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Lesson 1 - Adobe Bridge - Image Viewer, Organizer, Launcher, Asset Manager

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Screenshot of Adobe Bridge
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Adobe Bridge is a free digital asset management app made by Adobe Systems.
Students, If you've not already done so, please complete the Pre-class preparation lesson before beginning this one!

USU Canvas Resources and Assignment for this week...​What is the experience I want you to have?

​​We're going to begin this course by first learning about Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw. By the end of lesson 1, you will be able to organize your own photos and images using Adobe Bridge. You will be able to add keywords and metadata to your images so you can filter down to only those you want to see in Bridge. You'll be able to open images from Bridge in Photoshop and Camera Raw.
USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 1 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 1 Module. (See image above) If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, here's a link to the exercise files for lesson 1.

Objectives (Suggested division of work time through the week)

Section 01-A (Monday)
  • Class welcome and overview, policies, and procedures
  • Overview of Photoshop, Bridge, and Camera Raw
  • Import, find, and view your files in Adobe Bridge
  • ​​Become familiar with the Bridge interface
​Section 01-B (Tuesday)
  • Work with thumbnail views in Bridge (Exercise B01-05)
  • Work with file names and batch renaming (Exercise B01-06)
  • Add metadata & keywords to organize your images  (Exercise B01-07)
  • Review Mode and filtering your images in Bridge
  • Save images in collections (Exercise B01-09)
Section 01-C (Wednesday)
  • Rate and label images (Exercise B01-10)
  • Create and use smart collections
  • Organize images into stacks (Exercise B01-12)
  • Familiarize yourself with the Photoshop tool names
Section 01-D (Thursday)
  • Visual Communication
  • Instructional Graphics
  • Pixels and Resolution
 (Friday - Weekend: Practice! Start organizing images of your own!)
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Stanley Lake and Mt. McGowen - photo by Nathan Smith ©2020
Optional resources to share with you! (Not required)
Andy Anderson is the author of the Free School YouTube Channel, which contains many wonderful Photoshop video tutorials. The videos below are great for learning Adobe Bridge. In fact, we'll be sending you to one of his videos in Section 1B.
PictureThis image links to all his Photoshop & Bridge videos
Chapter 6: The Amazing Adobe Bridge
Part 01: Introduction
Part 02: Adobe Bridge 101
Part 03: Adjusting the Workspace
Part 04: Modifying Bridge Preferences
Part 05: Using Favorites to Control Workflow
Part 06: Organizing Images Using Ratings and Labels
Part 07: Using Keywords and Collections
​Part 08: Controlling Image Information
​Part 09: Going Beyond Image Organization
These are resources from "Design Your Way" - and I share them with you because there are some nice freebies, resources, and good design articles. But I've also shared these to start filling your head with good design ideas - not to copy, but to spark your own creativity!
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​This lesson was last updated December 20, 2020.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2020 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.