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Today’s quick tip is about exporting photos from CaptureOne for social media.
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In my last quick tip about diffraction correction, I talked about the so-called three-stage sharpening in Capture One. The first stage corrects the flaws, and the second stage sharpens the RAW image, which is always needed after demosaicing. The third stage sharpens images during export – if you downscale your photos, you need to restore some details. Os 10 13. Capture One offers a perfect tool in export settings. It doesn’t depend if you use Export Variants function (your only choice if you are Capture One Express user) or processing with Recipes in Output tab. In both cases, sharpening is available in Adjustments panel:
It offers many possibilities I am thoroughly describing in my e-book (only in Czech for now, sorry guys), but you can manage many common scenarios like exporting for social media with single settings. These values work reasonably well for my cameras Fujifilm X-T2 and X-T3 cameras:
- Sharpening: Output Sharpening for Screen
- Amount: 80
- Radius: 0,7
- Threshold: 1
The same settings will work for other Fujifilm cameras with the same sensors and you can try them even if you use different cameras with a similar resolution between 20 and 24 megapixels. For higher resolutions, you may need to experiment a bit.
Other settings may be suitable in case when you downscale photo only a little. And you absolutely should not sharpen photos exported in full size – then no sharpness degradation occurs so additional sharpening would lead to over-sharpened image. Using Process Recipes in Output tool tab makes it easier as you can set different sharpening for each recipe, but this feature is available only in Capture One Pro.
My social media export workflow
Over time I fine-tuned a workflow with which I achieve optimal image quality when publishing photos to social media:
- I export photos from Capture One in final sizes. I use Process Recipes I have created for Facebook and Instagram. I will show you both of them later. Thanks to recipes it is easy to create files for both platforms at one time. If you use Capture One Express, you can use the same settings in Export Variants dialog.
- I use the TIFF format for exporting because I am adding watermark to images and I don’t want to degrade image quality by editing JPEGs. After exporting, I open TIFF files for Facebook and Instagram in Affinity Photo, add watermarks and save both files with layers that allow me to remove or reposition watermark later. Sometimes, I also crop the image for Instagram in this step.
- I export final images for sharing – I use JPEG with 100 % quality for Instagram and PNG for Facebook. I don’t do any other processing or sharpening in Affinity Photo – it was done during Capture One export.
Process Recipe for Facebook
Here is my Facebook process recipe:
On the Basic panel, I set TIFF format, because I will later add watermark in Affinity Photo. I don’t do it in Capture One, because it doesn’t allow me to specify a watermark position separately for every image. If you don’t need to add a watermark, you can go with PNG Format here (other settings will remain the same). The final image size is set to 2048 pixels on the long edge – the second dimension will be computed using the original aspect ratio.
On File panel, I can set the output folder (Root Folder). In this case, I use Social Media folder with Sub Folder named by the collection name of the photo. I also set the Sub Name which allows me to rename exported files – I will show you how it works later.
Adjustments panel is important because it is the place where we set output sharpening settings. I use the values mentioned earlier in this post.
I am exporting images with most of the metadata included. I don’t think it is necessary to hide exposure data and so. I omit GPS Coordinates only because poachers sometimes look for them in wildlife photos, and ratings with the color tag too as these are not useful for another person than me.
Process Recipe for Instagram
Instagram export is a bit more complicated because it requires exact aspect ratios – images not complying with them could be cropped. This is my main recipe:
Basic settings for Instagram differ only in image size definition – it is not determined by the long edge, but by width (1080 pixels) and height (1350 pixels) limits. The photo will be scaled to fit into this rectangle using the original aspect ratio. Resulting files will have the right size for sharing if the original is landscape-oriented photo, portrait-oriented 4 by 5 photo, or a square. If your photo doesn’t meet these conditions, you will need to edit it a bit – I will tell you how later.
I use the same settings in the File panel like for Facebook, the only difference is in Sub Name which is used for renaming the files – I use -IG suffix here.
