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Workflow Organization Tools

I'm gonna go back to the workspace as you initially go in and go to default workspace. I want to talk about what the fault workspace looks like, Why I don't like it and what's important to my personality. Great. So my desk, if it's not organized, I can't concentrate very well. So important to me is I'm gonna clean everything up so I can focus on just the tools I want. This software was designed for our architectural shooters, reproduction shooters, landscape shooters of people, shooters. So you're not gonna eat all the tools I'm gonna go into right now into the tools. I don't throw a lot of the tools away for me. I don't like themselves again. Shift command be puts the browser on the right. That's how I prefer I use. A two finger scroll is what works for me for zooming in or hit the H two for hand to zoom in on the hand. Those are the things I use all the time, but the software's designed from left to right. Here's your tool tabs so we can scroll through the tool tabs by hitting option...

command left or just selecting them. And there's the tool tabs. Their workflow is from left to right from our library to are tethered to our color to our exposure to our lens tool. This is my work flow I don't need, although so I'm gonna start throwing them away. Here's one in particular. Amaya Tethered Shooter. Nino says I'm not a tethered shooter. Great control. Click remove tool tab and say, Get rid of capture So the whole capture tool tab goes away. I don't want it. Don't need it. Get rid of it If I don't want to even look at it to make it less complicated. Great hissed. A gram don't like it. Can I do anything with the sister Graham To me, history ums are pretty, but they don't mean much because I look, I look at numbers. I get rid of them, removed the tool. So when I see based characteristics, I C. C. Profiles matter. If I've got the right one, I leave it white balance. I use it all the time. Absolutely. The first thing I do is white balance. It has to be there at the top. I double check that it's on the right profile that it's not profile mismatched. And then I started doing my my white balance teller balances next. You know what? That's not my next important thing. Next thing I do is exposure. So I dragged my exposure tool out and put it on the side. A little piece of the software is its own little tool. It is a small little program, and by itself, so you can stack them. You can rearrange them. You can make a whole nother set over on a second monitor if you wish your choice. But what I do is I load them right up and put them in order of use that I like white balance. First exposure next. So again hissed. A gram removed the tool hdr Use it all the time. Love it. I'm gonna pull it to the side levels. I use it every now and then Pull it to the side now curve skies, curves I never, ever used There's a new feature called Loma, which I want to show you. Louima actually makes curves usable, but agreed, right? But when it comes to kers before Louima, I did not use it. I got rid of it. So when a hit removed the tool, clarity and vignette ing. I'm gonna pull the clarion vignette, actually, clearly clarity. No, I want to remove it. Why do I Maru of clarity? Because I have clarity over here. I have clarity in my other functions, So I get rid of it. Nice, even getting left. So we do have been getting over here. Put it back in order of use. HD are underneath my exposure of the HDR levels. Vignette in color accuracy are color balance those of my order of use Gone Remove tool tab called exposure lens Correction lens corrections automatic. Do you want to see it? Do you want to have it up there? I don't know. Right? So a lot of people don't, uh, purple fringing. Does your camera have purple fringing? If it doesn't have purple for Jews and have that problem, you get rid of it, right? And honestly, the cameras that I use don't And obviously when you first open the program you may not know what you need to use or want to use yet leave everything open. But as you figure it out instead of clicking through menus back and forth customized which I learned way late unfortunately correct, but I do it now, but I'm customer because the crop rotation and flip key stoning and overlay the crop tool. All these tools pretty much live somewhere else as well. I've got the crop tool up top so I can go to this little small so everyone can see I've got a small little arrow here and hold it down. Capture one has the small arrows everywhere. You gotta go click on them and find out what they do. It actually is a little frustrating because they small little arrows might be very, very important to what your processes click on them and take a look. So while it does a few things that doesn't do all of them so I actually need to have crops still in there. Same thing was rotation and flip. I can rotate and I can rotate freehand if I want to, But can I reset it on Lee? Resetting quotation and flip