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We'll round off this chapter by taking a look at how Bridge works with your Creative Suite programs and it's pretty seamless. First of all when you select a file it has an association with the program that's going to launch it, so if the association's correct, which hopefully it is, you can double-click on it, and here's a JPEG, it opened directly in Photoshop. Let me just switch back. Here's a PSD, it's a Photoshop file, double-click on it, and it opens in Photoshop where, of course, you can edit and change it. Let me go to the Work Files Folder. Here I have all my InDesign files and I'll just click one at random here, double-click on it, and it opens up in InDesign. Now, sometimes you'll get a problem and this is not uncommon where a program has been loaded and it's taken over what program it associates with JPGs and it'll try and load that one. If that happens to you, you can come over and go to your Preferences Menu and in File Type Associations here, you would scroll down to jpgs, for example, and tell it to go to Photoshop if that's what you want it to use. There are a lot of file types here. For example, here's a CSS file. It's got no association, and that's probably something I would want to associate with Dreamweaver, so I can just go out to my Program Files here, see if I can find Dreamweaver Ð it must be here somewhere, there it is Ð select Dreamweaver, OK, and that gets associated with it. So, that's the best way to deal with that one. You can always right-click on it and choose Open With, and you may have a few choices here that somehow got Adobe InDesign associated with this JPEG, but that's not going to happen. It's going to give me an error because it will not open a JPEG. You can import one into it but you can't directly open it as an InDesign document. Another way that you can import, place, or open the documents is by going into Compact Mode and just dragging them onto the program, and you'll see me do a lot of this in this tutorial as we move along, and to do that you go up to the top right-hand corner. Up here there's a button: Switch to Compact Mode. Click on it, and it creates almost a Panel, like that, and then you can just resize the panel. That way, if I'm going into InDesign I'll just create a new document here like that, and then I can just drag it onto the page like that, and I'll show you how to do this in detail in a different movie later on in the Tutorial when we're placing graphics. Now, those are placing JPGs, Photoshop files, et cetera, but what if we want to, maybe, place a Photoshop file. Now if I just take the file like this Ð and let me try and choose a good one here; there's just Postcard - just drag it on there. It doesn't open it. It actually places it within InDesign. However, if you want to open the document just drag it up here to this blank space at the top, and it opens the document. So there is a difference; dragging it onto an existing document like that, it just places it within it, so it embeds an InDesign document in an InDesign document, but up here at the top that actually opens it as a separate document. Now one thing you'll notice here, this window stays open, it stays on top of InDesign. Even if I click here you can see this stays open, so you can minimize it like that, to get it out of the way and when you need it come back up, click on the Bridge button and it comes up. You can resize it so that it's pretty small and doesn't take up too much space. You can really only resize it to the size of the thumbnail so if you make them really small you'll get it a little bit smaller; actually I can't make this one any narrower at this resolution I'm running at. And if you have a dual monitor system, well, that's the best because you can just take this and drag it off onto another screen and then you have it readily available to you. And you can come over here and if you click on this button here it goes into an even smaller Compact mode, it's just a toggle, on and off like that, and click in this one here, it takes us back into standard Bridge Mode. Now, I have just scratched the surface of what you can do in Bridge just to give you an idea of it and you could have an entire Tutorial based on Adobe Bridge because it really is a huge program now, but if you integrate it into your workflow I think it will really help you become more efficient, but I recommend you delve into it a little deeper to see some of the fantastic features that it offers you.