How to identify images that are not yet organized?
I just purchased Capture One and cannot figure out how to identify what images I have not yet sorted into albums. Googling, it appears that Capture One does not offer such a feature? I'm moving from Apple Photos where I used such a feature extensively--perhaps there is another way to achieve the same goal?
Say I have 3000 images from a photo project. I want to go through these images over several days and identify them by subject. In my current project there are around 80 subjects. Since I am going through all of the images over time I want to know which images still need to have the subject identified.
In Apple Photos I would create a smart album and ask it to display any image that was not in another album. This was then my "unsorted" folder. I would then create albums for each subject and drag images to them, at which point they would disappear from my "unsorted" album. When the "unsorted" album was empty my work was done.
What is a workflow that has the same result in Capture One?
I see that I can drag images to an album, and I see I can keyword, but in neither case do I see a way to identify which images still need albums or keywords.
I googled and see that there is some sort of script that will help out here but I do not know how to use scripts (yet?) and am hoping that Capture One has some way to do what I need to do. Seems odd that such a feature is missing!
Any help appreciated.
--Darin
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When you identify the subjects of images, do you add a keyword? It is possible to use the Filter tool to show all images that don't have keywords.
Ian
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Agreeing with Ian above.
When I import into my catalog, initially, every image gets a pink color. Then once I review the image (which may be some time later), I put it in a folder and give it at least one keyword. Then I remove the pink color.
When I go thru my catalog, if I see a pink tag, I know it hasn't been reviewed. And if I Filter 'keyword equals "blank"', I know that it hasn't been put in a folder.
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Is there a way to add a keyword or color at import--and, better yet, make that a default? I don't see anything like that.
So it looks like, in Capture One, this is all sot of a manual process, using keywords or colors?
I've been experimenting and it looks like the most straightforward way is to create a Smart Album that displays images with a blank keyword (my "unsorted" album). Then create Smart Albums for each of my 80 subjects and key set them to display images with that particular keyword.
Then I go to the Unsorted album and start keywording and images vanish from my Unsorted album and begin appearing in the appropriate Smart Album.
The same effect in the end as Apple Photo's Smart Album but kind of kludgy and more work? I'll try it and maybe it will be better in actual use than it now seems...
I see in the forums that the feature I would like has been requested many times over the years. Obviously Capture One doesn't see the utility--or perhaps the new Culling features in version 23 will address this issue?
Thanks,
--Darin
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Just to close the loop, here is what I did:
As I mentioned, I recreated all eighty albums as smart albums, each set up to include images with a specific keyword. I had hoped that when I did so the keyword I chose would then be automatically added to the keyword database (so that it would come up as an auto-complete suggestion) but that was not so, so I added keywords to the database as I went through the images.
I also found the keywords can contain characters (such as slashes) that the titles of smart albums cannot. I was using the names of the albums to remind me of the keywords (some were more like key phrases than single words) so that required some care to avoid accidentally creating two or more "duplicate" keywords.
However, I did make that error on a few occasions and I also mispelled a keyword or two, accidentally creating two variants of the same keyword. In this case, of course, the images just vanished from the "unsorted" smart album and did not then appear in any of the keyword smart albums. How to find out how many images had erroneous keywords?
My first thought was that I would copy all eighty keywords straight from the "Edit Smart Album" dialog and make a coma delisted list that I would then just copy/paste into a new smart album rule, but there seems to be no way (other than making a smart album with eighty separate rules) to do this as the rule treats whatever is in that text field as a single keyword.
Instead, I looked over the list of keywords--very nice that you can easily see the whole list--and spotted a few errors, which I corrected by creating a new smart album and put the an erroneous keyword into it, one at a time, then added the correct keyword to the resulting images, then deleted the erroneous keyword, then did the same for the next erroneous keyword.
So now I have the images sorted into smart albums and I can start the next task. Quite a labor-intensive solution to sorting images into virtual piles and a fragile one. A dramatic contrast to Apple Photos (and as SFA suggests, Lightroom, which I have barely used--it is just so ugly!) where the whole process is just to create an "unsorted" smart album and drag an image or group of images from it to other albums--that's it.
Whew!
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Hi Darwin,
You asked: Is there a way to add a keyword or color at import--and, better yet, make that a default? I don't see anything like that.
I created a custom style that along with other things, assigns a color rating. When I import images, I have my custom style selected in the Adjustments section of the Import Images dialog screen. This way, as soon as the images are in my catalog, they have a color rating.
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Hi everyone. This looks to be pretty easy depending on how you set things up. Here's how I found images that were not organised.
1. Import images. I had a set of 400+ I needed to organise.
2. Set up albums. These were mostly (~99%) photos of birds so I set up albums by species. I added some additional albums of the non-bird shots.
3. Arrange all the bird albums into a single project - keeping them tidy.
4. Go through the images, dragging and dropping them into the albums
5. Select the entire group of albums by clicking on the project and then 'command+a' to select all the images.
6. With all the images in the albums now selected, assign a keyword. I used 'birds'
7. Go to filters and filter for images without a key word.
The filter showed the images I had missed when I was assigning images to albums.
Hope that helps someone
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