Photoshop cs5 cho nhiếp ảnh gia part 14 ppt

By clicking the refine icon and choosing review, you can view all the images currently visible in the Content panel in a full-screen Preview-only mode.. To edit the criteria, click the e

Creating Collections

The idea behind collections is that you may want to view certain groupings of your images even though the files are housed in different folders To begin, click on the Collections panel if it’s not visible choose Window > Collections Panel Then click the icon name the collection, then click and drag one or more images into it To remove an image from a Collection, right-click/Control-click on the thumbnail in the Content panel and choose remove from Collection

By clicking the refine icon and choosing review, you can view all the images currently visible in the Content panel in a full-screen Preview-only mode if there are more than a few images, the images will appear in a carousel By clicking the arrow, you can delete images from view Click the icon to place the remaining images into a collection A dialog will appear in which you name the new collection

You can opt to have Bridge create collections for you based on certain param-eters that you specify as shown in Figure 2.34 To begin, click the new Smart Collec-tion icon in the new dialog box that appears, specify where Bridge should check for potential images You could choose a folder or a broader part of your computer

Then specify the criteria The first drop-down window says Filename by default, but

by clicking within it you can choose from among a huge number of options if you want to specify more than one parameter, click the + sign at the end of this line and then repeat the process until you have specified all the criteria next choose between

if Any Criteria Are Met and if All Criteria Are Met in the drop-down window To create the collection, click Save The Smart Collection will have a blue icon in the Collections panel To edit the criteria, click the edit Smart Collections icon in the lower left of the panel

Figure 2.34 Smart Collections help you

organize your images in groupings that are meaningful to you

Using Keywords

Applying keywords to your images is essential if you want to be able to easily find par-ticular images, or types of images, in the future Although it may feel like a nuisance, it’s important to apply keywords to your images early in your workflow it’s all too easy to procrastinate and figure you’ll do it later so that you can get on with the fun part of optimizing your images But if you skip adding the keywords, you’re likely to wind up with thousands of images stashed in various folders without an easy way to

locate any particular image By applying keywords, you can later search for an image

using the Find command in Photoshop or using the search function on your computer

Using Keywords to Locate Images

the criteria for which to search In the Criteria drop-down menu, choose Keywords By using a series of keywords, you can do a more comprehensive search than just searching by filename

At the end of the line, click the + radio button to add additional keywords to use in the search

Under Results, choose If Any Criteria Are Met and If All Criteria Are Met Then proceed with your search

Assign keywords every time you import images in Bridge, you do so by high-lighting one or more images, clicking the Keywords tab, and checking the keyword(s)

to apply it’s really quite simple!

Keywords are organized into sets containing specific nested subkeywords in each set By default Bridge has a few keywords, but for most nature photographers

these will not be of much use You’ll need to create your own Fortunately, it’s easy

First you need to think of what organizational scheme you want to use Since Bridge

CS5 is able to create nested keywords, you can create multiple levels within a set For

example, we might begin with a set called Places, then add a subkeyword Japan We’ll

click on Japan and then click the subkeyword icon to add yet another, more explicit,

location called Hokkaido We’ll click on Hokkaido and add a new subkeyword called

Lake Kussharo or, as in Figure 2.35, we might create a keyword called Birds, with

a subordinate keyword Shore Birds, with a subordinate keyword egret, and

subordi-nates Cattle, great egret, reddish, and Snowy

Figure 2.35 Organize your keywords in a

logical way with main keywords and nested subordinate keywords

matter If you submit your images to stock agencies, you’ll want to add keywords according to their recommendations

To create new keywords, click on an existing keyword at the desired level Then click the new Keyword icon and type the name To create new subkeywords, first

Using Keywords to Locate Images

the criteria for which to search In the Criteria drop-down menu, choose Keywords By using a series of keywords, you can do a more comprehensive search than just searching by filename

At the end of the line, click the + radio button to add additional keywords to use in the search

Under Results, choose If Any Criteria Are Met and If All Criteria Are Met Then proceed with your search

select the parent keyword by clicking on it, and then click the new SubKeyword icon To create an additional keyword at the same level, click the Add Keyword icon rather than the Add Subordinate Keyword icon To delete a keyword or keyword set, select it, right-click/Control-click, and choose delete

Before creating a new keyword, you can search to see if it already exists in your keyword list by entering the text in the search field (see Figure 2.36) Then any place that word exists in the keyword structure will be highlighted, as shown in the figure

Figure 2.36 Searching for a keyword

avoids creating duplicate or nearly identical keywords, as well as misspellings

You can also import or export keyword categories by right-clicking/Control+

clicking and choosing the import/export options Keywording is easier than ever and should be a routine part of your workflow

Although it may seem intimidating at first, once you do it, we’re confident you’ll see how easy it is to do

