Advanced Capture One Pro: Library Management

Course details

Capture One Pro is a powerful photo-management and raw-format conversion program. In this course, photographer Derrick Story—who uses Capture One Pro to manage his own photography business—zooms in on the photo management features of the program. He goes into the advantages of choosing a session or catalog, and helps you decide which option best suits your work. For those who go with the catalog option, he also helps you decide between a managed or referenced catalog. Learn about integrating sessions and travel catalogs into your master libraries, using the Folders panel to control how your images are organized on the hard drive, filtering your images using star ratings, color tags, and key words, and more.

Learning objectives
Deciding between a session or catalog
Choosing between a managed or referenced catalog
Importing files for sessions and managed and referenced catalogs
Integrating a session into a managed and referenced catalog
Using the Import Session command
Creating a project in user collections
Adding an album to user collections
Adding pictures to an existing album and a project
Configuring a Smart Album in user collections
Showing information for albums and projects
Exporting projects and albums as catalogs
Using the Folders panel

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you need to know before starting
03 - Windows and Mac terminology
04 - A note about backing up your work

1. First Decisions - Catalog Types and Sessions

05 - Choose a session or catalog
06 - Choose a managed or referenced catalog
07 - Import files for a managed catalog
08 - Import files for a referenced catalog
09 - Import files for a session
10 - Integrate a session into a managed catalog
11 - Integrate a session into a referenced catalog
12 - Use the Import Session command

2. Master User Collections

13 - Understand the user collections area
14 - Create a project in user collections
15 - Add an album to user collections
16 - Add pictures to an existing album
17 - Add pictures to a project
18 - Configure a Smart Album in user collections
19 - Make a group in user collections
20 - Show info for albums and projects
21 - Set and add to a Selects album
22 - Export projects and albums as catalogs
23 - Import travel catalogs into a master catalog

3. Hard Drive Management with the Folders Panel

24 - The Folders panel
25 - Move files on the hard drive via the Folders panel
26 - Synchronize a folder
27 - Locate missing masters
28 - Work with your masters offline
29 - Show and hide the folder hierarchy
30 - Add a folder and move images into it
31 - Put a catalog on a network
32 - Make a referenced catalog managed

4. Metadata, Keywords, and File Naming

33 - Customize your file names on import (tokens)
34 - Create a file naming preset
35 - Create and apply a metadata preset
36 - Add metadata to your images on import
37 - Reset text completions
38 - Batch rename images
39 - Add keywords via the Metadata tool tab
40 - Edit mistyped keywords or delete them
41 - Delete keywords from an entire catalog

5. Filter and Sort

42 - Overview of the Filters panel
43 - Add and subtract filters from the panel
44 - Star ratings and color tags in Filters
45 - Use keywords in the Filters panel
46 - Use global filters
47 - Sort thumbnails by various criteria
48 - Save search results as albums

Conclusion

49 - Next steps

Advanced Capture One Pro: Library Management

Authors

Derrick Story