The best way to quickly select, star and discard my shots

Michele Filannino

• 10. November 2019 10:16

Hi guys,

is there any way I can visualise my shots in small previews, so that I can easily star, discard, select my shots? In Lightroom I used to do it in the gallery/preview mode (with dark background) using X (to be deleted), P (picked) and 1-5 (for stars).

How do you quickly go through your shots in Capture One Pro?

Thanks a lot,
Michele.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 10. November 2019 16:03

  If you hide the viewer and tools you'll end up with a full screen browser. You can enlarge your previews with the browser dedicated zoom buttons. You can then scroll through your pictures and rate, label and delete with keyboard shortcuts. Regarding the latter action, I usually assign a red label to pictures I want to delete to filter, check out and delete them later all at once. You can also use the loupe tool in browser to inspect an image at 100% if you need to.
  You didn't say if you're on Windows or Mac so look for the keyboard commands of you're system.

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  Ian Wilson

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  • 10. November 2019 17:14

  

  The trouble is that the thumbnails you see in the browser are at a VERY low resolution. So if you want to see them large enough to check sharpness etc, you will be disappointed. What some people suggest is to work in sets of say four or six images at a time (depending on your screen size and resolution). So you could select say 4 images and look at them in the Viewer (with the multi-view option on so that you see all four at once). If you choose Select>Next set you can then move on to the next four, and the next four and so on. In the default keyboard shortcuts for a Mac that's Alt+right arrow. On Windows, looking at the Select menu would tell you what the equivalent is. That makes it really quick to go through a few at a time at a much better resolution than zooming up the thumbnails.
  
  Ian

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 10. November 2019 18:53

  Ian3 wrote:
  The trouble is that the thumbnails you see in the browser are at a VERY low resolution. So if you want to see them large enough to check sharpness etc, you will be disappointed. What some people suggest is to work in sets of say four or six images at a time (depending on your screen size and resolution). So you could select say 4 images and look at them in the Viewer (with the multi-view option on so that you see all four at once). If you choose Select>Next set you can then move on to the next four, and the next four and so on. In the default keyboard shortcuts for a Mac that's Alt+right arrow. On Windows, looking at the Select menu would tell you what the equivalent is. That makes it really quick to go through a few at a time at a much better resolution than zooming up the thumbnails.
  
  Ian

  
  
  You're right. That's why I talked about the loupe tool, 'cause I don't think that low resolution previews would be good to really inspect a picture and check focus (even though focus mask is shown over them too) and actually what you suggested is what I do myself, but it's not always very fast. With this method I use a sort of multi-step filtering and rating approach, especially if I need to compare non adjacent pictures. However a full-screen browser approach could not be completely ineffective. I think it could be useful for a first very fast screening of pictures, at least to delete the evident wrong ones and give a preliminary rough rate to those looking better (it depends on your rating strategy. I use to rely on Peter Krogh's method) or organize and label them in some way. For example to divide them in albums and smart albums (through the use of rate and most of all labels). In my case I'm used to immediately color tag those pictures that need to be stitched together into a panorama, so I'm sure not to forget any and I know later the ones I need to copy adjustments to .

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  SFA

  • 10. November 2019 20:00

  Use the browser with the thumbnails zoomed large and have the Focus Tool open on screen somewhere for those images where a finer decision point is required?

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