Instructional Design and Technology:

Digital Media, New Tools, and Technology University of Maryland, University College - IDT300x

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ADOBE BRIDGE TO PHOTOSHOP

 

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Opening images into Adobe Photoshop from Adobe Bridge

 

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Hello this is Sergio Montalban

and in today's demonstration we're going

 

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to look at Adobe bridge and how we can

open images into Photoshop for a much

 

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more powerful way to navigate through

your media libraries during this course.

 

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We will be opening many different types of

images and we'll need to navigate to

 

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different areas of your computer so

let's have a look at Bridge now.

 

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We'll firstly use the file open command

in order to navigate through the

 

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operating system to open an image. This

is an easy and well-known way to open

 

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files although it doesn't provide a lot

of choice when viewing different types

 

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of information relating to the image.

I'll now use the file menu to open an

 

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image in Adobe Bridge this is a separate

application and is bundled with the

 

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Adobe Creative Cloud suite and you

should have access to it from your

 

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computers. On the left hand side we can

see that I can navigate either using the

 

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favorites or using the folders here I

can select a folder that I want to see

 

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the contents of and those contents will

appear in the contents area to the right.

 

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If I want to increase the size of the

thumbnail I can use the slider down at

 

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the bottom when I click on an image I

get a large preview over here on the

 

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right-hand side and I can click and drag

on any border between these different

 

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panels. If I wanted to have a larger

preview of the image I can navigate to

 

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other folders using the folder area and

if I wanted to move images I could

 

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select any of them and then just drag

and drop them onto another folder to

 

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move them on the hard drive.

 

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We now select an image I can see its

information metadata keywords and also

 

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filter images that I'm looking for.

 

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To open the first image I'll right-click

on it and select Open with Photoshop.

 

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I can now begin editing, once I'm

finished making edits to the image I can

 

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close it and then use the file menu in

order to return to Bridge by selecting

 

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Browse in Bridge.

 

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If I decide not to open an image and I

want to return back to photoshop, I can

 

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either use the file menu and then choose

Return to Adobe Photoshop, or I can click

 

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the Boomerang icon.

 

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So although you can use the operating

system to open your images, I find it to

 

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be slower and not as visually rich of an

experience as using Adobe Bridge. I hope

 

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this video has been useful and your

enjoying the creative process that comes

 

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with acquiring these skills.

I'll see you next time.

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