1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,374 Give the contents of your folders the attention it deserves by doing a quick study on the content panel. 2 00:00:08,374 --> 00:00:14,230 The content panel displays files specified by the navigational menu buttons, 3 00:00:14,231 --> 00:00:18,698 the path bar, the favorites panel, the folders panel, 4 00:00:18,699 --> 00:00:25,541 or the collections panel. We are talking about all of those things in this module of building 5 00:00:25,541 --> 00:00:31,613 bridges with the exception of the collections panel. That will be discussed in the beyond 6 00:00:31,613 --> 00:00:37,780 module. First, let me give you a tour of working with folders 7 00:00:37,781 --> 00:00:44,326 and files in the content panel. The content panel contains the contents 8 00:00:44,326 --> 00:00:50,831 of whatever folder is active in the folder's panel. It could be this folder 9 00:00:50,832 --> 00:00:57,175 or my downloads folder. If there are more contents displayed 10 00:00:57,175 --> 00:01:03,278 outside the boundaries of the content panel, you will see a scroll bar to the 11 00:01:03,279 --> 00:01:09,466 right side of the panel. If you click and drag on that scroll bar, you will see 12 00:01:09,466 --> 00:01:15,880 the additional files. Something to note here is that the contents panel contains 13 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:22,093 thumbnails of your images. Not the actual images, so if a folder 14 00:01:22,094 --> 00:01:28,198 contains a lot of images, it may take bridge a second or two for the thumbnails to 15 00:01:28,198 --> 00:01:34,722 load. In the content panel, to activate a file or folder, click 16 00:01:34,723 --> 00:01:41,683 on it. To activate more than one consecutive file or folder, 17 00:01:41,683 --> 00:01:47,990 click on the first file, then hold down the shift key, and click on the last file. 18 00:01:47,990 --> 00:01:54,868 Now all of the files and folders between and including those two will become active. 19 00:01:54,869 --> 00:02:01,064 To make a single file active again, you can simply click on it. 20 00:02:01,064 --> 00:02:07,398 To activate more than one non-consecutive file or folder, click on the first file, 21 00:02:07,399 --> 00:02:13,694 and then holding down the Ctrl key in Windows or the command key on a Mac, click 22 00:02:13,694 --> 00:02:19,733 on additional files or folders to activate them. Again, I'll click on 23 00:02:19,734 --> 00:02:25,805 this image to make it active all by itself. To view a file close-up, 24 00:02:25,805 --> 00:02:31,924 you could do so in the preview panel, but since we don't have that panel open, another 25 00:02:31,924 --> 00:02:38,263 way to preview it, is by pressing the Spacebar. Doing that will cause the image to fill 26 00:02:38,264 --> 00:02:44,312 your screen. Now I'm not recording my entire screen, so you don't see the entire image, but I can 27 00:02:44,313 --> 00:02:50,538 see it outside the recording window. When viewing an image close up like this, 28 00:02:50,538 --> 00:02:56,843 it may take a couple of seconds for that image to come into crisp view. And really, that all depends 29 00:02:56,843 --> 00:03:03,151 on the file size of the image, the speed of your computer, and the size of your monitor. 30 00:03:03,152 --> 00:03:09,379 Press the spacebar once again to return to bridge. If you have a video 31 00:03:09,379 --> 00:03:15,410 file in the content's panel, you can click and drag your cursor over the 32 00:03:15,411 --> 00:03:21,723 file's thumbnail to get a live preview of the video. If that feature 33 00:03:21,724 --> 00:03:27,877 drives you crazy for some reason, you can disable it in preferences. To 34 00:03:27,877 --> 00:03:33,947 open a folder in the content panel, double-click on it. To open a 35 00:03:33,948 --> 00:03:40,041 file in the content panel, double click on it, and it will open in the program that's 36 00:03:40,041 --> 00:03:46,107 associated with that file. A JPEG or PNG would likely open in Photoshop 37 00:03:46,108 --> 00:03:52,207 or Photoshop Elements. If you have a subscription plan from Adobe 38 00:03:52,207 --> 00:03:58,313 and you double click on a raw file, it will open in camera 39 00:03:58,313 --> 00:04:04,831 raw. If you don't have a subscription plan, the camera raw capabilities 40 00:04:04,832 --> 