Photoshop cs5 cho nhiếp ảnh gia part 15 docx

We change the default Save Files In location that specifies where Organizer stores the images that it downloads from your camera or card reader.. Bringing Images into Organizer Organizer

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

Adobe Bridge

Search

Go to Parent Recent Items

or Favorites

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

as they’re working, but we find that most of the time we prefer to use regular Bridge,

so we rarely open the Mini Bridge panel However, we recommend you explore it and see if it will be helpful to your workflow

For Photoshop Elements Users: Organizer, the PC Version of Bridge

Instead of using Bridge, Elements 8 for Windows has its own photo-organization tool, Orga-nizer (shown in the image here) To open OrgaOrga-nizer, click the OrgaOrga-nizer button in the toolbar

In many ways, Organizer is more like iPhoto or Lightroom than it is like Bridge

Unlike Bridge, it doesn’t let you browse files or folders Instead, it requires you to import your

images into catalogs (many users typically have just one catalog) and then organize them into

albums (We’ll discuss both catalogs and albums in more depth later in this sidebar.) However, Organizer makes it easy to store your images on a CD, search your images, and more Because Orga-nizer is available only with Elements for Windows, we will cover only the features in OrgaOrga-nizer that are most useful for nature photographers and won’t explore every feature of the program

Tip: We recommend avoiding the simplified Fix tools within Organizer and instead using the

more powerful tools within Elements

Setting Organizer Preferences

Open Organizer’s Preferences dialog by selecting Edit > Preferences Here are the useful areas for photographers:

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General

This section controls the display options for Organizer The default options work well, although

we recommend setting Print Sizes to your preferred unit of measurement: inches or centimeters

Files

This section controls how Organizer handles files, as shown in the following image We recom-mend checking each option within this dialog Checking Use “Last Modified” Date if EXIF Date Is Not Found ensures that your images have a date set in their metadata, and Import EXIF Caption causes Organizer to automatically pick up any caption you’ve written elsewhere for the image

Automatically Search For and Reconnect Missing Files causes Organizer to search for any files it doesn’t find (for example, if you go into Windows Explorer and move a file outside of Organizer)

We recommend enabling multisession burning so that when you use Organizer to burn your images to a CD or DVD, you’ll be able to write to the same disc more than once (until it’s full) rather than always having to use a new disc each time you want to burn data

We recommend selecting Rotate JPEGs Using Orientation Metadata and Rotate TIFFs Using Ori-entation Metadata so that you don’t have to rotate your images manually

Folders for Saved Files is where Organizer stores any files it creates Change this folder by click-ing the Browse button and pickclick-ing a new folder This is different from what folder Organizer downloads images into, a preference you set in a different panel

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Another useful option here is the Preview File Size setting We won’t cover Offline Volumes in this chapter, but the short of it is that Organizer lets you store your images in locations other than your hard drive (such as on a DVD) but still see previews within Organizer, even when the disc isn’t in the drive Preview File Size controls that preview image’s resolution The larger the preview file, the higher the quality and the more disk space it requires

Editing

If there’s another application you like to use to edit your images in addition to Photoshop Ele-ments, the Editing pane lets you add that application to the Edit menu

Camera or Card Reader

Organizer has a Photo Downloader that’s nearly identical to the one in Bridge The Camera or Card Reader settings section, shown below, allows you to customize its initial behavior We change the default Save Files In location that specifies where Organizer stores the images that it downloads from your camera or card reader To change this setting, click the Browse button and choose a location that’s convenient for you We recommend using the same folder that you set

in the Files Preferences pane

We recommend unchecking Automatically Fix Red Eyes to avoid having Organizer do any unin-tended image corrections

The Download Options box allows you set default download options and to determine what mode (Standard or Advanced) the Photo Downloader will use to run We recommend always using Advanced mode To set this option, select the profile for your card reader or camera, click the Edit button, and select Show APD Dialog (Advanced) from the pop-up menu

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Keyword Tags and Albums

It’s a good idea to specify whether keywords and albums sort manually or alphabetically We recommend Alphabetical sorting over manual sorting, but some people prefer their own organi-zation and like the option to use Manual sorting

Color Settings

The Color Settings preferences, shown here, are located under Edit > Color Settings rather than being grouped with the other preferences Here you can select No Color Management (not recommended), Always Optimize Colors for Computer Screens (Organizer will convert images

to sRGB), Always Optimize for Printing (converts images to Adobe RGB), or Allow Me to Choose

We recommend selecting Allow Me to Choose so that Organizer does not adjust the color in your image without asking you what to do

Bringing Images into Organizer

Organizer enables you to import images from the hard drive or other disks as well as by using the Photo Downloader to access images that are currently on a memory card or in your camera

Adding Images from the Hard Drive or Other Disks

Choose File > Get Photos and Videos > From Files and Folders Use the Open dialog that appears

to select either a set of images, or folders containing images to import to Organizer Uncheck Copy Files on Import to have Organizer leave the images in their original location If you do select Copy Files, Organizer provides an option to automatically remove red-eye in the Open dialog We recommend deselecting this option so that Organizer does not modify your images without your knowledge

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Alternatively, to add existing images to Organizer you can drag the images from Explorer directly into Organizer

Photo Downloader

The primary differences between Organizer’s Photo Downloader, shown here, and Bridge’s are that Organizer will also let you download movie and audio files from your camera and the Advanced Options are different In Organizer, there is no option to make a second copy of the images and no option to convert to DNG Instead, you’ll find an option for fixing red-eye (which

we recommend unchecking), an option for automatically stacking photos, and an option for specifying what to do with the originals after copying We recommend leaving this pull-down set to After Copying, Do Not Delete Originals so that if something goes wrong with the down-load, you will still have your original files Furthermore, by not deleting the originals it’s easier

to make a backup copy of your storage card

We suggest you follow the instructions in the next section to create a custom metadata tem-plate to apply on import That way, important information such as your contact and copyright information will be contained in your image

