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Welcome to Adobe Photoshop CS4

Part I

CROSS-REF

Adobe Bridge provides a useful visual interface to find, open, and process files on

your computer. Using Bridge is discussed in Chapter 3.

FIGURE 1.21

An example of a file path from a camera’s memory card to the images: NO NAME ➪ DCIM ➪

101CANON ➪ images

After you connect your camera or memory card to your computer, you can use Adobe Bridge’s

Photo Downloader by following these steps:

1. In Photoshop: Choose File ➪ Browse (opens Bridge).

2. In Bridge: Choose File ➪ Get Photos from Camera.

Bridge’s Photo Downloader (see Figure 1.22) automatically finds the camera’s images and allows

you to choose a location on your computer to copy the images to and create a new subfolder to put

them in. Using Photo Downloader, you can also rename the images with text and a serial number

as they are being copied to your computer, preserve the old filename inside the image’s file infor-

mation, and automatically display the images in Adobe Bridge.

Film cameras

A quick, convenient, and inexpensive way to get images from a film camera into digital form is to

purchase a photo CD along with your prints when you get your film developed. Simply put the CD

into your computer, copy the folder of images to your hard drive, and use Bridge or choose

File ➪ Open from within Photoshop to open the files on your hard drive (not directly from the CD)

into Photoshop.

If you have already developed the film without getting a photo CD, you can still purchase a photo

CD from many developers if you provide them with your negatives to scan. It is usually more

expensive than getting the CD at the time of developing, but still inexpensive at discount develop-

ers such as Wal-Mart.