How to efficiently catalog and rate your images,. I will show you step-by-step the most important functionalities in Adobe Bridge and ACR.Īt the end of the 4 part series you will know: How to combine single images into a Panorama. How to sync your settings to save time in your editing workflow. How to access ACR and how to create presets to guarantee fantastic results every single time. How to download your images into Bridge. And with the images that you can find in your course materials you can even work side by side with me. No matter if you are shooting landscapes, cities, wildlife or portraiture - with this tutorial you can develop your photographs to their highest potential. This course is for photographers who would love to enhance their images whilst also organizing them, so that they are easily accessible. So understanding how to use Adobe Bridge efficiently and enhancing your images with Adobe Camera Raw are vital for developing a great workflow within Photoshop and I will show you how easy it is! Most photographers think they have to use Lightroom to organize and enhance their images and didn’t even hear about the fantastic inbuilt catalog system called Bridge, and the even better image developing program called Adobe Camera Raw - or ACR for short. Which is a shame because not only are both programs very easy to use, but they are absolutely FREE and BUILT into Photoshop! *** This is part 1 in a 4 part series and covers the basics: getting your images into ACR and applying metadata *** In this example I may want to consider: 1) using these brightly colored patterns at the end of my story and 2) beginning to tell the story of starting the collection with these icy winter blues and slowly warming up into spring, oranges and yellows, and then ending with the bright reds of summer.Welcome to our course Adobe Bridge CC and Adobe Camera Raw For Beginners! Do I need a larger variety of patterns?īased on your thoughts about your answers you can then adjust the order of the patterns to best fit the color palettes that you’re using or the story that you’re telling. This is where you’ll review your collection as a whole. Once your collections are done click on a collection to open it. This may work for you, or you may prefer to use more traditional pattern collections or trends to divide your overall portfolio. For me, I will choose to tell my story through seasons and through the customer journey. 
Make sure you choose the patterns that best fit the story that you’d like to tell. Click the back button to return to your original screen.Īfter this, you will begin clicking and dragging patterns into your new collection story folder.Click on the “new collection” button in the bottom right hand corner of your collection window.It simply created the collections within Adobe Bridge.īut how about creating a new collection? This is simple! You will: This is part of what’s so wonderful about Bridge, as the location of the files in the Dropbox doesn’t change when you do this. This is where I will click and drag each pattern into its appropriate story. You can see this here in Adobe Bridge.Īfter that, I scroll through our Dropbox of patterns. To demonstrate this, I divided our portfolio of over 300 patterns into 5 stories. From doing this I realized something important that I like to think about the customer’s journey and the type of patterns that they may want to wear throughout the season. The first thing I do when I begin preparing for a presentation is to think about how I would talk through my patterns.
I hope that it’s helpful as you begin to prepare for your own pattern presentations. To do all of this, it takes some prep work for the presentations, and this is what I’d like to share with you. We’ll be showing them our spring and fall pattern collections.
During this time we’ll be meeting with clients who we’ve worked with in the past and also potential clients who we are really excited about having the opportunity to work with. We’re going to be taking a trip to Portland, Oregon. We’re preparing for an exciting week at Pattern Observer.
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