Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers - Martin Evening [257]
Figure 11.50 The Bridge Keywords preferences.
The keyword information accumulates as you select further images and you will notice that some of the ‘visited image’ keywords appear in italics. This indicates that they are only temporary. If you were to quit Bridge and relaunch, these temporary keywords would be cleared from the list. To make such keywords permanent you should use the contextual menu (as described in Figure 11.49) to make them persistent.
Figure 11.49 In this view of the Keywords panel an image was selected and I can see that five keywords were assigned, telling me that this was a photograph taken on Saunders Island in the Falklands islands and that the subject matter was of Magellanic penguins. Now, in this instance, ‘Magellanic penguins’ appears in italics, which indicates this was not an established keyword in the Keywords panel. To make this keyword persistent, I used a -click (Mac) or right mouse-click to open the contextual menu shown here and chose ‘Make Persistent’.
Search criteria
The search criteria can be for almost anything you want. The source folder will default to the folder you are viewing in the front-most Bridge window, but you can select other folders to inspect as well and if the folder you are searching contains a lot of subfolders, you'll need to make sure that the ‘Include All Subfolders’ option is checked. The search criteria can also be adapted in various ways. For example you can include search terms where you ask Bridge to search for files that exclude specific criteria.
Image searches
Image searching is now mostly faster in Bridge. The search field allows you to use either a standard Bridge search or a systembased file search (such as Spotlight on the Mac). All you have to do is select the folder you want to search in, enter the phrase you want to search for and hit or . This will carry out an instant search that includes all subfolders. If that fails to produce any results or you want to expand the search criteria, you can click on the New Search button which opens the Find dialog shown in Step 3. Here, you'll find more search options such as the ability to combine different match criteria and match policies. If Bridge has not had a chance to cache the files in all folders yet, you can select the ‘Include Non-indexed Files’ option. However, this will make for slower but more thorough searches.
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This shows a Bridge window view where I was about to carry out a file search of a master Casting Photos folder, looking for any images that matched the term ‘Sundal’. You'll note that there are three search options available. In this instance I used a Bridge search, which would carry out a search by file name and keywords using the Bridge search engine.
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The standard Bridge search gave no results, so I clicked on the New Search button.
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This opened the Find dialog, which allowed me to expand the search criteria used. Here, I changed the ‘File Name’ criteria to ‘All Metadata’ (note that, you'll have to retype the search phrase again when you do this) and clicked ‘Find’.
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This time I was more successful, because Bridge now included all metadata search criteria such as the Caption IPTC metadata that had been edited via Lightroom and the results of the search were now displayed in the Content panel area.
Skipping the Bridge search field
You can skip the Bridge search field completely and open the Find dialog shown in Step 3 directly. Just go to the Edit menu and choose ‘Find…’, or use the keyboard shortcut.
Collections panel
The ability to create collections is an important feature in any image management program (such as Lightroom) but it's even more important for a file browser program such as Bridge. This is because collections allow you to quickly access specific groups of images. The Collections panel (Figure