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PLEASE VOTE: Request for filtering B&W images

Chris
 
What problem do you see this solving?

I would like to quickly retrieve all variants of my current Session, which have "Enable Black & White" toggled "on" in the Black & White tool. 

The folders may mix color and black & white variants (sometimes from the same image.)

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

I work with COP all year long. I shoot and import images in B&W approximately 90% of the time. The output images are Black&White approx. 50% of the time.

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

I thought of writing keywords in the metadata but this is error-prone (human in the loop), not backward compatible with previous sessions and therefore not industrial-strength.

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

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  • woefi

    Yes, B/W should be a filter criterion.

    I also think that it should be possible to enable/disable "Black & White" via shortcut.

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  • Wolfgang Kühteubl-Fichtl

    Yes, I always asked myself why you can't filter for B&W photos (or colour only respectively) if there is literally an "Enable B&W" switch ... should be easy to implement.

    My workaround is to give B&W variants the yellow colour label and filter for that afterwards, but there is always the chance to forget to label some images.

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  • Olaf Pokorny

    A long time ago I've requested this feature too, but nothing happened until now. I hope, this request here will help...

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  • Alexander
    Product Manager
    • Edited

    Hi Chris,

    Thanks for the post!

    woefi, there is a shortcut for toggling Black and White. It was implemented a few versions ago. Search for "toggle black and white" in the shortcut editor.

    Alexander

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  • Akshay Shaha

    The request is for filter in Grid view where we can filter B&W-converted images in C1. Shortcut is for conversion not for filtering.

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  • Walter Rowe
    Moderator
    Top Commenter

    Alexander .. the black and white tool enabled is a boolean value in the catalog. it would seem easy to add a filter for that to the built-in filters. perhaps not?

    macOS users can use my applescript script to find all the black and white images and apply a keyword to them.

    https://github.com/walterrowe/capture-one-scripts/tree/master/monochrome-keywords

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  • Alexander
    Product Manager

    Akshay Shaha, I'm aware. Wolfgang's comment included an ask for a shortcut and I wanted to make sure he knew it's there today.

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  • woefi

    Alexander Thank You for pointing out, but yes, I'm already aware that in the meantime the shortcut for b/w conversion has been implemented.

    Nevertheless I also support the original request of this post to filter out b/w images.

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  • Aron Farkas

    Yes, please! Missing feature! 🙏🏻

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