Welcome to Bridge
Adobe Bridge, on the Mac, is a Finder replacement - on the PC it is an Explorer replacement. from wikipedia
In short, Bridge is an application with many features that help you facilitate project and asset management. If you are a production designer you will find Bridge a very useful and time saving management tool.
Adobe Bridge is an organizational program created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop. It is accessible from all other components of the Creative Suite.
Bridge Tutorials
Go through the following tutorials before we begin working with Bridge in class.
- From Adobe TV :: Lynda.com :: Youtube :: Vimeo :: Tutvid tutorials
Getting started understanding Bridge
- Introducing Abobe Bridge [7:54]
- Discover how to preview, manage, and find creative assets using Bridge CS4, the visual media management tool.
- Previewing and Comparing Images (in Bridge) [4:50]
- Preview and compare photos in Review mode, a full-screen view that displays images in a rotating “carousel” you can navigate interactively.
- Creating A Web Photo Gallery (in Bridge) [4:39]
- Create a web photo gallery using built-in HTML and Flash templates that you can customize, preview, and upload directly to an FTP server.
- Working with Meta Data and Keywords [5:45]
- Learn how to add metadata and keywords to files and use the information to filter and search for assets.
- Ten Things a Designer Needs to Know: 1. Using Bridge rather than Finder or Explorer [6:20]
- A starter tutorial from Anne-Marie Concepcion's "Using Bridge rather than Finder or Explorer" - an online course available from Lynda.com
Anne-Marie is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Lynda dot com is a major provider of online tutorials.
a little more on using Bridge...
- Ten Things a Designer Needs to Know: 1. Using Bridge rather than Finder or Explorer [6:20]
- A starter tutorial from Anne-Marie Concepcion's "Using Bridge rather than Finder or Explorer" - an online course available from Lynda.com
Anne-Marie is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Lynda dot com is a major provider of online tutorials. - Using Adobe Bridge in Photoshop CS4 [3:36]
- Chris Orwig shares his favorite shortcuts to help you get more out of your images in Adobe Bridge CS4.
- Review Mode in Adobe Bridge CS4 [1:49]
- Review photos in Adobe Bridge CS4 in Adobe Bridge CS4 from Woopid
- Collections an Smart Collections CS4 in Bridge CS4 [8:34]
- From TUTVID
- Send me any good tutorials for Adobe Bridge CS4 you find useful.
Bridge Help
The online help guide for all of the Adobe applications we will use this semester is always available from within the specific application under the "Help" menu.
The direct link to Adobe Help on the Web for Bridge is: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Bridge/3.0/index.html?trackingid=DYNPTA
