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USING ADOBE BRIDGE AND ADOBE VERSION CUE CS4
Adobe Bridge
Click the downward arrow at the far right of the workspace buttons to access useful commands for configuring
Adobe Bridge workspaces. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a workspace button to reset or delete that
workspace, or to insert a different workspace to the left of that button. You cannot delete built-in Adobe Bridge
workspaces.
Adjust Content panel display
The Content panel displays thumbnails, detailed thumbnails, or a list of the files and folders in the selected folder. By
default, Adobe Bridge generates color-managed thumbnails and displays them in the Content panel with file or folder
names as well as ratings and labels.
You customize the view in the Content panel by displaying detailed text information with thumbnails or viewing
thumbnails as a list. You can also resize thumbnails and specify thumbnail quality. Choose Horizontal Layout or
Vertical Layout from the Content panel menu to position scroll bars. Choosing Auto Layout ensures that
Adobe Bridge switches between a horizontal and vertical layout as needed.
Choose a view mode
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Choose one of the following from the View menu:
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As Thumbnails to display files and folders as thumbnails with file or folder names as well as ratings and labels.
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As Details to display thumbnails with additional text information.
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As List to display files and folders as a list of filenames with associated metadata in a column format.
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Show Thumbnail Only to display thumbnails without any text information, labels, or ratings.
Click the buttons in the lower-right corner of the Adobe Bridge window to View Content As Thumbnails, View
Content As Details, or View Content As List.
Adjust the size of thumbnails
Make thumbnails smaller so you can see more of them at once, or enlarge them to see thumbnail details.
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Drag the Thumbnail slider
at the bottom of the Adobe Bridge window.
Note:
When you resize the Adobe Bridge window in Auto Layout mode, thumbnails in the Content panel also resize. To
avoid this behavior, choose Horizontal Layout or Vertical Layout from the Content panel menu.
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Click the Smaller Thumbnail Size button at the far left of the Thumbnail slider to reduce the number of columns in
the Content panel by one. Click the Larger Thumbnail Size button at the far right of the Thumbnail slider to
increase the number of columns in the Content panel by one. Adobe Bridge automatically maximizes the size of the
thumbnails for the number of columns displayed.
Lock the grid
Lock the grid so that Adobe Bridge always displays complete thumbnails in the Content panel. When the grid is locked,
thumbnails keep their configuration if the window is resized or panels opened or closed.
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Choose View
> Grid Lock, or click the Grid Lock button
next to the Thumbnail slider at the bottom of the
Adobe Bridge window.
Show additional metadata for thumbnails
The Additional Lines Of Thumbnail Metadata preference specifies whether to show additional metadata information
with thumbnails in the Content panel.
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Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Bridge CS4
> Preferences (Mac
OS), and click Thumbnails.
Updated 15 July 2009