Creative Adobe Suite 5 Manual

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Note: You can also view metadata in the Metadata panel, in certain views in the Content panel, and by placing the 
pointer over the thumbnail in the Content panel.
1Select one or more files.
2Choose File > File Info.
3Select any of the following from the tabs at the top of the dialog box:
Use the Right Arrow and Left Arrow keys to scroll the tabs, or click the down-pointing arrow and choose a category 
from the list.
Description Lets you enter document information about the file, such as document title, author, description, and 
keywords that can be used to search for the document. To specify copyright information, select Copyrighted from the 
Copyright Status pop-up menu. Then enter the copyright owner, notice text, and the URL of the person or company 
holding the copyright.
IPTC Core Includes four areas: Content describes the visual content of the image. Contact lists the contact information 
for the photographer. Image lists descriptive information for the image. Status lists workflow and copyright 
information.
IPTC Extension Includes additional identifying information about photo content, including rights-related details.
Camera Data On the left, lists read-only information about the camera and settings used to take the photo, such as 
make, model, shutter speed, and f-stop. On the right, lists read-only file information about the image file, including 
pixel dimensions and resolution.
Video Data Lists information about the video file, including video frame width and height, and lets you enter 
information such as tape name and scene name.
Audio Data Lets you enter information about the audio file, such as title and artist.
Mobile SWF Lists information about mobile media files, including title, author, description, and content type.
Categories Lets you enter information based on Associated Press categories.
Origin Lets you enter file information that is useful for news outlets, including when and where the file was created, 
transmission information, special instructions, and headline information.
DICOM Lists patient, study, series, and equipment information for DICOM images.
History Displays Adobe Photoshop history log information for images saved with Photoshop. The History option 
appears only if Adobe Photoshop is installed.
Advanced Displays metadata properties as they are stored within their namespace structures.
Raw Data Displays XMP text information about the file. 
4Type the information to add in any displayed field.
5(Optional) Click Preferences at the bottom of the File Info dialog box for options to speed metadata editing: enable 
auto-completion, reset XMP changes, or restore the default dialog box.
6Click OK to apply the changes.
Work with metadata templates
You can create new metadata templates in Adobe Bridge by using the Create Metadata Template command. You can 
also modify the metadata in the File Info dialog box and save it as a text file with a .xmp filename extension. You share 
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You can save metadata in a template that can be used to populate metadata in InDesign documents and other 
documents created with XMP-enabled software. Templates you create are stored in a shared location that all 
XMP-enabled software can access.
To create a metadata template, choose Tools > Create Metadata Template. Enter a Template Name, and select the 
metadata values that you want to include. Then click Save.
Note: If you select a metadata option and leave the corresponding box empty, Adobe Bridge clears existing metadata 
when you apply the template.
To go to a saved metadata template in Explorer (Windows) or the Finder (Mac OS), choose Tools > Create 
Metadata Template. Click the pop-up menu in the upper-right corner of the Create Metadata template dialog box 
and choose Show Templates Folder.
To delete a metadata template, select it in the Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS) and press Delete, or drag it 
to the Recycle Bin (Windows) or the Trash (Mac
 OS).
To apply metadata templates to files in Adobe Bridge, select one or more files and then choose a command from 
the Metadata panel menu:
Append Metadata > [template name] Applies the template metadata where no metadata value or property currently 
exists in the file.
Replace Metadata > [template name] Completely replaces any existing metadata in the file with the metadata in the 
template.
To edit a metadata template, choose Tools > Edit Metadata Template > [template name]. Enter different values for 
the included metadata and click Save.
To save a file’s metadata as an XMP file, choose File > File Info. Click the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog 
box, next to the Preferences button, and chose Export. Type a filename, specify a location, and click Save.
Note: You can only export metadata from one file at a time. If multiple files are selected, the Export option is not 
available.
Import metadata into a document
1Select one or more files.
2Choose File > File Info.
3Choose Import from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the dialog box.
Note: You must save a metadata template before you can import metadata from a template.
4Specify how you want to import the data:
Clear Existing Properties And Replace With Template Properties Replaces all metadata in the file with the metadata in 
the XMP file.
