Showing Off Your Work

Bridge CC includes a nifty slideshow generator that lets you quickly display your work onscreen. Bridge CS6 had even more features for showing off your work, including the now deceased Output panel for creating PDFs and Web galleries and the equally dead Export panel for automating the process of uploading photos to popular websites (such as Facebook, Flickr, and Photoshop.com) as well as creating JPEG versions of raw files (though the latter can be done using the Image Processor Script described on Automated Resizing with the Image Processor).

This section teaches you how to create spectacular slideshows. And if you kept Bridge CS6 on your machine, you’ll also learn how to use the now-missing features mentioned above. Read on!

Note

As mentioned earlier, you can download and install the Adobe Output Module by visiting www.lesa.in/aomforbcc.

Making a Slideshow

If you need to show your work to someone, you can quickly filter for your top-rated images (flip back to Figure 22-4) and then have Bridge play them as a full-screen slideshow. Here’s how:

  • To start an instant slideshow, activate a folder or several images by Shift- or ⌘-clicking (Ctrl-clicking) them, and then choose View→Slideshow or press ⌘-L (Ctrl+L). That’s it! Your photos immediately appear onscreen, one after the other (each one stays onscreen for 5 seconds). To exit the slideshow, press Esc.

  • To customize the slideshow’s settings first, choose View→Slideshow Options or press Shift-⌘-L (Shift+Ctrl+L). In ...

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