1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,972 By default, the search bar will say bridge search current folder. 2 00:00:06,972 --> 00:00:12,834 and this is considered a quick search. Now first, I'll tell you that bridge 3 00:00:12,835 --> 00:00:18,992 will search only indexed files, unless you tell it not to. So what's an indexed 4 00:00:18,992 --> 00:00:25,051 file? Well, indexing is the collecting of image data in your files 5 00:00:25,051 --> 00:00:31,115 in order to organize it and make it optimal for searching. Google does something similar to 6 00:00:31,116 --> 00:00:37,347 this, and so does your computer. Really, any application that has a search bar is going 7 00:00:37,347 --> 00:00:43,387 to be indexing your files. So keep that in mind as we do a search. You'll 8 00:00:43,388 --> 00:00:49,460 also want to keep in mind what folder do you actually have active? Right now, I have my 9 00:00:49,460 --> 00:00:55,819 system folder active. So basically, every single one of my folders is going 10 00:00:55,819 --> 00:01:02,040 to be searched if I put something up here in the search bar. So just to illustrate 11 00:01:02,041 --> 00:01:08,200 that, let me go into my kits tab. Now the current folder, if you look in the 12 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:14,250 path bar, you can see that I'm in my scrapbooking kits folder. So technically, when I 13 00:01:14,250 --> 00:01:21,689 do a search, it's only going to search this folder and everything within this folder. 14 00:01:21,690 --> 00:01:28,361 Up here in the search bar to do a quick search, let's say I'm going to type in 15 00:01:28,361 --> 00:01:35,267 bird, because I want to try to find a bird within all of these kits that are in this folder. 16 00:01:35,268 --> 00:01:41,500 So I'll press Enter or Return to commit that. and bridge made pretty fast work of going 17 00:01:41,501 --> 00:01:47,629 through all the files in that folder and the containing folders. And it actually 18 00:01:47,629 --> 00:01:53,858 found 474 items that match the word bird. Now, bridge 19 00:01:53,859 --> 00:02:00,191 doesn't know what a bird is. So how did it find those images? Well, 20 00:02:00,192 --> 00:02:06,679 let's take a look at this preview right here. This preview has the word bird in the name 21 00:02:06,679 --> 00:02:13,008 of the file. So it picked up that image. These brushes also 22 00:02:13,009 --> 00:02:19,159 have the word bird in the name of the file. So it also picked up that. It's not just 23 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:25,179 going to spot a bird that is in your files. It actually is looking for the 24 00:02:25,179 --> 00:02:31,205 word bird. Now, as you might suspect, as you go about organizing your files, 25 00:02:31,205 --> 00:02:37,253 you will either rename a file that is a bird or add a keyword to it with 26 00:02:37,254 --> 00:02:43,617 the keyword of bird. And it's going to be able to find all of those things. So that the more that you organize, 27 00:02:43,617 --> 00:02:49,770 the more things are going to show up in my file called bird. Now, 28 00:02:49,770 --> 00:02:56,846 if you look at this, not all of the images are actually of birds. 29 00:02:56,847 --> 00:03:03,301 Here is an arrow, and that's obviously not a bird, but it's showing up in my list because the word bird is 30 00:03:03,301 --> 00:03:09,548 in the name of the file. There are other ways to search that you can remove these things, 31 00:03:09,548 --> 00:03:15,799 and you're only going to see little birdies in your search. Also, remember when we talked about 32 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:21,869 index files, this may or may not include all of the bird files in that 33 00:03:21,870 --> 00:03:27,889 folder or the folders that are contained within. And that's because all of the files may or may not 34 00:03:27,889 --> 00:03:34,149 be indexed. We'll talk more about that in a second. Also, up in this search bar, wanted 35 00:03:34,150 --> 00:03:41,058 to draw the attention to this little magnifying glass, and there's a little drop-down arrow beside the magnifying glass. 36 00:03:41,058 --> 00:03:47,147 If you click on that drop-down arrow, you're going to see a list of recent searches. And this 37 00:03:47,148 --> 00:03:53,158 is great for times like when you're always searching for a flower on your computer or a ribbon or something 38 00:03:53,158 --> 00:03:59,612 like that. You can refer to past searches and not have to create a new one every time. Okay, 39 00:03:59,612 --> 00:04:06,156 so I'm going to go ahead and X out of this. And since we just did a search, 40 00:04:06,156 --> 00:04:12,301 I'm going to click on the back arrow in the application bar. And 41 00:04:12,302 --> 00:04:19,145 now I'm back to my kits. Besides a quick search, you do have other options. 