PS CS5-- apply labels in MiniBridge?

I am loving MiniBridge in CS5-- incredibly useful. I'm wondering, however, if it's possible to apply labels within MiniBridge? Right now I'm going through a huge batch of images, viewing thumbs and opening files via MiniBridge in PS, but having to revert to (full) Bridge to apply lables such as "approved" etc. which is rather silly.... it would be *great* if I could use shortcuts like CTRL-8 to apply labels directly within MB; please tell me I'm somehow overlooking this functionality?

I'm a bit late to the party, but you actually CAN rate and label in Mini Bridge. You have to be in one of the three preview modes "Slideshow", "Review Mode" or "Full Screen Preview". In those modes you can use the common keys 1-0 and alt/option+Backspace to rate, label and reject.
However, I would still love if those keyboard shortcuts were also available in Mini Bridge's thumbnail view. When inserting a bunch of images in InDesign I would like to hide those that are already in the document. labeling/rating and a filter would do the job, but having to go into a preview mode is a bit inconvenient.
A function that shows and filters by placement status in an InDesign document would be even more elegant. Would also be handy when working on a larger batch of images in Photoshop.
Thomas

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I am finishing a techical book with hundreds of images, so, you know what I am feeling.

Might be a bug - best to contact Apple directly so they can take a look, I think...
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How can I apply a label to multiple files through the visual interface? In other words, I want to select 3 files at once and then select the label option. I know I can click on the add button for the apply label dialogue but this can be very tedious if you are dealing with a large set of files. there has to be a way to do this right?
Thanks in advance . .

Let's see if I can describe this clearly. If I don't, do not hesitate to ask for clarification:
We have a parent folder Main that has production code. When a developer needs to work on a new project, he or she will branch a section of code to development folder and start working on it (if the same code files are there, there is no need to branch). to make sure we have a rollback option (in case things go wrong), the developer should be able to select a group of files and label them as labelproj1 old before he or she starts development. The way we do do development here is we have a rollback versions (we are still using VSS) based on previous pinnings if the project gets rolled back for whatever reason.
Selecting a group of files means we are only concerned with the files we modify. We don't want to select the code at the folder level because we are not modifying those files. We only concern ourselves with the files we modify for audit purposes.
does this clarify what I am looking for or do you need more clarification? Let me know and I wll be happy to clarify.

