A client can simply give me the date of the shoot or I can look at an image name from my catalog and quickly reference back to the session if I maybe decided I wanted to dig a little deeper for more images from that shoot. Installing Presets and Styles for Capture One requires access to dedicated Application Support folders. Maybe I should note also that filenames contain the original image date so it's easy for me to refer back to the original session if I need to. Keywords, IPTC, everything else is managed by Excire (previously PhotoMechanic). In the Library, go to Folders and click on the (+) icon or right-click on Catalog and select Add Folder. Create and name a new folder in the Finder/File Explorer (Mac/Windows). **Edit: Star and color tags and filenames are maintained through Capture One. To create a new capture folder, choose one of the following options: Follow Steps 1 to 3 from Changing location for storing captured images. User Presets in Capture One can be accessed via the individual tools’ Manage Presets menu (three-bars icon) in the title bar or in the Styles and Presets tool. I do wish Capture One would up their game but I fear that's not sexy enough from a marketing standpoint to warrant the deep development I'd need to see to step away from a 3rd party. If preparing a library, select New Folder and name it using the selected Method, such as Neutral, for instance, then name the preset Clarit圓0Structuremin40 and select Save. It does pollute the keyword file quite a lot but it also adds keywords that I've begun to find helpful - and that I never thought to add. Switched to it wholesale just a week or so ago. I don't use Capture One for any metadata. Basic copyright info comes in from the camera and is imbedded in the raw image. I feel like this gives me a more streamlined catalog containing images of moderate to high importance while everything else is shuttled off to an archive disk.Īs to metadata, I freely admit that I use a 3rd party for all** metadata maintenance. Any "keeper" images get pulled into my main catalog which is foldered by year. Sessions get archived just in case but I seldom if ever need to refer back them.
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I do my winnowing and editing there then suck everything that makes the cut into a catalog. Of course I have my family catalog that all that stuff gets sucked into but pretty much everything else starts life in a Session. But I also don't see Sessions as a stand-alone, either-or completely independent of Catalogs. So, start by launching Capture One, and then choose to import images by clicking on the import button or selecting it from the menu.
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When in capture One, you need to do a few things in the Import window. That's why I try to point it out from time to time. Once you do this and you want to import the same folder into Capture One, you can now do so.