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When you are ready to open a document it's easy enough - you can go to the File menu and choose open, and it will bring up the open dialogue box, allowing you to navigate to a particular directory or folder. And you'll see a list of images in that particular directory or folder. And notice when I click on a particular image, Photoshop will generate a small preview for me. Which is very convenient coz many of my images were derived from a digital camera, and do not have a preview attached. So Photoshop is generating one on the fly. And this is one way you can choose to go ahead and open a document. However, new to Photoshop 7 is the browser, the file browser and it's an extremely convenient new tool. And you can access that under the file menu as well, and choose browse. It's also available as its own palette. This brings up the very large file browser palette, and let's talk about some of the features here. Essentially this is a very convenient and robust interface, allowing us to see any image in a particular directory. It's all, going to close this and go to the directory on my desktop, simply by clicking on the directory icon. Notice in this pane in the upper left-hand corner, we have a directory tree type of structure. We can open and close any directory or folder, in this case the desktop folder, and with it selected you can see the various icons available to me - one of them is a folder on my desktop. So I can either get to these folders by double clicking on the folder icon, and notice how my directory tree has been updated in this upper left-hand corner pane. Or another way I could get to it is simply navigate to it through this directory tree right here. I'll just click right on its name, and once I do that it shows me all the images inside this particular directory. Very nice feature is it also will generate images or preview images on the fly. And notice at the bottom of my collection I have some more folders; so these would be sub-folders or sub-directories in this particular folder. I'm going to click right on one of these thumbnails, and notice when I do that it generates a little higher res thumbnail and puts it in this area right here. This way it allows me to see this image a little bit easier. And if I wished, I could resize this entire browser palette so it made this a little bit larger. So I can go to any of the boundaries between these various panes, and notice when I go to a boundary I get this little icon which means that I can click and drag the boundary of this pane up to resize this pane to take advantage of more space. Depending upon how big your image is, this can take a little bit of time generating a preview in the Photoshop file browser. Another great feature of the file browser is it will show you the information associated and attached to this image. There is meta-data attached to this image which came from my camera. You can see that it is telling me basic stuff that Photoshop can determine, such as it's the file format JPEG, width and height, color mode. But there is also meta-data associated with what came out of my camera, in the sense that the make of my camera was a Nikon and the model of the camera. Also, if we scroll down a bit it even gives me the f-stop that was used when I made this picture and the exposure time. So there is a lot of data attached to any image that comes out of digital cameras which you can use if you wish. Another nice feature, we can assign a rank to any of these images in a directory by clicking in the rank area here and assigning rank. So I'll give this one rank of 1 and I'll assign this one rank of 1 and this one a rank of 2. Now we can use that if we go to this area right here, one of our options is to sort by these various parameters. So currently we are sorting by file names, so its going to be sorted alphabetically by file name - apple, bottle and then the DSCN followed by the number. But one of our options of course is to sort by rank, so we'll choose rank. Notice that these images floated up to top because I gave them their own ranking. So we have all these different ways of sorting the images in the large file browser window. This popup window menu will allow us to show our preview thumbnails in different ways. We can see small thumbnails if we wish, medium size thumbnails, large thumbnails and large thumbnails with rank. And finally we can see just the details, and this is a very helpful way of looking at information because it will bold whichever particular parameter that you are sorting by. So you can see that they are sorting by rank, but if we choose file name, then the file name will be bolded. If you click this icon, it will collapse the other left side windows closing them, showing you only your list. Click again and it will bring back the large preview window and the other informational windows. This button will allow us to go up one level in our directory tree structure, or we could choose that structure and navigate by clicking on this pull down menu. Finally there are a collection of other options in the file browser menu icon if you click right here. We can actually rotate pictures. For instance if you brought in a picture that you shot vertically on your digital camera. We could select that picture and rotate it if we wished right here. And one of the nice features is it will open up with this rotation pre-applied to it. [00:07:l7.0] So when you are ready to open an image that you have found by using the file browser, all you need to do is double click on its thumbnail.