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I've upgraded from Bridge CS4 to CS5. It's been great, except for one thing: I can't seem to apply any labels of any kind to files.
Here's what happens: I select the files which I want to label and either use the keyboard shortcut or the menu bar to apply a label. Then, nothing changes. No color appears, and, if I go back to the menu bar, there aren't any check marks next to the labels that I've applied. Things that are labeled from CS4 appear as a white bar.
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Thanks for the link!
Even though I was pretty sure that I had all the permissions I needed, I went to the Get Info window for the root of the drive that my photos are on. I was owner and had r/w, but to be sure I did a Apply To Enclosed Items. This fixed things.
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[This is not a Windows-specific question, I hate to exclude Mac users from this answer, but there is no platform-neutral forum here]
In Photoshop CS3 and earlier, taking a layer, such as a label for a wine bottle or jar, wrapping it around a 3D cylinder and compositing it to an image (of the actual jar or bottle) was almost trivially easy.
Unfortunately, with the advanced 3D tools available in CS4+, the simplicity of the Wrap > Cylinder option seems to have been lost.
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SG... wrote:
Are you saying the work on Refine Edge which is new in CS5 needs re-re-architecting? ;-)
Heh, I sure am. Not that it isn't on its way. The Refine Edge in CS4 showed us where Photoshop was heading in terms of broadening its selection maniuplation toolset (ah, I remember the days of alpha channels + blur + levels + maximize / minimize). But we saw the (almost) disappearance of Extract Filter. Then its most powerful algorithm reappered in Refine Edge in CS5 and it was a Good Thing. Decontaminate Color alone is worth its weight in gold - that's a nifty little algorithm that saves us all time with the paintbrush manually un-pre-multiplying sub-pixel content.
But it still needs work - notably, it is one of the few tools yet that still feel "outside" the standard application workflow. It's its own dialog box (not a palette) and it's a one-shot, destructive effect. I appreciate that you can output to a separate layer, AND make your settings default. It still feels like it's stuck in a pre Smart Filters era.
Please note that I'm not complaining here, just pointing out that it can still get better, and mask manipulations (from my perspective, and that's only one, as the Photoshop userbase is one of the most diverse out there) are core functionality, whereas 3D is arguably not. Or let me put it this way: lots of apps do 3D, and most of them do it better than PS. But no other apps do selections better than PS and that's a fact. Play to your strengths is all I'm saying.
I'm interested in this combination above. You don't feel the additional 3D features in Ps is a good fit, and yet you're being proactive to address demand from students. What are their specific use cases, if any? Do they resist your guidance to try other shoes if the ones Ps provides don't fit? What points do your students raise for why they want/need to use Ps for 3D instead of developing a tool kit that includes full 3D modeling applications?
You're right, my comment warrants clarification. The demand from students is not for 3D functionality per se. The demand for students is that you teach them the latest and the greatest (regardless of what industry actually expects out of a graduate's skillset), because they saw it on Adobe TV, or they read about it in some product review. I spend 24 hours of class time on colour correction (and that's scratching the surface), but about 5 minutes on Content Aware Fill. And I wouldn't even touch it if it weren't for the inevitable savvy student that pipes up in class when I talk about the Clone Tool and says "but isn't that replaced by Content Aware Fill?". So you have to touch on it.
One of the strange new realities of teaching Photoshop post PS5.5 is telling students "just because it's in the menu doesn't mean you should use it." This was first true with things like magnetic lasso, or art history brush, or the spot healing brush tool (though very specific cases can be made for each of them - I'm aware of that) and the tradition now continues on with Content Aware Fill / Scale, Mini-Bridge (though I'm sure this is just a personal opinion, and a good case can be made for it in your workflow on a very fast computer), and IMO, 3D.
So I don't necessarily see a contradiction. Students who are fairly new to the industry are hungry for the "cool factor" (not to mention the "easy way out"), and it's a constant balancing act designing curriculum that emphasizes best practices, while still covering all the bells and whistles (with the appropriate cautionary tales). If I were still teaching Advanced Photoshop to PS pros and they were clamoring for more 3D, that would be a whole other story. I'll admit that I may be out of the loop there, though, which is why I am still eager to hear from you who you think the target demographic that wants true 3D in Photoshop is.
When I was teaching to pros, they were mostly pro Photographers (think Yuri Dojc) or Architects. I can certainly see the latter being curious about 3D in Photoshop, but those that are technical enough are now all versed in the Autodesk suite, so they would be doing texture generation and compositing in PS at most. Photographers are much less likely to be even remotely interested in 3D within Photoshop, but that's probably not the audience you were building it in for anyway.
Do you feel your advanced experience with SoftImage, 3DS, Maya is helpful to understand Ps's 3D features or does it get in the way? IOW, what benefits and hindrances do you note when trying to apply previous learning to the Ps 3D feature set? Or is it hard to answer at this point because you've been blocked due to crashing and performance issues?
Without a shadow of a doubt, my background was essential to being able to pick this up in PS without the manual. I think I would feel completely lost if I didn't have 10+ years of 3D modeling, texturing and animation behind me (note that I don't consider myself a pro in 3D - just an experienced amateur). Possibly even WITH the manual.
3D is a wonderful world full of really cool technical details that merge the artistic with physics. Photoshop has bitten off only one branch of that, namely shaders, but that is in itself a vast subject. The amount of background knowledge you need to have under your belt is vast - what's the difference between diffuse and ambient colour? what's a specular highlight, and how do you control glossiness? what's a "normal"? hell - what's a "lightsource", and what are their different modes?
I just covered the basics of 3D using repousse and height mapping the other day in a class of twenty-odd 20-30 year olds: I spent 2.5 hours with the students (we had a lot of fun mind you) and didn't even get to texturing at all. Not a single mention of maps, colour or anything. There's too much other material to cover - navigation, object-level vs mesh-level manipulations (ask me my opinion on the usability of your implementation of that feature some time, you'll have another page to read!), then TSR, then lightsources, camera views, ground planes, raytracing, merge 3D layers (you'll have to explain the logic behind having separate 3D "scenes" co-existing within the same document some time).
Bottom line: adding 3D to Photoshop seems like you've put a tiny little door in the bottom of the vast, vast world of Photoimaging. When you open that door and look through you discover that there's this other huge huge world of 3D modeling just on the other side. In order to make ANY use of the 3D features, such as they are now (as opposed to the previous incarnations - including Vanishing Point, which had some very interesting potential) you now have to jump into that world and start to get your bearings.
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You are almost certainly right. I need to get back to Chris on another thread and let him know that my drivers WERE, in fact, embarassingly out of date. Updating them didn't solve all my problems, but a few have gone away thankfully. I have yet to push the limits of 3D on my personal box again, but will certainly circle back with you if I notice some improvement.
Thanks Steve, always a pleasure talking about this stuff. I am about as passionnate a guy about Photoshop as you'll meet, but because I spend 90% of my time in industry using Photoshop as a production and creative tool (I only teach 1 day a week these days), you'll probably find I'm quite conservative. Heck, much of our agency is still running the full CS3 - there just hasn't been enough compelling reasons to upgrade across the entire organization yet.

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