Chapter 3. View from the Bridge

Graphic designers and professionals are visual people. We lay out our pages by selecting tools and dragging objects or moving pixels around the document, and we can immediately see the results of our actions. If we’re working with images, we make adjustments to tone or color, or apply a filter, and we get immediate visual feedback about the changes we make.

Adobe Creative Suite 2 introduces an new application — Adobe Bridge — for visually managing the different file types we’ll work on within the CS2 applications — InDesign layouts, Illustrator documents, Adobe PDF files, every kind of image file, even dynamic media files like QuickTime movies. Just as the Bridge on the starship Enterprise was the main hub for ...

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