Keeping a Log

[KevinStecyk]

The following site provides a series of steps to keep track of your changes during a session: Helen Bradley - Photoshop and Lightroom tips and techniques: Photoshop - keep a log of everything you've done I'd like to save a detailed text file, separate from the image metadata. My question is, is there a way to keep track of changes to individual files? Once I switch files, I'd like to start a new log. Can this readily be done? Am I missing something obvious? PS: If there are no paragraph breaks, I have no clue why that might be. I have spaces and breaks in the original post.

[MathewLodge]

Kevin,

The beauty of storing the history in the image metadata is that it keeps track of individual files by storing it in the original file... there's a great simplicity to this approach.

You'd need a Photoshop script to do what you want -- one that would pull out the history from the metadata and save it to a text file. It's doable, but you'd need to get it written.

[KevinStecyk]

Thank you Mathew. Writing elaborate scripts is biting off more than I want to chew. I was curious if there was an easy way to accomplish this task.