1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,290 Take an in-depth look at some bridge preferences that affect 2 00:00:06,290 --> 00:00:12,532 the way the application responds to you. To open preferences, you can do so in the 3 00:00:12,532 --> 00:00:18,641 menu bar or I recommend just using the shortcut, which is Ctrl K in Windows 4 00:00:18,642 --> 00:00:24,690 or Command K on a Mac. This video is not going to contain an exhaustive 5 00:00:24,691 --> 00:00:31,850 list of preferences, but I will be mentioning everything that I think you might need to know. 6 00:00:31,850 --> 00:00:38,102 We'll be starting off at the top in the general tab of preferences. In the next module, 7 00:00:38,103 --> 00:00:44,192 we'll be talking about Bridge's photo-downloader. The photo downloader is just one of the many 8 00:00:44,192 --> 00:00:51,602 ways to get photos from your devices onto your computer. You do not have to use photo downloader. 9 00:00:51,602 --> 00:00:58,195 I personally like to use it, but I do not like it popping up and bugging me. 10 00:00:58,195 --> 00:01:04,722 So, in the preferences, I keep this option unchecked. 11 00:01:04,722 --> 00:01:10,906 If you're not sure yet, if you want to use photo downloader, then I just recommend 12 00:01:10,907 --> 00:01:17,015 keeping it unchecked for now, and you can always turn it on later. The next option you see 13 00:01:17,016 --> 00:01:23,389 here is only applicable to Photoshop subscribers. By default, in Bridge, when 14 00:01:23,389 --> 00:01:29,520 you double-click on a camera raw file, it will open in Photoshop's camera raw 15 00:01:29,521 --> 00:01:36,396 dialog box. And then when you're done editing that file, you will be returned 16 00:01:36,397 --> 00:01:42,949 to Photoshop. But Adobe Bridge gives you the opportunity to do the exact same editing 17 00:01:42,950 --> 00:01:49,453 within Bridge, and then returns you to Bridge when you're done. This option, 18 00:01:49,453 --> 00:01:55,688 when activated, helps you to bypass opening Photoshop and then closing it again 19 00:01:55,689 --> 00:02:01,872 to get back to Bridge. To require an extra key to get the loupe tool when 20 00:02:01,872 --> 00:02:08,145 previewing or reviewing images, place a checkmark next to command click 21 00:02:08,146 --> 00:02:14,861 or it would be Ctrl-click in Windows, opens the loupe when previewing or reviewing. 22 00:02:14,862 --> 00:02:21,173 By default, you only have to click on an image to magnify it. To change the number of recent 23 00:02:21,173 --> 00:02:27,520 files that show in the menu bar or application bar, enter a different number in number of recent items 24 00:02:27,521 --> 00:02:34,001 to display. If you'd like to restore the Favorites panel to the default settings, you can place a checkmark 25 00:02:34,001 --> 00:02:40,048 next to all the options under Favorite items. However, you can easily manually add or remove these 26 00:02:40,049 --> 00:02:46,116 folders from the Favorites panel. Under zip and unzip, you can change 27 00:02:46,116 --> 00:02:52,319 where you'd like the content of a zipped file to appear. By default, if you 28 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:58,699 unzip a file while viewing it in Bridge, the contents will appear within the same folder 29 00:02:58,699 --> 00:03:04,749 as the zip file. And then if you accidentally tell Bridge that you don't want to be bothered with 30 00:03:04,749 --> 00:03:11,561 the warning dialog boxes, and you want to get them back, you can click reset here. 31 00:03:11,562 --> 00:03:17,702 And then moving on to the Advanced tab. by default, your computer uses 32 00:03:17,702 --> 00:03:23,917 its hardware to display the fine details of an image. This is meant to make Bridge 33 00:03:23,918 --> 00:03:30,025 faster. But if you want to take the strain off of your computer, you can switch 34 00:03:30,025 --> 00:03:36,622 to software rendering. This will generally make the software run a tiny bit slower, 35 00:03:36,623 --> 00:03:42,753 but the trade-off may be necessary. To get better quality previews of 36 00:03:42,754 --> 00:03:49,160 your images, check Generate Monitor Size Previews. If you use Bridge 37 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:55,562 daily, check Start Bridge at Login. To save yourself the step, and the time of opening 38 00:03:55,563 --> 00:04:01,627 the application, whenever you're ready to use it. Next, Bridge gives you the opportunity to 39 00:04:01,627 --> 00:04:08,048 change the language that's used in the application by clicking on the drop-down menu. 40 00:04:08,048 --> 00:04:14,231 and then we're going to move on to the cache. Cache is file memory. It stores 41 00:04:14,232 --> 00:04:20,882 your files thumbnail and meta-information and makes things run faster when you're previewing 42 00:04:20,882 --> 00:04:27,739 or searching. The downside is cache takes up space on your hard drive. 43 00:04:27,740 --> 00:04:33,795 The cash preferences here give you options for controlling the size and location of 44 00:04:33,795 --> 00:04:40,168 what's stored. If you run out of cache allowance, you can increase the 45 00:04:40,169 --> 00:04:46,241 cash size here. Now, this is going to take up more room on your hard drive. 