is over here. Unless you know the shortcut key. I usually leave it in. He stoning. I use all the time overland would be using on Lee using overlay when I tether. So I removed the tool so it can keep on saying that I get rid of a lot of these navigator. I don't use navigator. I remove it. Focus. Here's my focus. I can take my focus and I can put it wherever I want. And you could have it. There is a focus toe. The nice part about focus is if you have a secondary monitor, you can pull the focus aside and make it really large over here. To check your focus while you're shooting while you're tethered or while you're looking, you could actually have it without reproduction. You could have focused tool at every single corner and set it to say it. The corner said they didn't know what I'm doing at Re Pro. I've got my corner sharp. So the focus who could be really useful? But since I don't do artery pro and I want to use the shortcut keys away, my brain works. I just get rid of it, right, cause the focus to me. I had the H a double click, and that's my focus. That's just easier for me. The way the brain work sharpening noise reduction film Green Moray. I get rid of more Ray. I start getting rid of some of them Beat cuts. Some of them are all here. White balance. Undo command Z or not a man's. He did a lot commands. You get rid of it. Exposure high, dynamic range All of these tools here, you'll see all of these tools I can use. I can use these tools in my window that does my layers. And so my local adjustment tools. I can use them here so I don't usually have him in two places. Some of them I do, but not all of them. So I get rid of clarity, noise reduction more right. I don't really have those in both places. And we have styles and presets and essentially all my adjustments. I have my metadata in my key words, I have my processing summary and I have my processing Que likes on them. Don't like something we got rid of them. Next thing I'll do is come up to view customize toolbar and a lot of these I get rid of in my toolbar as well. I never capture from the computer, so I get rid of capture. I don't output from that button. I actually go in and select my process recipe so I don't use it for, uh, left and right rotate. I used my shortcut keys, so I get rid of them. So again, find them that works for you. And once you're done, come upto window workspace and save that workspace. You can see that there's some workspaces already for you. There's a dual monitor workspace. There's Ah, capture 18 workspace because once you go to eight in this new features, if you don't reset to default, you've gone to eight. You've been moved in nine, and you haven't reset your worst base. There's some tools you'll never see because they're new, told deny, and your workspace is set for eight. Just know that that could be a problem. Yes, I know So Dave's tethered workspace. I have a tethered workspace that's extremely simplified for tethering. I have a secondary workspace here that is just for editing, and there's my normal workspace that I live in. And those are my workspace is everything else is cleaned it and put away, and that goes back to like I've said this before in my workshops. Even when you're dealing with like a Photoshopped photo shop is a complicated program. And as a photographer there probably be 15% of photo shop you might use as a photographer. And it's captured was the same story. Just because you open it up, you see a sea of menus and options and and pallets and all this buttons and everything else on top. You think this is complicated? Well, yes. But as you figure it out like he was saying, I've been a actually proponent of customizing your work for your workspace Onley, like in the last 6 to months. Really? Because I realized Oh, yeah, what I don't need to get rid of and that is also testing it to efficiency as well. And from within the artist side of it. When you're not frustrated with a 1,000, buttons, you could make better images. So absolutely, that's that speaks directly to me cause I'm fairly new at doing that. I used to deal with a default interface and I was like, What am I doing? And now I actually pulled out a lot more than you pull out your honestly, I pull out more than that. But first, for showing it to people I have to use some of the features and leave it. I I leave them in there. I'm not just one genre, right? I have to go to and show this artist how to do this and this sort of suddenly that so I have to keep some of them in there, so yeah, I would simplify. Also, you think of it as a complicated tool, But what you get rid of all the things you don't need your like, This isn't isn't that complicated? And and once you once you quit, you have it long as you made that workspace. It saved. Ava crashed in which course that workspaces saved. So let me show you where that workspaces again. It matters. Go option. Go option. The library tool comes up and go to my library and in my user library that's hidden. Typically, I'm gonna go