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JerryGust
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April 23, 2018
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When I exit Organizer, my captions disappear.

  • April 23, 2018
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I recently upgraded to Photoshop Elements 2018. I add captions in Organizer, and as long as I keep those photos in Organizer, the captions are there. However, when I delete the photos from Organizer, the captions disappear. Help !!!

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    K
    K-in-NC
    Inspiring
    May 13, 2018

    The exact same thing happened to me. Yesterday, I spent hours adding captions to hundreds of photos from a recent trip. Today I wanted to print some contact sheets, and found the captions are all gone -- every single one of them.

    WTF, Adobe?

    (For the record: I'm using PSE 2018 on a Windows 7 computer. I could add captions without difficulty with PSE 15. What I did yesterday was 1: Select several photos from a bunch I'd imported into Organizer. 2: Right-click and then pick "Add Caption to the Selected Items." 3: Typed the caption I wanted for all the selected photos into the box on the drop-down [whether or not I checked the "Replace Existing Captions" option doesn't matter, I just discovered]. 4: Looking at various photos singly yesterday, the caption appeared under "Information." Then, this morning, my careful work of hours is gone.)

    Anybody got any advice? Captions matter a lot to me when I print contact sheets as records and when I create slide shows.

    MichelBParis
    MichelBParis
    Legend
    May 13, 2018

    Keywords or captions are only kept in the catalog. You can 'write metadata to files' from the File menu (shortcut Ctrl W).

    K
    K-in-NC
    Inspiring
    May 13, 2018

    Thanks for the info.

    But this is something that needs to be made more explicit, ideally in the process of creating captions but at least in documentation. (I've never before encountered anything in any software where I have to take a second step to save something I've just typed into a box on the screen.)

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