Will captions from Photoshop Elements Organizer carry over to Lightroom?
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I’ve added captions to about 23,000 photos in Photoshop Elements 10 Organizer and I’m considering moving to Lightroom. Will those captions be preserved when I migrate? I want to know whether Lightroom can read them from the files, rather than only from the Elements catalog/database.
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You are confusing a type of data with a storage location.
Metadata is "data about data." The picture information is your data, the caption is metadata.
Metadata such as captions can be saved in one of three locations- part of the photo file itself, in a secondary, linked (sidecar) file, or in either a system-level or application-level database. Which one(s) are used depends on the file type and application settings.
As an example, a JPEG file would typically store metadata in the file itself and/or a database. But a RAW file would store metadata in a sidecar file and/or a database.
Check the Elements and Lightroom documentation to see how to control where metadata is stored.
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Yes—if your captions were written as metadata that Lightroom can read, they should carry over. Captions are metadata, and metadata may be stored in:
- the photo file itself
- a sidecar file (common with RAW files)
- an application/database catalog
If the captions exist only in the Elements Organizer database, Lightroom may not see them. If Elements wrote them into the files’ metadata or sidecars, Lightroom should preserve/read them.
A practical test is to export or copy one photo, import it into Lightroom, and check the Library/Metadata panel for the caption or description. If it appears there, your captions are stored in a Lightroom-readable way.
Lightroom can also import or upgrade some Elements catalogs, which may help preserve metadata, but the key issue is where Elements stored the captions in your current setup.
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