to my application support. I'm going to go to capture one. And here's all the work spaces that I've saved so that there's my workspaces. This one capture one folder in applications support. I highly recommend everyone saving once they get the settings they like their presets for for their saturation, for their styles, for their metadata for their worst basis. Go in, take this whole folder and archive it. Question your mind sharing between computers. Is there an easy way the Dropbox or some other method, so that you don't have to go in the Dave's tethered? I got to go set on another computer. Well, it would be nice to have a cloud based system where it was used. Really, really would be. That's left because I see what you did. No, I didn't go there. Unfortunately, it's sneaker netting right now. There isn't a good way other than taking that whole folder putting on it on the jump drive. In bringing over another one. However, that is the nice part. If I've got a studio with 45 sets, right, take that jump, drive and go from each set, and that gets rid of. I keep consistency in my studio on multiple sets by removing the tools I don't want my photographers to use and keep them consistent. Run one set to set or from my laptop to my home computer to my my, uh, my large computer at home, I can keep that consistency boom sneaker. Net it, though there's no good way that is an automated today, but hopefully they will be in the future. And, Dave, can you talk to us a little bit about whether you use a single monitor, workflow or dual monitor and how that works with your with your interface, right? Let's just go to it. So I love jewel monitor and there isn't a person in my in my office we have 15 people. We have 15 dual modern setups that some of them got. Three have three monitors said I'm so fancy completely love the workspace for dual monitor, if you can, I highly recommend it. Of course, we can't do it here. But what it will show you is that we have some tools on this monitor over here, and we have a large monitor over here with all my thumbnails. And so you could have one large monitor with my big image that stays big images. Another, uh, monitor with thumbnails. Love it, love it, love it yourself. Absolutely no 100%. So let's go back instead. And it wouldn't do work space the Dave's and go back to it. So also there come quick and easy that was on, and that's really nice, all right, so we know where they are now. I've gone through a quick shortcut keys, and some people love shortcut keys. I like, um, I like I like them enough, like I'm enough to be dangerous. There's certain things I can't live with, but there's some other guys that I've seen that don't touch anything but short techies. But Google and I'm like, Wow, that brain works so much faster than behind us. Um, so let's go in. Look at the shortcut keys. So let's go to help Menu. Let's go into keyboard shortcuts. Summary. All right, all the keyboard shortcuts air right there for you. So I highly recommend if you're learning this for the first time, print that print that stick it on the side of your monitor, and that's a great way to quickly learn the keyboard shortcuts. It's right there for you. It's It's at the help menu Boom print done. So with that being said, with that being said, let's go to my keyboard. Edit shortcuts. Some people love keyboard shortcuts, as I stated, so we can actually create my personal shortcuts, and I could make my own keyboard shortcuts. There's there some that depending what camera you're using. The default. Uh, shortcut, actually. Conflicts. There was one that it used to be a long time ago. You hit T for from mamina Relief. And it used to be take take the picture teeth, apple tea. And then they went, went to capture one, and it was actually trash. That's right. So right. And so it's not insignificant. That's when we actually have to change. And so going in and being able to go into every single one of these and adding your own and hit save on your own for those people who love shortcuts. This is I hear, I hear you know that they love it. I'm not that guy. You I am. I mean, when I when I sit down to show my workflow later on, you're going to see that I'm gonna have a tablet. Okay, Have a wax tablet. Um, and I remap, especially in photo shop. But even a little captured one, I'll remap my key things that I like to use on the left side of keyboard for my left hand. My right hand's on the tablet. I know you could program. The tablet is what we're getting told that my point is I remap shortcuts all the time and I live for their functions. And Photoshopped? I don't know where they are in the menus because I've been doing he commands for a decade on, like, I don't know, but I'm a key command nerd. Admittedly, I'm not quite a flu and capture one yet on the key command, There's a lot of stuff I still click, but so I'm gonna go in. Since I'm not the key command nerd, I'm going to go into the basics that that means if I'm using them, that you probably should