essential skills: digital photography in available light
RAW AND JPEG
Many DSLR cameras provide the option of saving JPEG and RAW fi les during the capture
process. If you are not in any great hurry to see your images then shooting only RAW fi les is
recommended. Higher quality JPEGs can be generated from the RAW master fi les after you
have had the opportunity of creating some settings in Adobe Camera RAW dialog box.- Select a workspace
After transferring your folder of images to the Pictures folder on your hard drive open Adobe Bridge
(now a separate application) and spend a few moments familiarizing yourself with the interface
(not too dissimilar from the File Browser that was shipped with Elements 3 and Photoshop CS).
The tabs can be dragged and moved to new locations and the image windows can be made bigger
or smaller.
WORKSPACES
Adobe have saved a series of workspaces in Bridge (go to Window > Workspaces) that will help
you gain an idea of how some people may choose to sort and manage their image folders. You
can also save your own workspaces that display the right amount of data and size of thumbnails/
previews that best suit your particular workfl ow or task in hand.