hello i'm robin whalley welcome to lenscraft today i'm looking at one of the most useful tools in
capture one it's the advanced color editor and it gives you complete control over the hue saturation
and luminance of colors whilst editing your photos but before we dive into adjusting this image we
need to look at the hsl color model that's the key to unlocking how to use the advanced color editor
i did a quick search on the internet and found this diagram of a model on wikimedia
i'll include a link to it in the youtube video information in case you want to copy
this model has three dimensions and is the shape of a cylinder if you were looking down on top
of the cylinder you'd see a circle which changes colour this is the colour wheel and it represents
the hue component of the colour the next component is saturation the nearer a colour is to the center
of the circle the lower its saturation whilst the most saturated colours are found towards the edge
we then have a third component which is how light the colour is
the darkest colours are at the bottom of the cylinder whilst the lightest are at the top
we can use this model to represent different colours in an image and most importantly it's
the basis for the advanced colour editor and lots of other editing tools you'll find the advanced
colour editor in the colour tab of capture one unless of course you rearrange your panels in
the colour editor section there's a basic editor with predefined colours which you can adjust using
three sliders notice these are the three controls or components in the hsl model that we've just
looked at we can then switch to the advanced color editor by clicking the advanced option
but before we can use the advanced color editor we first need to pick a color to adjust using the
picker tool clicking the picker tool activates it and i can then click on the area of the image that
i want to adjust when i sample the header you can see a coloured triangle appear inside the circle
the circle represents the colour wheel and shows the different possible hues i can select
the triangle in the circle then represents the colours i've selected by sampling the heather
including the level of saturation this is just like the hsl model that we looked at earlier
the small dot inside the triangle represents the actual colour that i clicked on notice
how the selection extends wider than this sample colour but you can control this area as you'll see
you can also select to view the chosen colours in the image using the tick box here when i click
this the image becomes black and white except for those colours selected by the triangle
i can manually change the selection by clicking and dragging the controls of the triangle
when i click the center handle on the edge of the circle i can use it to rotate the selection
around the colour wheel if i move it clockwise i select the heather which is more of a purple hue
and if i move it anticlockwise i select the heather which has more red in the colour
i can also click the triangle and drag it to extend it towards the outer edge of the circle if
you remember the hsl colour model this means i'm including more saturated colours in the selection
for this example i'll start by selecting the heather where the hue is more purple than red
i can then shift those colours towards red by moving the hue slider to the right
if i move the hue slider to the left we shift those colours towards blue
to make the adjustments easier to see i'll increase the saturation to around 30.
now let's move the hue slider to the right with a value of around 8.
notice again that we have three controls of hue saturation and lightness to control our color
changes now look just below the controls you can see the colour sample selected
and the adjustment settings for the hue saturation and lightness
if i click on the tick box to the left of this i can toggle the adjustments off and on
to check the effect they're having on the image then further down we see the colour
swatches for the selected adjustment the swatch on the left shows the original selected colour
then the swatch on the right shows the effect of the adjustments we've just applied now let's make
a second color selection this time i'll select the heather that appears a little more orange
we can then shift the hue of this to the left moving the color towards purple this helps to
reduce the variation in colour across the heather as before i'll increase the saturation to help you
see the adjustments more easily you can also see that we have two different colours in the list now
and we can select each one using our mouse each time i select a color in the list the two color
swatches showing the original and the adjusted color appear below let's now sample the blue in
the sky part of the sky looks a little bit too cyan and in some places almost green i can click
with this sample tool to make the selection then turn on the colour range view to see the affected
areas as you can see there isn't much affected and the sample doesn't have much saturation
i can extend the saturation of the selection although this doesn't seem to select more of
the sky i can also try extending the angle of the triangle so that it includes more cyan this makes
the hue range being selected wider and includes more of the sky with the selection in place
i can use the hue slider now to shift the color towards blue and away from cyan
the final color that i want to adjust is yellow i'll sample this from the sky near the sun but i
expect it to include some of the grass in the trees you can see this when i turn
on the view color range option i want my selection to include the trees and fields
so that i can shift the colour a little towards orange giving the image a warmer feel
as i move the hue slider to the left it shifts the colours towards orange
the other adjustment i'm going to make is using the lightness slider to increase the brightness
of those areas this helps to emphasize the feeling of sunlight shining on the fields
whilst i've been making my selections and adjustments you may have noticed a fuzzy
color around the edge of the selection triangle this is to help with blending the adjustment and
it's controlled using the smoothness slider if i move the smoothness slider over to the left
you'll see the softness around the triangle disappears as i then move the slider over
to the right the softness around the edge of the selection increases this creates a softer edge to
the selection blending the colour adjustments that i'm making most of the time i leave the smoothness
slider set to the default of 20. what we've done in making these adjustments with the advanced
color editor is to control the dominant color of the overall image this helps to create a better
perception of the image and the advanced colour editor is a great tool for making the adjustments
if you have your own preferred method for adjusting colours either in capture one or
using other editing tools please let me know in the video comments i'm always interested
in how other people work i hope you found today's video helpful if you have please take a moment to
share it with others i'm robin whalley you've been watching lenscraft i'll see you soon for another
thank video