Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers - Martin Evening [263]
Figure 11.70 The Playback panel.
The Watermark panel (Figure 11.71) lets you add a custom text ‘watermark’ overlay. This would typically be used for adding a copyright message to each image so that when someone is viewing the images as a PDF slideshow, they are made aware that they are looking at copyrighted photographs. New to Bridge CS5 is the ability to apply the watermark to each individual image. Previously this feature was really limited to outputting single page images. You can now use it to successfully watermark contact sheet pages as well as multi-image screen presentation views. There are also now more options available in this panel so that you can add watermark logos as well as custom text, plus you can customize the new drop shadow options.
Figure 11.71 The Watermark panel
PDF Output options
Once you have configured everything in the above panels, you'll be ready to click on the Save… button. This pops a dialog asking where you want to save the PDF to (but without offering any further PDF options). In the Bridge Output preferences (see Figure 11.64) there is a ‘Preserve Embedded Color Profile’ option. If this is checked, the files are output using the file's native color space – this is good if you wish to preserve the maximum color detail for print. If this options is unchecked it defaults to creating a color managed sRGB output, which is more suited to screen PDF presentations.
Figure 11.64 The Bridge Output preferences.
Bridge automation
The Photoshop Automate features can all be accessed directly in Bridge by going to the Tools menu and selecting one of the desired options from the Photoshop submenu (Figure 11.72). For example, to apply a Photoshop batch action process, make a selection of images in Bridge and choose Tools Photoshop Batch… You can then configure the Batch dialog to apply an action routine to all the selected photos. The Image Processor can be used to batch process images in Photoshop where you typically want to output, say, a set of JPEG versions of an image at a set pixel size and compression setting, or convert to more than one size, color space, or format (see Chapter 15 for more about batch actions and the Image Processor). The Merge to HDR Pro feature was discussed earlier on in Chapter 7 and Photomerge was also discussed in Chapter 8. Using the Tools Photoshop menu, you can carry out either of these processes directly from Bridge. The thing to watch out for here is the size of your source images. If you are working from raw originals in Bridge, you may want to open these via the Camera Raw dialog first, go to the Workflow options (see page 155) and set the pixel output size to something lower than the full image size, then click on the Done button to apply this setting to the selected images. Then when you choose ‘Photomerge’ or ‘Merge to HDR Pro’, Bridge opens all these files at the new size setting you just set in Camera Raw.
Figure 11.72 The Photoshop Automate menu is available from the Tools menu in Bridge.
Photomerge with non-raw images
If you want to process non-raw files as a Photomerge (or using merge to HDR Pro) and reckon you might benefit from working with smaller-sized originals, you might like to consider using the ‘Load Files Into Photoshop Layers…’ option. This allows you to open all the selected images as layers in a single Photoshop image first. You can then use Image Image Size to reduce the pixel dimensions before choosing Edit Auto-Align layers followed by Edit Auto-Blend images.
Renaming images
To rename an image in Bridge, just click and hold the mouse down on the file name to activate it and then type in a new one. To batch rename a selection of images, choose ‘Batch Rename…’ from the Tools menu ( ), which opens the Batch Rename dialog shown in Figure 11.73. Here, you can rename the files in the same folder or rename and move them to a new (specified) folder. In the New Filenames section you can configure the file renaming structure by clicking on