1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,046 See why these 10 shortcuts will save your time and your sanity in Adobe Bridge. 2 00:00:08,046 --> 00:00:13,061 This lesson in Adobe Bridge is 100% optional, 3 00:00:13,062 --> 00:00:19,088 not everybody likes shortcuts. And any shortcut that you could find in Adobe Bridge 4 00:00:19,089 --> 00:00:25,457 can also be done in a menu bar, or one of the other bars or options. 5 00:00:25,458 --> 00:00:31,740 But if you're looking for a way to save you time and sanity for repetitive tasks, 6 00:00:31,741 --> 00:00:37,886 then here are my top 10 suggestions for shortcuts that you should memorize, and use when 7 00:00:37,886 --> 00:00:43,897 using Adobe Bridge. Shortcut number one is the space bar. 8 00:00:43,897 --> 00:00:50,290 This shortcut is essential, especially for the scrapbooker, and here's why. 9 00:00:50,291 --> 00:00:56,508 In my workspace, I prefer not to have the preview panel open, and 10 00:00:56,508 --> 00:01:02,532 I like to have my thumbnails kind of small. So I can see a lot of them on the screen 11 00:01:02,533 --> 00:01:09,091 at one time, but I often want to see a close-up of a certain file 12 00:01:09,091 --> 00:01:15,301 here in the content panel. Let's say I want to see what this particular pattern is for this 13 00:01:15,301 --> 00:01:21,390 paper right here. I'll activate it, then press the space bar, and that paper will fill my 14 00:01:21,390 --> 00:01:27,997 screen. Now you're only seeing about one-fourth of that paper, because you can't see my entire screen, 15 00:01:27,998 --> 00:01:34,102 but you get the idea. My next favorite shortcut is Ctrl I in Windows, 16 00:01:34,102 --> 00:01:40,137 or Command I on a Mac. Using this shortcut, we'll bring up the metadata dialog box, 17 00:01:40,137 --> 00:01:46,733 where you can quickly see the original date of an image and the description of an image. 18 00:01:46,734 --> 00:01:52,820 We'll be using both of these things extensively in the later modules. 19 00:01:52,820 --> 00:01:59,325 My third favorite shortcut is one that I've already shown you, but it's worth mentioning again. 20 00:01:59,326 --> 00:02:05,611 If you need to select more than one consecutive image, you don't have to click and use shortcut 21 00:02:05,612 --> 00:02:11,721 keys. You can simply click and drag. I love that shortcut. 22 00:02:11,721 --> 00:02:17,737 A fourth mention in my favorite shortcuts is Ctrl Backspace in Windows or Command 23 00:02:17,737 --> 00:02:24,161 delete on a Mac. Whatever file or files are active in the content panel will be deleted 24 00:02:24,162 --> 00:02:30,610 instead of rejected. Remember that just pressing the delete key is set to reject 25 00:02:30,610 --> 00:02:37,034 a file, not to delete it. Now I'm still seeing this dialog box because I haven't 26 00:02:37,035 --> 00:02:43,379 clicked on do not show again. But to majorly simplify the process, go ahead and check 27 00:02:43,379 --> 00:02:49,648 that and then that shortcut will work seamlessly from then on. Now I'm going to go ahead and click cancel 28 00:02:49,649 --> 00:02:55,903 because I don't really want to delete this photo. My fifth favorite shortcut is 29 00:02:55,903 --> 00:03:02,151 the simple copy and paste function. Now you may be wondering why this is fantastic 30 00:03:02,152 --> 00:03:08,531 here in bridge. We'll let me show you a secret. So I'm looking at a kit here in bridge. 31 00:03:08,531 --> 00:03:14,881 This is country living by simple pleasure designs. I want to use this 32 00:03:14,882 --> 00:03:20,883 simple life word art on my scrapbook page. So I'm going to activate it 33 00:03:20,883 --> 00:03:27,561 and then press Ctrl C in Windows or Command C on a Mac to copy the file. 34 00:03:27,562 --> 00:03:33,933 Now I'm going to go up and click on the return to Adobe Photoshop icon. There's the scrapbook 35 00:03:33,933 --> 00:03:40,008 page that I was working on. Now I'll press Ctrl V, Command V on a Mac. If this is 36 00:03:40,008 --> 00:03:46,150 the first time you are doing this shortcut, you may get a Profile Miss Match dialog 37 00:03:46,150 --> 00:03:52,170 box. I'm going to go ahead and click do not show again and click OK. And 38 00:03:52,170 --> 00:03:58,370 you can see there is that file. And you can also do this with Photoshop Elements. 