Create Bridge metadata filter in CS3?

Is there a way to make CS3 Bridge allow you to filter on specific metadata, like the caption/description, or other fields?

I love the filter metadata feature but it's hurt by the limited values it allows you to filter. And outside of metadata I wish it would let me filter for images items I've cropped, too.

Thanks in advance!
-Bob

"just bob" wrote in message

Is there a way to make CS3 Bridge allow you to filter on specific metadata, like the caption/description, or other fields?

Yes. It's right there under Find, the the "criteria" dropdown menu. There's an option to search descriptions, keywords and other data, including "all metadata". If you want to search for cropped, and you know the dimensions, then search under dimensions, ortherwise include that data in the description or keyword fields. (You can write that data automatically through an action.)

It amazes me that it's not perfectly obvious to people.

"john" wrote in message

"just bob" wrote in message

Is there a way to make CS3 Bridge allow you to filter on specific metadata, like the caption/description, or other fields?

Yes. It's right there under Find, the the "criteria" dropdown menu. There's an option to search descriptions, keywords and other data, including "all metadata". If you want to search for cropped, and you know the dimensions, then search under dimensions, ortherwise include that data in the description or keyword fields. (You can write that data automatically through an action.)

It amazes me that it's not perfectly obvious to people.

If you right click in the thumbnail area
there is a SORT feature with many options, it flies out
even by color profile

Hi,

Thank you for showing me the advanced features of the Find command. I had no idea its potential and I'm sure I will use it in the future.

However it does not do what I want to do and I realize I should have been more specific: I need to, for example, see all the Descriptions used, and have the ability select multiple descriptions, in the Filter Panel like you can do with Keywords, Star ranking, ISO, camera serial numbers, etc. My wish is that the Filter criteria possibilities be expanded to allow you to filter on any IPTC field.

If you look at how they have given us option to add metadata fields to the Metadata Panel via Edit | Preferences | Metadata, I wish they would have added say a "Filters" section to the Preferences choices to allow us to choose which metadata we wanted to use as criteria for the Filter Panel.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks again,
-Bob

"john" wrote in message

"just bob" wrote in message

Is there a way to make CS3 Bridge allow you to filter on specific metadata, like the caption/description, or other fields?

Yes. It's right there under Find, the the "criteria" dropdown menu. There's an option to search descriptions, keywords and other data, including "all metadata". If you want to search for cropped, and you know the dimensions, then search under dimensions, ortherwise include that data in the description or keyword fields. (You can write that data automatically through an action.)

It amazes me that it's not perfectly obvious to people.