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Multiple edits of one image in different sessions

Fabian Stöhr
Hey there,

hopefully this hasn't posted before, but I have a question for you guys.

I have one catalogue with all my images and different session for different photography projects in capture one.
For example "web" "print" "instagram"...you get the idea.
In some of the sessions are partly the same images but each time edit a image, the edit changes in all the other sessions with that particular image.
For example on my webpage I want a colored image of a tree, but for my photography zine, I want the same image in b/w.


So my question is, is there a way, that I can use different edits for the same image? Is this solved by the variant-function or is there a function within the session folder?

thank you and kind regards,

fabian
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  • OddS.
    NN635910557797900276UL wrote:

    I have one catalogue with all my images and different session for different photography projects in capture one.


    Do you mix a Capture One Catalog and multiple Capture One Sessions or does "session" mean something other than a Capter One Session in your context?

    NN635910557797900276UL wrote:

    So my question is, is there a way, that I can use different edits for the same image? Is this solved by the variant-function or is there a function within the session folder?


    That is my understanding, variants and recipes.
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  • SFA
    If you really use different C1 Sessions for different types of image interpretations than duplicating the original and using separate sessions would be the cleanest way to break the link. Re-name the originals for each session.

    If you prefer one original file and multiple edits but need to group the edits for some purpose then a Smart Album approach is the most flexible currently available. Use Keywords or some other metadata field as the search and selection criteria.

    Be careful about using multiple sessions looking at the same files. It is completely possible but you may need to be absolutely sure that you can follow, in the years ahead, how you have used the multiple sessions and how they might influence each other since they will be sharing edit information and cached files.
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  • Fabian Stöhr
    Do you mix a Capture One Catalog and multiple Capture One Sessions or does "session" mean something other than a Capter One Session in your context?


    ahh I'm sorry, used the wrong term here. I meant "user collections".
    I have one catalogue with all my images and different user collections.
    sorry for confusing you...

    But I assume, the variant's are the way to go anyway?!

    Edit: Just tried out the "variant way". Yeah, the editing in different styles works, but now I have the variants in each user collections folder. that really bothers me. Isn't there a way, where I can "lock" the collections folder, so the editing just applies for the image in this particular folder?
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  • Ian Wilson
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    If you have more than one variant of an image, the only way you can have them in different collections is by using smart albums. For instance, you could use a green tag for all the variants you want to use for Instagram and a red tag for all the images you want to use for making a black and white image. You can then have a smart album based on the green tag and another based on the red tag.

    Ian
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  • OddS.
    NN635910557797900276UL wrote:
    Isn't there a way, where I can "lock" the collections folder, so the editing just applies for the image in this particular folder?


    Variants are currently not separable in the sense that you can not drag them to different collections. I am not sure about the rationale for that design decision, but it may have to do with variants originating from one source file.

    Smart albums are populated by images selected by means of a search criteria and metadata. Color tags and star ratings are often used, see answer from Ian3, but I think you may group images on just about anything you put in metadata. You could try it out with a keyword instagram in a handful of images and see if you can make them appear in an Insta smart album.
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