Match Look question
I'm currently evaluating v16.5.1.14 and am a bit puzzled by Match Look. I'm primarily a bird/nature/landscape photographer and am running v16.5 on a Mac Studio running macOS Sonoma. I've now tried Match Look on a good number of bird image sets and landscape sets, where "set" is a group of very similar compositions of the same subject. Example: different poses of an individual bird against one setting, or different compositions of the same landscape.
Here's what I don't understand. I adjust one or more image to look as I wish, drop the adjusted image(s) into the Match Look reference box, and then apply the "look" to a set of new images. So far so good. Yesterday I got curious and dragged a series of images that had been adjusted with Match Look into the reference box. I then applied the "look" to the images I'd originally used as reference. I'm surprised that the "original reference look" was modified with the "new reference look" (I'd expected no changes). I've now repeated this about a dozen times with very different sets of images.
In other words, 4 originals used for a "reference look" applied to 4 other images get the "look" C1 thought was right. Then use the other 4 as a reference for the original 4 and a new look happens. Repeat this using just the two sets of 4 images and each time, the original reference gets changed. Changes are visible in exposure, HDR, and color temp variables. It doesn't matter how many images I use as a reference.
My question: Is this expected? If so, why does the calculated "look" seem variable when the same images are used, and regardless of how many images are used as a reference?
I've also been disappointed (but not surprised) that facial recognition masking doesn't work on birds/animal eyes even when both eyes are very prominantly visible. I assume C1 needs more than just eye shape to ID them, whereas I was hoping that it worked like eye tracking in my Canon R5 cameras. One can hope, right?
Thanks for any insight on Match Look!
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Hey !
I noticed the exact same. For me, the "match look" does not work on my images (mainly event / landscape). I would consider "Match Look" as a really wonderful / game changer feature which is to be finalised.
Even on similar motive, match look is way off (events).
For now, I disabled it.
Cheers
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Nicolas Det - presumably there is no need to disable it. If the toll doesn't work for your images, just don't use it.
Ian
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I've been exploring the tool much more since my post. First thing I learned: it only works on flat images. While apparently Capture One says that it doesn't work on layers, I'd assumed that with a layered image, Match Look would look at the net image, as opposed to the Image layer only. Sadly, the latter seems to be the case. Learning that, I've started exporting JPEGs of images I like and using them as the 'Look' reference. That works much better, but is still quite inconsistent. It works exceptionally well with some kinds of landscapes (forests), and not others (snowy scenes, water). It works reasonably well for some wildlife, but is pretty inconsistent there as well. I'm finding that Match Look often adds excessive contrast (to my eye) than works for most images, and it does so with more than simple contrast adjustments.
Sometimes I can adjust the Match Look result by adding and adjusting a filled layer, but other times Match Look leaves me with about the same amount of work as I had without Match Look. My best guess is that it was designed primarily for portrait/people sequences and the kinds of bird/wildlife/nature/landscape images I shoot are hit-and-miss. I've got another 2 weeks to my eval copy and I'm on the fence about purchasing.
You're right, Ian: If the tool doesn't work for someone, it doesn't need to be used, nor does it need to appear in a tool tab.
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