Importing Scanned JPG Images
I am a film user. Having scanned negatives as Jpgs (good quality large files) I cannot import them into C1.
The import window doesn't even show them as present in the folder I've placed them into on the hard drive, even though they are actually there.
C1 is beginning to seriously annoy me, to the extent I'm thinking of ditching it altogether. I cannot figure it out.
Thank you for any help you may be able to give.
paul
The import window doesn't even show them as present in the folder I've placed them into on the hard drive, even though they are actually there.
C1 is beginning to seriously annoy me, to the extent I'm thinking of ditching it altogether. I cannot figure it out.
Thank you for any help you may be able to give.
paul
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Give us more information. C1 version, OS X version, session or catalog, and so on. It's easier to help if we know.
Don't you see them in the import window? Or in the image browser, browsing the folder you've chosen in your session (assuming you are using one)?
Make sure 'JPEG editing' is switched 'ON' in the 'Image' section of your 'Preferences'.
Regards,
Hans0 -
Hi,
I am on C1 8.2.1.5 & OSX 10.10.2
I do not see the images in the import window (in the import from box). When browsing through my System Folders they do not appear there either, even though they are actually there. 'Jpeg Editing' is switched on in 'Preferences' (System Folder just appeared one day, I don't know how that happened, whether I did something or it was automatic?)
I cannot tell you any more, I'm very new to C1 and every time I use it it drives me to despair. Beyond what I've described, I would know where to start. I cannot make head nor tail of it. Moving back to Aperture is becoming very, very tempting, it's so intuitive and user friendly.
Paul0 -
Paul,
If you have inadvertently started off with C1 in a strange direction it may indeed seem to become ever more strange ... but it really isn't although it may well be different to what you are used to.
You would not be the first Aperture user to find things frustrating but some of the regular converters who post on here and struggled to feel comfortable in their early days now seem to be quite comfortable with things. So you should have hope.
I would suggest stepping back, clear your mind of what you think you have already discovered and start again, maybe viewing a few of the online video tutorials to gain some initial orientation with the application.
There will be many aspects of Capture One that you will not need to know about (even if they look interesting) if your only input files are pre-scanned jpgs. (Did I understand that correctly?) Apart from file sizes are there any reasons why you would not scan to TIFF files? A good TIFF would give Capture One much more data to work with - especially if 16bit.
What is going on with your jpgs is a puzzle. Maybe a first step would be if you have an example that you could host on line somewhere so that a couple of people could download it and see what happens if they try to open it on their systems.
You could also make the same request of the C1 Support Team through a Support Case.
That should establish whether there is something fundamental about the file that means it is not recognised (or recognised and rejected as not compatible).
How have you scanned the originals? How big are the files in Mb terms? What or the dimensions of the files in pixel terms. All of these things can be factors here although from your description of "high quality jpgs" I would be a little surprised if that was the case - unless you are starting from a very large original analogue image.
I hope this helps in some way.
Grant0 -
CO is quit different from Aperture, I know. I tried a number of software packages when I switched from Linux to a more capable photographic software environment. LR, Aperture, and so on. I didn't like the look and feel of Aperture at all. And the results did not convince me either. People are different. 😄 But I use CO to create digital versions of my 120 b&w film images, too. I started shooting film just about a year ago. Including a very small darkroom.
If you are a bit confused by CO's way of working, there are a number of good tutorials by PO and others on youtube. At the end, it's pretty straight forward.
I'm not sure I understand your problem description correctly, so excuse me if I start troubleshooting at a lower level.
I suggest you start with a new, empty session. If you work with sessions (the window header shows 'something.cosessiondb'), you don't need to import a local folder. And you can easily import a session into a catalog later.
You should find your image folder walking the folder library tree. 'Folder' tab - 'Library' - 'System Folder'/<your home folder>/<some folder>/... . Select it, and CO will show the images in that folder.
Regards,
Hans0 -
The JPEG Editing setting in Preferences as mentioned earlier here is not crucial. Disabling the editing still allows you to see the JPEGs.
However, there is a Global Filters item in the View menu. It allows you to suppress certain file types. Check whether JPEG is always hidden. If it is not, hide it for a test and then reverse it again and test again.
