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Adobe Bridge / Obtain Photos

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The bridge is now able to help you to obtain photos in more then one way. For example right from the bridge itself I can connect to my digital camera and get my images right into the computer. Let's go ahead and take a look at how that's done. I'm gonna go to the file menu and I'm going to choose get photos from camera. This dialog box pretty much simply asks you whether or not you want the photo downloaded to automatically launch whenever it detects a camera. In this case I'm gonna say no, but I can always say yes later on. Then it's going to locate my camera which is connected to my computer via a usb port and it's going to tell me what camera I have. As you see here it's an HP Photo Smart 318 which is about 400 years old and it tells me I have 12 photos on there that it detects and what I can do at this point is choose where I'd like these photos to go when I do import them so I can choose a location and on my desktop I can make a folder called photos or whatever I want to call it as I have done already. I click choose and the images will go there. I can also determine how I want the images to go in there. For example, I can choose today's date or I can leave it at the shot date and I can choose the formats. So it can have the year, the month, the date, the month, the day, the year, whatever I want to do. So I'm gonna go ahead and just choose this one for now. I can also choose to rename these files with today's date, the shot date and all kinds of options here. So I can choose a custom name, a shot date, whatever I want to do. So I can rename those files and it tells you an example right here as to what's happening. So what, if I choose one of these for example I can choose custom name and shot date and then I can enter a custom name here. So since these are textures that I've uh brought in here I can use that name and it will give me all the other information which is a kind of long file name. So once again play around in here until find something that makes you happy. Alright, so as you see this is going to be textures0001 and I can do whatever I want to as well so. What I can also do is choose to open them in bridge, convert to PNG and once I'm done with that I can simply click get photos. So I'm gonna go ahead and hit that buttons and it's gonna bring these images right into that folder that I selected and it's pretty fast. Once this is done I'm going to show you how to use the Adobe stock photos which is also connected to the bridge, to find images online. Now of course for this part your going to have to have an Internet connection. So here you see the uh the uh new images I just brought in and it opens it up for me in a new window and now I can go ahead and apply all of my uh meta data or whatever I want to into this window. So I'm gonna go ahead and hide that for now. Let's talk about the other section here. I'm gonna go to my favorites and I'm gonna click Adobe stock photos and once again you have to have a live Internet connection or this simply won't work for you because this is going to go to Adobe's server. And what you do at this point is you enter a category or some criteria and then stock photos will show you what they have available for you. What you can do is use them to prototype a design and then when you show your client and their happy with the image that you've selected you can then go ahead and buy that image. And wow look at this guy, he really needs to go to the uh gym and leave those donuts alone. So what I'm gonna do is enter the word shark and by now people know that I love sharks if you watch a lot of my tutorials I always have a shark going on somewhere. And my actual mascot for my company is a shark. So as you see here when I entered a shark I am giving a lot of shark images to choose from and all I have to do is scroll and when I fond what I like I can right click on it, for example like this and I am gonna right click and I'm going to find that I can get the price, I can download comp which goes to your accounts folder, I can add to cart so I can buy it and I can also open it with Photoshop CS3 if I want to which is the default and then I can play around with that image within Photoshop itself. So as you can see the bridge can help you to get images that you can use to create your artwork from within Photoshop and in the other applications that are tied to the bridge.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33782
ISBN: 1-933736-98-4
Release Date: 2007-08-02
Duration: 9 hrs / 161 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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