Moving Collections in Bridge

Check this... If you make a Collection in Bridge, you can move that to another computer. Go into the User, find Application Support. You're looking for a file that looks like this: yourfile.filelist

Here's the tree:



Move that file from one computer to the other, and that should keep the collection too, as long as your files stay in the same place... that is, on a hard drive or other removable media.

Bridge- saving searches (CS3)

A long, long time ago there was a program called Bridge CS3. It didn't have Smart Collections.



There was this thing you could do called "Find". (Edit>Find, or Apple F) You could tell Bridge to Find things with all sorts of attributes, like Ratings, here, all items marked with 5 stars.

That wasn't the Coolest Thing, though.

The Coolest Thing was that, in this time before time, you could Save that Find as a "Collection".

(Hey. wait a minute... "Collection"? Sounds strangely familiar...)



Here I've added "Approved" to the criteria, and hit Save Collection. I've also hit "Add to Favorites".



Check it out.


hmmm. Looks kind of like a Smart Collection in Bridge CS4, huh? Right on my "Favorites" sidebar I get my happy "cover collection". This updates anew every time I click it... it acts just like a Smart Collection. I hit this button, it does a search of the place I've told it to look, and looks for everything in there that matches those criteria.



OK there's one little trick. If you're pointing this search at a Big Place, like your hard drive or desktop, make sure you check "Include All Subfolders", or it will only search the main big folder you've told it to, and not look anywhere else.



How cool is that?

(...and thanks to Schewe for straightening my butt out on that!)

CS4- Bridge SMART COLLECTIONS

AAAAAAAA! AAAAAAA! My HEAD's essplodin!

Bridge now has Smart Collections. That means you can make instantly updated groupings of files based on criteria like ratings or keywords. As soon as you bring a file into the system and rate it three stars, it gets shown in your collection, for example.

This is a life-altering feature. You can now do, in Bridge, what you could only do in Aperture first, and then Lightroom2 later: LIVE repurpose images for multiple projects and uses without making multiple groupings and copies.



See the little folder to the left of the Trash? Thats our baby.

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