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Creating Variants In A Huge Batch

Deirdre Ryan
Hi everyone!
New user to Capture One and I'm on the Pro Preview version right now. So far I like it, but I have some questions.

I'm a heavy LR user and of course already used to it. C/P is easy, and so is making duplicates of images. Copy and paste is difficult in this software too, no Command C or Command V.

Right now I'm looking at about 700-something images. I need to create duplicates of these and create them into b/w. In LR, I would simply Select All, duplicate them, then with those duplicates already selected, just apply my b/w filter. I can then quickly scan through them and tweak them as needed.

Here, I have them all selected, but only ONE variant is selected, and that is made into a duplicate. Can someone please help? I contacted Tech Support, but I haven't heard back yet.

Thank you.
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  • HansB
    Select a collection of images.
    Make sure, 'Edit All Selected Variants' is 'on'. <SHIFT> + <CMD> + 'E', menu - 'Edit' - 'Edit all selected Variants', 3 stacked rectangles icon.
    Clone variants or create new variants. It will be done for all selected.
    In the 'Black & White' tool, activate 'Enable Black & White'.
    <SHIFT> + click the double-arrow-icon of the 'Black & White' tool to apply to all selected, click the double-arrow-icon and select 'Apply', or copy/paste your (selection of) adjustments using the adjustment clipboard.


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • Benjamin Liddle
    If you accidentally de-select the second variants (the ones you'd created prior), you can select them by right clicking on one, hitting Select By Same > Variant Position (2).
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  • ChrisM
    [quote="ben_US" wrote:
    If you accidentally de-select the second variants (the ones you'd created prior), you can select them by right clicking on one, hitting Select By Same > Variant Position (2).

    Yes, a very nice search enhancement. But what does not work, is then deleting all second (or third etc.) variants.
    What I do:
    -In the file browser, I select a second variant, and then rightclick "select by same variant position". In the viewer all second variants are then selected. I go "file > delete" from the top menu, and get a dialogue: "do you want to delete the selected variants?" Yes I do, so I hit ok.
    Then the following happens: the first selected variant is deleted, and the second selected variant appears in the file browser (as a single image), and I get the dialogue: "Do you want to delete the selected image from the catalogue permanently? (in small text: the image and all its variants will be removed permanently from the catalogue and all settings will be lost)".
    NOI do not want to do that!!
    So, is there a way to delete all second or third etc. variants from a catalogue?

    Chris
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  • SFA
    [quote="ChrisM" wrote:
    [quote="ben_US" wrote:
    If you accidentally de-select the second variants (the ones you'd created prior), you can select them by right clicking on one, hitting Select By Same > Variant Position (2).

    Yes, a very nice search enhancement. But what does not work, is then deleting all second (or third etc.) variants.
    What I do:
    -In the file browser, I select a second variant, and then rightclick "select by same variant position". In the viewer all second variants are then selected. I go "file > delete" from the top menu, and get a dialogue: "do you want to delete the selected variants?" Yes I do, so I hit ok.
    Then the following happens: the first selected variant is deleted, and the second selected variant appears in the file browser (as a single image), and I get the dialogue: "Do you want to delete the selected image from the catalogue permanently? (in small text: the image and all its variants will be removed permanently from the catalogue and all settings will be lost)".
    NOI do not want to do that!!
    So, is there a way to delete all second or third etc. variants from a catalogue?

    Chris


    Referring to the second line of Hans' post above - do you have "Edit all Selected variants" active after you have selected them?


    Grant
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  • Christiaan mak
    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="ChrisM" wrote:
    [quote="ben_US" wrote:
    If you accidentally de-select the second variants (the ones you'd created prior), you can select them by right clicking on one, hitting Select By Same > Variant Position (2).

    Yes, a very nice search enhancement. But what does not work, is then deleting all second (or third etc.) variants.
    What I do:
    -In the file browser, I select a second variant, and then rightclick "select by same variant position". In the viewer all second variants are then selected. I go "file > delete" from the top menu, and get a dialogue: "do you want to delete the selected variants?" Yes I do, so I hit ok.
    Then the following happens: the first selected variant is deleted, and the second selected variant appears in the file browser (as a single image), and I get the dialogue: "Do you want to delete the selected image from the catalogue permanently? (in small text: the image and all its variants will be removed permanently from the catalogue and all settings will be lost)".
    NOI do not want to do that!!
    So, is there a way to delete all second or third etc. variants from a catalogue?

    Chris


    Referring to the second line of Hans' post above - do you have "Edit all Selected variants" active after you have selected them?


    Grant

    Yes, certainly.
    I may be doing something that is not intended here, but I would not know of a working way to delete all variants of a specific position at the present.

    Chris
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  • Deirdre Ryan
    Thank you everyone! Just seeing this now. I figured it out 😄 For some reason, I didn't check the the notifications for this post 😕 🤭
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