Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

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You’ll see a folder called McClelland Boys, be-

cause these are photos I took while out with

my kids. Click that folder to fill the content

browser with a collection of eighteen tiny

photographic thumbnails, as in Figure 1-3.

To change the size of the thumbnails, drag the slider

triangle in the bottom-right corner of the window

(labeled Thumbnail size slider bar in Figure 1-3).

3.

Select a thumbnail. Locate and click the

file called Butterflying_03.jpg, highlighted in

Figure 1-4. (Some of these images were captured

and automatically named by a digital camera,

hence their cryptic filenames.) This activates the

image and displays it in the Preview panel on

the right side of the Bridge window.

To see more detail, enlarge the Preview panel by

dragging the vertical and horizontal panel dividers

that separate the five panels.

4. Double-click the thumbnail. Double-click the

thumbnail in the Content panel, and choose

File→Open or press Ctrl+O (-O on the Mac).

The Bridge hands off the image to Photoshop,

which in turn loads the photo. I turned off Open

Documents as Tabs (see page xxi of the Preface), so

for me the photo appears in a new image win-

dow, as in Figure 1-5.

P E A R L O F W I S D O M

The title bar or tab lists the name of the image and

magnification level followed by a color notation, RGB/8*.

These six characters convey three pieces