Keep Original Metadata, But Replace Matching Properties From Template Replaces only metadata that has different 
properties in the template.
Keep Original Metadata, But Append Matching Properties From Template (Default) Applies the template metadata 
only where no metadata value or property currently exists in the file.
5Click OK.
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Use keywords in Adobe Bridge
The Keywords panel lets you create and apply Adobe Bridge keywords to files. Keywords can be organized into 
hierarchical categories consisting of parent keywords and child keywords (called subkeywords). Using keywords, you 
identify files based on their content. For example, you can use the Filter panel to view all files in a folder that share 
keywords, and you can use the Find command to locate files that contain the specified keyword.
For more information, see Nested, hierarchal keywording | Adobe Bridge.
Create new keywords or subkeywords
1In the Keywords panel, select a keyword.
For example, if Names is selected, adding a new keyword creates a keyword on the same level as Names, such as Sports; 
and adding a new subkeyword lets you create a keyword under Names, such as Juanita.
2Click the New Keyword button  or New Sub Keyword button  or choose either New Keyword or New Sub 
Keyword from the panel menu.
3Type the keyword name and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
If you want a parent keyword to be used for structural purposes only, place the keyword in brackets, such as [Names]. 
Keywords in brackets cannot be added to files.
You can also add keywords by using the Find box at the bottom of the Keywords panel. Use commas to indicate 
subkeywords and semicolons to indicate separate entries. For example, to add “Los Angeles” to the Places category, 
select the “Places” keyword, type Los Angeles, and then click the New Sub Keyword button. 
Add keywords to files
1Select the file or files to add keywords to.
2In the Keywords panel, select the box next to the name of the keyword or subkeyword. Shift-click the box to select 
all parent keywords. 
A check mark appears in the box next to the keyword when it’s added to a selected file. If you select multiple files, but 
the keyword was added to only some of them, a hyphen (-) appears in the keyword box.
Note: If you Shift-click a subkeyword, the parent keywords are also added to the file. To change the behavior so that 
clicking a subkeyword automatically adds the parent keywords (and Shift-clicking adds only the subkeyword), select 
Automatically Apply Parent Keywords in Keywords preferences.
Remove keywords from a file
To remove the check mark, select the file, and then click the box next to the name of the keyword or keyword set. 
To remove the check mark from all parent keywords as well, Shift-click the keyword box. 
To remove a check mark forcibly, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the keyword box. This method is 
especially useful when you select multiple files to which the keyword was applied only to some, causing a hyphen 
to appear in the keyword box. To forcibly remove a check mark from a keyword and its parents, press Alt+Shift 
(Windows) or Option+Shift (Mac
 OS) and click the keyword box.
Select the file, and then choose Remove Keywords from the Keywords panel menu. To remove all keywords from 
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To lock a file so that keywords can’t accidentally be removed, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the file 
in the Content panel and choose Lock Item. When an item is locked, you cannot add or remove keywords, edit 
metadata, or apply labels or ratings.
Manage keywords
❖Do any of the following:
To rename a keyword, select the keyword or keyword set and choose Rename from the panel menu. Then, type over 
the name in the panel and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac
 OS).
Note: When you rename a keyword, the name changes only for the selected files. The original keyword name stays in all 
other files to which the keyword was previously added.
To move a keyword to a different keyword group, drag the keyword to the parent keyword in which it should 
appear, and then release the mouse button.
To change a subkeyword to a keyword, drag the subkeyword below the list of keywords, to the bottom of the 
Keywords panel.
To delete a keyword, select the keyword by clicking its name, and then click the Delete Keyword button  at the 
bottom of the panel or choose Delete from the panel menu.
Note: Temporary keywords, such as keywords that you get from other users, appear in italics in the Keywords panel. To 
make temporary keywords permanent in Adobe
 Bridge, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) the keyword and 
choose Make Persistent from the context menu.
To expand or collapse keyword categories, click the arrow next to the category, or choose Expand All or Collapse 
All from the panel menu.
To search for files using keywords, choose Find from the Keywords panel menu. (See “Search for files and folders 
with Adobe Bridge” on page 15.)