46 00:04:46,241 --> 00:04:52,662 To make zooming faster, check keep 100% previews in cache. 47 00:04:52,662 --> 00:04:58,838 This, of course, will take additional cache. So how about compacting cache? Well, 48 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:05,241 the thing is, you don't usually need all the cache that you have stored on your computer. 49 00:05:05,241 --> 00:05:12,106 So it's recommended to compact and purge it regularly to keep Bridge running smoothly. 50 00:05:12,106 --> 00:05:18,233 Compacting cache only gets rid of obsolete data. While purging cash will 51 00:05:18,234 --> 00:05:24,565 delete all the data, which of course can be rebuilt as you browse your files. 52 00:05:24,565 --> 00:05:30,726 If you don't close bridge often, and you'd like a reminder to compact your cache, then click 53 00:05:30,727 --> 00:05:37,289 on the reminder option. By default, Bridge will keep any stale cash for 30 54 00:05:37,290 --> 00:05:43,632 days. But if you want to change that daily allotment, then place a check mark 55 00:05:43,632 --> 00:05:50,935 next to perge cache and change the number of days. Moving on to cache management, 56 00:05:50,936 --> 00:05:57,159 if you make a lot of changes to your files, need to free up disk space, 57 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:03,459 or start to see things acting sluggish or wonky, you may want to manually 58 00:06:03,460 --> 00:06:10,903 compact or purge your cache. Now this may take a while, and it can always be rebuilt later. 59 00:06:10,903 --> 00:06:17,114 To manually compact your cache, click Compact Cache Now. Again, this will 60 00:06:17,114 --> 00:06:23,306 only remove obsolete records. To manually purge 100% previews in 61 00:06:23,306 --> 00:06:29,833 your cache, click on Purge 100% previews in cache. To manually 62 00:06:29,834 --> 00:06:35,920 purge all your cache, click on Purge all local cache files. Again, 63 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:43,269 this sounds kind of scary, but it will be rebuilt later as you browse through your files. 64 00:06:43,270 --> 00:06:50,925 If you need to store Bridge's cache in a different location, click choose and change the location. 65 00:06:50,926 --> 00:06:57,400 Moving on to Content. When you click to create a new tab in the content folder, 66 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:03,862 it will open in your main folder. To change that behavior, choose a different 67 00:07:03,863 --> 00:07:10,154 location here. If you switch workspaces often and you want each workspace 68 00:07:10,155 --> 00:07:17,606 to remember the folder that you left off with, then place a check mark next to do not retain. 69 00:07:17,606 --> 00:07:23,699 In the export preferences, you can change the default maximum allowance for job 70 00:07:23,699 --> 00:07:30,033 lists and progress lists. This is more of an advanced setting and you really won't 71 00:07:30,033 --> 00:07:37,579 know that you need it unless you actually do. Moving on to file type association. 72 00:07:37,580 --> 00:07:43,827 We've talked a bit about file association already, but here is a list of all the 73 00:07:43,827 --> 00:07:50,407 file types that bridge imagines that you have. It's also chosen an application 74 00:07:50,408 --> 00:07:57,371 from your computer that it thinks you want to use to open these file types. 75 00:07:57,371 --> 00:08:03,804 Some here are unassigned because bridge didn't find a compatible application for that 76 00:08:03,805 --> 00:08:11,269 file type. To add or change an associated application for a file type, 77 00:08:11,270 --> 00:08:17,313 click on the drop-down menu and choose an application from the list. If you 78 00:08:17,313 --> 00:08:23,385 don't see the application that you want to use, then you can click on browse, which is at the bottom of 79 00:08:23,385 --> 00:08:29,482 this menu. Now, as a side note, not all file types in the whole 80 00:08:29,482 --> 00:08:35,636 wide world are represented here. So, if you're not finding a file type that 81 00:08:35,636 --> 00:08:42,073 you have on your computer, you'll need to open it in the content panel. 82 00:08:42,073 --> 00:08:48,722 There's instructions for doing that in the manual. And then, if your associations 83 00:08:48,723 --> 00:08:55,002 get mixed up, click on reset to default associations. Next, 84 00:08:55,002 --> 00:09:02,003 let's look at interface. You can change the color theme to darkest or light. 85 00:09:02,004 --> 00:09:08,383 By default, this is set to dark. The default color of an image backdrop 86 00:09:08,384 --> 00:09:15,182 will change depending on the color theme. But to bypass the default, 87 00:09:15,182 --> 00:09:22,463 move the image backdrop slider to see varying shape of gray. 88 00:09:22,464 --> 00:09:30,034 You can change the scaling of tools, text, and other user interface elements to be small 89 00:09:30,034 --> 00:09:36,331 or large. By default, small is active. If you choose 90 00:09:36,331 --> 00:09:43,527 large, you'll have to restart the application. Next, let's take a look at keywords. 91 00:09:43,527 --> 00:09:49,760 Place a check mark next to automatically apply to automatically apply parent keywords 92 00:09:49,761 --> 00:09:56,504 to files. We talked a little bit about this in the keywords lesson in this module. 