00:04:10,879 in Adobe Bridge are going to be disabled. Now, if a file is not 41 00:04:10,879 --> 00:04:16,882 opening in the application that you would expect it to, we'll talk more about changing 42 00:04:16,883 --> 00:04:23,457 a file's association later in this module. Okay, so to delete 43 00:04:23,458 --> 00:04:29,886 a file or folder within the content panel, you can click on a file to 44 00:04:29,886 --> 00:04:36,169 activate it and then click on the trash icon. Again, you'll be asked if you're 45 00:04:36,170 --> 00:04:43,046 sure you want to delete it and if you don't want to see this dialog box every time you delete something, 46 00:04:43,046 --> 00:04:49,528 then click on the do not show again before you click Delete. I'm going to go ahead and click 47 00:04:49,529 --> 00:04:55,693 cancel because I don't want to delete the image from this folder. Ultimately, you could 48 00:04:55,693 --> 00:05:02,408 also simply activate a file in the content panel and press the delete key. 49 00:05:02,409 --> 00:05:08,688 Doing this is going to give you another option. You're going to have the option to actually 50 00:05:08,689 --> 00:05:14,980 delete the file as you asked it to, or you can also reject the file. So what's 51 00:05:14,980 --> 00:05:21,222 the difference between reject and delete? We're going to talk more about this 52 00:05:21,223 --> 00:05:27,363 in the photos module, but for now, I'll tell you that deleting a file will actually move it to the trash 53 00:05:27,364 --> 00:05:33,492 on your computer, and you will no longer see it in any of the folders. Clicking 54 00:05:33,492 --> 00:05:39,767 on the reject button will just hide that image inside the folder, and it's still going 55 00:05:39,768 --> 00:05:46,599 to be there and taking up space on your hard drive, but you're just not going to see it here and bridge. 56 00:05:46,599 --> 00:05:53,489 Again, we'll talk more about this later. So I'll go ahead again and click on cancel. 57 00:05:53,490 --> 00:05:59,582 And then there's one more way that you can delete a file from the content panel. If you right 58 00:05:59,583 --> 00:06:06,255 click in Windows or Control-click on a Mac, on the thumbnail of the file, in Windows, 59 00:06:06,256 --> 00:06:12,661 you'll have the option to delete, but on a Mac, this will say move to bin. 60 00:06:12,661 --> 00:06:18,713 So let me show you how to navigate through the files and folders in the content panel. Right 61 00:06:18,713 --> 00:06:25,827 now I'm going to click to activate the first one. If I press the right arrow key, 62 00:06:25,827 --> 00:06:31,899 I will continue cycling through the files and folders within this folder in 63 00:06:31,899 --> 00:06:38,278 the content panel. What I get to the end of the row, I love that bridge will 64 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:44,635 just continue going on the next line. If you want to skip up or down 65 00:06:44,635 --> 00:06:50,827 in a line, you can press the up or down arrow keys. When an image or folder 66 00:06:50,828 --> 00:06:57,657 is active in the content panel, at the very bottom of the panel, you're going to see some information, 67 00:06:57,657 --> 00:07:03,672 which, if the active file is an image, you will see the size of the image. 68 00:07:03,673 --> 00:07:10,354 So continuing to take a look at this information down at the bottom of the content 69 00:07:10,354 --> 00:07:16,403 panel. There's a smaller icon, a larger icon, and a slider. 70 00:07:16,403 --> 00:07:24,812 Moving this slider, we'll make the thumbnails in the content panel, larger, 71 00:07:24,813 --> 00:07:30,957 and smaller. This works great for images, because it does make the 72 00:07:30,958 --> 00:07:37,196 image thumbnail, even larger, the higher that you go up. But it doesn't do the same 73 00:07:37,196 --> 00:07:43,704 thing to the thumbnails of folders. Even when you change that folder icon, that little thumbnail 74 00:07:43,704 --> 00:07:49,832 is not going to get any larger than that. So just so you know. I'm going to move this back 75 00:07:49,833 --> 00:07:56,948 down here. Now by default, you are looking at the content panel in the thumbnail view. 76 00:07:56,949 --> 00:08:03,193 If you click on the grid lock icon, it may or may not help you 77 00:08:03,193 --> 00:08:10,004 to see the files better. Personally, I