METADOCTOR PRO BATCH EDIT HOW TO
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To adjust sliders, you need to hold down Alt key or switch Alt-scrolling to interface in Capture One settings:Ģ) Most of the sliders can be adjusted with shortcuts. Note that in Capture One 20, the mouse wheel and touchpad are now scrolling interface by default. There are three ways to speed up adjusting Exposure, WB, HDR, Clarity, and any other tool with sliders:ġ) You can hover your cursor over any slider and move it using a mouse wheel or touchpad. You can use C and Enter keys, but C and H keys fit my workflow better since my left hand is always positioned on the keyboard. I prefer to toggle crop on/off using shortcuts C and H (Pan tool), respectively.

It’s the most used individual correction, and here I can give only one advice: use shortcuts.

METADOCTOR PRO BATCH EDIT HOW TO

Let’s see which adjustments you’ll typically apply and how to do it faster. How to speed up all the individual corrections you need to apply? Still, you can’t get rid of individual adjustments. So, we’ve figured out that batch editing is all about copying adjustments in groups of similar images. I prefer the first method because sometimes you actually need to copy layers too. Thus, Capture One will always copy/apply everything, excluding layers and composition adjustments. All non-copyable adjustments should be applied after that.Ģ) Turn off autoselect of adjustments in the clipboard and select everything manually, except for layers and composition. All that can be copied should be adjusted before copying. Basically, you need to think in copyable/non-copyable categories of editing. Well, there are two ways to avoid copying layers:ġ) Adjust all except for layers, copy these corrections, and add some layer corrections. What about layers? What if I had made layer correction on a sample image? Click “…”, go to Autoselect and choose Adjusted except Composition: Sounds great, but what to do when a crop from sample images is applied to all images in the series?įortunately, you can easily turn off auto-copying of the crop in the Adjustments Clipboard settings. Fix WB, remove a color cast with Color Editor, brighten black areas with HDR, and copy/paste these adjustments to all images in this group.

METADOCTOR PRO BATCH EDIT SERIES

Instead, focus on what has to be fixed on a particular image and copy/apply these adjustments to similar RAWs.įor instance, you see a series of images with incorrect white balance, noticeable color cast, and dark shadows. So we don’t need to worry about general corrections they should be fine. How to edit the first “sample” image in the group?Īs you remember, we have set all the basic adjustments before processing. In this case, I recommend you to color tag some “sample” shots of each condition to be able to return to them to copy adjustments quickly. Sometimes you can take images of several different conditions in a single room. What if my event contains images from mixed conditions? If you’ve been lucky enough to shoot an event on a mildly cloudy day in a single outdoor location, your groups of images can consist of 30 pictures or even more. Thus your groups of images will be rather small: 5-10 photos taken in similar situations. Indoor events tend to be more varied in lighting. Groups of images for outdoor events can easily include 10-20 shots. It solely depends on shooting conditions. After that, simply check each image in the group quickly and apply individual adjustments if needed. Thus, you can edit only one image from a group and copy/paste adjustments to other images from this group. Still, most of the events have groups of photos taken in similar conditions. Of course, you have to crop each image separately, as well as to fix some individual exposure/color issues. You need to do as little of corrections as possible and copy/paste all the other. Working with Groups of Imagesīatch editing is all about copying and pasting adjustments.

Let’s start with group editing since that’s an essential part of the batch workflow. To make batch editing quick and effective, you need to follow these three principles: Also, we made sure that all the basic adjustments are applied before the processing. In the first part, we’ve customized our workspace and shortcuts for batch editing.

Metadoctor pro batch edit