Customizing a Workspace in Bridge in Photoshop

The Bridge interface is easy to customize. The only items that can’t be moved, resized, or hidden are the tools and the title bar at the top of the window. You can hide or show the different panels by selecting them under the Window menu. To reposition panels in the window, click the tab containing a panel’s name, and then hold down the mouse button and drag the tab to a new location. Release the mouse button when either a thick blue line or a thick blue box appears. Ablue line indicates that letting up on the mouse button will place the panel between two other panels; a blue box indicates that letting up on the mouse button will group it with the panel that is currently positioned underneath the cursor. When setting up a Bridge work environment for print design and production, I usually start by applying the built-in Vertical Filmstrip workspace and then make a few modifications to it. The first thing I do is condense the size of the Content panel by reducing the size of the thumbnails. This can be done by moving the scroll bar at the bottom of the window to the left. I then drag the divider bar to the right, allowing more room for the Preview panel in the center of the window. I also hide the filenames displayed under the thumbnails by choosing View --> Show Thumbnail Only (F/Ctrl+T). To the left of the Preview panel, I always keep three panels stacked vertically: the Favorites and Folders group on top, the Metadata panel in the center, and the Filter panel on the bottom. With this arrangement, all the tools that I  need to sort, navigate, and access file info are located in one compact section of the window.