Dear Adobe,
This is a very serious plea to add copyright info when using the "save for web" feature. Save for Web is one of Photoshops most valuable features but without the ability to at least save copyright info many of us can not use this. Is there a reason I am missing? After what has transpired in the last 24 hours with the Orphaned Works bill, this has become 100 times more important.
Thanks
Troy

PS Photographers, please add your feelings below and write adobe if you agree.

So, you want some arbitrary data added to every image? Why not just add a copyright notice yourself before saving for web?

If the copyright notice has been appended to the metadata, you can include it in every image by checking the appropriate box in the SFW dialog.

If you include your images in a Flash-driven Adobe Web gallery, it makes it harder (but not impossible) for people to grab them illicitly.

Ann is right, click the tiny arrow Troy (you really have to go in search of this on the Save for web preset pane) to reveal "include XMP". Pretty crude offering if you ask me. If Orphan Works passes, visual artists will need some kind of technology that embeds copyright and other XMP info into the image permanently. I have bitched about this for years...

Lonna:

Metadata in SFW is much easier to manage in CS4.

Lonna and others,
Thank you. That is absurd that is buried so far down but at least it is there. Thank you
Troy

Please make it easier to save your data to images that are saved for web. I am asking that Adobe make the default setting so that copyright information and contact information is included with the file.

With Orphan Works passing the Senate and possibly becoming law, it is critical for Adobe to change how images are saved to websites.

Thank you.

Cameron

Selecting those images in the bridge and adding the xmp to all of them is not practical for you?

It seems that a few people here are misunderstanding the audience of this forum. Make your feature requests directly to Adobe. This user to user forum is not the place to make feature requests.

Jim

Do you have a link to where one can make a request to Adobe? That would be helpful.

Wade,

Not everyone embraces or uses "Bridge." I don't. This is a serious issue and needs to be addressed by Adobe. Any image that was "saved for web" with the metadata stripped (by Photoshop, I might add) is open territory for someone to use the image under the new "Orphan Works" rules. (If they pass). Any user can "claim" that they had no way to find the creator of the image since their is no metadata attached to the image. Yes, Bridge is one way to do this, but it is another step in the process and why must Adobe by default, strip the data?

Thank you.