Multiple Variants
November 18, 2010 3 Comments
How to create multiple Variants
In Capture One you can easily add variants of a whole series of images.
If you want three variants you should arrange your Image browser to hold three columns. Start by selecting View -> “Place Browser Right”.
Select all the images you want to work with and make sure that the “Edit Selected Variants” is on.
Use the shortcut (Mac F2 / Win F7) to add a new Variant. When “Edit Selected Variants” is on you will get a new variant of all the selected images every time you pres the shortcut key. Press twice to get a total of three variants of all the selected images. Now every image and its variants covers one row each in the Image browser.
- Three rows: Three images and three variants.
Select an image and apply settings, Presets or Styles to get your three different looks.
Now it is easy to apply settings from one image variant to the rest of the image variants in a column. Select all images in a column with the adjusted variant as the primary variant. Use the Copy/Paste button (see example above) to apply the settings from the primary selected variant to all the selected Variants
Do the same for the last 2 Variants.
yep, very cool, but all easily done in photoshop and once an image is processed we don’t like to re-visit the session to re-process and change variants which are more accessible with adjustment layers in p/shop.
I’m all for an alternative, but it’s gotta offer a lot more to compete. No offense, you are doing some amazing stuff, but maybe should concentrate on the photographic/lighting aspects where p/shop falls short. Personally I use both programmes to suit my needs and both have strong and weak points. The clarity edit and highlight/shadow recovery rivals p/shops camera raw functionality.
Keep up the good work…
Very helpful. Having cloned a variant and made adjustments, how do I save that variant as if new (i.e. Separate it from the original)? If I rename it, the original is also renamed.
Thanks.
Yeah this is great for when I want to quickly make say a BW version. But I want to immediately rename it with BW in the title but how the heck do I do that without renaming the original?
Also don’t see much difference between New and Clone variant. I’ve posted about this in the forums just now as well.