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Saving adjustments

Thomas_N
Hello!
I am a raw beginner 😉 and I have a very basic question concerning the workflow in Capture One 8:

Suppose I made a lot of adjustments to a raw image and I'm satisfied with the result. How do I save these adjustments so that I can't change them inadvertently afterwards? I know that I can make variants and change them accordingly but it would still be nice to somehow secure the adjustments. Simply put: I'm missing a save button, warnings and so on.

I know that I can store a style file associated to an adjusted image. Is this the recommended way or are there other ways? I hope I'm making sense.

Thanks in advance,
Thomas
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Hi Thomas,

    Welcome to the forum and the Capture One world with raw. 😉

    In Capture One all adjustments you make are automatically saved. So there is no save button. Preventing from changing anything inadvertently is not a feature that exists in CO8. You can not lock an image for or against further adjustments.

    I can understand you ask this, standing at the beginning of a new path in your photographic endeavors. You will get used to it, as we all do. And of course you can make intermediate backups.
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  • SFA
    As an idea to consider and perhaps develop ....

    I use sessions rather than catalogues.

    If I wanted to create a "protected" edit for an image one possible way might be to added a folder - whatever name you want to give it but let's say "Completed".

    You then "move" the edit to that folder knowing that its contents should not be further edited. Depending on how far you might want to take that approach you could, possibly, also change the folder permissions to make editing impossible under normal circumstances.

    At this point one has to consider what you are protecting and whether it also needs to be protected from changes by other applications or, perhaps more likely, operating system file management activity as well as more editing within Capture One.

    Just a few thoughts to add to Paul's reply.


    Grant
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  • Thomas_N
    Thanks for the answers!
    Of course I have to get used to the tool and its workflow. Not having a save-button is somewhat unfamiliar to me but I think I will get used to this.

    I like the idea with a folder "Completed". The reason why I think "protecting" might be useful for very important images is the following: Suppose you finished your adjustments and export the variant at a certain resolution for print (or whatever). Next time you want to export the exact same variant at a different resolution or in a different file-format - but the variant has changed! It may be very complicated to reproduce the exact same adjustments.

    I'd like to add another question in this context: I learned that as a step in post-processing, additional sharpening, the amount depending on the resolution of the resulting picture-file, might be necessary. Does Capture One take care of that step automatically as part of the Export-process or do I still have to sharpen directly in the, let's say, Jpeg-file?

    Thomas
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  • H. Cremers
    Thomas_N wrote:
    Thanks for the answers!...
    I'd like to add another question in this context: I learned that as a step in post-processing, additional sharpening, the amount depending on the resolution of the resulting picture-file, might be necessary. Does Capture One take care of that step automatically as part of the Export-process or do I still have to sharpen directly in the, let's say, Jpeg-file?

    Thomas


    There is the option to add layers to the variant with different sharpening settings that you turn on or off depending on the required output size. Or, you just create a variant for each output size (and therewith sharpening).

    On top of that, the output recipe can also do output sharpening for you (actually it does, until you turn it off).
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  • Thomas_N
    Thank you. I forgot to mention that I only have Express (for Sony), the free version, 8.3.1 I can't use layers there. Next: I don't find "output recipe". Do you mean "Export recipe"? I can set resolution and scale there. Under the tab "Adjustments" I can check the box"Disable Sharpening". But that only refers to the steps under "Details, Sharpening", I think.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    As the CO Express (for Sony) does not have the Process feature with Process Recipes, you are right with the translation to Express Recipe and the disable sharpening option in it.

    And as you concluded, adjustments layers are not part of the Express' feature set.
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