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not copying curves adjustments

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On my mac Capture one is not copying curves adjustments from the clipboard to new images. It used to do this. What is the problem. Other adjustments no problem.

Can you help?

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  • Ian Wilson
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    Perhaps give us a bit more information? What method are you using to copy and paste the adjustment? Is the curves adjustment on a layer or on the background?

    Ian

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  • Brian Jordan

    Adding onto Ian’s questions, do you have curve deselected on the adjustments clipboard tool? (Adjustments clipboard lives on the Styles tab at the bottom in the default workspace.)

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Thanks Ian and Brian. I first just noticed this problem with straight copy apply operations. Then I went to the adjustment clipboard to check that the curves showed up there. I use the clipboard to apply it. Same issue. I’ve no idea what I’m missing. On my laptop the problem doesn’t occur. There’s no difference that I know of in the way I use the program on the two devices.

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  • Ian Wilson
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    So to be absolutely clear what is (or is not) happening...

    TO tray and diagnose the issue, what happens if you do this?

    • You have two images, say A and B. 
    • Select both, with A as the primary one (with a thick border).
    • On A, adjust the curve (let's assume the Luma curve) perhaps to give contrast with an S-shaped curve - do it with a very large amount of adjustment so that it is easily spotted whether it has had an effect.
    • Click the double-headed arrow on the curve tool, which bring up a dialog box showing what you want to copy.
    • Make sure the curve check box is ticked.
    • Click the Apply button.

    What should happen is that the appearance of B will obviously change, gaining the S-curve and resulting contrast boost that A had.

    So 

    1. If you do that, does B change or not?
    2. If not, if you do exactly the same but with a different tool, perhaps pulling the saturation slider on the Exposure tool right down to give Image A a black and white result, then using the double arrow on the Exposure tool, does B go black-and-white too?

    I appreciate that in practice you may be wanting to copy a number of adjustments at once, but I'm trying to isolate what happens with the Curves tool.

    Ian

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