Please add a filter “is contained in / it's not contained in” an album

Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)

• March 23, 2023 16:31

What problem do you see this solving?

When I prepare a collection for publishing (e.g. a book to be printed) I use two albums:

• a smart album called “Candidates” in which I grossly select candidate photos by using certain criteria (e.g. “contains keyword 'bird' AND rating ≥ 4”)
• a normal album called “Picks" which will contain the final selection, manually picked.

The “Picks" album is then configured as “Select Collection” and picked photos are added to it. Now it would be really helpful if the picked photos automatically disappeared from the “Candidates” album and I could do that if I had a filter “... AND is not contained in 'Picks'. If I change my mind and delete a picked photo, the filter would make it automatically appear back in the “Candidates” album.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

It's not a feature whose lack breaks my workflow, but it would be really appreciated.

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

While this operation could be in theory done with an additional ad-hoc keyword and the related filter, it would be cumbersome — and in any case I don't use C1 to manage keywords.

Are you happy to be contacted further about this suggestion or request?

Yes.

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  JoJu

  • August 24, 2023 21:59

  Hi Fabrizio, nice to meet again outside of PZ/OL :) Instead of keywords I use colour tags in that situation, i.e. using +, - or * for a green, red, yellow label. But it is limited like most workarounds:

  1. If you already have colour labels in your candidates, a conflict will become inevitable.
  2. 7 colour labels but only 3 shortcuts is another limit - thank you for giving me the kick to expand my shortcuts list.
  3. "If I change my mind and delete a picked photo, the filter would make it automatically appear back in the “Candidates” album." As far as I can understand, the removed (not "deleted") photo will then disappear from your album "picks", but since you didn't change the rating or "bird" keyword, it would still appear in then "candidates" smart album. 

  Now my question: If you already made one smart album with 2 conditions, why not only use colour labels and add a second smart album with 3 conditions: Keyword = bird, rating ≤4, colour=purple?

  However, your proposal for "extend smart albums with abilities to search for DAM-features" would be a big benefit for me, as it's impossible to use full text search for album/group/project names.

  Which was possible in Aperture a decade ago... 

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