The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide

11. Organizing Images in Bridge

In the age of digital photography, we all have too many photos to keep track of easily. Adobe Bridge can help you wrangle your images and find the ones you’re looking for.

Adobe Bridge is included with all the Creative Suite applications except Adobe Acrobat. It’s a handy application whether you just want to browse thumbnails of your photos or need to search on metadata, including keywords. You can use it to open images directly in Adobe Camera Raw, instead of Photoshop—and you can even access some of Photoshop’s neatest features (such as Photomerge) directly from Bridge. In addition to adding and searching metadata, you can rank and group images, so there’s an organizational method for just about everyone.