How do you find your images??
Hi there, trying to evaluate Capture One 10 and see if it serves my needs.
I am trying to understand how folks organize their photos so that it is possible to find them later on?
I typically organize by year (with subfolders for every month and/or special occasion). Let's say, I visited a Zoo 5 times this year. I would have 5 folders in 2016 folder, with dates and "Zoo" at the end.
In lightroom, it is trivial to find those photos. In fact, I could find all photos from all my visits to Zoo, starting from the very first one.
In Capture One, I can't find anything (except for going to the folder directly, but then I already know where it is!). If I just select 2016 folder, Capture One doesn't search is subfolders and doesn't find anything.
The same with keywords. The only way I could find is to create smart folders with keyword search, but that's way too heavyweight.
It seems that I am missing something. Thanks!
I am trying to understand how folks organize their photos so that it is possible to find them later on?
I typically organize by year (with subfolders for every month and/or special occasion). Let's say, I visited a Zoo 5 times this year. I would have 5 folders in 2016 folder, with dates and "Zoo" at the end.
In lightroom, it is trivial to find those photos. In fact, I could find all photos from all my visits to Zoo, starting from the very first one.
In Capture One, I can't find anything (except for going to the folder directly, but then I already know where it is!). If I just select 2016 folder, Capture One doesn't search is subfolders and doesn't find anything.
The same with keywords. The only way I could find is to create smart folders with keyword search, but that's way too heavyweight.
It seems that I am missing something. Thanks!
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Searching via the search field or Filter tool only works on the images that are shown in the browser (like in LR). Unfortunately, as you have discovered yourself, Capture One only shows images that are in the folder itself, and none of the images buried inside nested folders. That's also the case for the "User collections" (projects, groups and albums).
So, to search all images, you have to select "All images". But, and this is currently a bit of a weak point in Capture One, displaying all images may take a while when you have many pictures in your catalog. Of course, it depends on how many pictures you have, on your computer and your willingness to wait. A few thousand images will be OK-ish, but it becomes slow when going over 20K and more. That's why I (and seemingly many others) make a single catalog per year; to keep the volume down.
My personal view is that you would choose C1 over LR if you value the image quality and the modeless UI. Others find tethered shooting a big plus over LR, but I don't have experience with that (C1 doesn't support Fujifilm).
However, if you're looking for a great DAM, LR is still better. It also has a good printing module, books, maps, face recognition, etc. C1 has none of these. So if you value these things, stay with LR.
HTH,
Peter.0 -
Thanks, Peter!
I also decided to create (smart?) folders for each year, to minimize the loading time of the entire collection (for 75K photos it takes 10-15 minutes to load!). I was hoping that I am just missing some trivial and fast way to search for photos, but it seems that we have a real problem here. Hopefully, the developers could address that in the future versions.
I think that even simple (and quite elegant) UI solution that I saw in On1 Photo RAW would be a GREAT way to mitigate these kind of problems: they've added a simple checkbox to look into subfolders. Most of the time I'd keep it unchecked, but when I am searching for something, I'd check it and problem solved (even if performance is not very fast).0 -
I suggest you enter a request on the support page. That makes it visible on their radar.
Cheers,
Peter.0
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