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The Capture One manual actually goes into it in-depth so if you want to know more check it out. You can copy whole groups of variants, but the process is a bit complex. There are undoubtedly some things about variant’s that I’ve missed in this. So there you have it, a basic primer on variants and their uses. Variants always retain the name of the original image, with a number to indicate their place int he variant group. People have been complaining about this for years, but so far to no avail. I don’t get the logic here, but it’s something you should be aware of as one of the limitations of the software. If you move a variant to an album, the original variant will be moved also. Variants are always linked together, and you can’t put them in separate albums from the primary variant, because they are always in the group. For some crazy reason, you can’t do this in Capture One. You can have two virtual copies, and put one in one collection and another in a different collection. In Lightroom, you can put any virtual copy in any collection or collection set. There’s one other big difference between Lightroom and Capture One when it comes to variants, or virtual copies, and it’s kind of a stupid limitation. You can also physically reorder them in the stack by dragging them in the browser. You can move variants up and down the stack by using the “promote variant” and “demote” variants from the range menu. This will move it to the top of the stack. If you have a number of variants in the group and you want to pick one to be the “cover” or the primary variant in the stack, select its thumbnail in the group and from the image menu choose “pick variant”.

This leads to some rather annoying limitations (see below). You can reorder variants within the group, but you can’t extract a variant from the variant group. You can collapse this group with the little arrow icon at the top left corner of the variant thumbnail in the browse. When you create variants they are grouped together with the original variant, much like a stack in Lightroom. This is handy if you want to start again, but not loose the edits you’ve already made. In Lightroom terms, it would be like creating a virtual copy and then resetting all the settings. New Variant makes a fresh set of instructions based off the original raw file. You can now continue to edit both variants independently. It’s basically copying the set of instructions, or the recipe, at the point you made the copy. It makes a virtual copy of the photo that you’re working on, including any adjustments you have already made. You can find these commands in the image menu, or by right clicking on a thumbnail in the browser (or the image if you have the arrow tool selected)Ĭlone Variant is the closest thing to Lightroom’s “new virtual copy” command. When you want to create a virtual copy of a photo in Capture One, unlike Lightroom, you’re actually presented with two options: Clone variant and New Variant. (This isn’t an official Capture One explanation by the way - it’s just my way of explaining it) Copies and Clones You can think of this set of instructions as the variant, and you can have as many variants as you want, without having to duplicate the original RAW file. This is the same as all raw workflow applications (like Lightroom). You can keep changing that set of instructions and they’re only baked in when you export to a flat format like Jpeg or Tiff.

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You’re creating a set of instructions, or a recipe, on how to edit that file. When you import a file into Capture One to work on, you’re never altering the original file. At its simplest, a variant refers to any version of your raw file (or jpeg file) inside Capture One.

You don’t really need to worry about this too much, but the terminology can be a bit confusing if you’re new to it. Your original is considered a variant, and any copies of this are variants. The biggest difference is that in Capture One, everything is technically a variant. In this post, we’ll look at some of the basics of using variants in Capture One. However, if you’ve come from Lightroom, you may notice that there are some key differences. In Capture One, Variants are the equivalent of what Lightroom refers to as “virtual copies”.

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