Bridge CC 2015 Essential Training

Learn to use Bridge CC to efficiently manage and organize media assets of all kinds.

Learn to use Bridge CC to efficiently manage and organize media assets of all kinds. Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost shows how to download photos from a camera into Bridge, rename the files, add metadata, and view, rate, and label photos. She also shows how to share the best images with filters and collections, and showcase them in slideshows.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Keeping Photoshop CC up to date
• Bridge and Camera Raw or Lightroom: Which should you use?

1. It Begins in Bridge

• What is Adobe Bridge?
• Getting photos from a camera
• A tour of workspaces in Bridge
• Customizing how thumbnails are displayed
• Changing file names and batch renaming
• Adding basic metadata with metadata templates
• Creating and applying keywords to images
• Viewing images in Full Screen Preview mode

2. Organizing Images

• Using Review mode to filter out rejected images
• Saving images in collections
• Rating and labeling images
• Using the Filter panel to view different subsets
• Using Smart Collections
• Viewing final selects in a slideshow
• Organizing groups of images into stacks

Conclusion

• Next steps