my mistake
just bought C1 21 for Nikon, perpetual licence, I am 65 years old and fairly set in my ways (stubborn) I only take photos at a rate of maybe a couple of dozen per week on average and certainly I am not a professional, I was looking for a good software that could edit my photos with the minimum of fuss, after asking around I was told by most to go with Capture one, highly customizable I was told . obviously I did not ask enough questions, as I now find it wont even let me edit a photo unless I create a catalogue or new session, for just one or two files at a time , I mean this software is supposed to be very advanced , yet it cannot allow a user to perform a quick simple edit on a single file without having to create other unwanted files in the process , why can it not just be , "right click (open with) Capture one, edit , and save (or save as). the simplest way to edit a file yet this software seems incapable unless I am missing something (please tell me I am missing something. I wont use catalogues , its taken me years to get my files and folders just as I like them , and I don't want other software telling me how and where to store and list my files or create duplicates .and as for session, well , it just seems like a massive overkill for someone like me .
I am sure this is a superb software for professionals ,and I am not trying to knock it , but for someone like me , its been a pretty poor experience and a big waste of money .
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Hi
The wayI do it is to set up a dummy session then, thereafter, open that session and navigate to the photo I want to edit in the folders tool in the library tool tab.
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As Dave R has suggested.
That said you may be missing some opportunities by not using sessions in some ways. They are very flexible and useful once one realises how simple the concept is and how is may help what you do.
You can certainly stick with your own folder structure preferences although in my case after a year or so I realised that working within the session concept had some benefits for my purposes. My initial thinking was also about "making use of the folder structures I was familiar with". As it turned out I found a better way for my real needs making use of C1 sessions for future images without compromising or re-working all of the old stuff - which can still be accessed just as it was on those rare occasions when I feel a need to do so.
Also, 65 is no age at all.
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Hi again
You will soon get used to the application, there are lots of sources of information on the CO web site many aimed at total beginners with the application.
Dave (77 next birthday😎)
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> FirstName LastName: ...why can it not just be , "right click (open with) Capture one, edit , and save (or save as)
The main reason is called "non destructive editing". It implies that C1 (and other non destructive editors) generally will not write edit information to the original image file. But edit information has to be stored somewhere. If you roll your own "non destructive" edits by constantly using Save As and create new filenames, the result is often many files with more or less the same image, it consumes more disk space and it often makes for a messy image archive.
Edited to add:
There is slightly more to it: C1 stores displayable images (so called previews) that C1 can put on your screen faster than if C1 has to start from scratch and process complex edit instructions every time an image is to be displayed.
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