Written annotations

I am constantly requested to add notes for retouchers on set, and the annotations tool is effectively useless for it without being able to type. Personally I'd like to be able to output a text file with the notes written for each image, so if there is a 123456.tif then there is a 123456.txt output alongside.

I´m an professional Automotive and Commercial photographer from Sweden and have been a C1Pro user for about two decades and have numerous times asked for a text function in the Notes/Anteckningar tool. This is because when on a commissioned job my assistent write notes/instructions on the image in C1 pro session to the retoucher so he knows what to do with the image. This is very hard to do on a trackpad on location and is hard to read. Would be so much easier to type the instructions. I´ve been asking for this for 15 years with no feedback at all, so I ask you again. Please!

I have this issue. Shooting fashion and products daily, I am constantly having to either move images into another program after processing in C1, or hand write with a tablet to give the retouching team specific instructions on an image.

The problem with other programs is, I have to process a file out at that time to put notes on it, and that disrupts the flow of a shoot, or I have to chance forgetting a detail when I process the session EOD and move the files to Milanote for mark-ups.

It’s even more difficult when out on location. I have to try and convey specific instructions by writing with a track pad on a laptop. A text tool that exports out in the same layer as an annotation would make workflow so much more efficient for our team.

I have this same issue; annotations are wonderful, but having to scrawl notes to my retoucher is less then ideal. I then have to go to an outside app or create notes to send them, which defeats the simplicity of annotations. Having the ability to include notes within annotations would be extremly helpful and reduce what now is a signicifant bottleneck.

I was just about to submit a request for this exact issue. My studio produces thousands of assets annually and the lack of written annotations is a significant hurdle for our team.

I was just about to request this feature myself. Please allocate some resources to adding this feature which would make life so much simpler. As a computer programmer myself I don't think it ought to take much effort.

I can’t say yes enough to this!

Every day I have to use a work around by writing a number down and an arrow to a location in an image. We then have to create a word document, list the image number and the item number that needs addressed so we can type, warp here, dodge, burn, change this color, remove this shadow, fix this wrinkle, on and on.

It’s a royal pain to send files and word documents and make sure the retouch team gets everything in order. It’s inefficient and leads to getting pulled off another set to clear up discrepancies. Just give us a type tool in annotations for the love of god! It’s a simple add that can save so many people headaches.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE provide text as part of annotations.  I am to the point where I'm capturing the image in Snagit software and annotating it there.  It's that important to me as a landscape photographer because I tend to need to make copious notes about a photograph.

I 100% agree Thomas. As a digital tech on set, I often get asked to make notes for the retoucher. At the moment I have to copy the image number and make a word doc that gets sent to the retoucher with the images. I don't even use the annotations as its to slow to have to write what you need on each image on my Wacom. 

Having a text option would make annotations much more useful. 

Capture one... please look into this. 

I totally support your topic Thomas. In professional workflows regarding production studio shooting, remote head of postproduction and freelance retouchers, it's a pain in the a** not being able to write some basic text with Annotations Tool.

And I feel disappointed it seems Capture One is not working in such an easy implementation. So what happens, for example in big Fashion Retail companies, ecommerce, etc ?

They just screenshot the Capture One Viewer, with a random screenshot name on Mac OS, and then they open the screenshot JPG and use Apple Preview app to do what they can't do in Capture One. Has no sense at all from the point of view of a professional :)

That would be nice for sure. For digital operator on the field for futur reference or when when send a file (.eip ) for retoucher or embedded in a calc in PSD format.

As said, all of this is already possible with drawing, we just need text boxes.

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.

Ideally a choice of at least a few fonts, sizes and colors would also be good, plus ability to reposition or drag it around, resize it and rotate it.
Repostioning and resizing it would allow you to place it in the correct position without having to start anew if you don't get it quite right and same if you copy it to another image. Rotating it would allow you to more accurately place it so it correctly refers to a point in the image.
I find this useful for marking points of interest in landscapes, for example, but have no doubt commercial photographers and their clients would also be able to utilize this in the same way in order to clarify their requirements.
And also if possible (and not asking for too much?), being able to add a link to a Metadata field

Just hacking away in Python, to figure out how the bits fit together. No public repo as it's not worthwhile code currently. It just modifies XMP files, so no need for plugin SDKs, I just execute it on a folder full of images. 

Still need to implement a LOGO style linewriter for writing out the text, but work demands my free time currently :(

370116679178 how are you coding this? Are you using the plugin SDK?  I checked it but doesn't look reliable. Do you have a public reporitory of your work?

Started writing my own code to "Draw" text from an XMP field into an annotation in C1 I was that desperate... Got to the point where I need to implement a LOGO font library to draw it out correctly, and it's good to go. At this rate I'll probably be finished before this gets implemented :)

This kind of tool would be absolutely useful for me as well. Currently many photographers we work with don't use Capture One's annotation tool simply because they don't have a graphics tablet and can't write annotations decently of course. Using a tool like this would make all annotations much neater and more readable.