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with a Horizontal filmstrip running along the bottom of the window and you can use the left and right keyboard arrow keys to navigate through the filmstrip thumbnails. These two workspaces provide nice simplified Bridge layouts that are ideal for navigating photographs. If you look closely, you will notice that the Content panel has a fly-out menu for controlling the Content thumbnail layout (see sidebar). For example, you could create a vertical filmstrip layout with a narrow Content panel in the middle set to vertical scrolling combined with a large Preview panel in the right column. Figure 11.13 shows the Metadata layout where the focus is on the Metadata panel and the Content panel is in Details mode, displaying the main essential image data alongside the thumbnails.

Figure 11.13 The Metadata workspace displays the Content panel in Details view mode with the Favorites, Keywords and Metadata panels on the left.

Content panel scrolling

The Content panel has a small menu icon in the top right corner, where if you mouse down, you can select a Horizontal, Vertical or Auto scrolling layout (this is circled in Figure 11.11). You can use this menu to force the thumbnails in the Content panel to scroll vertically (which is the default used for most of the workspace layouts) or scroll horizontally (such as in the Filmstrip workspace layout in Figure 11.12). If you select ‘Auto’, Bridge automatically works out which direction is best to scroll the thumbnails in.

Figure 11.11 Here is a view of a Bridge window configured using the Light Table workspace preset (note the Content panel layout options shown top right).

Working with multiple windows

You can also have multiple Bridge window views open at once. This allows you to view more than one folder of images at a time, without having to use the Folders panel or window navigational buttons to navigate back and forth between the different image folders. That's not all though, because multiple windows can also make it easier to make comparative editing decisions when reviewing a collection of images, such as in the Figure 11.14 example shown below.

Figure 11.14 In this example I pointed Bridge at a folder of images using a modified Preview workspace layout, where single images could be previewed large in the preview panel and the Content panel used to display a vertical filmstrip of thumbnails. I then chose File New Window to create a duplicate window view and dragged this off to the right. I was then able to navigate through the image thumbnails in the second window and compare alternative shots with the one displayed in the first window.

Synchronized displays

If you choose Window New Synchronized Window ( ), you can create two synchronized windows. These can be on the same monitor screen, or you can have one on each monitor. For example, you could have one window displaying a Light Table workspace and the other using the Preview workspace.

Slideshow mode

The Bridge Slideshow feature can be considered a useful tool for providing quick on-screen presentations, but I think you will find that the Slideshow viewing mode also offers a nice, clear interface with which to edit your pictures; one that's devoid of all the clutter of the Bridge window interface. Figure 11.16 shows the Bridge Slideshow in Full Screen mode, where you have access to all the usual image rating controls. As you review edit a folder of photos, you can use the keyboard arrow keys to progress through the shots and you can use the apostrophe key to toggle adding or removing a single star rating, or use the key to increase and the key to decrease the overall star rating. To access the Slideshow settings (including the slide transitions and zoom options) go to the View menu and choose ‘Slideshow Options…’. (Figure 11.15)

Figure 11.15 Slideshow Options dialog.

Figure 11.16 The Bridge window contents can be previewed in Slideshow mode by choosing View Slideshow ( ). Press to call up the Slideshow commands menu shown here, where you'll note that you can also use the keys