As I said, this export works perfectly for landscape-oriented images, for portrait-oriented images with 4:5 aspect ratio and squares. You can upload such photos directly to Instagram and just disable automatic square cropping during submitting. But what if your photo is a portrait-oriented with the different aspect ratio?
If you don’t want to change the composition, you need to add borders (mostly white or black) to the image to maintain a 4:5 ratio. For example, if your image is 2:3 portrait, it will be exported as 900×1350 pixels. Then you will need to add borders in some photo editor (Capture One cannot do it for you) to get 1080×1350 image like this:
If you don’t mind creating a different crop for Instagram, you can do it in Capture One (best using a special variant of an image) and then export it as described above. I prefer to export the 1080 pixels wide image and do the crop in the Affinity Photo when adding the watermark. The advantage is that this way you don’t have additional unnecessary variants in your Capture One catalog. For this purpose, I have created a different process recipe called Instagram Portrait Crop:
As you can see, the final size is limited by the width of 1080 pixels. The height of the image is computed using the original aspect ratio. For 2:3 portrait it will be 1620 pixels, so I then crop 270 pixels out in Affinity Photo to get 4:5 ratio. Other settings are the same as for standard Instagram recipe except I use different Sub Name in File panel to distinguish files for cropping later – I use the -IGc suffix here.
Naming exported files
It is not sufficient to fill Sub Name in process recipes to have exported files named correctly – you need to use this value too. It can be done in Output Naming palette:
Notice, that final file name (Format) is composed of two tokens: the Image Name is an original file name, and Sub Name is the value from process recipe. You can see the resulting file name for the selected variant in the Sample field (DSCF2362-IG in this case). Exported files may look like this:
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This is my workflow for exporting photos for social media from Capture One with some finishing in Affinity Photo (in most cases, only adding the watermark). Key elements of the workflow are:
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- Sharpening of images during the export with these values: Amount = 0,8 / Radius = 0,7 / Threshold = 1 (you may need to experiment with these values if you use camera with significantly higher resolution then 24 megapixels)
- I use PNG with the long edge of 2048 pixels for sharing to the Facebook
- For Instagram, I use 100 % quality JPEG files downscaled to the size not exceeding 1080×1350 pixels. I am adding white or black borders to the portrait-oriented images with an aspect ratio different than 4:5 to prevent Instagram from cropping it.
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Capture One Media Pro Software
can trade meta data back and forth
this includes tags like keywords, location
Rating, contact and copyright information and more
in order to make it work correctly you'll need to set your preferences
and you also need to know how the swap works
We’ll outline how the Process works with this diagram
then we'll see how to set the preferences and then we'll see how to actually make the
swap
so we want to take metadata from Capture One and move it over into Media Pro and we'd also
like to take any meta data that we create in Media Pro
and move it back to Capture One
we can't do this directly, we have to use of third party
will use the image file
or rather we use a sidecar file that is sitting in the folder right next to the image file
and has the exact same name
but has XMP as the file extension on the end of the file name
when we create meta data in Capture One we can sync it out to the sidecar file then
When we import the images into our Media Pro catalog
all of the meta data that's in the sidecar file
will get brought into the catalog and will be assigned
to that image file
any changes that are made to the meta data
in the catalog
can be synced back to the XMP sidecar file and then that can also carry the changes
back over to Capture One
so if you were to add some keywords or change the usage rates or add or change
Copyright or contact information
you can push that back into the sidecar file
and then when you open the file backup in Capture One
you'll see the new information
associated with that file
and this is a manual Process as we have outlined it here
but we're going to make One change, we're going to set up the synchronization between Capture
One and the XMP sidecar file
to be an automatic
two-way synchronization
that way anytime we make a change in Capture One it's going to automatically update
the sidecar file
in any time
new information comes into the sidecar file
we're going to automatically see that in Capture One
the link between the sidecar file and the Media Pro catalog however is always going
