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What file format are you saving to? You should be able to use edit/assign profile to apply the “don’t colour manage” option… There is a subtle difference indicated in the document title bar… Converting a untagged RGB to grayscale effectively tags the working grayscale to the image: If you then use edit/assign profile/don’t colour manage: Notice the # hash mark next to the bits per channel indicator? Also, the lower left area of the application has a readout where you can show colour profile, document sizes etc. With colour management off on an image, you should see this: You should be able to deselect the colour profile when saving the image… ... View more

Thank you SuperMerlin! I was thinking that perhaps line 18 in the hacked script was incorrect, however as you re-wrote the entire code I now suspect that I was way out of my depth! For future reference, the ExifTool code to remove Camera Raw Settings metadata is: Mac OS: exiftool -r -XMP-crs:all= 'os-path/to/file/or folder' Win OS: exiftool -r -XMP-crs:all= "os-path\to\file\or folder" ... View more

Do you mean “search” found in the upper right of the Bridge GUI, and if so, which option is selected as below: Otherwise, do you mean the Edit > Find command, and if so, what options are selected? ... View more

If you wish image specific replies – then you will need to post links to both images! ... View more

MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 and Acrobat Pro DC 2017.9.20058.234434 ... View more

Yes, I can confirm in Acrobat Pro DC. I quickly tested with the other RGB options and they did not appear to have the same problem, so you could use them instead (not ideal, but a work around). You can log the issue here: Feature Request/Bug Report Form ... View more

I almost wet myself, that was so incredibly good, Stephen !!! Wwwwwwow!   I cannot believe how much I will get done today.   I have thousands of snippets to apply this too.   I had been doing by hand for 2 weeks.  But now, now I am going to get a lunch break. A hundred thank you's, Stephen. Thanks for the thanks! It only takes me a couple of minutes or less to work out how to do this stuff in ExifTool, however when it comes to scripting it takes a lot longer (if I can even do it in the first place, usually I need to rely on the good will of others). So for personal use, I just use ExifTool. My contribution was very small, I can’t write script – however I can sometimes hack them. In this case it was just a matter or working out how to adjust the Perl regular expression syntax into JavaScript and making a few other minor changes. ... View more

Guys, it makes me think that a script such as this could also solve the nagging problem "There was an error writing metadata" in Bridge. For instance, if you wanted to classify certain Description fields to all carry the same comment, could that be done by using the string of words in the script and direct it to populate that field? This is what a metadata template is for. Tools > Create Metadata Template… Tools > Apply Metadata Template… Or you could just select multiple files and manually enter into the Bridge metadata panel. However it could be done with a script or ExifTool. As for the error, I have seen some files that needed to be re-saved in order for them to accept metadata, there was some minor corruption in the file that was blocking the writing of metadata. ... View more

Can you please illustrate using screen captures, such as found here: Prepression: Acrobat Pro – Preflight Fixup to Convert Black Tint to Solid Black ... View more

What about other apps, how do they display the same font? Cheap fonts can often have poor kerning tables, which may be another factor. ... View more

OK, I worked it out – the regex structure is a little different between Perl and JavaScript… anyway here it is, appending the filename without any extension or underscores to existing keywords (either IPTC:Keywords or DC:Subject). // https://forums.adobe.com/thread/656144 // https://forums.adobe.com/message/9744916 // https://forums.adobe.com/message/9745231 #target bridge addNametoMeta = {}; addNametoMeta.execute = function(){   var sels = app.document.selections;   for (var i = 0; i < sels.length; i++){ var md = sels.synchronousMetadata;     md.namespace = "http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/";     var Name = decodeURI(sels.name).replace(/\.[^\.]+$|_/g, ' '); //remove extension | remove underscores     md.Keywords = md.Keywords + ";" + Name;   } } if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge"){ var menu = MenuElement.create( "command", "Filename to Keywords - Removing Underscore", "at the end of Tools");   menu.onSelect = addNametoMeta.execute; } Quit Bridge. When you copy the 18 lines of source code, ensure that any quotes are straight and not curly. Save from a plain text editor or ExtendScript Toolkit with a .jsx extension and place in your Bridge Startup Scripts folder (use the preferences menu, startup scripts – reveal startup scripts). Then restart Bridge, enabling the script when prompted. Then select the files and go to the Tools menu and look for “Filename to Keywords - Removing Underscore”. ... View more

