Kevin Sholder
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- Joined
- Apr 14, 2017
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- Location
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom v9.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I think that I've discovered what I consider a problem with these fields metadata fields within Lightroom / Photoshop. Let me preface this is the way I have my Lightroom options configured as below:
I've thought in the past the the "Automatically write changes into XMP within Lightroom "really does" write all changes into XMP fields.
I've recently found that this isn't always the case and am looking for someone else to validate this. The problem, when the "Caption" field has data in it all is fine. When the same image is opened within Photoshop the same data is present in the "Description" field. As shown below:
Lightroom Data
Photoshop Data
If I then delete the data from the "Caption" field within Lightroom, it is supposed to write that change to the file based on my understanding of the options above:
However when opening in Photoshop, the data is still there.
I can open this within Photoshop either inside of Lightroom or outside of Lightroom with the same results. There has been no development done on this image as it is purely an image that was exported from the master.
No comes the interesting part. If I CHANGE the data in the "Caption" field within Lightroom as such:
It shows the same data within Photoshop:
From what I've seen, if I totally remove the data from the "Caption" field within Lightroom, it DOES NOT remove the same data from the file, only from the display within Lightroom, because when the file is opened, the original data is still there. But when the data is CHANGED, it DOES update the data correctly in the "Description" field that is seen by Photoshop and other external applications that read XMP data.
Please let me know your thoughts and if someone is also able to replicate this issue.
Thanks and sorry for the long post,
Kevin
I've thought in the past the the "Automatically write changes into XMP within Lightroom "really does" write all changes into XMP fields.
I've recently found that this isn't always the case and am looking for someone else to validate this. The problem, when the "Caption" field has data in it all is fine. When the same image is opened within Photoshop the same data is present in the "Description" field. As shown below:
Lightroom Data
Photoshop Data
If I then delete the data from the "Caption" field within Lightroom, it is supposed to write that change to the file based on my understanding of the options above:
However when opening in Photoshop, the data is still there.
I can open this within Photoshop either inside of Lightroom or outside of Lightroom with the same results. There has been no development done on this image as it is purely an image that was exported from the master.
No comes the interesting part. If I CHANGE the data in the "Caption" field within Lightroom as such:
It shows the same data within Photoshop:
From what I've seen, if I totally remove the data from the "Caption" field within Lightroom, it DOES NOT remove the same data from the file, only from the display within Lightroom, because when the file is opened, the original data is still there. But when the data is CHANGED, it DOES update the data correctly in the "Description" field that is seen by Photoshop and other external applications that read XMP data.
Please let me know your thoughts and if someone is also able to replicate this issue.
Thanks and sorry for the long post,
Kevin