Adding notes in Photoshop - DPChallenge Forums

04/07/2011 06:38:31 PM · #1

Now that I play with all these nifty plugins (Nik, for example), I don't have a handy list of steps like I do when I use just Photoshop, where I have it set to record my steps, and I can view those steps in Bridge. So is there a way to add notes manually so I can note what plugin option I used and what settings? Better yet, is there a way to set Nik to record which option I used? I really need to make sure that I make full sized edits... but I don't, then I go back and want something full-sized (for all the gallery showings, you know!) and I can't remember how I got there.

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

04/07/2011 09:07:13 PM · #2

Anyone? I could resort to pen and paper, but the cats keep taking the pens...

LevT

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04/07/2011 09:16:10 PM · #3

It's not exactly what you want I guess, but in Nik plugins, you can save what you did to a photo in a "custom preset", and reuse later.

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

04/07/2011 09:46:24 PM · #4

True, but I'd still need to know what preset went onto which photo. That's the kind of information I'm looking for. I will sometimes name the file with the preset used - ie Nik HDR BasStr, but the file names get kinda long that way. And sometimes I tweak those presets.

I guess pen and paper are the order of the day. With all this expensive software, I just figured there would be a better way!

LevT

OM System OM-1

04/07/2011 09:53:41 PM · #5

you could save presets for each file you are editing and call them by your filenames... but before long it will be an awful lot of presets :)

to handle this preset crowding you could move the "one-time" custom preset files out of Nik presets directory to a separate directory where you can store them for future use. When you need to re-edit, you find the preset file with the corresponding filename in that directory, move it back into Nik preset directory, and voila.

Message edited by author 2011-04-07 21:57:49.

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04/07/2011 09:56:02 PM · #6

Click on the flyout for the eyedropper tool, and there's an "add note" tool; you can attach notes to any PS file, at least in CS3 onwards. Problem solved!

R.