39 00:03:58,371 --> 00:04:04,779 You just won't be able to use the Boomerang icon. This can save you a lot of time because you don't need to 40 00:04:04,779 --> 00:04:10,868 open every single element and then click and drag it onto your page. You can simply place 41 00:04:10,868 --> 00:04:17,408 it right from Bridge by using the copy and paste commands. My sixth favorite 42 00:04:17,409 --> 00:04:23,539 shortcut comes in handy when my grandsons are here, and they set on my lap and say grandma can we see 43 00:04:23,539 --> 00:04:29,984 pictures. so I'll quickly open Bridge and navigate to a folder of photos 44 00:04:29,984 --> 00:04:36,292 that I know contain images of them. I'll click to open the June 2023 45 00:04:36,293 --> 00:04:42,435 folder and there's lots of images of the grandsons. So what I want to do is to show 46 00:04:42,436 --> 00:04:48,746 them a slide show. That way I can wrap my arms around them and I don't have to worry about pushing buttons 47 00:04:48,746 --> 00:04:55,678 to make the slide show go. To start a slide show with the images in a folder. 48 00:04:55,679 --> 00:05:02,874 Press Ctrl L, that's Command L on a Mac, and that will start the slide show. 49 00:05:02,874 --> 00:05:08,905 Now you're not going to see my slide show completely because the images are being centered on my monitor, 50 00:05:08,906 --> 00:05:15,042 but you get the idea. to make the slide show go faster, you could press the right 51 00:05:15,042 --> 00:05:21,075 arrow key. to go back to an image, you could press the left arrow key until you get back to the 52 00:05:21,076 --> 00:05:27,244 image that you were wanting to see. To escape out of a slide show, press the Escape 53 00:05:27,244 --> 00:05:33,415 key. and then the grandsons are off to the next best thing. 54 00:05:33,416 --> 00:05:40,259 My seventh favorite shortcut is Ctrl F in Windows or Command F on a Mac. 55 00:05:40,259 --> 00:05:46,285 This shortcut will save you the steps of opening an advanced search dialog box. 56 00:05:46,286 --> 00:05:52,755 Advanced searches are really the way to go when you're searching. So this saves me a lot of time because 57 00:05:52,755 --> 00:05:58,961 I do a lot of searching within bridge. We talked about the find dialog back earlier in this 58 00:05:58,962 --> 00:06:05,215 class and we're going to talk about it a lot more in the coming modules. But I'll restate 59 00:06:05,215 --> 00:06:13,386 again here that the find dialog box is only as good as your organizational system. 60 00:06:13,387 --> 00:06:19,588 My eighth favorite shortcut is another simple one. It's Ctrl Q in Windows, or Command 61 00:06:19,589 --> 00:06:26,072 Q on a Mac. That's the shortcut to quit the application. Now you may be thinking, 62 00:06:26,072 --> 00:06:32,312 why would you need a shortcut to do that? And why are you always quitting the application? 63 00:06:32,313 --> 00:06:38,625 Well, here's why. Later in another module, we're going to talk about why and 64 00:06:38,625 --> 00:06:45,214 how you would want to change the thumbnails of your folders. Here in my kits folder, 65 00:06:45,214 --> 00:06:51,287 I like to change the icons of the folders so that I can get a quick glimpse 66 00:06:51,288 --> 00:06:57,405 of what I'm going to find inside. Now, I have already changed the image of 67 00:06:57,405 --> 00:07:03,881 this folder using a different application. But here in Bridge, the results 68 00:07:03,881 --> 00:07:10,133 of that change don't show up again until I restart the program. So, after I've already 69 00:07:10,133 --> 00:07:16,134 changed the thumbnail, I need to press Ctrl Q, or Command Q on Mac, to close the 70 00:07:16,135 --> 00:07:22,201 application and then I need to open the application backup. 