Find keywords
❖In the box at the bottom of the Keywords panel, type the name of the keyword you’re looking for.
By default, all keywords containing the characters you type are highlighted. The first occurrence is highlighted in 
green; all subsequent occurrences are highlighted in yellow. Click Find Next Keyword or Find Previous Keyword to 
select a different highlighted keyword.
To highlight only keywords that begin with the characters you type, click the magnifying glass icon in the search box 
and choose Starts With as the search method. For example, if Contains is selected, typing “in” highlights both 
“Indiana” and “Maine”; if Starts With is selected, only “Indiana” is highlighted.
Import or export keywords
You can import tab-indented text files exported from other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. You 
can also export Adobe Bridge keywords as text files. These files are encoded as UTF-8 or ASCII, which is a subset of 
UTF-8.
To import a keyword file into Adobe Bridge without removing existing keywords, choose Import from the 
Keywords panel menu, and then double-click the file to import.
To import a keyword file into Adobe Bridge and remove existing keywords, choose Clear And Import from the 
Keywords panel menu, and then double-click the file to import.
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Adobe Bridge keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts let you quickly select tools and execute commands without using a menu. When available, the 
keyboard shortcut appears to the right of the command name in the menu.
In addition to using keyboard shortcuts, you can access many commands using context-sensitive menus. Context-
sensitive menus display commands that are relevant to the active tool, selection, or panel. To display a context-
sensitive menu, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac
 OS) an area.
This is not a complete list of keyboard shortcuts. This table primarily lists only those shortcuts that aren’t displayed in 
menu commands or tool tips.
ResultWindowsMac OS
Go to next viewCtrl+\Command+\
Go to previous viewCtrl+Shift+\Command+Shift+\
Show/hide panelsTabTab
Switch between 0- and 1-star ratingCtrl+‘Command+‘
Increase thumbnail sizeCtrl+plus sign (+)Command+plus sign (+)
Decrease thumbnail sizeCtrl+minus sign (-)Command+minus sign (-)
Step thumbnail size upCtrl+Shift+plus sign (+)Command+Shift+plus sign (+)
Step thumbnail size downCtrl+Shift+minus sign (-)Command+Shift+minus sign (-)
Move up a folder (in Folders panel or a row)Up ArrowUp Arrow
Move down a folder (in Folders panel or a 
row)Down ArrowDown Arrow
Move up a level (in Folders panel)Ctrl+Up ArrowCommand+Up Arrow
Move left one itemLeft ArrowLeft Arrow
Move right one itemRight ArrowRight Arrow
Move to the first itemHomeHome
Move to the last itemEndEnd
Add to selection (discontiguous)Ctrl-clickCommand-click
Refresh Contents panelsF5F5
Add an item to the selectionShift + Right Arrow, Left Arrow, Up Arrow, or 
Down ArrowShift + Right Arrow, Left Arrow, Up Arrow, or 
Down Arrow
Display HelpF1Command+/
Rename next (with filename selected in 
Content panel)TabTab
Rename previous (with filename selected in 
Content panel)Shift+TabShift+Tab
Show items with star rating of 1-5 or higher 
in Filter panelCtrl+Alt+1 through 5Command+Option+1 through 5
Show items with selected star rating in Filter 
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Show items with labels 1-4 in Filter panelCtrl+Alt+6 through 9Command+Option+6 through 9
Show all items with selected rating or 
higher in Filter panelShift-clickShift-click
Clear filtersCtrl+Alt+ACommand+Option+A
Select inverse in Filter panelAlt-clickOption-click
Display Loupe tool in Preview panel or 
Review modeClickClick
Move Loupe toolClick or dragClick or drag
Display additional Loupes in Preview panel 
(multiple selection)ClickClick
Move multiple Loupe tools simultaneouslyCtrl-click or Ctrl-dragCommand-click or Command-drag
Zoom in with Loupe tool++
Zoom out with Loupe tool--
Zoom in with Loupe tool (multiple 
selection)Ctrl+plus sign (+)Command+plus sign (+)
Zoom out with Loupe tool (multiple 
selection)Ctrl+minus sign (-)Command+minus sign (-)
Select all items in a stackAlt-clickOption-click
Apply or remove current keyword and all 
parent keywords in Keywords panelShift-clickShift-click
Forcibly remove current keyword in 
Keywords panelAlt-clickOption-click
Open disclosure triangle in Keywords panelCtrl+Right ArrowCommand+Right Arrow
Close disclosure triangle in Keywords panelCtrl+Left ArrowCommand+Left Arrow
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Chapter 3: Mini Bridge
Mini Bridge
Mini Bridge is an extension in Adobe® Photoshop® CS5, Adobe InDesign® CS5 and CS5.5, and Adobe InCopy® CS5 
and CS5.5 that lets you work with assets in a panel in the host application. It is a useful way to access many 
Adobe
 Bridge features when you work in more than one of the applications. Mini Bridge communicates with 
Adobe
 Bridge to create thumbnails, keep files synchronized, and perform other tasks. 
