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Let's take a look at Adobe Bridge and capture a good first impression.

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If you're opening Adobe Bridge for the first time, you may see several dialog boxes.

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One possible box might ask you if you want to import preferences from another version.

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This box is informative in that it lets you know when you upgrade, now or in the

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future, that the upgrade will not overwrite your workspaces, keywords, collections,

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presets, templates, and favorites. This is just one more reason to love Bridge.

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It's not a brand new program every time you upgrade. Instead, it grows

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with you. So choose no here if you don't want to import any previous

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customizations that you've made, and you just want to start with a clean slate. Choose yes,

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if you do want to keep any previous customization, knowing that everything can be

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reset or changed later. Besides that, if you're opening this version of

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Bridge for the first time, your computer will likely batter you with a pile of security

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and privacy questions about the program. It wants to make sure that you're okay with Bridge

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accessing the folders in your file system. Because Bridge is the type of application

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that works directly with your computer's directory, and all the files that are in

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it, you'll want to say OK or Allow to all of these boxes. After you get

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through all of the permissions, you'll be greeted with a What's New window. This

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window is lovely for users who are upgrading from the previous version since it will give you a heads

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up of a few things that have changed in the new version. To see all the things Adobe

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thinks are worth mentioning, click next to cycle through the screen. If you're a brand

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new user, however, feel free to simply close the window. And here's

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the default view of Adobe Bridge. Let me just stop for a second and make sure you understand

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when I say default, what do I mean? When you install Adobe Bridge

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for the very first time, the application will be set to its default state.

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It's not at all customized. Default is like ground zero. From here, anything

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you change will be a customization. Now, if it's not the first time that you've opened

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Adobe Bridge, and you previously played around, it's likely that your program

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will not look and act the same as what mine is here. But that's not a problem.

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We'll talk about all of that. Just stick with me. So to do a quick overview,

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these are called panels. These are called workspaces. And up here is the

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menu bar. And now you know everything you need to know about Adobe Bridge,

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just kidding. We're just getting started. Now, speaking of just getting started,

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if this is not your first time using Adobe Bridge and you've fiddled with it already,

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and you'd like to just start over with a clean slate. Let me show you how to do that. First,

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we're going to take a quick look at preferences. Preferences determine how your

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program will work and respond. You can get preferences by pressing

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Ctrl K in Windows or Cmd K on a Mac, but you can also find them in the

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menu bar. On a Mac, this is what those look like. If you have Windows,

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this will say Preferences. But here on a Mac, it says Settings. If you have

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an Adobe Photoshop subscription plan, you'll also see Preferences for Camera Raw.

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This class is not going to be covering Camera Raw, but I do have another class that you can take a

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look at. If you're interested, you'll find a link in the manual. So I'll click on Settings.

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We'll talk more about Preferences in later videos, but for now we're just wanting to get on

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the same page. So here in the General tab, click on this button

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that says Reset. This is going to reset all warning dialogs.

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The warning dialog boxes that this is referring to will actually help you to learn your application

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and give you options. We'll walk through all of them as we go. Go ahead

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and click Continue in the dialog box and then you may be wondering, where

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is the option to reset preferences? Well, in both Photoshop and Photoshop

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Elements, there is an option in preferences to put the application back to its default state.

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But here in Adobe Bridge, there's no such thing. Instead, you just have to know the magical

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key combination. Let me show you. Go ahead and click

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OK. And now if you're getting nervous at this point, let me tell you, resetting preferences

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does not reset workspaces or remove keywords. Those customizations will still be there,

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even if you reset preferences. So let's go ahead and close Adobe Bridge

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by pressing Ctrl Q, that's Cmd Q on a Mac. Then to reset

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the preferences of Adobe Bridge, hold down Shift Ctrl Alt in Windows

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or Shift Cmd Option on a Mac, and then double click on the Adobe Bridge application

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icon to open the application. If you kept those three keys held

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down while clicking on that icon, you will see the Reset Settings dialog box.

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In this dialog box, go ahead and place a checkmark next to Reset preferences.

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We'll go ahead and leave the cache option unchecked for right now. And then go ahead

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and click OK. And now I'm right back where we started. In the coming videos,

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we're going to take a look at everything you see here, as well as, we'll take another look at

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preferences. I'll tell you what things do, where they go, and why you might want to keep them around.

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I'll see you there. This has been Jen White.