The Adjustments Clipboard is one of Capture One's most versatile and powerful tools allowing to select particular adjustments from various tools as well as Layers (which usually comprise a set of adjustments from different tools) to be copied to other images. The Adjustments Clipboard can be used to create User Presets and User Styles for the ultimate control over the look of your images.
Located in the Adjustments tab, the Adjustments Clipboard comprises the settings for all the adjustment tools applied to an image as a group are stored when the Copy and Apply Adjustments command is used. As it encompasses all the adjustments made In Capture One, this is the clipboard that is used when any of the various Copy and Apply commands are chosen.
The commands can be selected from the tool itself. The shortcuts are in the main toolbar (slanted arrow icons) or in the Adjustments main menu.
You can use the Adjustments Clipboard in different ways depending on your workflow and whether you want to apply the adjustments to just one image or multiple images.
When you want to apply adjustments to one or more images quickly, whether that is just a couple of settings or a group, ensure that the Edit Selected Variants option is already enabled (go to Image -> Edit All Selected Variants in the main menu or make sure that the Edit All Selected icon in the Toolbar is orange-colored).
If you are not sure which images the adjustments will be copied to or in case you have not enabled the Edit Selected Variants option before pressing Copy, then make a selection of images once again (each of the selected images will have a white border in the Browser), enable the Edit Selected Variants option, and then press Apply.
When you want to apply adjustments just to one image only, press Copy, select the particular image, and then press Apply.
The Adjustments Clipboard oversees each of the individual tools’ local copy and applies clipboards. Those can be used either independently or all together. For example, if you want to copy an orientation change between images, then this can be overridden by manually enabling it in the Adjustments Clipboard before selecting the Apply command.
Learn more about the Adjustment Clipboard in the following article:
Copy and Apply adjustments and layers
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For whatever reason, when I make adjustments including a rating for the image and press copy, all of the adjustments will apply to the next image, but the rating will not. I have to admit that the interface for the adjustments clipboard seems very easy to use but it's not as simple as clicking the items you want to use on the next set of images and applying those selected.
I would just love to have the adjustments SHOW UP in the Adjustments Clipboard. I'm using the latest Capture One Pro for Sony on MacOS (Catalina) on a MacBook Pro 16" fully spec-ed out and Capture One Pro is just impossible for me to figure this out. I read Lily's posts and I always have NOTHING show up in the Adjustments Clipboard.
I take an original image (primary variant). I make two new variants. I have three images exactly the same. I select the primary variant (bold white line) and make several edits ... Exposure, Color, Clarity, etc. ... making a noticeable difference in the primary variant. I then select (shift+click) the other two variants from the browser, now I have three images in the viewer window, with the bold line still around the primary variant (aka, the definition of an image WITH the white border around it), press Edit Selected icon in the upper right of the workspace (it's now "on" and colored yellow), then press the Copy arrow (upper left pointing arrow), and go to the Adjustments Clipboard...NOTHING. NOTHING IS SHOWN, the disclosure triangle flips down and NOTHING appears.
WHERE IS THE ADJUSTMENTS so I can select some of those applied to the primary variant to apply them to the selected other two variants?
THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING!
I'm an Aperture user who, after six years of deciding, chose Capture One Pro and I'm not having fun!
I'm back and found the bug. In Build 13.1.1.24, you won't see any adjustment, nor the Copy/Apply buttons, when the Adjustments Clipboard is "docked" in the side panel. You have to tear it away as a floating panel in order to reveal any adjustments and the buttons. This behavior is a bug. It was not the case in the prior version I was running, Build 13.0.2.19. I tested that this morning on my iMac. I took screen shots if you need them, but after upgrading that copy to 13.1.1.24, sure enough...the bug exists. No more do you have the ability to see adjustments nor the Copy/Apply buttons when you disclosure (using the triangle, or carat symbol) the docked Adjustments Clipboard. You must tear it away, then they appear...magically!
PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP.
Hi Matthew,
Thank you for the comments.
I see you have also submitted a ticket to the Support Team, so I have added your comments in there as well.
Also, if possible, please provide more details on the case in the ticket (such as the exact version of macOS Catalina). In case that is 10.15.6, please note that it is not yet supported by the latest version of Capture One 20 (13.1.1).
Hi Lily,
I'm having the same issue as mentioned by Matthew. Please see my attached screenshot.
The Adjustment Clipboard shows nothing when docked. I have to undocked it to see the information. It's obviously a bug.
Thanks.
Hi Jino,
Thank you for the comment.
Please let me know which Capture One version you have and what operating system you are currently running.
Also, please try moving the Adjustments Clipboard tool to the scrollable area by clicking on the Action menu icon (...) and choosing the appropriate option.
Hi Lily,
YES it works by "Move Tool to Scrollable Area", it's all good now :))
Btw I'm using C1 20 for Sony. Build 13.1.0 172. Running on Mac OS 10.14.6
Thanks again for your swift response and solution!
For everyone else trying to follow these awful instructions. The "Edit selected" button is not activated by default. Go to View -> Customize Toolbar ... and drag the icon into your toolbar.
You need to consider how these articles need to be updated as you introduce new versions of C1. This article never states how to access the adjustments clipboard. It tells you what you can do once you access it, but not where to find it.
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