93 00:09:56,505 --> 00:10:02,589 If you do decide to place a check mark next to this preference, you can overwrite it by holding 94 00:10:02,590 --> 00:10:08,640 down the shift key when applying a keyword. These read and write options are 95 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:14,795 for very advanced keywording, and they're not going to be covered in this class. Next 96 00:10:14,795 --> 00:10:20,951 we'll look at labels and ratings. To assign a word or phrase to 97 00:10:20,952 --> 00:10:26,441 a color label, enter it in one of the label options fields. 98 00:10:26,442 --> 00:10:33,189 Next in media cache, if you like the option of playing videos in the content 99 00:10:33,189 --> 00:10:39,776 or preview panel, then you do not want to delete media cache files. 100 00:10:39,777 --> 00:10:46,053 but if you find that this is filling up the storage space on your computer, you may need 101 00:10:46,053 --> 00:10:52,187 to compromise by deleting old cache files. Here you can choose an 102 00:10:52,187 --> 00:10:58,736 option for whether or not to automatically delete media cache. And then if you have absolutely 103 00:10:58,737 --> 00:11:05,272 nothing else to do, you can choose to view the stored media cash, but good luck figuring 104 00:11:05,272 --> 00:11:12,384 out what all of that stuff means. Next we'll take a look at the metadata preferences. 105 00:11:12,385 --> 00:11:18,593 You would use these options to remove data from the metadata options that you'll see in 106 00:11:18,593 --> 00:11:25,603 bridge. Again, we talked about these options in an earlier lesson in this module. 107 00:11:25,604 --> 00:11:32,311 But of course, you can uncheck an option to hide it and check it to include it. 108 00:11:32,311 --> 00:11:39,301 Check to hide empty fields if you don't want to see them in the metadata of the files in your bridge. 109 00:11:39,302 --> 00:11:45,458 Now, this is only going to hide empty non-editable fields. All editable fields 110 00:11:45,458 --> 00:11:51,473 in the metadata will still be shown. And finally, there's this placard 111 00:11:51,474 --> 00:11:57,561 option where you can uncheck or check to hide or show it. We're going to 112 00:11:57,561 --> 00:12:04,917 skip the output since it's not covered in this class and go directly to the playback settings. 113 00:12:04,918 --> 00:12:11,509 Stacks refer to stacks in the content panel. We'll talk more about those in the next module. 114 00:12:11,509 --> 00:12:17,671 To change settings for audio file playback, you can stop automatic play and looping 115 00:12:17,671 --> 00:12:23,795 by unchecking these options. To change the settings for video file playback, you 116 00:12:23,796 --> 00:12:30,223 can check and uncheck these options. And then under Startup Scripts, 117 00:12:30,223 --> 00:12:36,435 because Bridge works seamlessly with other Adobe subscription-based application, 118 00:12:36,435 --> 00:12:43,059 there are scripts that run in the background for all of the apps that you have on your computer. 119 00:12:43,059 --> 00:12:49,260 If you are certain that you're not going to use some of these scripts, you can uncheck 120 00:12:49,261 --> 00:12:55,477 items to use less of your computer's working memory, and possibly help things move long 121 00:12:55,477 --> 00:13:01,616 faster and smoother. Under Thumbnails, by default, 122 00:13:01,617 --> 00:13:08,225 files with a size of more than 1,000 megabytes, which is one gigabyte, 123 00:13:08,225 --> 00:13:14,332 will not contain a preview in the content panel. Raising this number, will 124 00:13:14,333 --> 00:13:20,402 use more of your computer's memory. And of course lowering it will use less. 125 00:13:20,402 --> 00:13:26,900 By unchecking any of these Thumbnail preferences, you'll get a different look in the content 126 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:33,182 panel. And then for these show preferences, if you were to place a check mark next 127 00:13:33,183 --> 00:13:39,325 to show date created, here you are given many options of what you'd like to see 128 00:13:39,325 --> 00:13:45,607 under the thumbnail in the content panel. I'll keep this unchecked. Here 129 00:13:45,607 --> 00:13:51,649 there's also an option to show metadata on hover if you want to get a quick preview of the 130 00:13:51,649 --> 00:13:58,794 metadata of a file without looking in the metadata panel or the information dialog box. 131 00:13:58,795 --> 00:14:04,980 And then finally, you can uncheck preview video to turn off the new feature that lets you watch a video 132 00:14:04,980 --> 00:14:11,916 in the content panel without opening it. And finally, we have workflow. 133 00:14:11,917 --> 00:14:18,257 If you use workflows heavily, you may need to increase the maximum number of jobs 134 00:14:18,257 --> 00:14:25,546 in the list or in the progress window. So that's an advanced look at preferences. 135 00:14:25,547 --> 00:14:31,560 Congratulations. If you've made it this far, you have practically graduated. 136 00:14:31,561 --> 00:14:37,817 I'm excited to move on to the real organization content. I'm going 137 00:14:37,818 --> 00:14:43,699 to see you in Module 4. This has been Jen White.