how to preset images

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• July 10, 2013 18:21

Hi

Can anyone tell me how to set Capture One so that it gives me certain presets every time? I would like to have all my images default to a particular colour balance, contrast and a particular level of noise control, plus I want them all to come out with the same camera preset. I don't want to have to go through and apply this for each and every image. Surely there is a way of doing this?

Also, I am finding that images are coming out of Capture One very different to how they look on the back of my camera. Is there a way of calibrating it so that what I take is what I get? At the moment I am finding that capture one has very dramatic blacks and punchy colours, and as I'm mainly shooting weddings in a natural, dreamy style that's really not the look I'm going for! All advice gratefully received!

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  sizzlingbadger

  • July 11, 2013 23:07

  You can create a "Style" and apply it during import, capture (when tethered) and via batch after the fact. A "Style" is just a collection of adjustments.
  
  The image on the camera is a processed jpg created using the raw converter in the camera and will not match Capture One's raw conversion.
  
  Again you create your style and apply it to your images.

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  SFA

  • July 12, 2013 02:17

  I have not needed to try this during import but in normal processing you can "stack" styles - providing they are not mutually exclusive to each other - and as far as I am aware you can do the same on import.
  
  In the right circumstances of workflow (I would guess especially useful for studio work or anything where you have complete control over lighting) I could imagine it to be possible to create a library of style effects or presets that could be selected and automatically applied during import.
  
  The majority of my work does not quite suit a "one style" application so I have not tried it. However I do tend to seek batches of files that will accept mostly all the same changes. Then I edit one of them, after import, and copy and apply the changes to the rest of the files in that part of the shoot that will be suitable for those edits. I think if I was working with a controlled shooting environment I would probably just find a single representative file, make the edits I want, save as a style for that shoot and then add it to the rest during import. It should work well per shoot. If many shoots are the same just keep applying the style as soon as you import.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  
  Grant Perkins

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