prefer to just have it in thumbnail 78 00:08:10,004 --> 00:08:16,386 view. To the right of this icon, you will see the details view. 79 00:08:16,387 --> 00:08:22,387 This view can help you to easily review the metadata of files, and maybe even compare 80 00:08:22,387 --> 00:08:28,992 them if you need to. The next icon is the list view. In this 81 00:08:28,993 --> 00:08:35,228 view, you can make shorter work of comparing the files and folders, and it will even 82 00:08:35,228 --> 00:08:41,239 allow you to quickly sort them by the name, date, size, type, 83 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:47,654 etc. Again, I'm just going to go ahead and move back to the thumbnails view. 84 00:08:47,654 --> 00:08:53,680 At the end, there are two more options. The first one is the tiles. When this 85 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:59,967 is checked, you are going to see a border around each image. Having this checked gives 86 00:08:59,968 --> 00:09:06,425 you more separation between each of the thumbnails. And for some people, it makes them easier to view. 87 00:09:06,426 --> 00:09:12,566 Personally, I like this to be unchecked. And the next to that is a check box that says 88 00:09:12,567 --> 00:09:18,940 thumbnails only. If you click on that, the names of your images 89 00:09:18,940 --> 00:09:25,074 are going to disappear so that you only see the thumbnails. The names of the folders 90 00:09:25,075 --> 00:09:31,232 will remain, but they will be condensed. I like to see the names of my images, so I will keep 91 00:09:31,232 --> 00:09:37,512 this unchecked. And there's one more thing that you might have noticed 92 00:09:37,512 --> 00:09:43,784 about the images in the contents panel here in my folder. This image up here at the 93 00:09:43,785 --> 00:09:50,039 top left has a little icon in the top right of the thumbnail. That little icon 94 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:56,135 indicates that this image has been edited by camera raw. Next, we're going 95 00:09:56,136 --> 00:10:02,408 to talk about additional content tabs. You can create additional content tabs in 96 00:10:02,409 --> 00:10:08,669 several ways. In the context panel, click on the plus icon 97 00:10:08,669 --> 00:10:15,742 of the current tab and either a duplicate tab will be created, 98 00:10:15,743 --> 00:10:22,513 or it will be a tab of a recent folder. Another way to get a new content 99 00:10:22,513 --> 00:10:28,601 tab is to right click in Windows or control click on a Mac on 100 00:10:28,602 --> 00:10:34,726 a folder and choose open in new content tab. A new tab 101 00:10:34,726 --> 00:10:40,793 will be created with the contents of that folder. Another way to get a new 102 00:10:40,793 --> 00:10:47,262 content tab is to activate a folder. Now you can do this in either 103 00:10:47,263 --> 00:10:53,490 the content panel or the folder's panel and then in the menu bar choose 104 00:10:53,491 --> 00:11:00,618 file > new content tab. A new tab will be created with the contents 105 00:11:00,618 --> 00:11:07,431 of the active folder. And then one more way to create a new content tab 106 00:11:07,431 --> 00:11:13,906 would be to right click in Windows or Control-click on a Mac, on a folder in the folders 107 00:11:13,906 --> 00:11:20,680 panel and there you can also choose open in new content tab. 108 00:11:20,681 --> 00:11:26,696 So you may be wondering what is the limit for the content tab? Well, it has 109 00:11:26,697 --> 00:11:33,487 no limits. You can seriously have as many tabs open as you want, just like you can on a browser. 110 00:11:33,488 --> 00:11:39,745 Now, I wouldn't recommend that because in this case, less is definitely more. 111 00:11:39,745 --> 00:11:46,138 To close tabs that you have open, click on the tabs menu and choose 112 00:11:46,139 --> 00:11:52,537 close panel. And I'm just going to go along here and do this 113 00:11:52,537 --> 00:11:58,631 to all the extra tabs. Actually, I need one more tab open. So let me just go ahead and 114 00:11:58,631 --> 00:12:05,280 do that because the next thing I want to show you is that you can rearrange content tabs. 115 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:11,729 So to do that, click and drag on a tab and you can see that it's going to swap 116 00:12:11,730 --> 00:12:17,846 to the right or the left of another tab. Just like all other panels 117 00:12:17,846 --> 00:12:23,914 in Adobe bridge, you can also float content tabs. One way to do that 118 00:12:23,915 --> 00:12:30,375 is by clicking on the menu of the tab and choose "undock panel". 