intelligent automatic cropping

Capture One could save its users a great deal of time if it had the capability of automatically custom cropping a group of images. The current copy and apply tools can only place identical cropping with respect to the edges of the full frame. It would be much more useful and efficient if the user could designate the most important focal point of the photo and then have the same crop applied around that focal point for all images. For instance, the user crops one photo of a person and also designates the point around which the crop should always be applied. In most cases that point on a person would be between the subject’s eyes. This way it doesn’t matter if the camera or subject position changes within the frame. Lightroom already has the ability to identify multiple types of subjects and render multiple layers of masks instantaneously over images as they’re imported The complexity of my suggested C1 feature should be easy to implement because C1 already has an algorithm that can Identify faces in images in its smart adjustments feature. Capture One should be able to automatically ensure that there is a designated amount of space around the subject regardless of the subject or camera position. This should not be hard to figure out - especially for photos shot on seamless backgrounds. This feature is a suggestion for use in creating web galleries for clients. It would not be precise or artistic enough to crop a final image.

What problem do you see this solving?

Custom cropping of multiple images for web galleries is extremely tedious and time consuming.

Let us know with a simple “Yes” or “No” – we will contact you with the email address used in your Capture One profile.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

Every day - every time I am editing a photo shoot.