Capture One image adjustments (exposure, shadow, highlights)
Hello,
Wondering if there's any way to carry over adjustments made to the raws in capture one to Adobe Raw or Lightroom? I thought xml. would do that but I thought wrong. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks.
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Capture One only uses .xml files for metadata - so for example, if you choose to use that feature you can share things like star ratings between apps. But it doesn't put editing adjustments in .xml files.
One of the challenges in carrying over adjustments from one app to another is that each app uses its own version of what they mean. So for example, while adding +1EV to exposure is pretty much the same thing in any app, shadow and highlight recovery are not the same thing. Both Capture One and Lightroom have a highlights slider that goes from -100 to +100, but the effect of them is considerably different - the effect of say -100 in Capture One looks hugely different from the effect of -100 on the highlights slider in Lightroom. Then Capture One has tools that Lightroom doesn't have - for instance there is no brightness slide in Lightroom, so how is Lightroom to interpret an adjustment made with that slider in Capture One? Lightroom doesn't have a Levels tool - you can approximate some of its actions using the whites and blacks sliders in Lightroom (always remembering that the whites and blacks sliders in Capture One are something completely different). And that's just the fairly basic adjustments.
Capture One can import Lightroom catalogs (but because of the differences in the tools not all adjustments transfer well). But as far as I know, Lightroom can't import Capture One catalogs.
So really, it is not easy to transfer a raw file plus its adjustments between one app and another. Of course you can bake in the adjustments by exporting as a TIFF, but that limits what you can do with it in Lightroom.
Ian
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