- Adobe Dynamic Media Classic Guide
- Best Practices Tutorial
- NEW Dynamic Media Classic sign in experience now available
- Dynamic Media Newsletter by Experience League
- Introducing Adobe Dynamic Media Classic
- Getting started
- Setup
- Media Portal
- System requirements
- Quick Start: Media Portal
- Media Portal user roles
- Creating and managing Media Portal groups
- Adding and managing Media Portal users
- Managing FTP accounts
- Specifying export options available to Media Portal users
- Creating and enabling Image Presets
- Making more efficient use of metadata
- Customizing the Media Portal screen
- Upload and publish assets
- Managing assets
- About managing assets
- Working with asset folders
- Viewing assets in the Browse panel
- Selecting assets in the Browse panel
- Searching assets
- Previewing an asset
- Moving, renaming, and deleting assets
- Working in Detail view
- Viewing, adding, and exporting metadata
- Exporting assets from Dynamic Media Classic
- Sharing asset changes with peers in real time
- Printing assets
- Managing the Trash folder
- Organizing your work with Projects
- Image sizing
- Zoom
- eCatalogs
- Image sets
- Swatch sets
- Spin sets
- Template basics
- Video
- Mixed media sets
- Adobe Analytics instrumentation kit
- Quick Start: Integrating Dynamic Media Classic with Adobe Analytics
- Log in to Adobe Analytics
- Configuring Adobe Analytics reports
- Instrumenting a viewer using the Adobe Analytics Instrumentation Kit
- Disabling Adobe Analytics tracking
- Testing the integration by viewing an Adobe Analytics report
- Enabling Adobe Analytics Video Reports
- Publishing Adobe Analytics configuration information
- Adobe Target Standard/Premium integration
- User-generated content
- Master files
- Best practices for optimizing the quality of your images
- Editing images
- Creating Image Maps
- Cropping an image
- Sharpening an image
- Adjusting an image
- Image editing options at upload
- Working with PDFs
- Working with PSD files
- Working with PostScript and Illustrator files
- Working with vignette, window covering, and cabinet files
- Support files
Working in Detail view
You can work with and learn about an asset by opening it in Detail view. In Detail view, you see the asset size, attributes, derivatives, and metadata. You also see whether and when the asset was published and obtain the URL of published assets. Depending on the asset type, you can preview it at different sizes, zoom in on it, and perform sharpening, cropping, and other formatting operations.
To open the folder where the asset is stored, you can click the folder path at the top of the Information panel.
Open an asset in Detail view
To closely examine, preview, or work on an asset, you can display it in Detail view.
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In the Browse Panel, do one of the following:
- Double-click the asset.
- Select the asset, then click Detail View.
- Select the asset, then click File > Details.
You can page from asset to asset in the same folder in Detail view by selecting the Previous Asset or Next Asset button. These buttons are located in the upper-right corner in Detail view.
Getting information in Detail view
Detail view provides information about an asset or file. It shows this information about an item: the folder where it is stored, its filename, the date the item was uploaded to Dynamic Media Classic, and its publishing history. You can also view and edit metadata and add keywords for an asset in Detail view.
You can obtain an asset URL in Detail view; however, the URL is not active until you publish the asset. For images, Detail view also provides a list of build and derived assets and metadata, such as zoom targets and Image Sets.
Working with assets in Detail view
Detail view offers tools for working with the asset you opened. Which tools are available depends on the type of asset you are working with, but Detail view always offers these functions:
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items for publish
Click the Publish icon to the left of the name, or click File > Publish or File > Unpublish. -
Renaming the asset
Select the name and enter a new name. -
Editing and adding metadata
Select the Metadata panel and make changes as desired. See Viewing, adding, and exporting metadata. -
Editing and adding keywords
Select Keywords and add or remove them as desired. See Add or edit keywords. -
Deleting the asset
Click File > Delete.
For discrete files—images, Image Sets, and fonts, for example—you can view the publishing and editing history, and check job details, in Detail view.
This table shows which additional options are available with different types of assets in Detail view.
| Asset type | Edit/adjust | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Images | Add Image Maps Add zoom targets Crop Sharpen Create adjusted views | Yes; Zoom and Image Presets. |
| Cabinet and window covering images | No | Thumbnail. |
| eCatalogs | Edit | Yes. Info Panel also available. |
| Fonts | Edit font information | No. |
| FXG files | Edit | Yes. |
| ICC profiles | Edit profile information | No. |
| Illustrator Files | No (unless converted to FXG) | No. |
| Image Sets | Edit | Yes. |
| InDesign files | No (unless converted to FXG) | No. |
| PDF files | No | No. |
| PSD files | Yes for individual layers | Yes for individual layers. |
| Spin sets | Edit | Yes. |
| SVG files | No | No. |
| Templates | Edit | Yes. |
| Videos | No | Yes. |
| Vignettes and rendered vignettes | No | Image is shown. You can view the contents and structure of the renderable elements of the vignette in XML format. |
| XML files | No | Contents are shown. |
| ZIP files | No | Contents are not shown. |