71 00:07:22,201 --> 00:07:28,322 And now that thumbnail image has been replaced. So, that's why Ctrl 72 00:07:28,322 --> 00:07:34,849 or Command Q is one of my favorite shortcuts in Adobe Bridge. If you've been keeping 73 00:07:34,850 --> 00:07:41,001 track, there are two more favorite shortcuts left. But these two shortcuts that I'm getting ready to show you 74 00:07:41,002 --> 00:07:47,911 can not be found in Adobe Bridge. And here's why, they are custom shortcuts. 75 00:07:47,911 --> 00:07:54,329 If there's something that you do on a regular basis that does not have a shortcut in Adobe Bridge, you may actually 76 00:07:54,330 --> 00:08:00,723 be able to assign one. Let me show you how to do that with my two custom shortcuts. 77 00:08:00,723 --> 00:08:08,079 First, it's going to be helpful if you know where your shortcut is originating from. For example, 78 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:14,291 I would like to create a custom shortcut for the reveal in Bridge command. 79 00:08:14,291 --> 00:08:21,158 Now I know that that command can be found in the menu bar by choosing File > Reveal in Bridge. 80 00:08:21,159 --> 00:08:27,242 So let's keep that in mind for creating the first shortcut. To get the keyboard shortcut dialog 81 00:08:27,242 --> 00:08:33,354 box, in the menu bar, choose Edit > keyboard shortcuts. Notice 82 00:08:33,355 --> 00:08:39,729 that there's also a keyboard shortcut assigned to this. But I don't really get this option very often. 83 00:08:39,729 --> 00:08:45,849 So I'm not going to bother to memorize the shortcut. This keyboard shortcut 84 00:08:45,849 --> 00:08:52,009 dialog box is very large. In fact, it doesn't completely fit on the screen here. 85 00:08:52,009 --> 00:08:58,411 But I think we're still going to be able to make it work. I'm going to scoot it in here a little bit. To create a shortcut 86 00:08:58,412 --> 00:09:04,642 for what you're looking for. Down here in the first dialog box, navigate to 87 00:09:04,642 --> 00:09:10,644 where you would have found that command. So remember that in the menu bar, 88 00:09:10,644 --> 00:09:16,738 I would have chosen file, and then I'm gonna scroll down, and 89 00:09:16,739 --> 00:09:22,948 there's reveal in bridge. Notice that if I follow that row over to the 90 00:09:22,949 --> 00:09:29,582 second column, there is no shortcut assigned to that command. I'm going to click 91 00:09:29,583 --> 00:09:35,886 once in the second column of this row. And that's going to add a custom shortcut 92 00:09:35,886 --> 00:09:42,053 dialog box. Next you would need to decide what you want your shortcut to be. 93 00:09:42,053 --> 00:09:48,409 Take a look at the keyboard at the top of this dialog box. This keyboard is showing 94 00:09:48,410 --> 00:09:54,490 you which keyboard shortcuts are taken. For example, I wouldn't 95 00:09:54,491 --> 00:10:00,535 mind using an R in my shortcut. So that it reminds me that my shortcut 96 00:10:00,536 --> 00:10:06,636 will reveal in bridge. But if I look up here at the R, half of it has 97 00:10:06,636 --> 00:10:12,891 a green overlay. So I know that there might be some problems. Now over here on the right 98 00:10:12,892 --> 00:10:19,068 are the other keys that you use with shortcuts. This first key here is the Ctrl 99 00:10:19,069 --> 00:10:25,127 key in Windows or the Command key on a Mac. I'm going to hold that key down and notice what 100 00:10:25,127 --> 00:10:31,187 happens to the keyboard overlay up here at the top. It's showing me that Ctrl 101 00:10:31,188 --> 00:10:37,392 or Command R is already taken. The purple overlay means that it's a global bridge 102 00:10:37,392 --> 00:10:43,656 shortcut. So I'm not going to be able to use Ctrl or Command R for my custom 103 00:10:43,657 --> 00:10:50,824 shortcut. The next key in the list is the Alt key in Windows or the Option key on a Mac. 104 00:10:50,824 --> 00:10:57,372 Look what happens if I press down that key. I'll again, look up here at the keyboard overlay. 105 00:10:57,372 --> 00:11:03,397 And that particular key with the letter R doesn't have a global shortcut. 