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Slide Show offers by far the easiest way to review and rank your raw im-

ages at full-screen resolution, and is a valuable addition to the workfl ow.

The Window Menu and Bridge Confi guration

The Window menu is short and sweet (so short and sweet that it doesn’t

actually list the windows that are open in Bridge—maybe next time), and

the one item you’re likely to use again and again is the Workspace menu,

which lets you save and recall custom Bridge confi gurations. Bridge ships

with four preconfi gured Workspaces—Lightbox, File Navigator, Metadata

Focus, and Filmstrip Focus, shown in Figure 6-40—but if you’re at all like

me you’ll probably fi nd that none of them is exactly what you want.

Figure 6-39

Slide Show Options

Figure 6-40

Preset Workspaces

Bridge’s preconfi gured

Lightbox Workspace

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Figure 6-40

Preset Workspaces,

continued

Bridge’s preconfi gured

File Navigator Workspace

Bridge’s preconfi gured

Metadata Focus

Workspace

Bridge’s preconfi gured

Filmstrip Focus

Workspace

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Fortunately, Bridge windows are eminently confi gurable, and you can

save your custom confi gurations as Workspaces too. You can dock the

panels as you wish, resize them by dragging their borders, remove panels

you don’t need using the View menu commands, or hide all the panels

using the Show/Hide panels toggle. See Figure 6-4, earlier in this chapter,

for the locations of the various window components.

Saving Workspaces in Bridge is easy. Confi gure the window the way

you want the Workspace to appear, then choose Save Workspace from

the Window>Workspace menu. Enter a name (and, optionally, a keyboard

shortcut), then click Save, checking Save Window Location as Part of

Workspace if you always want the window to appear in the same place

(very useful on dual-monitor setups). Your saved Workspace is then added

to the Workspace menu—see Figure 6-41.

Figure 6-41

Saving a Workspace

Confi gure the window

the way you want the

Workspace to behave.

In this case, I’m display-

ing two maximum-size

thumbnails side by

side with fi lename and

metadata hidden.

Choose Save Workspace

from the Workspace

submenu on the

Window menu.

Name and save your

Workspace.