Skip to main content

⚠️ Please note that this topic or post has been archived. The information contained here may no longer be accurate or up-to-date. ⚠️

Culling - Two Screens or Grouping in Standard View

Permanently deleted user

The only feature that made me upgrade this year was the new culling feature.  It's good, but not great.

I work off of two displays, with the library and grid view of images on my primary display, and the image viewer with editing tools on the second display.  My usual culling workflow consists of finding similar enough photos, selecting them all, and then on the second display, zooming in on all of them simultaneously and simultaneously checking various parts of the image by moving them in unison.  Often, I can quickly eliminate many photos from a group simply on focus errors or movement blur alone, leaving me with 2-3 photos to choose from for a group.

I love that the new culling view groups photos for me, and allows me to fine-tune the grouping. That allows me an even greater birds-eye view to figure out if it's even worth doing a sharpness check.  But the sharpness check is slower in the cull view, and my second display is completely idle during this culling process.  Some way to use that second display - maybe having an image viewer there - would be great.

I am reminded of Apple Aperture, which I used many years ago, with the image grouping.  Aperture did the grouping on its own and the groups were shown in the main library.  I wouldn't mind it if Capture One could allow grouped photos to be shown in the main views, still retaining the option to adjust the groupings (an option I don't recall Aperture having).  It would be nice if the groups were also collapsible (similar to how Aperture did it; I believe they called these "stacks").

3

Comments

2 comments

Date Votes
  • Permanently deleted user

    On the topic of improving the culling view, one other request I'd have would be to group images not just based on what's near each other in sequence, but in the whole album.  For example, suppose I take a burst of about five photos, shift positions and do another burst, but then end up going back to the original position and taking a few more.  In the current culling view, the first five would be grouped, then there'd be a second group, and then the third group.  Ideally C1 would group the photos from the first and third bursts, since they're extremely similar.

    2
  • TomLondon

    I agree - the grouping should be in the main library view, and the cursor up/down key (or whatever I configure) should allow to navigate between groups. A separate culling view is a completely unnecessary complication which does not work well with the main/ thumbnail view or multiple screens, and has no obvious advantage.

    Let's not go down the same rabbit hole as with the export dialogue instead of an export view, which really harms usability (but at least I have the old view still available).

    0

Post is closed for comments.