too, because I'm not that guy. So my tools, my tools are on the left hand side. So these air called my tools command T gets rid of tools. My browser I put on the right hand side command be gets rid of my browser option. Command V gets rid of my viewer. You have to actually option command together with the view to get rid of my viewer. So I've got again my tools, my browser and my viewer. Very simply, if I want to show my client, I typically get rid of my tools and my browser. And there is my large image on by itself. So those are the really easy ones. A command, Manti the man be to bring them back if I hit shift while I do. These command shift be typically does either the opposite what you need or no up. It was so what you need, but the opposite what it did before that? No. So let's undo that embassy. Let's go ahead and move that back the browser there. Ok, now, if I have done something crazy to my image and I've gone and change my exposure if I hit the option tool down and take a look. Now I'm gonna zoom in because we don't have mouse busy, right? I'm gonna zoom in right here, and this little tool on every single tool of these has a set that's the same on every single one. And if you go into them, you have an auto tool, you have a copy and apply, and this is a reset. So if you go into that tool importantly, hitting the option key down, I can click on it and see what I did and reset that one tool. So it doesn't. You don't have to get rid of it. It's just a before and after a lot of people talk about before and after it visited board for one after there is in the option key, that is your before and after. You also could make a new variants, of course. So you can come in here, control, click the icon and make a new variant. And so, if you look, these three are just variants of the same file. If you've been using light room, you understand what variants are small said set of settings of the same raw one rock, three separate settings that, um, that are really cool to use. We have about 10 minutes left before we have to go in, and I think we're okay. All right, again, we're gonna go into each tool separately, so don't get bogged up, but we haven't got there yet. We're going to get there. But now we're just going over some of the technical things that I think you should know that show it's possible. Correct. One of things that slows your computer down, I think is very important is that we go in and take a look at capture. Let's see, knowing which camera amusing and then look it on my image. My preview image size as I'm importing into my computer. Or as I'm tethering, how big of these previews do you want them to be? Do you want to small large? You need to decide, because depending on your computer size, depending on your monitor size, that matters so on your monitor. If you've got another four K monitor, you don't want a 1200 pixel preview. You want a four K preview. It's going to slow things down, but you bought the four k pre breathe. You get a bigger monitor, evidently can afford a big computer. He could afford it. So if you have an older computer, maybe want to drop down in size. Eso no, that little things like this. Dropping the resolution can actually speed up your process because it's gonna make smaller. Previous for you. She's experiment with the different ones that that don't look too low Rez for you, but still keep the computer running efficient. Absolutely, absolutely. The next part is your folders. You'll see that we've got 440 images in your folders. Your full. There's a matter. Your folders are getting access to every single image in there. So every single image in this folder is readily access right now, and you'll see how fast they're right. But if you've got 3000 images in a folder, it's not gonna be that fastest Warner. 40 Images of this megapixel in here, which is still pretty good on this old computers, is a 3.5 year old computer, which isn't bad. But once you get a couple 1000 it's going to slow down, make your folder smaller, put less images into your folders and then by organizing by folders it was speeding up. The process is, well, highly recommend. And as you can see, I've got separate folders over here for each one for each one that I'm showing, because that's going to simplify everything that we do by having separate folders of these images and make it so much faster, we'll talk about creating those and organizing, and I'll say, I learned that when I was learning, I started captured on version seven, and when I first played with it all, I was trying to figure out how to edit stuff, so I kept importing and importing importing over the months. And I had thousands and thousands and a folder. And it was I bogged it down so bad, and then it clicked. I was like, Maybe I should I hear Yeah, but I said all the time. You also spent our visitor tethering that. Are those happy snap delivers, right? Those those, uh, praying spray for daughter was like, OK, one of those is gonna be good, so you get thousands of