Using Bridge CS4 as the linchpin in our image library development has certainly made it much easier to both find and track specific images among more than 140,000 photos. But with our robust search and keywording strategy, searching can often produce many dozens or even hundreds (even thousands) of images.
The easiest way to manage such large searches -- particularly when you find yourself performing the same search again and again, is to create a collection out of the search results. And to make things easier, you can create a "smart" collection that will automatically update your collection when new images with specific metadata are added to the library.
To create a collection after you perform your search, select all the images you wish to use in the new collection.
Go to the collections panel and click either the "New Collection" or "New Smart Collection" icon at the bottom of the panel, give it a name and voila! That's it!
If you created a smart collection, each time an image or images are added to the library with the search criteria you used that image or those images will automatically be added to your collection.
Please note two important things:
- collections cannot be shared
- you must be connected to the image source to view the images in your collection (you cannot work offline)
Take care and good luck!
I realize this is an older post - but you can share regular Collections in CS5 for images stored on a server that other users have access to. You can just copy the .filelist file from /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Bridge CS5/Collections and paste it into the other users Collections folder and relaunch Bridge. This will not work for local files. Please note that there is a bug in CS5 Collections where any file names or folder names that use an apostrophe will cause the Collection to not list any files after that file. If you search on the Adobe forums you can find a script to fix the Collections file and replace the apostrophes with the proper characters (%20 I think).
ReplyDeleteThis sounds terribly intriguing! So far, though, it's been no-go for me. I have tested from CS5 to CS4 and then CS4 to CS5 and know that neither one works; nor does it work from Mac to PC (duh). But I do want to test out from the same Mac OS to Mac OS with CS5 and see of this will work for us (which seems to be the suggested route i the comment). Then, of course, it's only a matter of getting the rest of the team on the same page of the program. . .
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