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[Marek's Mastering Techniques with Marek Mularczyk]
Hi. Welcome to first video about secrets of Adobe Bridge.
It's really interesting when I speak to people about Adobe Bridge,
especially in the courses,
and we talk about Bridge on Photoshop courses, as an example.
People start thinking, "What is Adobe Bridge?"
So many people have never used Bridge before.
They don't even know what Bridge is.
So let's--I'm in Adobe Bridge.
I'll show you what it is.
It is a file browser.
So you can see I've got my content off my desktop.
On the left-hand side, there's a folder that shows the content on your computer.
So I could go through folders here.
I could double-click on my folder and then double-click on Documents
to get access to the documents I have in here.
Maybe double-click on Web Design, as an example.
Bridge can preview all sorts of file formats recognized by Adobe software.
As an example, I'm going to go into something that's got loads of images.
So I'll scroll down in my Folders panel, and I'll go into the Pictures folder.
In here, I've got a sub-folder called Dartmoor.
So I'll go to look in here.
There should be some JPEG images in here,
and, of course, we can preview JPEG images.
But let me show you a couple of really, really interesting features in Adobe Bridge.
I'm using Adobe Bridge CS5, but this will also work in Adobe Bridge CS4.
I'm going to highlight a couple of images, so I'm using Control key.
This is on a PC; that would be Command key on a Mac.
I'll select these 3, 4, 5, 6, maybe 7 images.
I can preview them in the Preview panel on the right-hand side,
but I can also use the Space Bar to preview them full-screen.
Now it jumps full-screen.
I can use the Arrow keys on my keyboard--left and right Arrow keys to move between images.
Perfect for creating presentations.
The person who you're showing the presentation to doesn't need to know what software you're using.
So you can always really easily here, in Adobe Bridge, as a manual slideshow.
We can also create PDF slideshows in Adobe Bridge,
but we're going to talk about it in a later video,
just so you know, so stick with me.
So I'm going to exit this View mode by pressing Alt + F4 on the keyboard
Alt + F4 closes any window on a PC.
Okay, once again, I'm going to select a couple of images here,
and I want to show you the new Review mode in Adobe Bridge CS4.
This also works in CS5.
We can see lots of images selected in a 3-D carousel.
You can access Review mode by pressing Ctrl + B; this would be Command + B on a Mac.
This jumps into a 3-D carousel view.
Now you can use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard to move between these different images.
This is really, really nice.
You can also click and drag with your mouse,
if you click and drag to the left or the right.
Now be really careful--left or right--
because if you click and drag toward the bottom,
or if you press the down arrow key,
this will remove the image from the Review mode.
So now my image is removed.
The image hasn't been deleted on the hard drive; it's only been removed from the Review mode.
So I'm just selecting the images.
This looks good.
This looks very similar to that image here,
so I'm going to delete this one--actually remove it.
This one looks good.
I can also--okay, I'm just going to leave it.
Now I'm done, so I'm going to exit Review mode
by clicking this "X" sign in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
And the images are still selected.
All right, let me show you what else we can preview inside Adobe Bridge.
We can preview JPEG images in File Browser on Windows or in a finder on a Mac,
so there's nothing really cool about that.
So let's see what kind of files we can preview.
I'm going to jump to another folder.
If you look in the top-left corner of the screen,
you can see this folder structure--Bread Crumbs, as it's also called by Adobe--
that shows you the path to all the folders on your computer.
So I'm actually inside of the Dartmoor folder, which is inside Pictures folder,
and this is inside Marek folder on the local disk.
There are also right-pointing triangles in between the folders.
As an example, if I click on this right-pointing triangle between Marek and Pictures,
this will show me the content of all the folders inside Marek folder.
I want to jump quickly to my Documents folder and then Web Design,
because I want to show some other files that can be accessed by Adobe Bridge.
I'm going to use, as an example, my Marek Mularczyk website.
And I go into the website folder, and I'm actually going to jump into Docs folder
because I want to show you how we can also preview PDFs inside Adobe Bridge.
Now, we're going to preview PDFs without using Adobe Reader.
You don't need to have Adobe Reader or any other PDF software installed on your computer
to preview it inside Adobe Bridge.
I'm going to select one of the pages here,
and this shows me the preview of my PDF file.
I can also use the Space Bar on my keyboard to access it in a full-screen mode.
Now I can see it in full-screen mode.
I'm going to close it as usual, Alt + F4.
I'll show you another document.
This time I'll use the webmaster class of PDF,
which is 2-page document in PDF.
If you look in the Preview window in my top-right corner,
you can see it says, "1 out of 2,"
and it's a right-pointing arrow.
We can use that to move between the pages and the content changes if you look in here,
if you remember in Flash training.
So you could read PDF documents inside Adobe Bridge.
Now, it gets even better.
Let me show you more features.
This could well be one of the best features I find in Adobe Bridge.
Adobe Bridge can preview all sorts of content that can--that's recognized by Adobe software.
I'll show you an example of a website that I've created in Adobe Flash Professional.
This is the website created in Adobe Flash,
and I can preview it inside Adobe Bridge without a web browser,
without having a Flash player.
So I'll jump back to the Website sub-folder.
I'll go into My Folders, then inside Website folder.
It's refreshing the content.
I'm looking for the Index file.
This is Index.swf.
I'll make the Preview window bigger so you can see that better.
As soon as I select the file, the website will load.
So I'm just going to give a minute,
and you can even hear the sounds.
This is a sound from the website, embedded inside Flash content,
but it gets even better.
If you navigate this page, here, I can actually use the page.
I can browse between different pages on the website.
I can manipulate through the menu.
If I mouse over the menu, the items move.
I can also click on the menu items to navigate to different pages,
for example, a travel page.
Click on it, and this opens the travel page.
I can browse between different pages on the website or the Contact page,
or I can go back to my Home page.
It's a Flash file inside of Adobe Bridge.
Now this is really, really nice--really very interesting.
There's some more features inside Adobe Bridge.
There's a new Export feature where you can
export your content to your hard drive or to Photoshop.
We'll talk about it in later movies.
That's it for now; that's it for today.
And we'll keep you updated on all of the amazing features inside Adobe Bridge.
Thank you for today.
I hope you have a fantastic day. Bye.
