Title: Action Sports
Description: Two wheels. Four wheels. On water. In the sky. Football. Tennis. Snooker. All the action and excitement of sporting activities presented on one striking CD.
No of images: 53
Size / Output / Format: 300dpi/50Mb/A3 (42cm x 29.7cm or 16.5in x 11.7in)/CMYK JPG
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If you’ve backed up your digital negatives to a CD for safekeeping, of course you’re going to want to delete shots that are terribly out of focus, etc., but beyond that, is there really a reason to keep one-star files on your computer? They just take up drive space and otherwise impede the national economy, so you might as well delete them and move on with your life. Here’s a couple of ways to do just that:
If you burned a CD when you first inserted your memory card (and I know you did, because now you know how important it is to keep your digital negatives safely stored), then you can delete any photo from the Bridge that you don’t want. This is as easy as clicking on the offending thumbnail and pressing Command-Delete (PC: Control-Backspace). You’ll get a warning dialog telling you that if you continue this madness (by clicking OK), Photoshop will actually move this file from the folder where it resides and put it into the Trash (or Recycling Bin) until you choose to empty the Trash/Bin.
Ah, finally, we get to the fun partsorting your photos. Adobe has been trying different sorting methods since they introduced the File Browser. Back in Photoshop 7, you had to rank each photoand even then you didn’t necessarily get them in the exact order you wanted. In CS, you could flag photos, and then just view the flagged images. Well, in Photoshop CS2, Adobe’s taking things up a notch with a new rating scheme that’s a mix of the best of the Photoshop 7 and CS versions, with some nice new bells and whistles.
Sorting is based on the simple premise that in every digital roll you have some good shots, some “just-okay” shots, and some completely lame shots (or “losers,” as we call them). Generally, people want the good shots to appear at the top of the Bridge’s thumbnail window, followed by the just-okay shots and the lame shots (if you keep them at all) at the bottom. You can do this manually by simply clicking-and-dragging the thumbnails into the order you want. For example, if you want a thumbnail in the second row to appear in the top row, just click on its thumbnail and drag it to that spot. A thick, vertical bar lets you know where the dragged thumbnail will land. You can drag photos around just like you would on your own personal lightbox, putting photos into the exact order you want them. Sorting this way works great when you’re working with a small number of photos (like 24 or fewer), but when you start to sort a 1-GB memory card, dragging them around gets incredibly cumbersomethat’s why now there’s an improved “rating” system.
Rotating photos within the Adobe Bridge is as easy as clicking one button. However, when you rotate photos within the Bridge itself, you’re only really rotating the thumbnail. This is handy, because when you’re sorting photos with a portrait orientation (tall rather than wide), you want to be able to see them upright to make a sorting judgment call; but you have a separate decision to make if you want the actual photo rotatednot just the thumbnail.
Here’s how to do both:
Rotating a thumbnail is a total no-brainer: Just click on the thumbnail you want to rotate, then click on one of the circular arrow rotation icons in the top-right corner of the Bridge. The left arrow icon rotates counterclockwise; the right arrow icon rotates clockwise. You can also use the shortcut Command-[ (PC: Control-[) (Left Bracket key) to rotate counterclockwise, and Command-] (PC: Control-]) (Right Bracket key) to rotate clockwise.
When you rotate a thumbnail, you’re doing just thatthe photo doesn’t get rotated until you actually open it in Photoshop (go look in the image’s folder on your hard drive, and you’ll see from the file’s thumbnail that the actual photo isn’t rotated). So if you really want to rotate the original photo, double-click on the photo in the Bridge and the image will open in Photoshop with the rotation applied. Now you can choose Save from the File menu to make the rotation permanent.
If you want to rename an individual photo, it’s fairly straightforward. Now there is also a way to actually rename every photo at once with names that make sense (to you anyway); but that, my friends, is in the next chapter. For now, here’s how to rename one thumbnail image at a time (this is a great technique to employ if you charge by the hour).
It’s hard to imagine why someone wouldn’t like such a descriptive name as DSC_1053.JPG, but if you’re one of those people who enjoys names that actually describe what’s happening in the photo, here’s how it’s done: With a thumbnail selected, click directly on the photo’s name (in the thumbnail window) and the name will highlight, ready for you to type in a more descriptive name (like “DSC_1054″…kidding).
Once you’ve typed in your new name, press the Return (PC: Enter) key and the thumbnail updates with your new-and-improved name. (Here I changed the name of the file DSC_1053.JPG to Barcelona Daisies.JPG.)
By default, nested with the Metadata palette is the Keywords palette. Keywords are important, because once you’ve applied one or more keywords to a photo, it’s that much easier to find that photo again by using the Adobe Bridge’s Find (search) function. For example, if you shoot flowers, you can add the keyword “calla lily” to every shot of a calla lily. Then, if later you wanted to quickly locate every shot you’ve taken of calla liliesyou just type “calla lily” in the Find dialog and all your calla lily photos appear in seconds. Did it seem like I just used the words “calla lily” a lot?
The Metadata palette gives you access to information that’s embedded into your photo by your digital camera at the moment you take the shot. By default, nested with the Metadata palette is the Keywords palette, which enables you to search for specific images by assigning keywords (that may sound complicated, but it’s actually pretty simple). We’ll start here with a simple look at how to access the embedded background information on your photos using the Metadata palette.
The Preview palette in the Adobe Bridge is designed to give you a larger preview of the thumbnail images that you click on in the main window. Although the Preview palette looks like a one-trick pony, there are a few hidden little features that can make it a much more useful tool.
When you’re in the Default Workspace (found in the View menu under Workspace), you’ll see the Preview palette in the middle of the Panel areaand the preview is so small you’re probably wondering why Adobe included it at all. It’s because there’s more to it than meets the eye (well, at least at first). You can make the preview much larger by double-clickingnot on the Preview tabbut instead directly on the Folders (or Favorites) tab above it. This will collapse (hide) the Folders palette (and the nested Favorites palette) so that only their tabs are visible, expanding the viewing area of the Preview palette upward. If you need the preview even bigger, then double-click on the Metadata (or Keywords) tab in the bottom left of the Panel area to collapse them, expanding the Preview palette even more. This works particularly well when you’re viewing a portrait-oriented photo (tall rather than wide). However, when you have a photo in landscape orientation, to get the preview much larger you’ll also have to expand the width of the Panel area by clicking on the center tab on the divider bar (along the right side of the Panel area) and dragging it to the right. (Note: To make any collapsed palette visible again, just double-click directly on its tab name.)
Back in Photoshop CS, you had little control over the look of the File Browser, but with the Adobe Bridge, you’ve got a number of options for personalizing the look and feel. But not only that, you also have more control over what information will be displayed. Here’s how to set up your Bridge your way:
You have three basic choices for the background color that will appear behind your thumbnails: black, white, or some shade of gray. To set your background color, go under the Bridge menu (on a Mac) or the Edit menu (on a PC) and choose Preferences. When the Preferences dialog appears, with General selected (in the list on the left side of the dialog), you’ll see the Background slider under the Thumbnails section. Just drag the slider where you want it (I chose a medium gray), and then click OK.
