| Let's take a look at how you might tie together the ideas in this chapter. Suppose I'm approaching a handoff deadline for a book project, and I need to make sure all my images are in the CMYK color space of my publisher. I use Bridge to find out which files aren't ready yet and then send those straight through a Photoshop action. Here's how I do it: 1. | In Photoshop, I prepared a CMYK conversion action in advance, so that it will be available when I run the batch process. (For information about creating actions, see Chapter 17.) | 2. | In Bridge, I navigate to the folder containing the images. | 3. | I decide to open a second window to monitor the folder that will receive the completed images (Figure 6.19). Figure 6.19.
| | | 4. | Choose Edit > Find and enter the criteria (Figure 6.20). I want to find all images that are not CMYK, so I enter that criteria. No other folders are involved, so I leave the Look In menu at the current folder and don't enable Include All Subfolders. Figure 6.20.
| 5. | I want to see both my original window and the search results window, so I enable Show Find Results in a New Browser Window. | 6. | I click Find. In a new browser window, Bridge displays four files that aren't CMYK (Figure 6.21). The search is based on knowing that if a file is CMYK, the Color Mode metadata will say CMYK color. Figure 6.21.
| | | 7. | I make sure none of the four files is selected (so that Bridge will send all files in the folder to Photoshop), and then I choose Tools > Photoshop > Batch. Photoshop opens and presents the Batch dialog box (Figure 6.22). Figure 6.22.
| 8. | In the Batch dialog box in Photoshop, I select the action I created to convert images to CMYK TIFF images for my publisher and verify that the other Batch dialog box options are correct. Then I click OK, and Photoshop processes the files sent to it by Bridge. (The Destination is set to None, which allows the destination recorded in the action to take effect.) | 9. | I watch the destination folder (which I recorded into the action when I created it) and monitor the progress as Photoshop converts each file (Figure 6.23). Figure 6.23.
| | | 10. | Now I can run a Find on the original folder, but this time finding all CMYK images so I can drag them into the folder with the files I just converted to CMYK. Now all of the files are converted to CMYK and in the same folder. |
| | Bridge works together with your desktop, so you can drag and drop files between a Bridge browser window to a normal Mac OS X or Windows folder window. You don't have to leave Bridge to do basic file-management tasks. For example, there's a New Folder command under the File menu. You can also rename a file or folder; with a file or folder selected, press the spacebar, type the new name, and then press Return or Enter. |
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