42 00:04:19,145 --> 00:04:25,155 This was a quick search in the current folder. And I'm going to move this application window over here 43 00:04:25,155 --> 00:04:31,454 a little bit so you can see the fly out. And I have other choices. We just 44 00:04:31,455 --> 00:04:37,736 did a bridge search with the current folder. There's also a spotlight search with 45 00:04:37,736 --> 00:04:43,916 the current folder. If you have a Windows computer, this is going to say a Windows desktop search. So 46 00:04:43,916 --> 00:04:50,107 what's the difference between these two things? Well, earlier remember that I mentioned 47 00:04:50,107 --> 00:04:56,306 that bridge indexes things just as Google and even your computer index files and 48 00:04:56,306 --> 00:05:02,704 folders. Well, it is possible that your computer has indexed more files than 49 00:05:02,705 --> 00:05:08,982 what bridge has. So if you tend to like the results of a spotlight or Windows 50 00:05:08,983 --> 00:05:15,271 desktop search better, it's still going to search the same folder and group of folders, 51 00:05:15,271 --> 00:05:22,175 but it's going to search a little bit differently than you would choose that option. 52 00:05:22,176 --> 00:05:28,186 The next option would be the spotlight search of your entire computer. Again, if you have 53 00:05:28,186 --> 00:05:34,708 a Windows computer, this is going to say Windows desktop search colon computer. 54 00:05:34,708 --> 00:05:41,683 Clicking on this option and entering the word bird again, 55 00:05:41,684 --> 00:05:48,285 this time is going to search my entire computer, not just that one folder 56 00:05:48,286 --> 00:05:54,655 that is full of folders, but the entire thing. So here I'm going 57 00:05:54,655 --> 00:06:00,961 to get images, fonts, all kinds of stuff. Anything that actually has 58 00:06:00,961 --> 00:06:07,047 the word bird in the file name or it's been tagged with the word bird or 59 00:06:07,047 --> 00:06:13,071 it has a bird keyword or something like that. There's lots of different scenarios that an 60 00:06:13,071 --> 00:06:19,203 image or file can end up here. Again, I'm going to click on the back icon to go back 61 00:06:19,204 --> 00:06:26,350 to my kits folder and I'm going to click on that drop down arrow and show you the next option. 62 00:06:26,351 --> 00:06:32,470 The next option is that you can search Adobe stock. This is going to bring up 63 00:06:32,470 --> 00:06:38,520 a web browser and it's going to show me all of the bird images that I 64 00:06:38,521 --> 00:06:44,583 can get for free or purchase from Adobe and then I'll click on the arrow 65 00:06:44,583 --> 00:06:50,965 to drop down one more time and you'll see that the next item available 66 00:06:50,966 --> 00:06:57,137 to you is the advanced search. Before we talk about that, I wanted to touch real 67 00:06:57,138 --> 00:07:03,176 quick on this last one, the clear recent search menu. That's referring to this little 68 00:07:03,176 --> 00:07:09,428 menu that if you click on this drop down arrow, you're going to see the recent searches that will remove 69 00:07:09,429 --> 00:07:16,618 all of those and you can start from scratch. So let's talk about advanced search. I'm going 70 00:07:16,618 --> 00:07:23,062 to be using advanced search a lot in the organizing modules of this class. 71 00:07:23,062 --> 00:07:29,162 This is actually referred to as the find dialog box. It can basically find anything that 72 00:07:29,162 --> 00:07:35,578 you want. It used to be in Adobe Bridge that you would have to use an advanced search if you wanted to find basically anything. 73 00:07:35,579 --> 00:07:41,744 But the other options have really come a long way in finding things in your folders. But 74 00:07:41,745 --> 00:07:47,924 let me give you a tour of the find dialog box. First of all, if you 75 00:07:47,924 --> 00:07:54,374 look at the source, you can set the source to basically any folder that you want. 76 00:07:54,374 --> 00:08:00,401 It's going to give you some options first. But then you can also click and choose to browse a 77 00:08:00,401 --> 00:08:06,554 folder. If I click on this option, I can navigate to any folder on my 78 00:08:06,554 --> 00:08:13,234 computer that I want to search inside of. I'm going to keep it set to kits. And then 79 00:08:13,235 --> 00:08:19,746 we'll look at the criteria. The criteria has three fields. The first field is the metadata 80 00:08:19,747 --> 00:08:25,869 field. So if I click on this, I'm going to get a long list of possible fields 81 00:08:25,870 --> 00:08:32,907 to search by. I'm going to leave this at filename 82 00:08:32,907 --> 00:08:38,960 in the parameters drop down. I can choose for it to contain the word that I'm going 83 00:08:38,961 --> 00:08:45,147 to give it, does not contain, starts with, ends with, equals, does not equal, all of that. 84 00:08:45,147 --> 00:08:51,243 And then in this last field, you actually put in the word or phrase that you want to search. So this 85 00:08:51,243 --> 00:08:57,439 is basically what we did in the quick search up in the search bar. But here 86 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:03,466 in advanced search, you can add additional filters. So I'll click on this 87 00:09:03,467 --> 00:09:09,701 plus icon and I get another line that I can kind of refine what it is that I want 88 00:09:09,701 --> 00:09:16,338 to find. Let's say that I want to find only PNG bird files. Well 89 00:09:16,339 --> 00:09:22,721 in that case, I'll click on the metadata field and instead of looking 90 00:09:22,721 --> 00:09:28,993 in the filename, we're going to click on document type. I want the