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Learn how to manage and use workspaces and panels in Adobe Bridge.

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In simplified terms, a workspace in Bridge is just a configuration of panels. 

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If you look up in the application bar, you'll see a list of available preset workspaces. 

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Currently, the essentials workspace is active. 

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This is the default workspace, meaning that when you open the application for the first time, this is the workspace that you'll see. 

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The default configuration for the Essentials workspace shows 10 panels. 

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You can see them all here.

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They are the favorites panel, the folders panel, the Collections panel, the Filter panel,

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the export panel, the content panel, the preview panel,

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the publish panel, and then metadata and keywords panel.

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Besides the Essentials workspace, Adobe has provided additional preset workspaces

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for you to choose from. Each comes with a different number and configuration of panels.

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Depending on how wide your application window is, you may see an arrow to the 

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right of the workspaces. That indicates that there are more workspaces available to you.

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In this list, you'll also see that you can edit the workspaces, which basically just allows you

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to reorder the preset workspaces. In the next video, we'll work through

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setting up a custom workspace, just for digital scrapbooking. But for the remainder of this video,

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we're going to use the Essentials workspace to learn more about the panels and how they react

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within a space. Panels within a workspace can be docked.

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they can be grouped, or they can just float. Let's take a look

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at how to do that. Docking and grouping in Adobe Bridge is a little different than docking

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and grouping in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Here in Bridge, if you click

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and drag the tab of a panel around on your workspace, you're going

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to see drop zones. There are two different kinds of drop zones.

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There are docking zones which are around the edges of a panel or a group

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of panels, and then there are grouping zones which are in the middle of the

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panel or the group of panels. To dock a panel above another panel or group

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hover until you see the drop zone, and then hover until the top edge of the zone is highlighted.

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Then let go of the mouse. You can see that doing that put the panel that I

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was dragging above the panel that I dragged into. Let's try that again. I'll

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click and drag on the tab of that publish panel to move it around. This time instead

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of hovering over the top bar of the drop zone, I'm going to just hover

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in the center which is the grouping zone and if I do that now

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my publish panel is grouped with the preview panel instead of on top of it.

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All right, let's say that I want to put the publish panel to the left of the preview panel.

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So I can click and drag on its tab to move it around again and I'm going to see those drop zones.

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Now if I hover over the preview group and then hover over the left

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edge of that drop zone when I let go the publish panel will be to the left

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of the preview panel. The configuration of your workspaces has an endless

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number of possibilities. So I have showed you how to dock

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a panel and how to group a panel, but how do you float

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a panel? To float a panel, click and drag it outside the application window.

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If your application is maximized you can click and drag it to the task bar.

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When you let go and get the panel floating all by itself, click on the top

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bar of the panel, not on the tab, and then you can move it around without seeing

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any of the drop zones. So I could just put that one right there. 

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Now if you want to dock or group a panel that's not visible in your current workspace,

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you can choose it from the menu bar. Go into the menu bar, choose Window. 

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You'll see a checkmark next to the ones that are already in your workspace, but let's say I wanted

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to add output settings. I'll click on that, and it will

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be added near the last panel that you activated. So here it is floating. Now I can click

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and drag that. Let's say I want to group it with the publish panel, and now those are grouped.

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Whether your panels are in a window of their own, like these floating ones, or

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they are grouped over here into the workspace, you can always click and drag on the

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edges of the panels to make them larger or smaller.

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If they are docked, like these ones over here on the right, cover your cursor between the

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two groups of panels until you see that double-headed arrow icon, and then click

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and drag to change the size of the panel. You can make them

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thinner or wider, and like before, you can make them shorter

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or taller. So I showed you how to add a panel. What if you want to get rid of some of these

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panels? Like, let's say you decided that you don't want this filter panel.

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Well, click on the menu of the filter panel and choose close panel.

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If there are a group of panels and you want to close the entire group, then click on

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the menu of one of the panels and choose panel group settings and then close

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panel group. So let's say you've gotten to this point and you really don't like

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the configuration and you just like to start over. Well, there is no undo button for panel configuration.

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If you're using a default workspace and you'd like to just start from scratch, then go up to the workspace

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in the application bar, then click on the menu of that workspace

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and choose reset to saved layout. This will put it right back to where we started.

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I'll be covering more tips and tricks for working with panels and workspaces in other videos.

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Coming up next, we're going to take a quick look at all of the panels available to you when creating

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a custom workspace, and then we'll create a custom workspace just perfect for your needs.

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This has been Jen White.