Help!! with Metadata

[Manta]

Okay - calling all Photoshop CS2 gurus out there. I've been wanting to use the history feature in the metadata dialogue to record all PP steps taken for a particular image. (Edit/Preferences/General - bottom of dialogue box Tick History Log and complete other details)

When viewing the metadata for the image (File/File Info...) I should be able to click on "History" in the left-hand list and see all steps relalting to that image. My problem is that with the metadata template that shows in my Photoshop CS2 program - I ain't got no "History" option in that list when I should have. All I've got is as shown in the screen capture below.

Any ideas how I can reset it to a default or somehow get the History option back? Second shot shows where it should reside (History is highlighted).

My options:



The options which should be there (courtesy of Leek):

[Matt. K]

Just had a quick look. The answer seems to be in the EDIT/PREFERENCES/GENERAL/HISTOGRAM menu....but I can't seem to get it working at the moment. I have to go out so will come back to it later. Meanwhile you might want to mess with these settings.

[big pix]

try resetting preferences in photoshop back to default

[big pix]

found........photoshot>edit>menus>scroll down to window>open, towards the bottom>histogram>turn on>OK..........

should work.....

[Manta]

No go Bernie. It's not actually a menu item, window or palette but part of the metadata template.



Hopefully Matt can come up with something. Anyone else have any ideas???

[Six]

Well going by your screen shots, you are looking at the metadata of a tiff file, and Leek has a psd file. It's possible that the tiff format doesn't allow storing this extra data, and that you need to use a psd file to store it.

[Manta]

Good point Six but I've tried it with PSDs, DNGs, TIFFs and JPEG. Same result. This TIFF just happened to be the one I was working with at the time I took the screen shot.

[Matt. K]

OK
I've got it working but I'm not sure why. Go to EDIT/PREFERENCE/GENERAL AND CLICK THE HISTORY LOG BOX. Check the text and metadata boxes. Restart the computer and it should now work. It worked for me but I'm not confident that it's the whole story.

[Manta]

Thanks Matt. I had all those ticked but I'll try it again with the restart when I get home this arvo. My gut feeling is that I've got a corrupt template file that is not giving me all the default options. Leek tried to send a copy of his for me to replace mine but couldn't as the file contained 0kb! Very strange.