106 00:11:03,397 --> 00:11:09,498 But it says here that when I am in review mode, bridge uses the shortcut for 107 00:11:09,499 --> 00:11:15,716 opening files in camera raw. So I think I want to avoid that one as well. The third 108 00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:21,877 key down here is the shift key. So I'm going to press the shift key and notice that 109 00:11:21,878 --> 00:11:28,383 when I do that, the letter R on the keyboard has no overlaid colors. That 110 00:11:28,384 --> 00:11:35,044 means it's ready for me to use. So I'm going to go ahead and assign the shortcut 111 00:11:35,045 --> 00:11:42,745 of shift R to reveal in bridge with that shortcut dialog box activated. 112 00:11:42,745 --> 00:11:49,173 Press the shortcut which is shift R and the shortcut will appear in that column. Now the 113 00:11:49,173 --> 00:11:55,498 shortcut will not become active until I click OK in the keyboard shortcut's dialog box. 114 00:11:55,498 --> 00:12:01,526 You can't see the OK button because it's below the screen recording but I'll go ahead and click that now 115 00:12:01,527 --> 00:12:07,817 and now I want to show you that if you go up into the menu bar and choose file and look at reveal 116 00:12:07,817 --> 00:12:13,927 in bridge you'll see that my new shortcut has been assigned. So now you 117 00:12:13,927 --> 00:12:20,308 may be wondering well what do you use that shortcut for? This shortcut is used for search 118 00:12:20,309 --> 00:12:26,421 result. When I am searching bridge for something in this particular 119 00:12:26,422 --> 00:12:32,840 case I searched my kits folder for a ribbon. I have lots of ribbon 120 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:39,573 examples. In fact there's one thousand seventy-one that came up in all different 121 00:12:39,574 --> 00:12:45,691 types of ribbon. So let's say I'm looking for a particular kind of ribbon. 122 00:12:45,691 --> 00:12:52,165 I would like one that will have a little bit of room to put in extra clusters. I'm thinking 123 00:12:52,166 --> 00:12:58,220 maybe this ribbon right here and typically when I create a scrapbook page I like to just use 124 00:12:58,220 --> 00:13:04,394 one particular kit. So this tip is especially great for people who use 125 00:13:04,395 --> 00:13:10,893 that scrapbooking method. So I'm going to use my new shortcut to show this ribbon within 126 00:13:10,893 --> 00:13:17,768 the kit that it belongs to. I'll press Shift R with that ribbon active 127 00:13:17,768 --> 00:13:23,825 and now you can see that same ribbon is active, but now it is being shown within 128 00:13:23,826 --> 00:13:29,886 the rest of the kit contents. And now I'm ready to scrap with a ribbon that I like 129 00:13:29,887 --> 00:13:36,487 and elements and papers that match that ribbon. So that's how I use the Shift R reveal 130 00:13:36,487 --> 00:13:42,668 in bridge shortcut. I also have another custom shortcut that I'd like 131 00:13:42,669 --> 00:13:49,007 to show you and this one involves my photos. I would like to create 132 00:13:49,008 --> 00:13:55,285 a shortcut that edits the capture time of an image. I'll show you the reason for doing 133 00:13:55,285 --> 00:14:01,472 that in just a second, but first let's go ahead and create that shortcut. Remember before you create 134 00:14:01,473 --> 00:14:08,233 a shortcut you should first decide where is that command located within the application. 135 00:14:08,233 --> 00:14:14,412 To edit the capture time the easiest way to do that is to activate an image and then in the menu 136 00:14:14,412 --> 00:14:20,576 bar choose edit > edit capture time. Now I could do that every time, but I want 137 00:14:20,576 --> 00:14:26,678 to create a keyboard shortcut. So instead I'm going to go into the keyboard shortcut and here's that 138 00:14:26,678 --> 00:14:32,941 dialog box which is not sticky so it realizes every time. and this 139 00:14:32,942 --> 00:14:39,016 time, under the application I'm going to open the edit menu and scroll down 140 00:14:39,017 --> 00:14:45,835 here until I see edit capture time. Notice there's no keyboard shortcut 141 00:14:45,835 --> 00:14:52,389 