It's hard to remember how singular and uncomplicated the Web was in it's inception and even as minute as five years ago how minute dynamics and media had redefined our Web experience.
We have seen how technology leads the software, with broad band and huge file sizes negotiable for home viewing so went the software with splendid new media and creative possibilities.
What accompanied this on the developer's desktop was the array of products and technologies one needs to 'put it all together' using blends of web code with media types and 'bringing it on home' with a doing 'web friendly' final composition. A web site is much more than the traditional html code although this is still the glue that holds it all together.
What was needed on the desktop was a tool that brought all the other tools together, an explorer on steroids that let you view and crusade and preview. This preview would contain a preview of non-desktop viewable types such as Photoshop's 'psd ' file, and see any type of image as a thumbnail with much more information. Adobe's Bridge is that tool. Like any new application, it had humble beginnings but now it is a very sophisticated viewer, searcher, and probably the best tag for Bridge is your media manager. It is the one place to go to 'see everything' and do the kind of scanning, comparing, file sizing, movie previewing, that you want to do without having to open the host application for every file you are working with.
Like all Adobe products, Bridge offer flexible user configuration but also comes with some very useful and practical presets that combines the information presentation in a very 'usable' fashion. When we are viewing media and images, typically we scroll through examples, reviewing the work and seeing for the items we are curious in. This is a excellent 'thumbnail' task where you are production your first recapitulate doing a minute research. To be able to see file details, folders, dates and information about the files is helpful in this early stage.
Once you narrow your candidates, of procedure you will want to zoom in on the images, get a closer look. Bridge provides 'content', 'preview', and 'metadata' windows among others where you can see all the files and folders, pick to see your selection in a preview window and have the greater detail about the file you pick to preview in the metadata window.
Adobe Cs5, Let's Begin With Bridge