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Few Queries from a Lightroom switcher

Mike Katz
Hello
I am on Windows 10.
I'm finally doing the switch from Lightroom, now that Capture One supports Fuji RAF files. My main interest is in image quality, and for my photos and the way I work, CO is just far, far better.

I do have a few queries on things I may have missed or which are not there:

    1. I use sessions exclusively. I find it weird that when I re-export a file after processing changes, that I can't overwrite the existing exported file. This is very inconvenient. From what I have researched, it's not an option at this point.

    2. Related to the above is that I find the viewer window is not fully accurate as a preview. I use Photo Mechanic to preview the output and it renders far better than the preview window. This is why I need to overwrite an existing output file - I make decisions based on the Photo Mechanic rendering rather than the CO preview. I am trying currently to increase the size of the preview file to see if that helps. Is there anything here that I'm missing to make the viewer more accurate?

    3. Cropping. My issue here is that I crop a photo, say to 1x1. When I move to the next photo, and I want to crop it, the 1x1 factor remains. This behaviour is the opposite to Lightroom where it reverts to unconstrained on an as yet uncropped photo. Of course, sometimes one way is better and sometimes the other, but I have an issue where, if I set the factor to unconstrained, it won't let me easily crop, it seems to limit. I have to set to unconstrained, and then revert to default, which is two steps. Am I doing something incorrectly?

    4. I'm just starting to use masking, but I find auto masking is far less accurate than Lightroom. I have read a topic about using the colour editor to select a colour and then turn that into a mask, and I'll try that. Are there any techniques I'm missing?


Thanks in advance for any help on these matters.
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  • cdc
    #4- Are you aware that in auto mask mode the brush has an inner circle and outer circle and the location you want the mask placed needs to fall within those two circles?
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  • Mike Katz
    cdc wrote:
    #4- Are you aware that in auto mask mode the brush has an inner circle and outer circle and the location you want the mask placed needs to fall within those two circles?


    I assume you mean you brush only within the inner circle? Yes I am, I am still playing with it, but I don't yet get the results that I did with Lightroom. It seems less sensitive to contrast / colour differences, so it overruns.

    Thanks for the response!
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