Old Copyright info showing in new portfolio

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 3, 2022
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So I made an Adobe portfolio with intergration of some lightroom albums.

I have a lot of photo's taken with a camera from someone else, so there was a wrong Copyright name in the metadata. Immedeately after importing the photo's into Lightroom CC (web-based, windows 10) I edited it into my name and looked good. Exporting from Lightroom gave me the expected result.

But now when I download a photo from my portfolio site, the old copyright info is back in the metadata. This looks like a major bug to me. Any ideas how to get rid of the old copyrightinfo?

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Jelke PiterAuthor

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Yes, as a matter of fact I created the portfolio months after editing the copyright.

The update procedure is also such a pain... I have around 300 albums for every birdpecies in the Netherlands and when I'm back from a field trip, I can update an average of 30 albums, one by one...

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

How are you downloading from Portfolio? As far as I know, the Adobe Portfolio app does not have a download function, so I'm curious to know how you are doing that.

Are you by chance using the right-click>Copy Image function? If so, you need to be aware that using right-click>Copy Image is not an Adobe function, instead it's a browser function which merely copies the displayed image, which is actually only a low-res preview of the original file. It does not "export" a Jpeg derivative, complete with metadata, from the original image.

Digging a little deeper, it would seem that those low-res previews which you see in Portfolio will not include any embedded metadata or any related metadata stored in the catalog, with the exception of any embedded Copyright information. What this means is that, assuming you are indeed using the right-click>Copy Image browser function, when you previously edited the copyright in those images that change would have been stored only in the catalog and did not overwrite the previously embedded copyright entries. Unlike Lightroom Classic, which has the ability to save metadata to the XMP section of the original file header, none of the Lightroom apps has that option so any subsequent metadata changes are stored only in the catalog database. That would then explain why the Portfolio previews, if copied to disk via the right-click option, would only include that pre-existing copyright data and not contain the changes that you made,

Jelke PiterAuthor

Participant

Thanks for looking into this. Indeed the right-click download was used.

A bit late of a response, but I stopped using portfolio that way because of this bug.

If it doesn't show all of your edits in the portfolio it's pretty useless in my opinion.

Not sure if anything has changed in the last two years.

I still use the portfolio as a webhost though but I don't use the intergrations anymore, I just made some shared albums in LR and made hyperlinks to them in Portfolio. Not the best looking option but it's alright and it saves me from updating the intergrations all the time.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

After you edited the copyright name in the Lightroom app, did you refresh the portfolio site from Lightroom? Changes you make in Lightroom do not automatically sync to your Portfolio site, you have to refresh the data manually.

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