document 91 00:09:28,994 --> 00:09:35,210 type to equal and then I'll scroll down to see all the document types and 92 00:09:35,210 --> 00:09:41,538 way down here, which you can't see, is a PNG image. So I want 93 00:09:41,539 --> 00:09:47,849 to search all the file names in my scrapbooking kits folder. The file 94 00:09:47,849 --> 00:09:53,950 name needs to contain the word bird and I only want to see images that 95 00:09:53,951 --> 00:10:00,094 are PNG files. Down here in the results, I can choose to 96 00:10:00,095 --> 00:10:06,438 have any of the criteria met or tell at the all of the criteria needs to be met. I'm going 97 00:10:06,438 --> 00:10:12,641 to change that to all because I do want both of these things to be true in order for it to render 98 00:10:12,641 --> 00:10:18,759 a result. And then here's an extra special feature. It asks you if you want to 99 00:10:18,759 --> 00:10:24,770 include all subfolders. If I were to uncheck this, 100 00:10:24,771 --> 00:10:30,855 it's only going to search in that main folder called kits. Well, there are no PNG 101 00:10:30,855 --> 00:10:38,016 images in that folder. This folder called kits only contains lots of other folders. 102 00:10:38,017 --> 00:10:44,174 So I wouldn't get anything. I'm going to have to click on include all subfolders and 103 00:10:44,174 --> 00:10:50,310 that will search in the kit folder and then all the little folders within this kit 104 00:10:50,311 --> 00:10:56,862 folder. And then down here at the bottom is one of the most important features. 105 00:10:56,863 --> 00:11:03,148 And this feature talks all about indexed files. Remember that we talked about that 106 00:11:03,148 --> 00:11:09,286 an indexed file is one that bridge has already found and taken the metadata from 107 00:11:09,286 --> 00:11:15,679 that file and it's organized it. It doesn't necessarily do that to all images 108 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:21,781 and files on your computer. It only does it to ones that it needs at the time. Otherwise it's 109 00:11:21,782 --> 00:11:28,081 kind of a memory hog. So if I only want it to include indexed files, then 110 00:11:28,081 --> 00:11:34,764 I would uncheck this. But I'm probably going to get a lot more results 111 00:11:34,765 --> 00:11:41,033 If I click on the non indexed file option, this was going to go through 112 00:11:41,033 --> 00:11:47,652 and it's actually going to index all of the files that are in this folder 113 00:11:47,653 --> 00:11:53,721 and in the folders that are contained in it. This sometimes can take a long time. 114 00:11:53,721 --> 00:11:59,947 If you're having it search your main computer folder, it's going to go through every single item 115 00:11:59,948 --> 00:12:06,865 on your computer and it literally could take hours to go through and index everything. 116 00:12:06,865 --> 00:12:13,743 There's probably not a whole lot of files in my kits folder for it to go through. 117 00:12:13,743 --> 00:12:20,356 So I'm going to go ahead and click on include non-indexed files which, like I said, 118 00:12:20,357 --> 00:12:26,464 at this time when I click find, it's actually going to index all those files so I don't need 119 00:12:26,464 --> 00:12:32,728 to index them again. Okay, so let's see if this actually works. I'm going 120 00:12:32,728 --> 00:12:39,708 to click find. Notice down here at the bottom, it says indexing indexing indexing. 121 00:12:39,708 --> 00:12:46,159 And that's because not all of the files in my kits folder and the including folders 122 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:53,108 were indexed. So it's going to go through all those. Now it's already given me 379 123 00:12:53,108 --> 00:12:59,593 png files with the word bird in it. But it's going to continue looking 124 00:12:59,594 --> 00:13:05,649 for more. I could just tell it to stop. That's not that big of a deal. If I just wanted to choose 125 00:13:05,649 --> 00:13:11,681 from these, I mean, not like there's not enough. But it's going to continue indexing until 126 00:13:11,682 --> 00:13:17,906 it gets through all of the files. If you want to wait to look at the results until 127 00:13:17,906 --> 00:13:25,309 it's done indexing, then just wait until that indexing indication at the bottom disappears. 128 00:13:25,310 --> 00:13:31,438 Okay, I'm going to go ahead and give up on the indexing of my files by clicking on 129 00:13:31,438 --> 00:13:37,798 the back icon in the application bar. And then I'll just stop indexing. 130 00:13:37,798 --> 00:13:44,087 Honestly, if you want your files to be indexed, then you need to do a very wide search 131 00:13:44,087 --> 00:13:50,266 sometime when you can just turn it on and walk away for hours. And then we'll go ahead 132 00:13:50,266 --> 00:13:57,117 and index your files. Now I will tell you if you ever do have to reset your cache in Adobe 133 00:13:57,117 --> 00:14:03,397 Bridge. That's going to remove all of the indexing. So you're going to have to do it again. It's just something 134 00:14:03,398 --> 00:14:09,516 you kind of have to live with if you're going to work with Bridge. Okay, we have covered everything 135 00:14:09,517 --> 00:14:15,433 in the application bar. Let's move down to the path bar.