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karenv24081015
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January 30, 2017
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Photoshop Elements 15 changes metadata in set of ancestor photos

  • January 30, 2017
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I have a collection of ancestor pictures in TIF file format with metadata specified with Title, Subject, Comments, Copyright, and Tags.  I can see the metadata fine within Windows Explorer by viewing Properties and the Details tab.  However, if I use PSE 15 editor to open one of the photos and save it with another file name, PSE retains only the Title, Copyright, and Tags.  It wipes out the Comments altogether and overwrites the Subject with a duplicate of the Title info!  Is there some setting I can use to retain ALL of the previous metadata, or did I do something wrong?  I definitely want to use the PSE editor to clean up the photos, add canvas/captions, and create jpg files for sharing, but this has brought a halt to my project.  Any suggestions?

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    MichelBParis
    MichelBParis
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    January 31, 2017

    I very much doubt you'll get a satisfactory answer in the present forum. There are so many problems about metadata standards, Exif, IPTC !

    You might try asking the question in the feedback forum where experts like John R Ellis do help with such issues.

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    Anyway, before that, please state how and where do you manage your metadata (exif and IPTC). In the editor, from the menu 'File >> File Info...' you get the full form to enter IPTC data, with links to the standards (subjects for instance, Subject Codes - IPTC ​)

    In the organizer, you can open a similar dialog for the IPTC in the Information panel.

    - in the Metadata, select the IPTC section. Click on the small icon to see the advanced view and you can get the 'Edit IPTC information' dialog with the main IPTC fields.

    The dialog in the editor lets you change and save the full set for a single file.

    The dialog in the organizer lets you change, edit or delete those data for many selected files and saves them to the files themselves without any change in the catalog database itself.

    The general procedure for non pro photographers is to use the  commonly used data fields: keywords and captions/notes. That's what is stored in the catalog only until you 'write metadata to files' (shortcut Ctrl W).

    So my question is: how do you manage metadata in Elements? editor or organizer? keywords/captions or IPTC panel? Do you create version sets?

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    karenv24081015Author
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    January 31, 2017

    Thanks for your response.  To answer your question, the metadata was created outside of Elements in Windows Explorer (right click on the file, display Properties, go to the Detail tab.)  This is commonly done in the Genealogy community.  The mere act of opening the photo in Elements editor and saving as a new file name wiped out the Comments and overwrote the Subject field.  This means I will have to be very careful to inspect and capture all metadata in any photos I receive before using Elements editor.

    I will post my question to the Feedback Forum as you suggested.  Thank you!

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