images and a folded, and it will It will slow everything down. Um, been there, done that? Yeah. We don't need to do that. Let's take let's take higher quality and less of them. But then I get off my look it off. Get off my, uh, uh, platform here. OK, things that I've seen that our problems If I shift click images to do something to them, take a look at this one little feature appear. See this one here? If this is off, this isn't highlighted, and I try to apply all If I try to do corrections to a bunch, it's only going to do it to the one selected the primary variant. The primary is the one here. So if I go in to do anything to these images, it's on Lee going to do the one. It won't do it to the others unless this is selected. This is my primary because it's got the large white boxer on it. I can't tell you how many calls we have because this has been turned off. If I had your number back then, I would have called you because I remember learning that I can edit them all. You want to hurt somebody you really do want hurt someone, Think Why did they do that? I know there's a good reason. I just haven't figured it out yet, right that I know there's There's a workflow reason that we only want one there. Now there's other tools, foreign variance. We're going to get into that make a lot of sense so we can actually hit the return button on this one, and it actually going to make a red circle on this and tethered. And so it's gonna have This is a compare very. And while I shoot this one on the right's gonna come in constantly with a compared man that makes a lot of sense why you'd want to shut. Went off. I'm sorry. I still don't know apologize There? Yeah. Don't know on that one. So that's a return button. Um, and heading in the primary. So we've got a few minutes, all right. The tools themselves, um, real quickly. I've got a three on this tool. Each tool itself again has help Auto copy and apply. Reset. And then all these other little things. This is where you've got to dig in. When a new copy of the software comes out, click on this and see what it says. Save. Use a precept. Click on this and see what it says. Because without look at that, adjust selected layer without knowing what these do. They're gonna add features here, and you're not gonna know There, there, it happens to me all the time happens to us all the time. The beautiful thing of this software, it's upgraded every 6 to 8 weeks. There's a new version out and you'll see all the release notes and all the reasons why, and this new feature was added, but it's going to be listed in a small little menu here on the side. If you didn't read that release note. You're not gonna know it. So know that there's some incredible tools in here that have something's hidden in these in these menus that if you don't know what's going on with adjusted, you don't you don't know what to click in the meat you're never going to know. So play with it and click on them actually, really enjoy the fact when I first got used to it that everything one of the tools, subsets of the functions have the identical little five little icons. Yeah, she really like that cause I feel like in control any details of any. I like it, too. It's nice to have them up here, but since every single one of them has those icons, it's really let's just to do that and just apply that one little thing or just reset that one tool. I messed up. Just reset that tool There is. There is an infinite amount of induce. I can go commands, he commands, commands and undo, but I can't do it in order so I can't I can't go into 10 10 ago when I do that 1 to go into the history but I can go to that one tool and under that one to last the way around it. So I really, really like having in the tools as well. That's interesting. This wasn't captured. 18 Let's upgrade that. Since that hasn't been upgraded to capture 19 engine look. And now it's on capture 19 Excellent. Each tool. If I made a mistake, Aiken, go to them. H tool. And if I just double click the tool, it goes to zero. Okay, I double click the tools. Ghost. Is that an accident? Officially, Gay usually does use it all the time. Maybe I've gone too far in that saturation out ahead. I'm just gonna go back to nothing. And if you try to move it back to zero and you go, Oh, I'm almost there almost there. It's just frustrating. Not just DoubleClick DoubleClick. And move it back to zero and reset. So, um, pretty tool. Now the tools again, I use all the time my handle double click on the hand tool, and I zoom into 100%. So let's take a look at this sharpness and see for sharp here in 100% love it, love it. If I control click, there's my navigator. The reason I got rid of Navigator because control clicking the navigator comes up. So navigators already there with the tool I use all the time. I don't need it looking at space on my left hand side so that I just move it around and see if we're sharp. There's might have you know that shirt that So that's control. Click. No, If you've got a right