Suggestions for C1
Hello! I'm working as a Digi Op and Assistant in Melbourne and using Capture One daily and I've noticed a few things that could greatly improve my and many other photographers workflows if they were to be made available. (If it's possible already to do anything that I've mentioned, I would greatly appreciate the guidance!)
1. Setting Guides to percentages - In Capture One 7, we used to be able to set guides to a percentage of an images dimensions, which was greatly beneficial for maintaining continuity and was really easy to use. In C1 Pro 8, the feature was removed, to achieve a similar result the only way I've found to do it is to add a guide, calculate the percentage (on a calculator) and drag the guide to that pixel location, which isn't the most fluid or professional way to add guides to exact locations. (I'm massively grateful that the option to have more than 2 guides was added though, life changer)
For this, adding a guide (horizontal or vertical) to an exact percentage or pixel location would be fantastic to have back.
2. Show in Finder for Folders - The show in finder feature in my typical workflow gets used fairly regularly, but I've noticed that setting a shortcut for this will only work if a file is selected, and not if a root folder (with subfolders) is selected in the Library tab.
As right-clicking a folder and selecting 'show in finder' works for root folders, having the option to shortcut this would be a big time-saver for me.
3. Physical Contact Sheets - We're consistently outputting low res files at the end of each day for review by our clients, I feel that the contact sheet function inside CaptureOne would massively improve the speed that we can our files to the clients, have the images presented more beautifully and appropriately (if they're choosing selects, all options are available to view)
I've found the contact sheet function that currently exists isn't practical for use in that regard, having an option to have multiple images on a single page, inside of a multiple page PDF would be great.
4. Auto Rotate on Import - When shooting flatlay product, occasionally images will come into CaptureOne as landscape images when they should be portrait orientation, when we rotate an image once it has been imported it does not apply to the next image on import.
Making image rotation apart of the 'apply to next image' adjustments would be a huge advantage and a more professional workflow than rotating every image manually on import.
5. Colour Readout Pins, Shortcut - I regularly use the colour readout pins inside of the cursor tool in CaptureOne, I'm wondering if it's possible to set a shortcut specifically for the colour readout tool? Much like 'w' selects white balance.
6. Analyse CA on Import - I'm wondering if it's already possible to analyse Chromatic Aberration on a tethered file import individually? As we regularly change zoom, lenses and distances on a standard shoot we've found that telling Capture to correct for CA isn't accurate as the shoot goes on, unless we batch analyse CA at the end of the shoot.
Is it possible to have CaptureOne analyse each file for CA on import?
7. Stop De-selecting files when Tethering - I spend a lot of my time renaming files to specific file names whilst the photographer is shooting, however I've noticed that even when I've got my 'Auto Select new capture' set to 'never' that when I'm renaming a file and a capture comes in, CaptureOne will deselect the file I'm renaming. This can be frustrating when naming the sort of volume that I'm getting through in a day!
I know that was probably a lot to go through, but if anyone has any advice going forward I would greatly appreciate it!
1. Setting Guides to percentages - In Capture One 7, we used to be able to set guides to a percentage of an images dimensions, which was greatly beneficial for maintaining continuity and was really easy to use. In C1 Pro 8, the feature was removed, to achieve a similar result the only way I've found to do it is to add a guide, calculate the percentage (on a calculator) and drag the guide to that pixel location, which isn't the most fluid or professional way to add guides to exact locations. (I'm massively grateful that the option to have more than 2 guides was added though, life changer)
For this, adding a guide (horizontal or vertical) to an exact percentage or pixel location would be fantastic to have back.
2. Show in Finder for Folders - The show in finder feature in my typical workflow gets used fairly regularly, but I've noticed that setting a shortcut for this will only work if a file is selected, and not if a root folder (with subfolders) is selected in the Library tab.
As right-clicking a folder and selecting 'show in finder' works for root folders, having the option to shortcut this would be a big time-saver for me.
