Pictures from Elements Browser to Photoshop CS2

[Cream Dipper]

I recently purchased PhotoshopCS2 and desperately want to learn to use it. How do I bring up pictures stored in Elements browser into CS2?

[jodee]

Well, I didn’t move mine from the organizer into CS2, because the organizer is working so well for both my photos, and my scrapping supplies that I would hate to lose all the tags that I have attached to everything. The bridge doesn’t have a tagging system that will work for the scrapping supplies like PSE organizer. Soooo, I will leave PSE-5 on my machine and use the organizer there, and I can still open files with CS2 by using my folders, and file names. I'm sure you could get them by the get pictures from files and folders command.

[Priss]

Here's a really important distinction to make as you transition to CS2 (and you'll love it) Your Elements "Organizer" is a catalog Cream Dipper, like a JCPenny catalog, or an LLBean catalog. It is just a picture of your real photo. Your real photo, or real scrapping kit, is located wherever you have placed it on your computer. JoDee explained that quite well, I think. (I don't use Organizer, but "tagging" and naming can also be done as you work with your files in Photoshop.)

Try this--and see if you can get where you want to go in CS.

Just double click the gray workspace to bring up the "look in" dialog box, and navigate on your computer to one of your photos. Select it, and click the Open button. It will come into your workspace.

Work on it, save it, but don't close it---instead do this:
File>Close and Go to Bridge Shift+Ctrl+W Adobe Bridge has a wonderful place to assign keywords, to prioritize favorites, to build in search identities, and up at the top is the "folders" button--which contains every single folder on your computer where you might have stuck your pictures. Everything in that folder comes into the side panel for your immediate access. (Just double click it and where ever you've put it--you've got it.) Poke all around in Bridge--using all the widget triangle twirlygigs to see what Bridge contains!

You can start to add your "tags" or keywords right now in the Bridge, and then get back to your familiar Organizer any time you need to. Press F1 with Photoshop CS open and then the Index--letter A. Look for Adobe Bridge, and check out the help files AND at the bottom, the Bridge workspace information article. That are really quite good.

If you need to DIG in bigtime, to understand the Adobe Bridge, O'Reilly has online books (and chapters) that you can download. Information about that is here: (http://safari.oreilly.com/0321321855/ch14) There is a subscription charge. And this one, I think is very helpful too; it is shared by Kim Dudley at Community MX (http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=9A2C3) and some of Jim Babbage's articles cost about $3.00 on the subject of naming, kewording, searching, metadata, etc with Bridge.

Good luck and please let us know how you do. This is a fun--and large learning curve to CS, and you'll love it (IF you take it slowly!)!!!

[Penny]

Priss - thanks for the info about Adobe Bridge. Have printed it off and add to my info book. I have never used Bridge before. Followed your instructions - they are great. I now plan on using it in the future.
I have learned sooooooo much here at Scrappers Guide.:D Thanks everyone for all your suggestions and help. This is a greattttt place to be.

[Wendy]

Hi Penny ...

... and something else about Bridge :)

You can use it as a general filebrowser to locate things on your computer its not just a browser for Photoshop :)

Wendy

[Penny]

Hi Penny ...

... and something else about Bridge :)

You can use it as a general filebrowser to locate things on your computer its not just a browser for Photoshop :)

Wendy

Wendy - if a remember reading about Bridge, you can also use it in Illustrator - not sure if you can use it in InDesign. Bridge, I think, works with all the CS2 products. I just need to take the time to use it.
Thanks for the info.

[Wendy]

Hi Penny ...

Yes you can use it with them all ...

... but you can also use it on its own :)

Just use it to find your way to any item on your pc and then do File>Open with (in Bridge) and it will let you choose which program you want the item opened with. I use it all the time :)

... take a look at all the menu options and you will find all sorts of different things :)

Wendy

[Penny]

Thanks Wendy.

[Cream Dipper]

Thanks to all of you for the good inforfmation. I have copied it and will spend a lot of time this weekend trying out the suggestions. I was so stumped and think these things were the things I needed to hear.
Thanks again!

[Priss]

Thanks to all of you for the good inforfmation. I have copied it and will spend a lot of time this weekend trying out the suggestions. I was so stumped and think these things were the things I needed to hear.
Thanks again!

Glad we could help! I think that's why they call it the Bridge--because it's the Bridge to EVERYTHING. It really is quite awesome --wish I were a little better with it and used all the features like I should. Extensive information is in a book called the DAM Book. (Digital Asset Management)....but it's WAY DEEEEEP! :D

[Wendy]

I just fell in love with the Bridge the first time I opened it ... and now I use it all the time :)

Wendy

[Penny]

I just fell in love with the Bridge the first time I opened it ... and now I use it all the time :)

Wendy

Wendy - I have a PC and wanted to know if you thing Bridge is a memory hog. I know that CS2 is and in order to run it on my system, I had to back down its use of Ram. I still have not tried it. Hopefully you will know, but if you are running a Mac, that could make a difference.

[Wendy]

Hi Penny ...

I haven't had any problems with it ... but I do have quite a powerful machine. It actually doesn't take long to open Bridge so perhaps you could just have it open when you are using it ?? ..

One thing that does take some time is when you first use it whenever you open a folder then it has to build all the thumbnails of images in there and that really does take some time ...

Thankfully once they are built then it doesn't need to do it again :)

Wendy

[Priss]

Wendy - I have a PC and wanted to know if you thing Bridge is a memory hog. I know that CS2 is and in order to run it on my system, I had to back down its use of Ram. I still have not tried it. Hopefully you will know, but if you are running a Mac, that could make a difference.

Penny--do you have a machine where you can buy some more RAM? Sometimes when these programs are sluggish that really helps.

[Penny]

Priss,
I have 1 GiB of Ram now. that is the most I can put on this machine. I will be getting a new machine with Vista this Summer. My PC is 5 years old. I had upgraded the Ram last summer. Sure glad I did or I wouldn't have been able to run CS2.:eek:

Wendy - what type of computer do you have and what all do you have that makes your machine so powerful?

[Wendy]

Hi Penny ...

I'm a Mac user :)

... and I have a Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 with 2.5GB DDR SDRAM.

Its pretty fast but I'm waiting until CS3 comes out and then I am upgrading to a Quad core ...

I've been using Macs for a long time ... although I also have access to Windows and I run PSE5 on that .. :)

Wendy

[Terry B]

Going back to the person who liked how the Elements Organizer works because it seems a whole lot more flexible than the Bridge...you CAN open Photoshop right from the Organizer. Just click on an image, or images, and then click the edit button. You will get the choice of editing with Photoshop.

[Priss]

Going back to the person who liked how the Elements Organizer works because it seems a whole lot more flexible than the Bridge...you CAN open Photoshop right from the Organizer. Just click on an image, or images, and then click the edit button. You will get the choice of editing with Photoshop.

Yes If Organizer's open first, then Editor can be opened from it without any problems, or in Organizer just click on the EDIT button, and back you go to Editor, (ctrl+I).

[Cream Dipper]

Thanks Terry, I am the one who is still struggling with getting pictures from Organizer to CS2. Any ideas will help. Sometimes I think I am learning a lot and sometimes it seems that there is so much out there that I will never know enough to enjoy using CS2. Don't get me wrong, I am willing to struggle because the pieces I have completed look so good to me.