Photoshop CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

3. Bridge

In This Chapter

Launching Bridge 33

Downloading photos from a camera 34

The Bridge window 36

Choosing a workspace for Bridge 38

Previewing images in Bridge 40

Opening files from Bridge 44

Customizing the Bridge window 44

Saving custom workspaces 47

Resetting the Bridge workspace 47

Moving and copying files 47

Labeling and rating thumbnails 48

Choosing a sorting order 49

Using the Filter panel 49

Using thumbnail stacks 50

Managing files 51

Searching for files 53

Creating collections 54

Exporting the Bridge cache 56

Assigning keywords to files 57

Opening PDF and Illustrator files 58

Dealing with the “ifs” 60

The Bridge application ...