On Tue 17/08/2004 10:28, Graham Trott wrote:

>On the processing dialogue, select the tab that saves capture name only.
>
>There are multiple choices in the drop-down menu - job and capture name is
what I tend to use, i.e.  ' portrait_DSC_1234 ' or something like that.

Thanks Graham, but I must be thick or something:- What do you mean by the
"processing dialoge"? - I've messed about with "Develop Settings" & "Capture
Output" in the preferences dialogue but can't get the captured filename (as
allocated by the camera) to be retained.
My workflow at present is to download the RAW images from a card-reader to a
customer folder on my computer hard disc. I then create a new session in C1
Pro and select the customer folder containing the RAW images (the first of
which is a shot of the Gretag Colour Chart) as the root folder. In C1 Pro, I
select the first image (the Gretag Colour Chart) and carry out adjustments
for white Balance and Exposure. I then select all the images in the root
folder and apply these settings to all of them. I then select the "Develop"
tab and batch develop the sected captures. It is during this process that
the orignal filename gets dropped, usually in favour of the camera allocated
number for the Gretag Chart shot plus (for all the images) plus a suffix
which seems to depend on the options originally selected in the preferences
dialogue. This is frustrating to say the least as I'm sure I'm doing
something stupid but can't for the life of me see what!

Another observation is that with CS I can make all the adjustmets I need
(calibration) for the target image and then save those settings so that they
can be applied to the other images in the set. Unfortunately there is no
option to batch process the images in CS and this was one (of many)
attractions in C1 Pro, although I have to say that C1 Pro falls short of
expectations in the calibration stakes. Having said that, it is clearly more
powerful in that you can use cutom profiles instead of a calibration
technique but who wants to set up a custom profile for each shoot? Again,
I'm probably missing something here.
Ah well, I guess I shall just have to persevere until I have a better
understanding of C1 Pro but (and it's another niggle) their help files are
not particularly comprehensive and don't do the product justice compared to
PS for instance.

Malcolm Jeffs



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