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The first thing in the path bar is what's affectionately known

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as the breadcrumb trail. Clicking on the folders in this trail, like if I click

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on the Jen White folder here, then that current tab in the content panel

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will go directly to that folder. Again, I'm going to click on the back

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icon, because the next thing in the path bar to take a look, at are the thumbnail

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options. If you have a large file of images and you want the images to load

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faster, then click on the embed preview icon to activate it.

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You can also deactivate it if you want better looking previews or thumbnails

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to set your preferences for thumbnail preview and size, click on the preview option

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drop down menu and by default, the standard options are active.

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You can always up those if you have a need to and again, you can also set it to

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be embedded so that they load faster. There are also some other options for generating

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the previews and then farther down there are some transparency options for the previews

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as well. Before we do that, however, I'm going to go back to that search that we did before

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with the bird PNG files and I think that was in this content tab.

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So here are some PNG files. Let's take a look at the options up here in the preview

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of the thumbnail. Right now I have show transparency and show transparency grid

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both checked. Notice that my PNGs have that checkered transparency look behind

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them. I'm going to uncheck show transparency grid and

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now you can see that my PNG files are not displaying anything in replacement of the transparency.

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You can just see directly through it to the color of the background of the contents panel.

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One more thing I'll go up here to the preview options and this time I'm going to

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uncheck transparency. So both of these are going to be unchecked now.

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Now, bridge is going to replace the transparency in the image with a white

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background. So why would any of this matter? Well, sometimes this white background

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is actually going to help. For example, these stitches and this black overlay.

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Other times, there's going to be a PNG file that is white. And it's not going to show up on that white background.

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So in that case, I might want to go up here and click on show transparency.

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And then the transparency around the image is going to simply show through.

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So that's going to be nice for white files. So having the transparency turned off is going

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to be really nice for black PNG files. And having it turned on is really nice for white

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PNG files. And then, of course, you can always just keep the grid on as well.

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Which is what I typically do. Only because then you can kind of see both white and black

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files. And that transparency grid kind of reminds me that that is a PNG file that

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I can just click and drag onto my scrap of page. So that's totally up to you. Next, let's

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take a look at the filter icon up here. And this is going to let you filter

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by ratings and labels. Right now, if you don't have anything tagged with

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ratings or labels, these filters aren't going to do you any good. This will be something

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that will be more helpful later on in the other modules of this class if you choose to give

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ratings or labels to your files. So real quick, we'll take a look at this. The

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first one is the clear filter. So the filter settings are sticky. If you do a filter and

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then you come back, it's still going to be there. You'll have to clear it if you want to start all over. You

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can also show rejected items only. Remember when I showed you review mode,

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we actually rejected one of the images in the carousel.

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So with this filter icon, I could go down and choose show rejected items only and

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it's just going to show that one file. So I'll go down and I'll clear that filter and now

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they're all going to appear again. And then the next one is to show unrated items only.

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Well, I haven't rated any of these items, but if you want to rate an item, one way to do it is in

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the content panel, if you click on one of the images, you are going to get a rating bar.

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Five stars could be the very best image you've ever seen in your entire life. Or five stars could

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just be something that you plan to use, like your favorite piece of paper in a kit or something like

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that. So anyway, I can rate it by just clicking on one of the stars. And it will

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fill in everything to the left. If I want to clear the rating, I can click on the no rating

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icon. So let's say I rated this image to be a four.

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This one I've rejected. So it's not going to let me rate it because I've already said that I don't

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really want to use it. I can also rate videos. I love this video. So I'm going

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to put a five star rating on that. So up in the filter icon, I'll click on the

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drop down. And now I'm going to say show only my unrated items.

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I click on that. It not only dropped out the rated items, but it dropped out the rejected

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items. Again, we'll go through ratings later on in this class.

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So I'm going to go up there and clear the filter again. There are my images

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once again. And back in this filter icon, I can tell it to

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show me my one star items. Two star, three star, four star. So if I click on five star,

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well, I only had one five star image in that folder. And there it is.

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All once again, clear that filter. And then the next thing you

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see on this menu are the labeled and unlabelled items. One way to label

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an item is click on it in the content panel. And then in the menu

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bar choose label and you have options to give it a color. You can

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also change the name of these colors to say what you want the color to represent.

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So for example, I might name this red label to be something

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about images that I can extract from. So like this strawberry image here,

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I could pull it up and extract the strawberry out of it. I mean that's something that I could possibly do. So

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I would rename this red to say extractable images or something like that.

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And then any image I find that's extractable, I could give it a red label.

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And as you might suspect, I can filter and search by the color of labels.

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So I could search my entire computer for all the red labels on my computer and find all

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my extractable images. So for now, though, I am going to give

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this no label and I'm going to cancel the ratings. The

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next item in the path bar to take a look at is the sort function. If you

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click on the sort drop down menu, you can see that I can sort all

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of the images in this particular folder by a certain parameter. Here

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for some reason they are sorted by dimension. If I wanted to sort by file name,

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this is going to put them in alphabetical order. That is the default for that. I could

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also sort them by type. The type is, for example, the dot

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CR3 for camera raw and the dot MOV for movies. The folders

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are going to go first because they don't have a type. If you were to accidentally

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or intentionally click and drag one of these images to a different place,

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notice that the sort automatically changes to manual. This does happen sometimes to me without

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me even knowing because I accidentally click and drag an image. So I just want you to know that that

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will happen if you do that and you will figure out that your images and folders are

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no longer being alphabetically sorted and you're like what the heck? So look up here they're being sorted

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manually, can simply change it back to filename, which is the alphabetical way to do it,

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which you know, to most people makes the most sense. Next to the sort drop down is an arrow that

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allows you to sort ascending or descending, so changing that, you can see what

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happens. To open a file that was previously opened, click on the

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open recent files icon that drops down. And you'll see things that you

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have recently opened. To clear the menu, click clear. And as far as

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I know, this drop down menu is exactly the same as the one up

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here in the recent files. So next in the path bar is the

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create a new folder icon. If you are looking at search results in the content

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panel, you will not be able to create a new folder. If you're just in a folder, however,

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like I'll click on my classes content tab, click on new folder.

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And here I could type the name of a class that I want to put some

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files in. So I'll name this file, BBO for building

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bridges. And then I can just place all my class files in there and

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keep them organized in my file system. And then finally, there is that trash icon.

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So if I want to delete a folder or an image in the content panel,

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I'll have to click on it, then I can click delete. It's going to ask me, are you sure? I can

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say, yes, I'm sure. As you go through the remaining videos and modules for this class,

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you're going to pick up lots of extra how-tos and pointers for Adobe Bridge. Until then,

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I'll see you in the next video where we're going to talk about my top 10 favorite shortcut

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in Adobe Bridge. This has been Jen White.