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Adobe Bridge Home
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Digital Classroom
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Adobe Bridge Home
Adobe Bridge Home delivers up-to-date learning resources for all your Adobe Creative Suite
4 components in one convenient location. Watch in-depth video tutorials, listen to podcasts by
leading designers, learn about training events, and more.
1 Access Bridge Home by selecting the Favorites panel to bring it forward.
2 Select Bridge Home from the Favorites panel. If you are connected to the Internet, a
helpful page appears in the Content panel that allows you to nd cool tips and tricks on
your favorite Adobe products, as well as giving you access to tutorials and online forums.
You are never without help if you use Adobe Bridge Home.
Self study
As you work with Bridge, create some new Favorites of folders that you frequently use. You
might also want to practice removing Favorites: highlight the Favorite and choose File >
Remove from Favorites. Also, explore creating a PDF slide show when in the Adobe Media
Gallery workspace. By turning on the Playback options in the Output panel, you can create a
full-screen presentation of the images in the Content panel of Adobe Bridge.
Review
Questions
1 How do you access Photoshop automation features from within Adobe Bridge?
2 Where do you nd the metadata for an image, and how do you know if the metadata
iseditable?
3 Which panel in Adobe Bridge enables you to organize your les on your computer?
4 Which panel allows you to create Web Galleries, PDF presentations, and contact sheets?
Answers
1 You can access automated tools for Adobe Photoshop by choosing Tools > Photoshop.
2 You nd metadata information in the Metadata and Keywords panels in the lower-right
corner of the Bridge workspace. Metadata is editable if it has the pencil icon next to it.
3 You can use the Folders panel to organize your les.
4 You must be in the Output panel to create Web Galleries, PDF presentations, and
contactsheets.
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