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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual
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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

by Lesa Snider
June 2013
Beginner
926 pages
36h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Installing Bridge

In order to keep the file sizes of Adobe’s downloadable Creative Cloud programs as slim and trim as possible, Bridge and its Mini Bridge panel are no longer automatically installed when you load Photoshop onto your machine. The installation process is simple—but as of this writing, it was still in flux. For the most up-to date info on installing Bridge CC, download online Appendix A from this book’s Missing CD page at www.missingmanuals.com/cds.

Happily, Bridge CS6 and Bridge CC seem to coexist peacefully on a single machine, so if you need the missing features mentioned back on Installing Bridge, feel free to keep the CS6 version hanging around.

Note

Once you install Bridge CC, you can access it inside Photoshop using the Mini Bridge panel. Choose File→“Browse in Mini Bridge” or Window→Extensions→Mini Bridge. Either way, it appears at the bottom of your screen; flip to Making a Web Gallery for a sneak peek. (The Mini Bridge panel is installed along with Bridge CC.)

Unfortunately, Bridge doesn’t have an equivalent of Photoshop’s Migrate Presets feature (Sharing Presets), so if you’ve customized an earlier version of Bridge with favorites (Browsing through Photos), collections (Grouping Images into Collections), and so on, you need to copy those files over to the new version manually. To do that on a Mac, find the Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Bridge CS6 Extensions folder, and then open it to reveal your presets folder. Drag those files into the into ...

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