OPENING PICTURES FROM BRIDGE TO PHOTOSHOP CS2

Hi Nancy,

I have not read Kelby's book on CS2, (I have his CS[one?] book) so I don't know what he says to do. However I load a folder full of images into Bridge by dragging the folder to the Bridge icon (in the Dock - I use a Mac, but on a PC, put a Bridge shortcut icon on the desktop and drag to that.)

The folder will open in bridge and I can rank, order and look at them. To open them with ACR (or Photoshop if they are not NEFs) select as many as you want to open (select at random by holding the Command [or Control on a PC] while you click.)

Then, in Bridge's File menu, select "Open with Camera Raw...". As a shortcut, you can just double click on one of the selected pictures. They will then open in the Camera Raw (or Photoshop if they are not NEFs.)

 

You should be able to double click on the image you want (in Bridge) and have it open in PS CS2. NEF is Nikon's RAW file format, so the image should open into Adobe Camera Raw (ACR).

 

Hi Nancy, that screen that has the button that says "Open 1 Image" (or how ever many you have selected) is the Adobe Camera Raw dialog.

Here is the Bridge window:


And here is the ACR window:

 

Nancy,

That's the way it's supposed to work when you are working with RAW format images (NEF = Nikon's RAW format). If you double-click a JPG/GIF/PNG/etc., it will just open in PS CS2.

When using RAW format, PS needs help reading and parsing the formatting of such files...thus the Camera Raw Plug-In takes over first, let's you do corrections if you want, then when you click Open, it transfers image to PS CS2.

C