I can do this with the command line interface driven ExifTool using a regular expression search with a replace using a word space… As a start, the code to enter into Terminal.app on the Mac OS would be: exiftool -r -overwrite_original '-subject<${filename;s/\.[^\.]+$|_/ /g}' 'PATHtoFILEorDIRECTORY' While for MS Windows Command Prompt: exiftool -r -overwrite_original "-subject<${filename;s/\.[^\.]+$|_/ /g}" "PATHtoFILEorDIRECTORY" Use at your own risk – work on copies of the original files for testing. Note: I am not 100% happy with the regex search pattern, as it leaves a trailing white space where the filename extension used to be (however that may not be the end of the world and I’ll try to fix that up if I can). P.S. I have only had partial success hacking a Bridge script, the regular expression in JavaScript appears to be a little bit different with the /g global option and I don’t now scripting, so bluffing my way through is not working! ... View more

Try resetting your preferences, I’m out of ideas for now! ... View more

Look under Edit > Menus: ... View more

Enfocus PitStop Pro (plug-in for Acrobat Pro) correctly reports the resolution. ... View more

Select your files in Bridge, then use Tools > Merge to HDR Pro or Bridge, Tools > Load Files into Photoshop Layers… then target/select all the layers and convert to smart object, then use Smart Object Stack Mode and play around (probably using mean, median etc). or Use third party exposure blending software, such as “Enfuse”. ... View more

Not all file formats accept metadata and Adobe apps can only write metadata to certain files. What is the file extension of the files that you can’t label or rate? Can you add keywords or other metadata to any of these files? ... View more

Can you post a download link to a DNG that has not been edited, straight off the camera? I may be wrong, however looking at some OEM samples with ExifTool, I don’t believe that there is any metadata that can be removed using ExifTool that will create a different result in ACR/Lightroom vs. other software (i.e. this is how Adobe have designed and hard coded their raw converter to behave). Or perhaps it is just that ExifTool does not see this data and the tools such as DNG Cleaner do. This is not unique to this camera make/model, I have seen similar reported with other cameras where there are more pixels available to other softwar. ... View more

It of course depends on the catalogue and image, however for many catalogue “product shot” images that “have a white background” it can be better to have a minimum highlight dot of say 3-5% for any large white areas in the image, leaving 0% for “specular” whites, chrome reflections, light sources etc. This provides a natural “border” around the catalogue image, which is helpful if the layout has a grid type layout. The image does not “disappear” off into the page. However if there are frames/borders around the images, then they are obviously “self contained”. ... View more

JJMack, my “understanding” is: Create a script to cycle through a red, green, blue layered file. The script should perform a lookup from a .CSV file matching the “Fidget Spinner Color” column value to the appropriate layer name to switch on visibility and save out a new file with the name found in the “File Naming” column for that colour. If this was only 18 files, this could have easily be done manually in less than 5 minutes, so I’m guessing that this is either an ongoing requirement or the list is actually a lot longer than 18 files. ... View more

Hi JJMack, I guess these are valid concerns if you did not test the script against the sample filenames, however simply testing the OP’s filenames with the script appears to work with the criteria that the filename with/without extension contains the following key values in bold+red: ADE-4LP.jpg | DBA-3P.jpg | EFC-1P.jpg As I originally mentioned and as you say, it is going to be one condition at a time and not a list, so potentially many batches if there are many different codes in the file names. It is not a completely automated solution, however it is semi-automated and an “out of the box” solution that does not require any scripting knowledge by the end user. The project would be easily completed using this script long before the time that it took to learn scripting, find another free script to fully automate or wait on the good graces of another user to write a custom script. P.S. As the notes at the original site suggest, a save step should also be included in the action being run. ... View more