Can you give us an estimation of the amount of pixels your JPEGs have? Size can be a limitation.
Do you perhaps have Photoshop? Opening the JPEG and saving in PS (just move one pixel to be able to save it) and next, open it in CO8.
Sorry for the hassle, we are just trying to help, but you know that of course. 😉0 -
Thank you everyone for your input. I will read all carefully and make every effort to not get more confused. Should I fnd success I will surely post again to thank you all properly. 0 -
Any news on this item. I'm facing exactly the same problem.
Cheers, Fons.0 -
I find that I have been able to successfully import and edit scans made with VueScan on my Epson V700 printer. Most of them using the Ekta Space PS 5 colorspace, copyright J. Holmes. The files are about 20MB tifs. The results were excellent.
Some older scans, perhaps made with my old Canon scanner, imported but were not editable. I have raised the issue with COP8 tech support and provided a sample.
This on an iMac running OSX 10.9.50 -
I have still the same issue: I cannot see and cannot import jpeg files from a film scanner (Fuji Frontier SP3000 Scanner).
These jpeg files could be easily imported into Aperture (3.5.1), Lightroom (5.7) and Photoshop Elements (11.0). Only Capture One Pro 8.3 is not able to import these files.
I checked the settings in the preference menu and in the view menu and all settings will show jpeg files (switching the settings off and on) will not change the situation.
This is very strange, since other programs handle the files without any problem.
I'm running a Mac OSX 10.9.5
Thanks,
Uwe0 -
Key information is missing in all posts: pixel dimensions of the file we talk about. 0 -
Here the data for one jpeg file, which could not imported:
Bits Per Sample 8
Color Components 1
Directory /Users/buero/Desktop
Encoding Process Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
File Access Date/Time 2015:06:06 11:01:25+02:00
File Inode Change Date/Time 2015:06:04 06:23:12+02:00
File Modification Date/Time 2015:06:03 22:00:01+02:00
File Name 000015.jpg
File Permissions rwxr-xr-x
File Size 3.0 MB
File Type JPEG
Image Height 2999
Image Width 4358
MIME Type image/jpeg
Composite
Image Size 4358x2999
ExifTool
ExifTool Version Number 9.18
JFIF
JFIF Version 1.01
Resolution Unit inches
X Resolution 96
Y Resolution 960 -
Uwe,
Is this a grey scale image?
Grant0 -
Grant,
yes, it is a grey scale image; scanning a Kodak BW 400 CN negative.
Uwe0 -
Hi Uwe,
I had a similar problem a while ago with scanned 24x36 colorslides. I could open the whole batch with "Preview" but no way to import in C1. Eventually I found a workaround with Preview: Loaded the whole batch (130 pics) -> select all -> export as .tiff to a new folder. From there I was able to import those tiff's into C1 and I didn't remark any quality issues ( well, with 30 years old scanned 24x36 slides you can't expect HQ pictures anyway.0 -
[quote="Uwe_Bayer" wrote:
Grant,
yes, it is a grey scale image; scanning a Kodak BW 400 CN negative.
Uwe
Grayscale images are not supported.0 -
[quote="NN635638260313156410UL" wrote:
Hi Uwe,
I had a similar problem a while ago with scanned 24x36 colorslides. I could open the whole batch with "Preview" but no way to import in C1. Eventually I found a workaround with Preview: Loaded the whole batch (130 pics) -> select all -> export as .tiff to a new folder. From there I was able to import those tiff's into C1 and I didn't remark any quality issues ( well, with 30 years old scanned 24x36 slides you can't expect HQ pictures anyway.
Hi, thanks for the hint. Unfortunately it is not working for grey scale jpeg image.
Regards, Uwe0 -
[quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
Grayscale images are not supported.
Paul, thanks for your explanation.
However, I found the possibility to import the jpeg files into Aperture or Lightroom and then exporting the files again as jpeg. These exported jpeg files can now be imported into Capture One Pro 8.3.
I hope, that this will be fixed in the future. Anyway, thanks to all for your help!
Uwe0
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