history log in file info?

[laris99]

I've just started using photo editor in Elements 2024.  The online User Guide says that "Photoshop Elements automatically keeps track of the file’s edit history and adds this information to the file’s metadata".    When can I see this information?   In Photoshop, there's a history log in File Info that shows all the edits that were done to the image and that remains even after you close the file.   But when I go into File Info in Elements, it looks like there's a 'history' section there but it's empty.    Is there someplace I can see the file's edit history even after I save and close the file?  (To be clear, I do not mean the History panel that opens along the right side of the window so you can undo recent edits.)  Thanks for any information.

(I'm using windows 11 if that matters.)

[Glenn 8675309]

No, edit history is only seen for current open documents.  Once the document / Image is closed the edit history gets flushed.

I am not aware of any plugin that records and keeps the edit history for photoshop elements. 

You can always take a look at this:  Lots of folks like it.  https://elementsplus.net/

I know of a couple of people who made screenshots of their edit history when they were doing "complicated" edits.

[laris99]

Thanks very much for the information and the suggestion of elementsplus. Elements looks pretty useful otherwise, but I'll take a look at that anyway.  

[Greg_S.]

As far as I know, the only place you can see the Edit History is in the Information Panel of the Organizer. 

I have no idea what the Editor's User Guide is referring to and I see no information entry in the Organizer's Metadata (Complete)  tab.

There are no options to preserve a History Log in Elements like there is in the full Photoshop CC.   Since a history log is of more use to a professional editor, I don't think it has ever been part of Elements.  I'm guessing that the entry in the User Manual was a copy and paste job from Photoshop and I don't recall anyone ever mentioning it before your post.  So, it has been preserved without comment for many years. 

[laris99]

Thanks very much for the information and the images.  At least now I know it's not there and I can stop looking for it!