to stay
as uh.. something that needs to be invoked manually
you will either export annotations from the Media Pro catalog you’re re-import
uh.. annotations
back into the Media Pro catalog
that won't be
An automatically updated link
in the same way we have it set up over here
in Capture One
their number of reasons Media Pro is set up this way
at the core, is the concept that catalog software contains the master copy meta data
you need a place to do your organization
and set the tags
and know that the work you do
will be reliably saved
it's simpler in safer
to keep all that information in one single place
the catalogue
think of the embedded and sidecar meta data
as a way to make the information visible to other Programs when that need arises
if we open the Capture One preferences which are in the Capture One menu on Mac and in the
edit menu on PC
and go into the
image panel we’ll see down at the bottom
the meta data items
this is the most important one right here
this auto sync sidecar XMP “full sync” this is what creates that two-way update between
Capture One
and the XMP sidecar file
I suggest you have these other two checkboxes
checked like this
but they're only going to be useful in very rare kinds of instances
and really that's all we have to do at this point we've set this up so that Capture One
will create these XMP sidecar files
and is always going to be updating them
anytime we add
meta data to some images
so let's see how that works
I’ve got a couple of images
and I want to add some metadata data
and I’m going to use a preset that I’ve got
I get a preview of what that is the information
shows up there in the meta data panel and I’m going to assign that information
and you can see
that information is now assigned
to both images let's keep these images selected
right-click
and add them to the Media Pro catalog
I can find my most recent import by the find menu shows last import
and here are these two images
that we've brought in
Let’s go look at the meta data for them
and you can see I have my city state country information as well as my copyright contact
information
all applied to these images
so these have come in with that information
that I applied over in
Capture One
now let's make a change to these files. I’m going to select both and taken some usage rights
okay have typed that in
and I can
tab out of that
and that's now been applied to both of these images and you can see
As I click through
there they are
let's go back into Capture One and see what we see
Back in Capture One we can see that the usage rights field is still blank, let's go back to
Media Pro and synchronize the annotations I’m going to select both of these images and
go to the action menu and choose sync annotations
you can see in the synchronize annotations
dialogue I have two options, I can either re-import metadata or I can export metadata
in this case I’m going to export metadata
Media Pro has added this new item
create XMP sidecar meta data files in this case because there already is a sidecar
file it actually doesn't matter
what I have this set to, and as long as your images are coming in from Capture One Pro
with sidecars
it actually doesn't really matter how you have this set
this only makes a difference
when there's no sidecar file already in existence
in which case you have the choice to tell it
not to make a sidecar file,
make a sidecar file when it thinks it needs to because it can't put the meta data into
the file, or to always make a sidecar file
regardless of what kind of file type you have. I suggest that for most people this is going
to be the right setting
once we have that set
let's hit “ok”
once we come back in to Capture One we can see that that metadata
has appeared in the correct field
and I didn't have to do anything to make it appear
because we have Capture One set too
update whenever
something happens to that XMP file
it simply read it in and shows it to me
now let's make a change here
and re-import that back into Media Pro
I’m going to change the location name here to the name of the road which is the M1
now let's go back into Media Pro
and we can see that of course this has not updated because we haven't told it to
So I’ll select both of these
and I’ll go up to the action menu
and I will sync annotations
And this time
I’m going to
import
I have three options
I can replace current
which will take
anything that's enough
XMP sidecar file
and it'll kicked out
anything that's in here that is different
or, I can say
merge
and what that's going to do
is it will
only important new values when there's
a blank field, if I select merge
it's only going to import new values
for blank fields it's going to prefer the catalog if there's a conflict and when I say
merge prefer original file
if there's a conflict between
what's in the XMP sidecar file and what's in the catalog
it's going to
Prefer what’s in the XMP sidecar file rather than what's here. In this case it doesn't make
any difference
and there it is, showing up in the location field