Feature Request - HDR Merge and Panoramic Merge
I had my fingers crossed that Capture One 20 would have support for merging HDR exposures and for creating panoramic shots. Sadly not, so I'd like to request this as a feature for a future release.
Like many people I'm hoping to escape from Adobe's subscription software. I plan to replace Lightroom and Photoshop with Capture One and Affinity Photo. I greatly prefer Capture One's RAW rendering to Lightroom's, and prefer the interface and toolset too.
I'd really like to make the switch, but as a landscape photographer the ability to merge bracketed shots and create panoramas is greatly missed. Lightroom has a "Photo Merge" option which allows me to merge HDR shots, panoramas or both, all in one go. Please add this to a future version of Capture One.
In the meantime, does anyone have a recommended non-Adobe workflow? At the moment, I can see three options:
1) Using Affinity Photo to merge the RAW photos into a TIFF, then perform basic edits in Capture One. However this uses Affinity's RAW engine which isn't as good as Capture One's.
2) Use Capture One to convert the RAW files to TIFFs then merge the TIFFs in Affinity Photo, then perform basic edits in Capture One. This seems to give better results.
3) Use a third party tool, although I expect that again I'll lose out on Capture One's RAW processing unless I work with TIFFs. And of course it means extra expense.
Does anyone have any better suggestions?
Like many people I'm hoping to escape from Adobe's subscription software. I plan to replace Lightroom and Photoshop with Capture One and Affinity Photo. I greatly prefer Capture One's RAW rendering to Lightroom's, and prefer the interface and toolset too.
I'd really like to make the switch, but as a landscape photographer the ability to merge bracketed shots and create panoramas is greatly missed. Lightroom has a "Photo Merge" option which allows me to merge HDR shots, panoramas or both, all in one go. Please add this to a future version of Capture One.
In the meantime, does anyone have a recommended non-Adobe workflow? At the moment, I can see three options:
1) Using Affinity Photo to merge the RAW photos into a TIFF, then perform basic edits in Capture One. However this uses Affinity's RAW engine which isn't as good as Capture One's.
2) Use Capture One to convert the RAW files to TIFFs then merge the TIFFs in Affinity Photo, then perform basic edits in Capture One. This seems to give better results.
3) Use a third party tool, although I expect that again I'll lose out on Capture One's RAW processing unless I work with TIFFs. And of course it means extra expense.
Does anyone have any better suggestions?
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4) If I am merging a panorama (and admittedly I am not much of a landscape photographer, so I only do it occasionally for the fun of it) I tend to (a) make sure I take all the sequence of images with the same manual settings to be sure that everything is identical, (b) edit one from the middle to my satisfaction, then (c) copy the adjustments made to the rest of the sequence, and then (d) export as TIFF or JPG and merge them in Affinity. I aim to do as much of the editing as possible before merging.
And if you want to make a feature request, this is not the place to do it. We are a forum of fellow users of Capture One so we might be interested in your idea, and have suggestions to offer, but to make a feature request to Phase One, you need to use the support case method.
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Thanks, I wasn't sure if the forums were the place to do this or not. I'll raise a support case. 0 -
Heaven't happen in 20 so I assume HDRI merge will be in 21 version?!
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I doubt it.
It's a specialised development, especially if done well. There are entire applications that only deal with that sort of functionality - which is mainly a pixel blending activity leading to a new output file.
Best results are likely to be achieved using a plug-in application.
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Version 21 is here and they still didn't add the feature
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