Meeting Summary: The SuperPowers of Creative Suite's Asset Management

Tue, Jul 13th, 2010 at 6:30 PM

Adobe University

Event Details

We met at the new conference center at Adobe – a very large open beautiful site for meetings. Easy to see the speakers with 4 very large screens to see their work and no problem hearing them speak.

Asset Management
Presented by kEvin Friberg, Seattle User Group Chapter Rep

• Asset Management/Bridge
• InDesign and Metadata Files
• Who creates metadata – everyone
• Who uses metadata – everyone
• CS4 has a bug that won’t let you copy file information
• Bridge gives more information & will copy file information
• Even gives camera information used
• Go to Bridge, copy information & place text with image
• Bridge will also do a search for an image that you want
• Metadata – Bridge will do a keyword search
• Can change the camera title numbers to a named file
• To get information, go to File > File Info. You will see tabs for:
• Description
• IPTC
• Camera Data
• Video Data
• Audio Data
• Mobile SWF
• Categories
• Origin
• DICOM
• History
• Program file was made in (AI, PS, ID, etc.)
• Advanced
• Raw Data
• Bridge will also make a template (Choose Create Metadata Template and click Save)
• If the Metadata information goes with a PDF file, Google will add it to the search. It is better to strip out the metadata information that you don’t want to go online
• To find a file that is still in Quark, in Bridge choose Window > Path Bar, and find file that you want
• Click on arrows to open sub-folders to see desired files
• Bridge doesn’t show Photoshop layers
• Go to the Finder to get information and see the Photoshop layers
• Metadata — CS5 will create text captions
• Select image
• Captions
• Captions/setup
• Headline
• Choose before or after image
• Paragraph styles
• Go back to captions — choose live or static
• Will automatically show the text setup
• Save in library to reuse
• CS5 can also use the Mini Bridge
• Bridge CS5 lets you look at all of the PDF files and PDF images in the layout in an InDesign file.

Lightroom and Asset Management
Presented by Steve Laskevitch, author and Lead Instructor at Luminous Works

• Steve’s new book: Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3
• In Bridge, go to Folders, Filter, Collections
• Filter can sort by dates or categories
• In Lightroom, go to Folder panel, images
• Can see lost files
• Collect
• Smart collect (both Lightroom & Bridge)
• Will do a search for keywords
• Go to view options
• Check/uncheck Metadata
• The lines mean that it is a metadata file; the Down Arrow means that the file hasn’t been saved yet  
• CS5 saves Metadata files all the time