process recipes crop and ratios
hi guys,
all of my process recipes use different crop sizes.
I have to keep changing the crop from what ever the last image I was editing was using.
Is it somehow possible to set a crop ratio for that particular process recipe?
all of my process recipes use different crop sizes.
I have to keep changing the crop from what ever the last image I was editing was using.
Is it somehow possible to set a crop ratio for that particular process recipe?
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You can set a crop size in a process recipe - for example, you could set the scale setting to Dimensions and the dimensions to 8x10 inches for 8x10 prints. Then in the crop tool you can choose Output as the crop setting.
Ian0 -
Hi Ian,
Ive been attempting to do what you said and I did appear to make that happen at one stage.
But on the images since I cannot get this to work.
What happens is I get a red box when I try entering one of the dimensions.
What I think is happening but cant prove because I dont know how to find the information I need is this:
I beleive the RAF file doesnt have the pixel height I am trying to enter in the box. Im trying to enter a dimension 2160 x 2700 which is a 4:5 aspect ratio.
But it wont let me type in 2700 on tsome of my images.
I have two questions - Do different lenses have different width x height fr raw files
and secondly where can I access that info? I have histograms, iso, aperture and shutter speed but I cannot find the image resolution.0 -
1440 is the maximum I can select 0 -
I imagined when I suggested setting the crop to "Output" that you would be setting the dimensions in physical units such as inches, centimetres, etc.
If you want a 2160 x 2700 crop, as you say that is just 4x5, so can't you just use the 4 x 5 crop ratio? Or it's the same as the 8x10 inch print recipe I used as an example.
If I have misunderstood your issue, then I apologise. But what I thought you were trying to do was find a way round the problem that if you last used a 3x4 crop, for example, and then move to a different image that was perhaps previously cropped square, Capture One doesn't remember that it was square and will use 3x4 when you use the crop tool on it unless you remember to change the crop ratio to square again before you crop. (A few users have been saying that they find it is inconvenient that Capture One doesn't remember the existing ratio, perhaps offering an "existing ratio" option in the tool - though even then you'd have to remember to select it!)
My suggestion about using the Output ratio was an attempt to dream up a way round that. Though thinking about it, if you had used different ratios on various images, you'd have to select the appropriate output recipe before cropping, which might be even more of a nuisance than just selecting a crop ratio in the crop tool.
It may be that the best thing is to accept that when using the crop tool you need to be careful to use the right ratio. (Which is what we are mostly all having to do.) And make a suggestion to Phase One in a support case about some kind of system for using the existing ratio. I suppose that one way they could do it would be that if you held down some modifier key (Alt, perhaps) while you dragged out a crop, it would keep the existing aspect ratio instead of using the currently selected crop ratio.
Ian0
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