Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies. Christopher Smith

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      FIGURE 1-3: A visual display of images in a folder.

      The default workspace

      As a default, Bridge is opened in the default Essentials workspace. In this view, you have three columns that you can resize by clicking and dragging the borders separating the columns. This view also provides you with a Content pane, in the center, that displays thumbnails documents in your selected folder.

In addition to the Essentials workspace, there are several other preconfigured workspaces that you can access from the Application bar, as shown in Figure 1-4. Depending upon the information you want to showcase, you might want to switch from one workspace to another. Switching workspaces does not change the locations of your files and folders; it just changes the view.

      Experiment with these to see which works best for you.

      Here are explanations of the preconfigured workspaces:

      Looking for a better view

      You may want to resize your thumbnails in the Content pane, especially if you have many files. You can easily do this by using the Thumbnail slider in the lower portion of the Bridge workspace.

You can also change the presentation of the content by using the View options in the lower-right corner, as shown in Figure 1-5. Your choices are

FIGURE 1-5: Change your view to bring out additional details. View content as details was selected for this example.

      Creating a new folder

      Perhaps you want to create a new folder. Whether you create a new folder in your system File directory or in the Finder for the Mac, it will be recognized by Bridge. In this next example, you navigate back using the Path bar, and create a new folder in the Book02_Bridge folder:

      1 Make sure you are still viewing the contents of the Hockey folder. Note that the location your are in is listed in the Path bar as shown in Figure 1-6.This is the directory path to the folder that you have active and open at this time.

      2 Click on Book02_Bridge in the Path bar to navigate back to that folder.

      3 To create a new folder inside this folder, click the Create New Folder button in the upper right, as shown in Figure 1-7, or right-click (PC)/Control-click (Mac) and select New Folder from the contextual menu that appears.A new folder appears, ready to be renamed.

      4 Name the file Rockets.

      FIGURE 1-6: Use the Path bar to navigate back through your folders.

FIGURE 1-7: You can create new folders right in Adobe Bridge.

      Moving a file to another folder

      Next you select and move some files into your newly created folder:

      1 Click on one of the Rocket images and then, holding down the Ctrl key (PC) or Command key (Mac), click on the other rocket image.Using the Ctrl or Command key allows you to select multiple files.

      2 With both rocket images selected, click and drag them over to your new Rockets folder, as shown in Figure 1-8. Release your mouse when the files are on top of the folder to move them into that folder. You can also move and copy files using the contextual menu. Right-click (PC) or Control-click (Mac) on any image file to see the contextual menu that appears with options that include moving and copying the selected file.

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