Copying and pasting adjustments - Capture One Pro Tutorial

- [Instructor] Copying and paste adjustments are such a time saver especially when you have images in a series and you have certain adjustments you just want to apply to all of them. I'm going to show you how it works right now. Let's go ahead and finish this shot off, this black and white conversion by cropping it because it does need a crop to really have maximum impact. So all I have to do is click on the cropping tool and I get these little handles right up here just like this, and it looks like I'm in free crop at the moment. So I want something kind of like this and we're just going to come in tight on this, just like that. We don't want that bright spot there. I'm okay with this over here, I think that that over there was a little bit distracting. Let's see. Maybe we just take it right up to the edge, something like that. By the way, I can adjust the different constraints right now. I'm unconstrained but if I wanted it to be square or any of these proportions I can do that. At the moment we're just going to leave it unconstrained. Now you would think that normally you hit the return key or something on the crop. It doesn't work that way. It just stays cropped. However, if you want the effect, just sit there "v" key and that takes you out of the cropping tool. Okay? And you go, "Oh wait. Maybe I want it just a little bit tighter." So you just come back to the cropping tool, let's take it tighter. We want it tighter, right? We really want to get in there. That face is so adorable. We just really want to enjoy it. All right. So let's do something like that. Now I'm going to hit the "v" key. There we are. Okay. So now let's say that I want to apply this same work to another shot, but I don't remember or I don't want to go back through all the steps. It's easy. You just come up here to copy, see this arrow right there? You tap on that. Now let's go to the next shot that we want to apply it to and then we click the apply arrow and you go, wow, that's pretty nice. It did the crop and everything. The crop's off a little bit, but that's not a problem. Or if you just click on the crop tool and you can reposition. And he has his paw hanging down there so then, you know, you go, okay, I think I want just a little different proportions on this one as well, but we get all the other good stuff. We get the film grain and the black and white conversion and all of that. I'm going to hit the "v" key. Now, sometimes people don't want the crop applied and you go, okay, there's a way to do that. I'm going to take you over to the adjustments clipboard right here. That's this tab right here. See Adjustments Clipboard, and when I copy adjustments they are copied to this adjustments clipboard right here. So I could undo something that I don't want applied to the rest of the shots. There's also a way to semi automate that by coming up here to the three dots, under Autoselect If you do Adjusted, you get everything crop included. If you go Adjusted Except Composition what they mean by composition is cropping, right? So you won't get cropping. So if you don't want the crops, if you just want everything else, whatever is checked on the adjustments clipboard, but you don't want the crop, then just choose this as your preferred way to go and it will apply everything except the crop and then you crop it the way that you want. So that's a really handy way to work quickly. If you do something like a wedding or a portrait shoot, something where you've got a lot of shots similar lighting, similar everything, you get one of them just the way that you want in terms of skin tone and color and sharpness, then use this clipboard, just copy the adjustments right up here, paste them, and then if you want to work with that clipboard, in other words, if you want to take a few things off or even add a few things just come over here to the Adjustments Clipboard, check or uncheck the boxes as desired and you will save yourself a lot of time.