119 00:12:30,375 --> 00:12:36,646 And now I can click and drag on that tab, move it around. If I click 120 00:12:36,646 --> 00:12:43,112 and drag on the bar at the top of the tab, then I can move it around without docking 121 00:12:43,113 --> 00:12:49,384 it. But if I click and drag on the tab itself, now it's going to look for those 122 00:12:49,384 --> 00:12:55,917 drop zones. I'll go ahead and drop it in here to group it again. Okay, 123 00:12:55,918 --> 00:13:02,241 by default your content tabs have a vertical layout. 124 00:13:02,242 --> 00:13:09,104 This might be easier to see if I make this tab be my downloads folder 125 00:13:09,105 --> 00:13:15,752 and this tab be my system folder. So you can see here in the downloads folder 126 00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:22,168 that all of the files and folders are filling the content view from 127 00:13:22,168 --> 00:13:28,275 top to bottom. But I can also change this to a horizontal view. To do 128 00:13:28,276 --> 00:13:35,095 that, in the tabs menu, click and choose horizontal layout. 129 00:13:35,095 --> 00:13:41,232 Now all of the contents of that folder are horizontal. So I would have to take this 130 00:13:41,232 --> 00:13:47,834 scroll bar here and I can scroll across there to see all of my many things that 131 00:13:47,834 --> 00:13:53,950 I need to file in my downloads folder. So you may be wondering, well, why would you want to 132 00:13:53,951 --> 00:14:00,026 have this view as opposed to the other view? Well, let me show you a particular set 133 00:14:00,026 --> 00:14:06,342 up. So I'm going to change both of these to the horizontal layout and then I'm 134 00:14:06,343 --> 00:14:12,555 going to click and drag on the downloads content tab until it docs 135 00:14:12,555 --> 00:14:18,691 at the bottom of the content panel. Now I have two content panels 136 00:14:18,692 --> 00:14:25,037 stacked on top of each other. So just in case I wanted to see two at one time, 137 00:14:25,037 --> 00:14:31,149 I can scroll on this one, and I can scroll on this one. Personally, 138 00:14:31,149 --> 00:14:38,616 I prefer the vertical layout. So I'm going to change both of these back to the vertical layout and 139 00:14:38,616 --> 00:14:45,771 then I'm going to go ahead and group this bottom one with the top one again. Okay, 140 00:14:45,772 --> 00:14:52,185 so next I'm going to show you my personal setup. In my personal setup, I have three 141 00:14:52,186 --> 00:14:58,316 tabs. The first one to the left will always contain my pictures 142 00:14:58,316 --> 00:15:04,996 file. The second tab that I have in the content panel will always contain 143 00:15:04,996 --> 00:15:11,440 my scrapbook kits. And then typically 144 00:15:11,441 --> 00:15:17,959 I have a third tab up here. So I'm going to create a third tab and this one always 145 00:15:17,959 --> 00:15:24,481 contains classes for me. Now my classes folder is classes that we are creating. 146 00:15:24,482 --> 00:15:30,591 So that's not really the type of a class folder that you would have. I've created a class 147 00:15:30,591 --> 00:15:37,138 folder that you might have right here that might contain your files of classes that you're taking. 148 00:15:37,139 --> 00:15:43,479 So that's what I would have set up. I would have my pictures, my kits, and my classes. 149 00:15:43,479 --> 00:15:49,657 and these are the three things that help me scrapbook and be more productive 150 00:15:49,657 --> 00:15:55,932 when I'm working on telling my stories. That's really as fancy as I prefer 151 00:15:55,933 --> 00:16:02,857 to get here in bridge and even sometimes then it'll sometimes feel too much. 152 00:16:02,857 --> 00:16:09,123 Now there are many more options in bridge for viewing and working with your files, 153 00:16:09,124 --> 00:16:15,327 but we'll cover those in other videos within this module and in other modules. Until then I'll 154 00:16:15,327 --> 00:16:21,565 see you in the next video where we're going to talk about options and icons. This 155 00:16:21,565 --> 00:16:25,199 has been Jen White.