If you’re like us, you’ve got way too many images floating around on various disks, and finding the right image at the right time can be a hassle. Fortunately, Adobe Photoshop has made this process a giant step easier with the File Browser window, which acts like an Open dialog box on steroids . You can browse through the images on your disk, create folders, move images in and out of folders, rename files, or even delete images from disk.
You can also tell the File Browser to rotate images. In this case, the image on disk isn’t actually changed. Instead, the File Browser itself remembers to rotate the image as soon as you open it inside Photoshop. You can select more than one image at a time in the File Browser window by Shift-clicking (for contiguous selections) or Command-clicking (for selections that aren’t next to each other).
Turn Each Way. To flag one or more selected images for rotation, click on the Rotate button in the lower-right corner of the File Browser window. Each click rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise. If you want to rotate counter-clockwise, Option-click the button. You can also rotate an image by Control-clicking (Mac) or right-button-clicking (Windows) on an it and selecting Rotate from the context-sensitive menu.
Rank and File. You can change a file’s name by clicking on it in the File Browser (or select the image and press Enter). This actually changes the file name on disk. You can also change a file’s Rank by clicking in the Rank area (which is only visible when you have the File Browser set to “Large with Rank” view). Rank is simply an additional way of ordering images. For instance, if you take five snapshots of a model, you can rank them in the order of preference for easy reference later. Then, to view all the “A” ranked images, you could select Rank from the Sort By popup menu at the bottom of the File Browser window.
Note that you can jump from one file name field to the next by typing Tab (or back to the previous file name field with Shift-Tab). Similarly, if you’re editing a Rank field, you can jump the next or previous image’s Rank field with Tab or Shift-Tab.