside the folder, as shown in Figure 2-1.FIGURE 2-1: The contents of the Hockey folder which is inside the Book02_Bridge folder.
7 Click once on IMG_4088.JPG, and look for the Metadata and Keywords panels in the lower-right area of the Adobe Bridge workspace.
8 If the Metadata panel is not visible, click the Metadata panel tab. In this panel, as shown in Figure 2-2, you see the image data that is stored with the file. Take a few moments to scroll through the data and view the information that was imported from the digital camera that was used to take the photo.
9 If necessary, click the arrow to the left of IPTC Core to reveal its contents.IPTC Core is the schema for XMP that provides a smooth and explicit transfer of metadata. Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. With XMP,