On Apr 15, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
Capture One's technique is not quite like that. You set up one, then apply the the other highlighted thumbnails, which portion of the settings you want, then you can quickly click through the thumbnails with instant rendering of the settings to see if any should be overridden and then finally convert based on the settings. Where Capture One shines is things like weddings, events and portraits where you have a large number of images to convert that have close to, but not identical settings. Part of what makes it work is being able to quickly click between the thumbnails and see a large rendering instantly to compare between images. Things like matrix metering and TTL flash make the images close, but not identical in settings.
Applying a whole batch with identical settings would not cut it for me. Even Pentax PhotoLab can do that.
You can do the same thing with Photoshop CS and Camera RAW using the File Browser's Preview facility. And you can set subsets of RAW settings to apply as well.
Read: Bruce Fraser, "Real World Camera Raw with Photoshop CS".
Godfrey
