Comments in Library Mode- Adobe LightRoom Classic CC

[tunney moriarty]

I am on a 27 inch Mac running High Sierra. I have a subscription to Adobe for LightRoom and Photoshop. Both are up to-date. Can some please tell me how I can activate the comments area in the Metadata area on the right side of the panel at the very bottom of Library panel.I want to add a few comments for the photo and cannot seem to activate it to add comments. Below the Comments panel, it says “Comments not supported here” Thanks for your help….

Tunney

[JP Hess]

Use the "User comment" field in the exif data area. I have never solicited comments from people I have shared images with online. But I think that is what the other "Comments" field is for.

[tunney moriarty]

I thought it was for the creator of the image to put some remarks in about the photo. Sorry but I still cannot get it activated

Tunney

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[john beardsworth]

The Comments section is only for publish services (eg Flickr) and Lightroom Mobile comments. So for example, let's say you sync a collection of photos to Adobe's cloud and share that collection with me. In my browser I might make comments about some photos, and they will automatically appear in the Comments section. That's what the section is for.

[JP Hess · Accepted solution]

You can't activate it for your use. Go to the exif section and find the "User comment" input and use it. It will expand as you type in it.

[tunney moriarty]

Thank you

Tunney

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[defaultfhf02f3w6waa]

Hi,  thanks for the answer, hope you are still following the thread, what and where is the exif data section? 

[defaultfhf02f3w6waa]

Hi there, I just found it. (hurrah!)  on the library page.  Meta data.  to the left of the meta data word is a drop down menu option that usually says default, but if you click on the drop down, there are all kinds of things.  God knows what they do, but exif if there and the comment thing really does open up.

[OlaGarp]

Can anyone tell us how to activate the Comments section rather than telling us to use something else?

[richardplondon]

This panel cannot be 'activated' to enter local user comments, as may be mistakenly assumed. It does a completely different job than that.

This panel reports any incoming comments that other people may have left against an image, when they've viewed an online copy of that in a public website context.  

It only does anything anyway, when a trackable relationship exists between an image that's been sent out to an online gallery, and the Catalog's own instance of that same image. If that's not the case, also if you don't need to see such reporting of web-visitor comments, you can simply disable and ignore this whole panel.

As already explained here - in a genuine attempt to be helpful - the place where your local Catalog's info for a given image can be directly edited, including typing in your own local comments, is the Metadata panel.