Print size simulation on scree
Hi,
Is there somewhere a setting in order to simulate the printi size of an image like Adobe Photoshop has ?
In Photoshop you can set the pixels your Monitor depicts be it in 1" or 1cm and then when you click on a button the image appears in the same size it would come out of the printer.
Thanks and regards Rainer
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Rainer,
Assuming you have a "Pro" version with Output Recipes available you can create recipes to reflect the paper sizes you will use and then activate the Proofing option to see the results viewed at 100%.
Capture One can zoom by up to 250% on output if the paper size is greater than the number of pixels available would allow at the resolution set for the recipe. Likewise, the printer driver will do its own thing to bin pixels if required as it adjusts the incoming print data to suit the abilities and settings of a printer.
However, for accurate on-screen sizing, you will need to match the Resolution value of the recipe to the working resolution of the screen on which you are viewing.
Measure the visible width of the screen and take the screen resolution width in pixels.
Divide the number of pixels by the measured width of the screen and you should get a usable resolution value for suitably accurate on-screen displays when you have Print Proofing enabled.
If I was likely to need such a thing regularly I would duplicate my set of often-used recipes and have a "screen" version of each with the screen resolution applied.
If you use multiple screens with different resolutions things might get a bit tedious. But otherwise, it would not take long to set up and the choice of Recipe can be changed very quickly.
I hope this helps in some way.
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Hi,
OK. I have Capture One 21 Pro and know the size of my screen which is 2560 pixels wide on 597 mm giving me as resolution 4.2881 pixels per mm or 42.881 pixels per cm or 108.9179 pixels per inch.
Maybe I am a bit dense but what do I do now with this ? Where do I change this parameters in order to simulate the print size ?
Photoshop makes this easy and straightforwarded automatically by just pressing a menu option.
I played with Print Proofing but the onyl thing which appears there is the colour profile ... Where is the size menu ?
I only work with one monitor.
Please explain in more detail.
Thank you
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Process Recipe tool.
The "Basic" tab.
Resolution field.
Enter your calculated resolution equivalent and the px/unit of measure used to derive it.
Make sure "Recipe Proofing" is turned on in the "View" menu.
(If proofing is off the full "it will look like this" effect not in effect for size and some other aspects of the total process.)
You also need to take some care to set a suitable value for the "Scale" field.
"Fixed", "Height" (perhaps) and "Short Edge" need to be used with care in this context. You may also want to consider the effects of "Never Upscale". It should provide the control you require assuming that upscaling a smaller image to a specified size is not desired.
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Hi,
Thank You. Look like I understood it now.
One more question how do I view the image in full screen mode without any tools bar around ?
In Photoshop I just press the key "F" twice and everything disappears and I just have the image and a black background.
I have Windows 10 and in C1 I pressed F11 but there are still tool or info bars visible. Pressing F does not do anything.
Thank You
Rainer
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The Full Screen options are showing the Viewer and are still controlled by the Settings associated with the Viewer using the options in the "View" drop down menu.
Customize Viewer expands to allow you to turn Labels and the Viewer Tool bar on and off.
If you then go into Full Screen mode (F11) the main Top of the screen tool bar, with Win 10, adopts autohide features (Move the cursor to the top of the screen to get it to appear) and the Windows Auto-display of the Activities tool bar seems to be disabled.
Pressing F11 again should reverse those changes.
Macs seems to have just the "F" shortcut key.
Windows also has an F10 shortcut to "Viewer" that should give an additional Viewer Window. However it is not always obvious that this has happened., especially if the additional View has not been set to display "Always on top". The "View" screen has a minimalist single row "menu bar" at the top of the screen. If it is resized to be a window less than full screen size, F11 will toggle it between reduced size and Full screen but retain the single Info bar.
I have to say that I find the functionality in this area somewhat "interesting" in that the results of activating it, as observed, do not always seem to match expectations. That is not so much a suggestion that they don;t work, rather that some aspects of the workings do not always seem to result in visual indicators that something has happened, partly because there are so many potential customizations that are either hiding or displaying things. The customizations tend to be held as session or catalogue specific settings from the time at which the session or catalogue was last closed.
If one is in the habit of regularly changing one's preferences for how Workspaces should be set up, that might lead to some confusion from time to time when opening older sessions or catalogues.
My personal feeling is that this entire area of functionality is one that repays a period of time spent becoming deeply familiar with it - especially if it a key part of your workflow. It's powerful and flexible but not strongly visually identifiable as presented. That means it offers some scope for being confusing to the infrequent user
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Hi SFA,
Thank You very much for your patience explaining this Dummy alleged simple procedures in C1 :-)
Had to read your answer many times till I understood it.
So I need to set up a workspace in order not to see the columns left and right and so toogle back and forth from one workspace to another as well as from one session to another ...
So as a user of CC1, apart from my Hobby photography I need to be a programmer in order to understand the complicated way of thinking of the guys who programmed C1 :-)
OK then Photography processing inC1 = 10% and setting up C1 is 90% ...
:-) :-) :-) :-)
To be honest until now I have never understood all this session Tohuwabohu ...
I take images, import them in C1 and process them and go on ... wash, rinse and repeat ...
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Hi Rainer,
It can be as easy or as complicated as you want (or need?) it to be.
Ask 100,000 users about how something should work you will probably get nearly 100,000 different answers! ;)
If you are using multiple session open at the same time the screen controls for those sessions will shared.
You can quickly turn the tools and the browser off or on.
As you can run two viewer windows at the same time it is possible to have 2 screens (or one very large screen with small size UI windows) and put the viewer only UI window on one of them while making editing work on the the other. The results will appear in both but the view can be "cleaner".
But full screen does not necessarily have the same interpretation for all people.
The session structure is simply a way of making a editing process - especially one that you repeat often - easier to use (usually) after you have established exactly what works best for you. Or, if you prefer to try something new every time, you can skip the structure and control aspect and simply think of the workspace as a toolbox that you open just to find the tools you need.
Make the tools you need appear together in the toolbox and you will not need to look very far to find them.
Let's step back a little.
To get the cleanest screen you want to see only the Viewer with no tool bars or any other information.
So first go into the "View" menu, go to the Viewer section, and make sure Labels and Viewer tool bar are turned off.
F11 should now give you just the image. The Menu bar should be accessible by placing the cursor at the top of the screen. It will auto-hide after use.
F11 again will toggle access to a visible Viewer menu bar.
Should you need to access the browser you can call it up and toggle it on and off with Ctrl-B.
To do the same the the tools Windows use Ctrl-T.
You can work directly in Full View with Fast Edit features if you wish.
There is also F10 - a separate Viewer. In that Windows Task bar this will have its own icon.
It always has a single row menu bar, session name and and exit icon. It make also have a standard windows icon to swap between full size and reduced size.
The Menu for View has some basic controls and the option to re-instate a tools menu should it be required. It can also be toggled off again.
You can switch instantly between the "View" and the other C1 Window using windows. Or, of course, use 2 screens.
Despite the existence of the single row at the top of the screen, that might be the best and most flexible option for you.
Using it would not exclude also using F11 - Full screen or accessing the Viewer tools menu.
Tools and Browser do not appear over the "View" using Ctrl-T or Ctrl-B Window as they can when the Full Screen option. Presumably that makes sense when the intention is to provide usually to provide a second viewer.
Does that help. It may be useful to become comfortable with these approaches and then see what can be done to refine them to your exact needs.
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Thank You. Will work on this in the next days, weeks, months.
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