clicking mouse, then you're right clicking Mouses, your control Click. What you doing? Walking or awaken? Well, actually, I don't. You can. There's all kind of presets you can on the actual travel itself, but I literally just lose control. So right click like that for the PC users. Recollect the right click Mouse guys or control Click Control. Click is your friends know that. Keep on control clicking to see if something you can do with concrete control clicking I can can control Click my thumbnail and look at all the things I can do here, and this list gets longer and longer. It's pretty amazing all the things that get out of here that you really you can control. Click and do that. Now I haven't noticed that. So control clicking ads, all these other features that are there quickly for you and again, since it's hard to see. For some there's control. Click what we can do. Batch batch renaming. Very important. By doing it, you can go ahead and select their ratings. You can do. The El Sisi is we're gonna do ago the new variants so you don't have to go up top of the menus. It's not always a dragon. A menu control with that the meal and hit it through with them Now I think that's more effective standard these days, anyway, right clicking everyone right Click, especially people coming from the PC platform. So just right. Click everything into you find right, click everything That is great, Great, right? So let's go through a few more. So the tools that we have, we have our base characteristics. Actually, the next part, the nice part for these tools. Hang your your mouse over them, and it tells you what they do. Meta data. Here's in my output. All right, Hangover batch. You don't know what it is. There's my loop. There is my rotate so by learning the software, you could learn it yourself. Let's click on it. You course you can click on it to see, and this is my focus tool, and you see that the focus mask is on now tells me, this green area right through here, it believes a sharp. So just hold over, get rid of it, just hold over them or click them and it tells you exactly what it does. Learning it from the beginning, hovering over it, clicking right clicking, seeing the small little arrows clicking on the arrows. It's kind of you've got a raw and it's knock. It's gonna be pristine. Nothing is gonna happen to that raw. You can't mess it up. It's not going to go in. We're going to go into that. Why? It's not gonna mess it up, but experiment with it. Toe Learn it is to play with it. To understand all that it does is happy mistakes and use it wrong a lot over and over. Do you think it out? Some of the you know, I learned from my mistakes more than I learned from my successes, and I think that's actually says in the software to go in and make a mistake. Oh, how do I get back? Bam and play with it and it comes back. I think that statements will be on my tombstone. I learned from six. I hope you know what we hope you learn from mistakes Sight, isn't it? That's the definition of crazy. Those people that do the same thing twice and expect a different result. You have to learn from the mistakes and have a different result. You've met my seven year old. I don't interrupt you, but I just all of this that we've that they've gone through relatively quickly. I want to get clear that what we're showing here right now with daesh is what possible? Even you feel overwhelmed right now. That's okay. We is one that you know what you can eventually do with this software. And that's the next thing that they were going to go over leading into what I'm gonna do as well. So if you feel like holy crap, I want to do all of this. But how? Stay tuned. You gonna You gonna like it and you want to go through the details that you can figure out exactly what it is, it feels like, maybe like a daunting program. I know people first. Open it. I get the text I get the message is that the people in my workshops they opened up capture 1 10 minutes later, I gave up because interfaces different, but we're gonna We're gonna de mystify all of that is gonna make it very visible. That's what I hear all the time, too. Yeah, I tried it and I just got it sitting over the side. I haven't used it for a while. You try it and going at it. So yeah, I do I That's why we're here. That's exactly so that those were Those were some of the keys that I think you need to know. So then you can then delve into the software deeper, and that's what we're going to. The further segments that technical some of the boring is other way. We still have to go inside cars and and draws and some of the boring stuff that we're getting tethering those people that aren't tethering. We're going to go to tethering so you can see so it's in your bags. You can pull it out when you need it. So when that customer says, do you tell you go? Yeah, course ideo capture one pro each other. So we're gonna go toe those features next. But bear with us in and you'll enjoy them. You'll get some of things out of them. You'll get it.