assigned to this action in the second column. So I'm going to go ahead and click there 142 00:14:52,390 --> 00:14:58,838 to activate the dialog box that lets you assign a shortcut. And so what I'm thinking 143 00:14:58,838 --> 00:15:04,970 for this edit capture time is that the word time is the probably the most important part 144 00:15:04,971 --> 00:15:11,333 that's going to help me remember the shortcut. So I'll look up here on the keyboard at the top and 145 00:15:11,333 --> 00:15:17,391 I'm going to look at the letter T. Well good news, the letter T has nothing assigned. Now 146 00:15:17,391 --> 00:15:23,733 I could just use the letter T but I know from working with bridge that if you press letters 147 00:15:23,734 --> 00:15:29,743 when you are in the contents panel, it is going to go to the first file name that starts with 148 00:15:29,743 --> 00:15:36,149 that letter. So it's really a good idea to use the keys down here along with the letter. 149 00:15:36,150 --> 00:15:42,349 The first indicator key is the Ctrl or command key. I'll press and hold that and 150 00:15:42,349 --> 00:15:48,543 you can see that that one along with the T is already taken. So let's try the next 151 00:15:48,544 --> 00:15:54,863 one. I'll push the alt or option key and that one has nothing assigned. 152 00:15:54,863 --> 00:16:01,384 So I'm going to go ahead and assign alt or option T to my edit capture time. 153 00:16:01,385 --> 00:16:07,679 So with that shortcut dialog box active, I'll press alt T in Windows or option 154 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:13,782 T on a Mac. That's going to add the shortcut and I'll go down here and click OK and now 155 00:16:13,783 --> 00:16:19,859 let's take a look to see if it actually worked. I have an image active. I'll go up into the menu 156 00:16:19,860 --> 00:16:26,449 bar and choose edit. Look at edit capture time and there's my new shortcut. 157 00:16:26,449 --> 00:16:32,676 So as promised, let's take a look at why would I need a shortcut for edit capture time. There 158 00:16:32,676 --> 00:16:39,098 are a couple reasons that we're going to talk about later. But the primary reason is for scrapbook pages. 159 00:16:39,098 --> 00:16:45,188 When I create a scrapbook page, the date of the page is the date that I created it. 160 00:16:45,189 --> 00:16:51,455 Not the date that my story was told. I want my scrapbook pages to be dated the same 161 00:16:51,456 --> 00:16:57,993 date as the photos. That way when I put the photos and my JPEG scrapbook 162 00:16:57,993 --> 00:17:04,185 page, like say on Amazon photos, they're all going to line up in order. 163 00:17:04,186 --> 00:17:10,454 Instead of the scrapbook pages being in a different place because of their capture time. 164 00:17:10,455 --> 00:17:16,631 So now with that file active, I can press Alt T in Windows or Option T on a Mac. That's 165 00:17:16,631 --> 00:17:22,763 going to bring up the Edit Capture Time window. In this case, I know 166 00:17:22,763 --> 00:17:28,899 I need to change the time to 10-19-2023 because that the date 167 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:35,954 of my photos. So I'm going to click on that, change it to 10-19-2023. 168 00:17:35,954 --> 00:17:42,821 I'm pretty sure this was probably about that time in the PM, not the AM, 169 00:17:42,822 --> 00:17:49,085 and then click Change. Now when I save this as a JPEG, it's going 170 00:17:49,086 --> 00:17:55,345 to keep that same capture time and when I uploaded onto the web, it's also going to have that capture 171 00:17:55,345 --> 00:18:01,507 time and it's going to line up with the photos. Again, we're going to talk a lot more about this in 172 00:18:01,507 --> 00:18:07,778 the photo module. So there you go. There are my top 10 shortcut 173 00:18:07,779 --> 00:18:13,805 and now you know how to assign keyboard shortcuts yourself. I'll see you 174 00:18:13,805 --> 00:18:20,357 in the next video where we're going to talk about all the options of the menu bar. I'll see you there. 175 00:18:20,357 --> 00:18:23,199 This has been Jen White.