Improve Capture One
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
When I have finished an edit, I want to preserve that state for future reference.
The major motivation is to protect myself from user error. Examples could be accidentally clicking in the wrong spot or having wrong images selected while mass editing. Those errors often happen unnoticed and you discover much later, that something is wrong.
A secondary motivation is to make life easier by protecting me from careless actions and help me to train myself towards a clean workflow. For example, I often want to try out something on an older image. The safe way would be to create a new or cloned variant for those experiments.But I often just use one of the existing variants and undo my changes when the experiment is finished. If I had protected the existing variant from modification, I would have to deliberately unlock it and probably would instead do the clone.
Currently, there is no easy way to do that:
Some ideas for implementation:
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Future consideration
I was about to ask for this feature independently. I do a lot of sports and have tens or more images to edit. I find that I have to go back to check and make sure that I haven't inadvertantly pasted edits from a new file to one that already been completeted. For example: I've done the edit to pic1. I move on to pic2, select it and then I copy and paste edits fom the pic1 to pic2. Of course the pic2 may require tweaks, but copy and paste saves lots of time. I keep on doing this, working my way through my images. What I think happens to trigger my problem, is that I may go to pic3, do the edits, select pic4, copy and post, but pic2 is STILL selected and the pic4 changes are pasted on top of pic2's edits. I end up having to make a trip through everything to make sure that this hasn't happened. I would like to click on one button to freeze the contents of any file (temporaily) when I complete an edit, while allowing its content to still be copied, this would solve my problem.
When will did this future?
Protecting users from data loss is a core UX requirement. Undo, even repeatedly, is not enough - by the time you realize you edited the wrong variant or failed to duplicate variant, you are forced to either lose the original customizations (by not undoing) or lose the current customizations (by undoing, since it is an undo stack, not undo tree).
Please reconsider prioritizing this feature. This is one of the few gaps in C1 that repeatedly cause frustration.
One potential workaround would be a snapshot function like Lightroom's, which would allow you to save the final editing state, so that if you accidentally make further changes to an finished version of an image, you can revert to the snapshot of the final state. (See this request.)
I would also welcome such a feature very much!
There are at least two similar/duplicate requests:
Option to lock images to prevent further changes
Add the ability to create a locked version of a file to prevent further accidental editing
I agree that it would be a welcome feature. Another possibility, as a workaround, would be to move finished images to a "Finished" folder.
Ian
This is a really needed feature. I've resorted to creating an extra layer on my finished corrections and hand writing "LOCKED" in an overexposed brush stroke so it shows up in the thumbnails and reminds me to leave that variation alone. It looks sloppy and unprofessional but that's better than accidentally screwing up a good image.
Hi everyone,
Thank you for the suggestion - this is not something we are currently working on.
This does not mean this is a bad suggestion or that it will never be adressed, but in an effort of transparency we want you to know that we are not currently allocating resources to solving this issue.
We will revisit the status of this thread if and when it changes.
I consider this to be a very valuable request. I taught myself this lesson recently! I assume this would be a good request for a software engineer new to the team to work on.
+1. Locking variants would mean we could divert our attention to more important things than not accidentaly selecting the wrong image.
I just searched for the same idea. I have accidently made changes to images/ variants. A simple pad lock to restrict most alterations would be very helpful to start with. More specified locks and pass coding individual images would be something useful too, in a more advanced version. I'd request the ability to alter the print size/ process size unlocked from a general lock to allow easy distribution / delivery options without changing the artistic choices, if possible.
Agreed and voted!
Great idea and very well thought out request.
I have also been victim to accidental editing on a photo! I know it's my fault completely, but I would like to minimize the chances of me being an idiot! LOL
Agreed and voted!
This feature was requested several times in the old forum.
Vote+
Very good description!
Did you "submit a request"?
This would be very useful.