Mini Bridge Browse viewA. Go Back / Go Forward  B. Go To Parent, Recent Items, or Favorites  C. Go To Bridge  D. Search  E. Path bar  F. Navigation pod  G.  Content 
pod  H. Preview pod  
More Help topics 
“Adobe Bridge” on page 3
Using Photoshop CS5
Using InDesign CS5 & CS5.5
Using InCopy CS5 & CS5.5
Open Mini Bridge
Open Mini Bridge by doing any of the following in Photoshop, InDesign, or InCopy:
(Photoshop) Choose File > Browse In Mini Bridge.
(Photoshop) Click the Mini Bridge button  in the application bar.
(Photoshop) Choose Window > Extensions > Mini Bridge.
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(InDesign, InCopy) Choose Window > Mini Bridge.
Mini Bridge preferences
Click the Settings button  on the Mini Bridge panel home page. Then, specify the following:
Bridge Launching Options to control how Mini Bridge and Adobe Bridge communicate.
Appearance The User Interface Brightness slider adjusts the lightness of the Mini Bridge panel background. Image 
Backdrop adjusts the lightness of the Content pod and Preview pod background. Select Color Manage Panel to apply 
your display’s ICC profile to thumbnails and image previews in Mini
 Bridge.
Browse files in Mini Bridge
Click the Browse Files button  on the Mini Bridge panel home page.
Click the Panel View menu button  to toggle the Navigation pod, Preview pod, and Path bar.
Navigate to files using the Navigation pod, Content pod, and path bar. Or, use the Search button  to find files 
based on criteria you specify. See “Navigate files and folders” on page 13 and “Search for files and folders with 
Adobe Bridge” on page 15.
To adjust the display of the Content pod, use either of the following:
Thumbnail slider Make thumbnails larger or smaller by dragging the slider .
View menu button Specify how the Content pod displays files: As Thumbnails , As Filmstrip , As Details , 
or As List . Select Grid Lock to always display complete thumbnails regardless of how the Mini Bridge panel is sized. 
See “Adjust Adobe Bridge Content panel display” on page 10.
Specify what you want to see in the Content pod using the following menu buttons:
Sort  Sort by filename, file type, creation date, and other metadata criteria. See “Sort files” on page 17.
Filter  Filter by star ratings or labels. See “Filter files” on page 17.
Select Toggle the display of rejected files, hidden files, and folders, and Select All, Deselect All, or Invert Selection.
Open or place files using Mini Bridge
To open or place a file using Mini Bridge, select it in the Content pod and do any of the following:
Drag it into the host application or onto the host application icon.
Double-click it to open it in its preferred application. Or, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the file 
and choose Open Image or Open With Default Application. See 
“Change file type associations” on page 15.
(Photoshop) Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the file and choose Open In Camera Raw. See 
“Work with Camera Raw” on page 18.
Click the Tools button  and choose Place > In [Application].
(InDesign) Drag a snippet from the Content pod into a document, positioning the loaded cursor where you want 
the upper-left corner of the snippet to be. Snippet files have the file extension .IDMS or .INDS.
To run an automated task, select one or more files, click the Tools button , and choose [Host Application] > 
[Automated Task]. For information about a particular command, see or search Photoshop CS5 Help or 
InDesign
 CS5 Help, as necessary.
