Tweaking Photoshop to Save your Metadata

Well, I learned something about Photoshop and metadata recently and thought I would share it with you. For some this little thing may be no big deal but if you're keen on preserving metadata across users and platforms, if providing lo-rez images for 3rd-party vendors or to scattered staff where the need to view metdata might be crucial, then this little tip may help.

Oh, and this predicated on the idea that you're using Photoshop in prepping images for the web.

If you "Save for the Web" in Photoshop (keyboard: Option+Command+Shift+S), on the right side of the large  dialog box, directly above the Color Table is a drop-down menu for metadata. I believe that by default it is set to "Copyright and Contact Info" but don't quote me on that. Anyway, whatever the setting I suggest you set this to "All." It will stay that way by default until you manually change it to something else.

If you don't make this adjustment then none of the metadata embedded in any image you run through this feature of PS4 will be saved. And that's a fact.

Forewarned is forearmed. (Click on the screenshot to enlarge.)