Contact Sheets in Bridge CS4

Making Contact Sheets in CS4 has moved from the Photoshop "Automate" menu to the "Output" menu in Bridge. When you select "PDF" you get the usual Contact Sheet decisions- rows, columns, file names, etc, along with new stuff like headers and footers. Refresh the Preview to see the results.



When you have it nice, go to the very bottom. There, hidden in the "Watermark" section is the Save button. Snap. Done.

CS4- Bridge SMART COLLECTIONS

AAAAAAAA! AAAAAAA! My HEAD's essplodin!

Bridge now has Smart Collections. That means you can make instantly updated groupings of files based on criteria like ratings or keywords. As soon as you bring a file into the system and rate it three stars, it gets shown in your collection, for example.

This is a life-altering feature. You can now do, in Bridge, what you could only do in Aperture first, and then Lightroom2 later: LIVE repurpose images for multiple projects and uses without making multiple groupings and copies.



See the little folder to the left of the Trash? Thats our baby.

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CS4- Camera RAW Adjustment Brush, update

So, I said the color adjustments were limited. They're not.

Click on the color patch and you get this. Everything you could ever want.

(Straight out of Lightroom 2, btw, no surprise there.)

CS4- Camera RAW Adjustment Brush

Here it is, guys... This is a Brush tool that, in Camera RAW, allows you to selectively apply limited color and fairly decent tone and density corrections.

VERY cool stuff, and exactly what I, for one, was looking for!

Photoshop CS4 new features videos

I got one word.

Camera Raw Adjustment Brush.

well... ok. four words.

Photoshop CS4

Adobe page here.

...some interesting stuff (but what does it mean?):

Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation

Efficient file management with new Adobe Bridge CS4

Tighter integration with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

More powerful printing options

Superior performance on very large images