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In CS4, Adobe tried to make many of the features more discoverable; that is to say easier to find. Part of this resulted in them creating many small icons in the Bridge Interface. Once you understand what each one does, it really is a pretty logical system, although initially it can look a bit overwhelming. Bridge has always been designed to be a very customizable interface in order to fit different people's needs. Let's take a look at the default display. There is a lot of stuff in this window. I'm going to begin by choosing a different default workspace. This initial view can be very helpful if you want to see all the images that are in a folder at once but usually I want to see one image at a time. Bridge includes a number of default workspaces available from Window, Workspace or from coming up here to this drop-down menu. Additionally, this drop-down works like a drawer and if I click and drag, I can see the various options spread out across the top of the bar there. That can be very handy if you like to alternate between a couple of different workspaces. I'll close this back up. Let's stop for a second and take a quick look at some of these other default workspaces. This is Filmstrip. It puts a traditional filmstrip of little thumbnails on the bottom, Metadata that focuses on the Metadata for each image. The Output Workspace is a little bit different. We'll get into that when we talk about output. Keywords focuses on the keywords. Preview, again, gives us a large preview along with our little thumbnails. Light Table shows everything in the folder as thumbnails and one that just shows folders. For now we're going to use the Preview Workspace. Notice that the main part of the interface is divided into three vertical panels. Over here is one that in fact is divided into two smaller panels. Then the Content is a tall, thin panel and the Preview Panel. These are all adjustable by size if we click on the little dividing lines. In another movie I'm going to show you how to customize the workspace even farther. In the top of this panel we have both the Favorites and a Folders Tab. Click on the Folders Tab to bring it forward. It gives me access to my entire contents of my computer, just like a directory. Of course, this can be a little bit more difficult to find a folder this way but once I find one that I'm going to work with regularly, I can right click on it and then choose Add to Favorites. When I come back over here to the Favorites Tab now, I can see that folder is right there so anytime I want to get to it, all I have to do is click on it right here. You might notice that it says Drag Favorites Here, but if your folders are in the same panel as Favorites, then you really can't drag the folder; you need to do the right click method. Beneath them are the Filter and Collections Tabs. Filter is a way to see a breakdown of the images in the folder based on specific criteria. By selecting any of those criteria, Bridge will display just those images that meet the criteria, such as I can choose to see just the images that were shot as ISO 1600 and that would be these two and then I can click again and the rest of my images become available. Collections are pointers to groups if images that might reside in a variety of folders on your computer but that you want to see the images viewed together. We'll go into more detail on filtering and making collections in other movies. If you come up here to Window, you'll see that there are other panels that you could opt to have visible. Click on them in order to toggle their visibility and that works for any of them and we'll talk again about customizing this in another movie. Click on the other tab to bring it forward.