Adobe Bridge Tip 1 - Review Mode

Here's my first tip for Adobe Bridge

When reviewing my images I always review and select them whilst still on the memory card, this forces me to do them straight away and not store them on my ever inflated Hard Disk for years without even looking at them.

So whilst in Bridge with my memory card in the reader and the images on the card viewed in the content window, I select images that I want to keep by giving them 1, 2 or 3 stars. To help me do this I use the 'Review Mode' option.

To use the review mode, I select a number of images that I want to review and select 'Review Mode' from the 'View Menu' or under the 'Refine Icon' on the taskbar below the menus or by pressing 'Ctrl B'.

Review mode will open a new window and if you have selected more than 4 images, will show them all in a carousel style viewer. You can use the left and right arrow keys to transit through the images and pressing the number keys from 1 to 9 will add either stars or colour labels to your images and a 0 will remove them.

Other features within Review Mode are using the down arrow key to remove images from your selection. This will also have unselected the image when you return to Bridge's normal view.

The Loupe is also available in this mode which will allow you to check for sharpness of images. The loupe will remain in place whilst you flick through the images.

You can also create collections whilst in this mode and when you create the collection, all of the images that remain in the review mode window will be added to the collection, see my blog about Collections HERE for more information.

To quit Review Mode use the cross at the bottom right or hit the escape key.