MacOS Tahoe 26.4.1, M2 Mini.
I searched in Applications for “Photoshop” and “Adobe” and the result was a list of 150+ files, mostly jpegs, but no files with either word in the name. I checked the Info panel on several files to see if either word was embedded anywhere there but found no reference to the search terms anywhere.
Here’s a screenshot of one attempt:
Anyone have any idea what’s going on?
Spotlight indexes the contents of files. The Graphic Converter User’s Manual that you have highlighted certainly mentions Photoshop a number of times in the text. If the JPEGs were created or modified with Photoshop, then it will say so in the metadata.
You can see for yourself: since you obviously have Graphic Converter, open any of the JPEGs with that. Choose Window > Show Information. Select the EXIF tab. I’ll bet you will find a line that says something like, “Software: Adobe Photoshop”.
Yup, that’s the case. I suspected as much but didn’t know how to view the metadata so I tried the Information panel. Graphic Converter made it easy to see.
Thanks.
The Information panel in Preview will also show you the metadata. When I open a Nikon raw image in Lightroom and export a JPG, it does mention somewhere in the JPG metadata that Lightroom was used.