Once Photo Downloader finishes, Organizer will prompt to show only the new files We recom-mend deselecting this option so that you don’t wonder why your old images disappeared

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Creating a Metadata Template

To create a metadata template in Elements for Windows, take the following steps:

give your template a name To edit the template in the future, choose Import to open it, make your changes, and re-export it

Note that the fields Elements allows you to set are limited compared to Photoshop CS5

Renaming After Import

Although Organizer does not have a robust renaming tool, it is possible to rename multiple images

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Catalogs

Catalogs are unique to Organizer They are databases that hold a collection of links to your origi-nal image files with extra metadata (like keywords and captions) associated with your images

For example, a catalog might include every image you’ve ever taken, all of your shots from

2008, or all of your shots from a given assignment Within each catalog, you can further orga-nize images into albums For example, if you have a catalog for a specific trip, you might have

(Ctrl+Shift+C) to open the Catalog Manager

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In the Catalogs box, you have a choice between seeing Catalogs Accessible by All Users (mean-ing every person who has a login on your computer), Catalogs Accessible by the Current User, or Custom Location (which lets you specify a custom folder to store your catalog files in) We rec-ommend choosing Custom Location and selecting a folder within My Documents to store your catalogs so that you can easily access your catalog files if necessary

Click the New button to create a new catalog, use Rename to change the catalog name, use Move

to move the catalog to a new location, and click Remove to delete the selected catalog Clicking Optimize can help improve Organizer’s performance if you have a lot of files in your catalog, and Repair can recover a damaged catalog To switch catalogs, select the catalog from the list and click Open

Ultimately, how you organize your catalogs is up to you If you’re new to digital photography,

we recommend starting with just one catalog and using albums to organize your images so that you have one less thing to worry about If you’re an experienced digital shooter, then you should have some idea of how you like to group your images, such as by shoot, which is our preferred working style

Tip: If you go to the File menu at the top of the monitor, the option Backup Catalog to CD, DVD,

or Hard Drive will let you quickly make a backup copy of all the images in your catalog Backup Catalog even has an Incremental Backups option, which will cause Organizer to back up only files that have changed since the last backup This can be a huge time-saver when working with large image collections, because you won’t have to make a copy of every image each time you back up

Restore Catalog from CD, DVD, or Hard Drive provides a way to load a backup catalog into Orga-nizer, optionally copying the images to a new location

You might wonder why Backup and Restore are useful Well, if you are using a laptop with a small hard drive, after editing your images from a shoot, you could back up the catalog to a DVD and delete the images from your hard drive to recover the disk space Later on, you could quickly restore those images to your hard drive by using the Restore Catalog command Another practi-cal example is that even if you don’t use the Restore function, the Backup tool provides a quick way to collect all of your images in the catalog, wherever on your hard drive they may be, and copy them to a backup location

Albums

Albums are a way of organizing subcollections of images within a catalog For example, a catalog for a weeklong shoot might have an album for each day Organizer has normal albums, where you manually add and remove images to the album, as well as Smart Albums Like a Smart Playlist in iTunes, a Smart Album automatically adjusts its contents based on a certain criterion—for example, all images created within the past week

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To make a new album, click the Create New Album button in the Albums panel and select New Album Type in a name and click OK Drag images from the Photo Browser onto the album

the top of the Photo Browser to see the images not grouped into albums

To create a new Smart Album, click the Create New Album button in the Albums pane and select New Smart Album In the dialog that appears, pick the criteria you want for your Smart Album

An album group represents a collection of albums For example, if you were photographing Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, you could have one album group for Zion and another for Bryce Then, within the album group, you could make an album for each day To create an album group, click the Create New Album button in the Albums pane, select New Album Group, and give the group a name Drag and drop albums to and from the group as needed

Viewing Images

By default, Organizer shows the Thumbnail view for the Photo Browser, shown earlier We rec-ommend adding the Properties pane to the display, so that you can quickly see image metadata,

the size of the thumbnails by using the slider in the top middle of the window Check the Details check box to see image ratings, filenames, and more This view is very similar to Bridge’s Light Table view

Batch will show you your images grouped by when they were imported, and Folder Location will reveal the folder that each image is in (and allow you to move the image by dragging it elsewhere

in the folder hierarchy) We recommend using the Folder Location view when moving images around

These first three modes are considered Photo Browser views Date View, shown here, is a completely different mode that lets you view your images based on the day they were taken

You can toggle between viewing the year, month, or day by using the buttons on the bottom, and there is a note field on the right side of the window to add daily notes, such as location information

For most purposes, we recommend using the Photo Browser over Date View in the default Thumbnail View mode The View menu lets you customize which fields are visible below each thumbnail We recommend selecting Details and Show File Names

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Opening Images in Adobe Camera Raw

In all views, double-clicking an image will take you to a larger view of the image Unfortunately, you cannot set up Organizer so that double-clicking a raw file opens Camera Raw To open a raw

Camera Raw, click the Done button, and Organizer will update to show the changes you made to the raw conversion

Full-Screen Modes

Organizer has two different full-screen modes, Full Screen and Compare Photos Side by Side,

between the two modes is that Full Screen shows one image at a time, and Side by Side shows two images at once to make it easier to pick between similar images

Even though Organizer has a Slide Show feature, the full-screen view can also act as a slideshow

We recommend opening the Full Screen View Options dialog box by clicking on the Options

going into a full-screen view doesn’t start a slideshow We also recommend deselecting Include Captions so that Organizer does not show your image caption on top of your image These options are shown here

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