Secrets of Adobe Bridge: Making the Most of Adobe Creative Suite 2

by Terry White

Book Overview

You're impressed with Adobe CS2 and love Adobe Bridge, its new navigational control center. But are you making the most out of it? Adobe Bridge is more than a simple file browser. It's a powerful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321392272
• ISBN13: 9780321392275
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Time Saver Extrodinaire

The Bridge program gives us an incredible new tool for organizing and processing large groups of image files. This great LITTLE book is an outstanding resource to get you up and running with Bridge to take advantage of its power in as little time as possible.

A Bridge You Need to Cross

Terry White's newest book has the Bridge you need to cross to use all of the Adobe Creative Suite products productively. In only 100 pages Terry shows us Bridge so it is a production tool all by itself. You learn enough to be able to seamlessly go from Adobe app to Adobe app. But wait, there's even more. You are taught to create Adobe Bridge Scripts that integrate with all of the Adobe products. You can create a Photoshop script without even opening up Photshop! You also are directed to a site at Adobe.com where you can download new scripts even from third parties. Want to export an Illustrator file as a flash script? Page 61 tells you about the two options you have. Create an InDesign Script that does not create pixels as Photoshop does when you create a slide show. Wow! Try that, anyone. Use the Bridge to batch process your Raw files faster than Photoshop. Why? Bridge does not perform anything such as needing you to convert to 8 bit to view as you do if you make a common mistake. Batch processing is much, much easier in Bridge. The section on the slideshow is worth the price alone. It will help you create award wining and profitable slideshows for images. Additionally, you can mix vector and bit-mapped images and you do not waste time by converting each to the other. Terry tells you how with this gem of book in less than 100 pages and at at a cost that is astounding for what you get. You may have to buy two as you wear this book out as a daily reference.

A must-have book for everyone who uses Adobe CS2 products

The Adobe Bridge is actually a stand-alone application and as such, is one of the most underrated parts of CS2. Terry White's Bridge book is not only well written and clear, it reveals the awesome power of the new Adobe Bridge. Other books touch on the Bridge, but Terry shows you how to use all it's features and power. There are many hidden tricks to making the Bridge work for you and they are all unveiled in the clear explanations in each section. What a great idea to take this one part of CS2 and describe each and every aspect so the reader can use the Bridge to his/her own advantage! This book is definitely worth reading and USING as you work in any application.

Good Missing Manual

A good reference of Adobe Bridge if you are handling more than photos. Since this is an application that is new to most "Creatives" this title stands as a great foundation of an application that may turn into a new type of operating system. If you are an Photoshop expert and photos are your thing - this is may be on the basic side. But if you are more of an Indesign/Illustrator type - dealing with all sorts of things and you are not the technical type - this will be a good reference for an application that will become a staple.