Digital BW, The Print

Greetings,

I am looking for a place to store some info about some of the 
manipulations I have made on an image file. I am trying to clean up 
some of my image file names this way. I know that there is the "image 
info" dialog in PSCS2, but there doesn't seem to be a spot for history 
or general information. ie: whether I used noise reduction or 
presharpening etc. I thought there used to be such a place to describe 
changes that had been made on a file. Am I nuts? Surely graphics people 
must need this as well as photographers.

Thanks,

Scott

Hello Scott,

>I am looking for a place to store some info about some of the 
>manipulations I have made on an image file. I am trying to clean up 
>some of my image file names this way. I know that there is the 
>"image info" dialog in PSCS2, but there doesn't seem to be a spot 
>for history or general information. ie: whether I used noise
>reduction or presharpening etc. 

I use the Memo tool (I think that's what it's called) for exactly
that.  It puts a little yellow rectangle on the image (can be moved
around) which expands to a memo dialog box.  I put all sorts of
technical notes in them.

Regards,
Clayton


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http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

> From: Scott Jones
>
> I am looking for a place to store some info about some of the
> manipulations I have made on an image file. I am trying to clean up
> some of my image file names this way. I know that there is the "image
> info" dialog in PSCS2, but there doesn't seem to be a spot for history
> or general information. ie: whether I used noise reduction or
> presharpening etc. I thought there used to be such a place to describe
> changes that had been made on a file. Am I nuts? Surely graphics people
> must need this as well as photographers.

Under General Preferences, you can have it record all your actions as
metadata in the file. You have a choice of three different detail levels,
where the lowest is just the start and end time, and the highest is a
complete record including numeric settings for every tool used. That may be
more than you want, but at least it's completely automatic.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

> I use the Memo tool (I think that's what it's called) for exactly
> that.  It puts a little yellow rectangle on the image (can be moved
> around) which expands to a memo dialog box.  I put all sorts of
> technical notes in them.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton


Whoa thanks for this. I forgot that that tool exists. It is great and 
just what I needed. You can even stick that note off to the side of 
your image so it doesn't distract you. It is called the "notes" tool 
and apparently these notes get transferred if you make a pdf of your 
image as well. This is going to be handy for making indication as to 
what kind of sharpening or noise reduction I have used and any odd 
printing notes. Thanks for pointing this handy little bugger out!

Thanks to Paul DeRocco also for pointing out the history log feature.

Scott