I finally had the chance to sit down with the latest issue of my favorite magazine Photoshop User. In this issue my Under the Loupe column covers how to control what metadata is included in your exported copies using Jeffrey’s Metadata Wrangler export plugin. This is the plugin you want to have in your toolkit if you want to have any level of control over what is or isn’t in your exported files.

Also in this issue … Matt Kloskowski covers how to set new raw defaults, Victoria Bampton has some great Lightroom tips, RC answers Lightroom questions and Sean McCormack has a kick butt feature article on sharpening. Oh, and there is all that Photoshop content in the beginning part of the magazine (kind of like the opening band for the headliner).

You will see under each of those options that “Lightroom adjustments will not be visible”, which means that Lightroom adjustments can only be applied when the image is flattened.

To apply Lightroom adjustments you have to choose “Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments”, which of course will result in a flattened version of the image with the adjustments applied.