Additional Features

Bridge contains a variety of additional features that we find useful For example, we use Tools > Photoshop > image Processor (see Chapter 11, “Time-Savers”) to quickly batch-convert images to other sizes and file formats, and we use Tools > Photoshop >

Photo merge to stitch together a series of images into a panorama (see Chapter 8, “Com-posites”) We also use Tools > Photoshop > Merge to Hdr Pro to combine a series of shots in Bridge into a 32-bit file (see Chapter 8), and we use Tools > Photoshop > Load Files into Photoshop Layers when we want to create a multiple exposure (see Chapter 9,

“Creative effects”) We tend not to use the Tools > Photoshop > Process Collections option, preferring the more direct approach, but you can use it to have Photoshop examine

a group of images to composite into a panorama or Hdr and process them accordingly

Bridge CS5 has a new export panel, shown in Figure 2.37, that makes it easy to export images directly from Bridge without having to open Photoshop drag an image

or group of images onto the icon in the panel—in this case, Save to Hard drive Then click the diagonally upward-facing arrow and complete the new dialog that appears

This leads to a new dialog that offers options for where to store the exported files as well as options for image sizing, image quality, and adding metadata, including key-words Taking advantage of this new panel can expedite your workflow when you need to prepare images to use in a project

Figure 2.37 Use the new Export panel to quickly export images directly from Bridge.

in addition, Bridge has a cool feature that quickly generates a slide show of your images That can be useful to show off some of your best images or to help you

with your sorting and editing

To create a slide show in Bridge, choose View > Slideshow from the Bridge menu,

or press Ctrl+L/F+L This will start a slide show of the selected images (or all images in

the current folder if none are selected) By default, the images will change every five

sec-onds, but you can press the spacebar to play or pause the slide show To move through

the images manually, click the mouse or use the arrow keys on the keyboard

Choose View > Slideshow options (Shift+Ctrl+L/Shift+F+L) to access a dialog box (see Figure 2.38) to specify options for the slide show You can opt to have the slide

show repeat, and set the timing for the advances, whether the captions show, whether

the images are scaled, as well as the transitions and transition speed We think that the

dissolve feature is quite good and makes for a nice transition between images

Figure 2.38 Add transitions and other

controls to your slide show using the Slideshow Options dialog box

While viewing a slide show, press the H key to access additional slide-show commands, as shown in Figure 2.39 notice that you can apply or change labels and ratings while viewing images in a slide show Sometimes it’s easier to decide which image you like the best by viewing the series of images in a slide show Bridge makes

it simple to remember which file you want by applying a label or rating Press the 1–5 keys to add the appropriate number of stars, and 6–9 to add a colored label

Figure 2.39 The slide show offers a number of useful features, including the ability to easily add labels and

ratings to images while viewing the slide show

controls to customize the show

We’ll talk about Adobe output Module, which is based on Bridge, in Chap-ter 10, “output.” You can use it to generate web pages, contact sheets, and PdFs directly from Bridge

For Photoshop Elements Users: Additional Tools

Process Multiple Files tool This is similar to the Image Processor that we cover in Chapter 11

For Photoshop Elements Users: Additional Tools

Process Multiple Files tool This is similar to the Image Processor that we cover in Chapter 11

Mini Bridge

CS5 includes a miniature version of Bridge aptly named Mini Bridge it appears as a

panel within Photoshop (Figure 2.40) To access Mini Bridge, click the Mini Bridge

icon if the full version of Bridge is not already running, it will launch first,

result-ing in a short lag before Mini Bridge appears

Figure 2.40 Mini

Bridge appears as a panel within Photoshop

You can expand the length or width of the panel by hovering the cursor over the edge until it becomes a double-edged arrow As you explore the panel and hover

your cursor above the various icons shown in Figure 2.41, you’ll see that a lot of

power is packed into a tiny amount of space

Go Back Go to

Adobe Bridge

Search

Go to Parent Recent Items

or Favorites

Go Forward Home Page Panel View

Figure 2.41 A lot of options are

available from the icons in Mini Bridge

Click the Panel view icon to choose to view the navigation pod, the Preview pod, or both, as well as to see the Path bar Use the icon to search for a file The

navigation pod provides access to your folders

The Content pod shows the contents of the folders From the fly-out menu icon you can control what files are visible, and from the Filter icon you can further control which files are visible according to their ratings and labels The next icon

controls the order in which the files are sorted The last icon enables you to place

a file in Photoshop (which we don’t normally do as part of our workflow, but graphic

artists may use this feature) and to access the various tools, such as the image

Proces-sor, Merge to Hdr Pro, Photomerge, etc

At the bottom of the Content pod there’s a slider that controls the size of the thumbnail, as well as the icon to access review mode, and the icon to control

the actual view within the Content pod