Editable colour tag labels
What problem do you see this solving?
I use colour tags to quickly filter photos. It would be useful to be able to specify my own labels for each colour tag, such as 'First pick', 'Maybe', 'No', 'HDR' and 'Pano'.These custom labels need to display in the Adjustments, Color tag menu.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Currently while I am reviewing large numbers of images from a 3 week trip
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?
Red, yellow and Green tags are easy mapped to the key pad. I do find that I have to stop and think when I am looking at HDR or panos. I need a postit note stuck to the side of the monitor to remind me!
Are you happy to be contacted further about this suggestion or request?
Yes.
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Excellent suggestion...C1, it can be easily implemented... Please do it :)
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This needs to be pinned and seen by more of the community to hopefully get this implemented.
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Being able to give meaning/interpretation would finally make them useful for me - right now I have no idea what I could use them for, colours are just colours.
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> SFA: ... colour codes between different software applications?
Label differences is a well known trouble issue.
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Thew colour codes are not that kind of hard, well thought standard... apps like Lyn can't show colour codes in another language than English, meaning, in German or French only "orange" slips through form one app to Lyn. They corrected it, but basically it's just a name. Bridge and a lot of other apps already have a look-up-table, showing the colour (which doesn't have to be limited to 5 or 8 but within the app can't be increased) and a "translation" into their meaning.
I do use colour tags for more than only one task and do the selection by rating. So, to me the "colour meaning" sometimes has a short life. For lens comparisons I use colour labels as very basic manufacturer code. The "exported icon" is to tiny to be seen in an overview, therefore I colour tag sometimes also the exports.
In the browser I only can see the filename, ratings and colour tags. And I don't want to mess around with filenames.
I support the idea as no one has to use it but some will find it helpful.
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The color labels differ between apps for sure. They differ between Adobe and Capture One. macOS uses even different color labels to values mapping. Color Label sets and their values are not standardized.
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My desire is for quick and simple visualisation on screen
I would suggest that the display label for each colour tag is held in the catalog or session database to allow meaning of colour tags to be changed depending on project requirements. A default set could be configured at the application level or stored in catalog/session templates.
As for moving the metadata between different applications, I assume that the colour tag is currently simply exported as is and I would not change this behaviour. This allows other applications to be configured as needed (and where possible)
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