Chapter 3

The Visual Bridge: Accessing and Organizing Files

Introduction

Whatever your occupation, if you are using Photoshop, you will inevitably have a time when you come across a slew of references that you will need to access and work with. Photoshop comes with an organizational viewer called Bridge (see the side note, “Adobe Bridge CC,” p. 42). With a customizable layout and fast thumbnail views, this is beyond any standard file browser that our increasingly visual operating systems might offer, and because Bridge is used with more than just images and Photoshop, it goes beyond the sphere of Lightroom (another excellent program offered by Adobe for photo management).

Bridge is a visual asset management system that can be accessed from any ...

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