3. Physical Contact Sheets - We're consistently outputting low res files at the end of each day for review by our clients, I feel that the contact sheet function inside CaptureOne would massively improve the speed that we can our files to the clients, have the images presented more beautifully and appropriately (if they're choosing selects, all options are available to view)
I've found the contact sheet function that currently exists isn't practical for use in that regard, having an option to have multiple images on a single page, inside of a multiple page PDF would be great.
4. Auto Rotate on Import - When shooting flatlay product, occasionally images will come into CaptureOne as landscape images when they should be portrait orientation, when we rotate an image once it has been imported it does not apply to the next image on import.
Making image rotation apart of the 'apply to next image' adjustments would be a huge advantage and a more professional workflow than rotating every image manually on import.
5. Colour Readout Pins, Shortcut - I regularly use the colour readout pins inside of the cursor tool in CaptureOne, I'm wondering if it's possible to set a shortcut specifically for the colour readout tool? Much like 'w' selects white balance.
6. Analyse CA on Import - I'm wondering if it's already possible to analyse Chromatic Aberration on a tethered file import individually? As we regularly change zoom, lenses and distances on a standard shoot we've found that telling Capture to correct for CA isn't accurate as the shoot goes on, unless we batch analyse CA at the end of the shoot.
Is it possible to have CaptureOne analyse each file for CA on import?
7. Stop De-selecting files when Tethering - I spend a lot of my time renaming files to specific file names whilst the photographer is shooting, however I've noticed that even when I've got my 'Auto Select new capture' set to 'never' that when I'm renaming a file and a capture comes in, CaptureOne will deselect the file I'm renaming. This can be frustrating when naming the sort of volume that I'm getting through in a day!
I know that was probably a lot to go through, but if anyone has any advice going forward I would greatly appreciate it!
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Can the default source selection for clone and heal be changed from "Capture One knows best" to CMD click? When I go to clone or heal in something that is (or is close to) the final variant of an original, more often than not C1 zooms off to somewhere in the original that is not included in the variant; and even if the suggested source is indeed visible, it is seldom the one I'd want to use.
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And while we are at the clone/heal tool....when we have cropped a little outside the image, it would really be nice to use that tool to fill the empty space and keep the workflow non destructive 😎 ...round tripping a tiff file to a awful Adobe product to get this done is very destructive... 😕 0 -
When importing images it would be great if they appeared automatically in the currently selected folder, rather than having to select another folder and then reselect the current folder to see them (in catalogs). 0 -
The ability to draw a shaped mask would be great (lines or curves). 0 -
@j thorsen
Why don't you give Affinity Photo a try - there is a free trial version available on their website (https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/).0 -
[quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
Number One user error (which means you are not alone, do not feel ashamed): enable Edit All Selected Variants from the Edit menu or the tool bar. Your live will be changed forever. 😉
It seems to me that users are lead astray by inconsistent terminology in C1. The term "variant" is used, in the interface as well as in the documentation to mean several different things, such as
- any image, with or without adjustments
- only images with adjustments
- output image file in format other than raw
The user might reasonably expect to find the term defined in the documentation glossary; however it is not.
Also, given the frequency of this issue, one might expect to find mention of it in the FAQ's, but it isn't.
As it is, one might say that the user is left high and dry. No wonder so many get it "wrong".0 -
I will definitely not use Affinity!
I think the thing the would mean the most to me is being able to set guides to percentages again. It's a close call though, deselecting files when files are tethering is really frustrating.
Any other ideas?0 -
It would be nice to have a place to leave a comment next to an images. The person who does the shooting and the post processing is often not the same one. Being able to leave a comment on a particular image for corrections to be applied later on. 0 -
It would be nice to have a place to leave a comment next to an images.
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+100 😄
Sometimes is so critical to annotate images.0 -
Annotation for the images would be amazing. I know that typical jpegs have an 'instructions' element in the metadata which could be utilised.
I feel as though the benefit could work outside of C1, because in our circumstances the retouches receive the processed images, not the session, so retaining annotation there would possibly be tricky but hugely popular!0
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