hello I'm Robin Whalley welcome to Lenscraft on Monday the 18th
of May there was a new update release for Capsule One 20 it's a free update for
existing users and today I'll be looking at few of the improvements I'll start by
saying that as a Fuji shooter I'm actually a big fan of capture one I made
the switch to using capture one from my Fuji roll processing around 12 months
ago and I've been extremely pleased with the results despite this there's a few
things I don't like about the software and this release is supposed to address
a couple of these if you check the Capture One website which incidentally is
new you'll find a new feature list the ones that I'm particularly interested to
see are the heal and clone brushes as well as the before-and-after preview
I've always found the cloning and healing confusing in capture one until
now you needed to use the mask brush and apply it onto either a heal or a clone
layer to make repairs in the new release you have individual heal and clone
brushes to try these I'll use this image of a railway viaduct and remove some of
the ivy from one of the supports the first thing to notice is that we now
have separate heal and clone tools in the layers panel when I pick one of
these brushes let's say the heel brush and I start to paint it creates a new
heal layer
using the heal brush capture one automatically makes a sample for the
repair in this example it's actually made quite a good job of selecting and
repairing the image but it doesn't always do such a good job especially
with more complex selections you can change the automatic sampling though by
clicking and selecting the sample point now I can drag to move it to a better
position
another new feature is being able to nudge the sample position using the
arrow keys on my keyboard these allow me to make extremely fine
corrections to the repair
if you want to adjust the heel and clone brush settings you can right click with
that tool enabled just as you can with the brush tool then you can adjust the
settings and when you move the most pointer off the window it vanishes
whilst I like this I would like to see them at the ability to adjust the brush
settings to an existing repair it's easy to forget to make a brush change before
you start a repair now let's look at the clone brush if I try to paint over an
area as a first step capture one complains I haven't set a
sample source you can do this by holding down the option key or the Alt key on a
PC and then clicking on a pointer sample after that I can then paint over the
area I want to clone out you also see this feature creates a new clone layer
if there wasn't one already in the image then when I select either the clone
brush or the healing brush capture one will automatically select the relevant
layer for the repair
but if I'm working on a complicated image with lots of repairs
I often create multiple separate layers I can do this though by manually adding
a new layer just as I would have in an earlier version if I have multiple
layers of the same type the automatic selection then chooses the
newest layer now let's go back and take a better look at the Healing Brush
because I want to show you a few things that aren't immediately obvious the
first is how to delete a repair before you can do it a single repair you need
to first select it by clicking the sample point you can then delete it by
pressing the Delete or backspace key on your keyboard the next point is that we
have the clone and heal brushes now in the main toolbar you'll find these group
together with the spot removal tool like a lot of these tools you need to click
and hold with your mouse button to expand the menu if you right-click you
see a different set of options to customize the toolbar as I've mentioned
already when using the heel brush capture one
automatically creates a sample area to use for the repair now whilst I like
this sometimes I know it's not going to make a good repair and I want to use a
specific sample fortunately I can do this by holding down the option key or
Alt key on a PC this allows me to fix the sample point just as I would have
with the clone brush
whilst I do like the new brushes I'm still finding my feet and some of the
behavior on finding is a bit confusing for example I could have an active
sample point because I've been moving it around if I then paint to repair other
areas all the repairs seem to be linked to that point when I move the sample
point around you can see that it's no repositioning all of the repairs
sometimes the software seems to go wrong after I've done this if I deselect the
point and try to create another repair sometimes it seems to mix them up and I
can't see where the samples being taken from now this could be mine not
understanding the behavior because the next feature also have me a little
confused if I make a repair near to an existing repair the software doesn't
create a new sample but it's actually extends the existing repair
despite this even with my lack of familiarity and finding the repairs are
quite good the other improvements in this release that I want to talk about
is the before and after comparison you can activate this using this new icon in
the toolbar when I click and hold the icon you can see that there are two
options in the full screen mode what you see is the starting image when you click
the icon when I click the icon a second time it turns this off and you see the
image with the edits the other option is the split screen view where the left
half of the image shows the original and the right half shows the edits I can
then click and drag to reposition that split as well as using the icon in the
toolbar I can use a couple of shortcut keys
which are useful to remember when I press the Y key on my keyboard I can
toggle the full screen preview on and off if I want to toggle the split screen
preview on and off I can use the shift and Y key this seemed like a simple
change but it's something that I've really missed when working with capture
1 so it's great to see that so that's the three new options that I wanted to
cover in this video explaining version 13.1 have Capture One 20 I hope you found
this helpful I'm Robin Whalley you've been watching
Lenscraft I'll see you next week for another video
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