If you do not turn this switch on, then your Metadata, including your Develop Module improvements, will not be written into your image files until you manually invoke Lightroom to “Save Metadata to File”. Think of this as if it were a constant “save my work right now” option! This option in Adobe’s menu should have been called “Auto-Save.” If you turn this option ON then all of your metadata, including your Develop Module changes, will be automatically written into your images. If you are new to this program, then I strongly recommend turning on the Automatically Write Changes Into XMP option. You can set Adobe Photoshop Lightroom so that all of your work is automatically, and continuously, saved for you into your image files and also stored within your Lightroom Catalog (.lrcat) file by turning on the Automatically Write Changes Into XMP Catalog Settings preference switch.You can choose to save your work within your actual images when you manually trigger the Save Metadata to File Command while still keeping a copy of your work within your Lightroom Catalog (.lrcat) file.You can choose to save your work only at the Lightroom Catalog level (not recommended).Unlike most other programs, with Lightroom you have three choices determining when and where your work is saved. Telling Lightroom to save your changesĪdobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic lets you decide when to save your work.
Essential organizational features like your copyright info, keywords, star ratings, and colored labels are all Metadata annotations. Almost all of the descriptive information that you can add to your images in Lightroom’s Library and Map Modules are also types of Metadata.
But the importance of Metadata goes way beyond just the Develop Module. Needless to say, the Develop Module instructions (Metadata) are very important because they represent all of the changes that you have made to your image’s appearance within Lightroom Classic. These instructions can also be written into your image files themselves as Metadata. These instructions tell Lightroom to show the photo brighter or the colors more saturated (as examples), and this data is stored in the Lightroom Catalog file. Every time you move a slider in Lightroom and make a change to the appearance of a photo, Lightroom is simply assigning a new set of instructions to that file behind the scenes.
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