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Is there a way I can set up a Hazel to import certain metadata into the metadata section of a Photoshop .tif, .psd, or .jpg file when it is added to a folder? So if the file is opened in Photoshop and a "get file info" would show it?

I'm guessing a script is needed with some program that knows the specifics of those file formats. OS X does come with 'tiffutil' which may be of some use for tiff files.

That sounds a bit too deep for my brain.

This might help: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Applescript-users/2011/Apr/msg00176.html

Oh, and this one http://www.yourscriptdoctor.com/automating-adobe-indesign-cc-2015/working-with-image-metadata beginning midway down the page under the "Photoshop to the Rescue" subhead. I'm not a programmer (I mostly copy and paste others' Applescripts I find), but that doesn't look too difficult to me.

Wow, still too much for this brain. All I want to do is have it insert into the metadata of the file our business info, so if somebody else opens the file, they will see where it came from.

Ok. Then forget about Hazel for that use. Instead, use Adobe Bridge. You can select any number of files and use Bridge's Metadata panel to add/edit the metadata in all of them in one go. You can also save a metadata template (containing all the data) from the Photoshop XMP dialog and use Bridge to batch apply that template to a batch of files.

Yes, that is what I want to do, but I want it to happen in the background watching a hot folder.

I can certainly understand why that would be useful. There are a number of ways to do that, but I think they're all outside your comfort zone. Were I you, I'd ask around the Adobe Bridge https://forums.adobe.com/community/bridge and Photoshop https://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop forums. What you want can easily be done with Applescript, Javascript, and/or Automator. Hazel might be able to trigger the action, but only by using an Applescript, Javascript, or Automator workflow.

Something else just occurred to me. Have you tried building an action in Photoshop and turning that into a droplet? You could either drag your images onto the droplet en masse in lieu of sending them to a hot folder, or possibly configure Hazel to watch a folder and send those images through the droplet.