Launching Adobe Bridge

Th e Bridge application ships with Photoshop and is aptly named because it serves as a bridge to programs in the Adobe Creative Suite.

In Chapter 1, you learned how to use Bridge to synchronize the color settings for your Creative Suite programs. With its large thumbnail previews of fi les from Adobe Creative Suite applications, Bridge is the best vehicle for opening fi les, and it off ers a host of other useful features.
Th is chapter begins with instructions for downloading photos from a digital camera. Following that, you will use Bridge to preview, examine, label, rate, sort,
and fi lter your fi le thumbnails; customize the Bridge workspace; organize thumbnails into collections and collapsible stacks; search for, move, copy, and assign keywords to fi les; and open fi les into Photoshop. You will also use Mini Bridge, a panel that lets you access the Bridge features in Photoshop. Th ere’s a lot to learn in this comprehensive chapter — progress through it
at your own pace.

Launching Adobe Bridge

To launch Adobe Bridge:
To open the Adobe Bridge window, do one of the following:
In Windows or in the Mac OS, on the Application bar in Photoshop, click the Launch Bridge button (Ctrl-Alt-O/Cmd-Option-O).A In Windows, click the Start button, choose All Programs, then click Adobe Bridge CS5.
In the Mac OS, double-click the Adobe Bridge CS5 application icon or click the Bridge icon on the Dock.
➤ Th ere is a Bridge feature that lets it launch automatically at startup and stay in the background in stealth mode. We suggest that beginning users turn this feature off by going to the Edit/Adobe Bridge CS5 > Preferences dialog for Bridge (Ctrl-K/Cmd-K), Advanced panel, and unchecking Start Bridge at Login.