Lightroom, CO 11, RAW and DNG help

AlexMark

• August 29, 2018 23:03

Good day, everyone.

I am a newbie and this is my first help request. I tried to find an answer through the search option, Youtube... but didn't find my exact scenario.

I am learning how to use LR and Capture One 11 at the same time and like CO better for many things like color, details and more "juicy" results. I am on trial latest version of CO 11 for Sony and running it on Windows 7 OS with 4GB of RAM.
At the same time I like face recognition option in LR and that it automatically applies the results toward my photos as keywords. Also I like to apply keywords in LR, because of their auto keywords suggestion when you type some thing that you have used before. That is why how my workflow looks like : 1> (LR) Copy as DNG 2> Delete photos that are not worth to keep 3> Use Face Recognition 4> Apply keywords 5>Export to DNG ... 6> (CO 11) Open CO 11 and work with my labeled photos in sessions. 7> Save it as a final result as jpeg

My concern. Is it the best choice or I can optimize my workflow? For example, can CO 11 do face recognition? Is DNG the best choice format ( I heard that DNG is an Adobe format and RAW is more preferable for CO 11)? Can I do the same actions but opposite way, - meaning can I process all my photos in CO 11 first, and apply keywords and faces later in LR? Can I open RAW file in CO 11, and save it at the end as a RAW file but updated with my post processing adjustments?

Thank you beforehand,

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  cdc

  • August 30, 2018 02:31

  I'm not entirely sure what the benefit might be of converting to DNG from the original RAW format for any reason but someone else may have more insight on that topic than myself.
  
  If you want the adjustment you make in either Capture One or Lightroom to appear in the other program you will need to process out the RAW files to TIFF or JPG, TIFF being the higher quality of the two but of course it will take up more disk space.

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  Tonyh-s

  • August 30, 2018 07:13

  Hi,
  If it helps, here is my workflow when using LR and CO11
  
  I have previously set up an untitled session with CO11 and saved it on my desktop as a template.
  
  When I have a new set of photos, I copy the template folder and rename it to whatever name I want for the set of folders.
  
  I import the new photos into the new folder using Llightroom and then do any culling and key-wording in Lightroom.
  
  I then open up the session folder that is in the folder with the photos in. This brings all the photos into CO11.
  
  I now edit the photos in CO!! and save the finished results as a TIFF file into the photos folder.
  
  I can now go back into Lightroom and synchronize the folder and this brings the finished versions into Lightroom.
  
  It sounds light a lot of work, but once you have done it a couple of times it is very quick. This way you have the benefits of Lightroom for the cataloging and the benefits of CO11 for editing. This also works for Photoshop Elements as well.
  
  Tony

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  AlexMark

  • November 17, 2018 21:19

  Thank you gentlemen for your advises. I am really thankful for your both suggestions.
  
  I was playing for a while with CO and LR and now stopped using DNG format following cdc comment. Analyzing tonyh-s workflow I managing mine photos now that way.
  
  1. Importing my raw images from camera to pc as is. 2. Creating session in CapOne within each folder I am working with(all those Capture,Output, Trash folders inside the folder with RAW) 3. All RAW files moving to Capture folder. 3. Working with adjustments in CapOne. 4. Saving results in Output folder. 5. Opening those JPEG files in LR for face recognition and keywording. 6. Syncing them at the end. 7. Touchups with PhotoShop.
  
  Thank you very much for your contribution.

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