To open a file in Adobe Bridge, click the Adobe Bridge button  at the top of the Mini Bridge panel. Or, right-
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Preview files in Mini Bridge
Open a panel-sized preview , a full-screen preview , a slide show preview , or compare images in Review 
mode . See “Preview and compare images in Adobe Bridge” on page 24.
Click the preview button and choose Set Slideshow Options In Bridge to specify slide show options. See “View 
images as a slide show” on page 24.
Rename files in Mini Bridge
Click a filename in the Content pod and type to rename it. Or, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a 
file and choose Rename.
Favorites and collections in Mini Bridge
Adobe Bridge Favorites and collections appear in Mini Bridge. 
To add an item to Favorites or to a collection, drag it from the Content pod to the list or collection in the Navigation 
pod. See 
“Work with Favorites” on page 7 and “Use collections in Adobe Bridge” on page 21.
Mini Bridge tutorials
To learn more about using Mini Bridge, read or watch any of these tutorials: 
Adobe Mini Bridge panel and InDesign CS5 (02:00)
Using Mini Bridge with Photoshop CS5
Mini Bridge in Photoshop CS5
Use Mini Bridge in CS5 applications (06:09)
New features in Bridge and Mini Bridge (10:17)
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Chapter 4: Camera Raw
Introduction to Camera Raw
About camera raw files
A camera raw file contains unprocessed, uncompressed grayscale picture data from a digital camera’s image sensor, 
along with information about how the image was captured (metadata). Photoshop® Camera Raw software interprets 
the camera raw file, using information about the camera and the image’s metadata to construct and process a color 
image.
Think of a camera raw file as your photo negative. You can reprocess the file at any time, achieving the results that you 
want by making adjustments for white balance, tonal range, contrast, color saturation, and sharpening. When you 
adjust a camera raw image, the original camera raw data is preserved. Adjustments are stored as metadata in an 
accompanying sidecar file, in a database, or in the file itself (in the case of DNG format).
When you shoot JPEG files with your camera, the camera automatically processes the JPEG file to enhance and 
compress the image. You generally have little control over how this processing occurs. Shooting camera raw images 
with your camera gives you greater control than shooting JPEG images, because camera raw does not lock you into 
processing done by your camera. You can still edit JPEG and TIFF images in Camera Raw, but you will be editing pixels 
that were already processed by the camera. Camera raw files always contain the original, unprocessed pixels from the 
camera.
To shoot camera raw images, you must set your camera to save files in its own camera raw file format. 
Note: The Photoshop Raw format (.raw) is a file format for transferring images between applications and computer 
platforms. Don’t confuse Photoshop raw with camera raw file formats. File extensions for camera raw files vary 
depending on the camera manufacturer.
Digital cameras capture and store camera raw data with a linear tone response curve (gamma 1.0). Both film and the 
human eye have a nonlinear, logarithmic response to light (gamma greater than
 2). An unprocessed camera raw image 
viewed as a grayscale image would seem very dark, because what appears twice as bright to the photosensor and 
computer seems less than twice as bright to the human eye. 
For a list of supported cameras and for more information about Camera Raw, see Digital camera raw file support.
To see a list of cameras and which version of Camera Raw each camera requires, see Camera Raw plug-in | Supported 
cameras.
About Camera Raw 
Camera Raw software is included as a plug-in with Adobe After Effects® and Adobe Photoshop, and also adds 
functionality to Adobe
 Bridge. Camera Raw gives each of these applications the ability to import and work with camera 
raw files. You can also use Camera Raw to work with JPEG and TIFF files. 
Note: Camera Raw supports images up to 65,000 pixels long or wide and up to 512 megapixels. Camera Raw converts 
CMYK images to RGB upon opening. For a list of supported cameras, see 
Digital camera raw file support.
You must have Photoshop or After Effects installed to open files in the Camera Raw dialog box from Adobe Bridge. 
However, if Photoshop or After Effects is not installed, you can still preview the images and see their metadata in 
Adobe
 Bridge. If another application is associated with the image file type, it’s possible to open the file in that 
application from Adobe Bridge.