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Collect the things you need and love to have them right at your fingertips.

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The collection panel lets you create, locate, and open collections and smart collections.

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A collection in Adobe Bridge is a list of linked files with a similar purpose.

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The files on your computer are not actually moved into a different place.

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They're simply linked there. To add the collections panel to your workspace in the menu

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bar, choose window collections. to dock the collection

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panel. Click and drag on its tab, and I will hover it near the favorites

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panel until I see those drop zones. I'm going to click on the very top drop zone,

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which would be a grouping zone, and when I let go, it's going to group with favorites.

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I'll also click and drag it over here to the right of favorites. To

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create a new collection, in the collection's panel, click on the new collection icon.

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You'll want to rename the collection. I'll just leave it named new collection for right now.

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If you have files active in the content panel, it will ask you if you want to include those active

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files in the collection. You can click it to say yes, or leave it unclicked to say

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no. And when you click OK, the new collection will appear in the collections

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panel. Also, when a collection is active in the collections panel, that

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collection will be shown in the current tab of the content panel.

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I'll show you two examples of a collection in just a second. Now, to add files to a

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new collection, first, I'll click the back icon and it's going to show

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me my kits. You can not click and drag a folder into a collection, but you

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can click and drag the contents from within the folder. So for example,

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if I wanted to collect some cards, I could click and drag this card into the collection

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and this card into the collection. to drag it into the collection, hover

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over the name of the collection itself until the entire collection highlights, then

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let go. I'll add a few more here just to show you what that looks like.

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Now, I have a collection of four items, as it says here in the collections panel, and

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when I click on that collection, you'll see the four cards that I've

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added into it. Now, if I click on this back icon, you can see that those cards are

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still in that folder, but they've also been linked into the collection in the

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collections panel. So next, let me show you how to create a smart collection.

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First, in the collections panel, click on the new smart collection icon.

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You'll want to give your collection a name. Again, in just a second, I'm going to show

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you two good examples of smart collections. For now, I'll just keep the name of this smart collection

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as new smart collection. You'll want to tell the smart collection what folder you

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want it to look in. So if you click on the drop down menu, it's going to give you some

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options of folders or you can click browse to choose a folder or you can use the current

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folder. I'll just have it look on my entire hard drive here.

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Next, you'll want to set some criteria. How about if I want to collect images of birds?

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I could put in here that I want the file name to contain bird. Now do I

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want JPEG photos of birds which would probably include photos that I've taken

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or do I want PNG files of birds which would likely include elements from kits. I think

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I'm going to go ahead and set the document type to PNG. Find that

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on here on this list. I think it's right down here. Now if

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you're recognizing this dialog box, it's because we've used it in the last module.

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This new smart collection dialog box is exactly the same as the find dialog box which

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is the advanced searching. So I'm going to have my smart collection

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contain bird files that would be any file that has the word bird in it. Again,

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I'll say that your computer doesn't know what a bird looks like, so it would actually have to have the name

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bird in the file name or as a tag or a keyword somewhere in the metadata. Also, I

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want to narrow down my search by adding another criteria, which is the document type, and I

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want it to be a PNG image. I do want all criteria to be met. Otherwise,

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it could just give me all PNG images on my computer that do not have the word bird.

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I do want it to search all the subfolders and this time I'm not going to include

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non-indexed files because that does tend to take long time. So when you're finished

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setting up your smart collection, and by the way, this can always be edited later. So if you find that

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you're not getting good results, you can come back in and edit it and tweak it as many times as you need to

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to get it just right. So I'll click find and you can see

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that it's being populated by images that have the word bird in them. They're

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not all bird because some of these contain file names that have the word bird in it, but it's

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not actually a bird. And it looks like I have 1055 images in my new

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smart collection. Now, the nice thing about a smart collection is that as you go

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about organizing your files, and even adding more files to your computer,

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this collection will continue to auto-populate. So if I were to download a kit

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today that has a bird in it and the file name actually says bird,

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that file will be added to my smart collection. There's nothing that I need to do. So now I have two collections.

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If you'd like to rename a collection, right-click in windows, or control click on a Mac, on

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the name of the collection, and choose rename.

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So let's rename this collection. Birds. If

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you want to delete a collection, click on it in the collections panel, and then

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click on the trash icon. You'll be asked if you are super sure you

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want to delete it, and then just click delete. If you don't want to see the screen again,

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click the checkmark before you press delete. Once you delete a collection from the collections

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panel, it's gone forever. So if you want to back, you'll just have to rebuild it. And like

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I mentioned earlier, you can also edit collections. To edit a collection, you could right-click

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in windows, or control click on a Mac on the collection and choose Edit,

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or you can click on the Edit icon down here in the collections panel.

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That will allow you to edit any of the fields like, for example, maybe I want

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it to include multiple birds, not just one, and now I've changed it.

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And most of these are only going to give me images that have more than one bird.

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Another thing that you can do if you want to be able to use your collections, but not necessarily have

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a collections panel, you can add your collections to favorites. To do that, right-click

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in Windows or Control-click on a Mac on a collection. This could be a regular collection or a smart collection,

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and then choose add to Favorites. So if I were to close

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my collections panel, I could still go over here to favorites, and there's my collection.

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Another way that you can create a collection is by selecting images in the content

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panel. I'm going to down the shift key. I clicked on that first image,

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and then I will click on this last one. Now I have six images active, and then with those

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images active, I'll return to the collections panel. Click on new collection.

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I'll rename this new collection, say, favorite elements, and

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then notice that that checkmark is there next to include selected files in the collection,

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I'll click okay, and now my new selection is renamed, and there's the sick

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files that I wanted to include. You can also remove a file

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from a collection, but you can't do that from a smart collection. So if you have

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a regular collection active in the collections panel, you can remove one of the files by right-clicking

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in windows or control clicking on a Mac on the file and choose remove from collection.

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And now I only have five files in my collection. Okay, so let's take a look at a

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couple of examples.