Hi people, welcome to this video! We will discover what is and how to use
Capture One Pro 8
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Capture One is a great software to manage and edit photos. We will see all
most important features of this software, to be able to do everything with
your photos.
The
buttons. On the left, different panels where you will apply adjustments and
corrections. On the centre the media opened in preview. And, and the bottom,
the collection of all your imported files.
In Capture One you can import
on
and all its media inside will appear on your screen. Select all files you want
to import, and then go to
files
Everytime you import images, a
of imported images.
This corresponds to a folder that
when you click on Import Images
system folder
If you imported more than once, you may have more sessions on the left.
You can join all media files simply dragging these on your main session.
If you right-click on a session, and go to
its folder related. If you rename this folder, you do rename the session as
well. You can check your sessions inside the
To delete sessions, you must delete the
simply deletes the session from the list, but not its folder.
You can select which file to open (and edit), selecting it at the bottom.
Capture One lets you import videos, but
Select an image. You can check it better
wheel. If you
On top, the four numbers indicate the
is none of one color,
The second panel is called
metadata related to the camera that took the picture. What is important, is
what is on top. In
exposure goes for all the four colors: green, blue, red and white. You can
check better hovering the image on the preview. Below, the indicator shows the
overall exposure level: it is good if it is close to zero.
Let's see how to simply edit and improve your selected photo. First of all,
you need to
use the
to be more precise. You can drag the bar, or type the precise value.
You can also
To
enable the
just click and drag. All highlighted inside will be saved.
Second step, is to
On top you find the
how colors are distributed. All colors are shown, and each has a different
graph. What you have to keep in mind is that the left part of the histogram
represents all colors that compose the darker parts of the photo, while
on the right the lighter ones. The higher is a color graph, the more such
color is concentrated on that level of lightness.
Below, correct
a little wrong. Then correct the amount of color, going to
Hue
on the circle. You can use
Enable the effect, and adjust the lightness of each single color that was
present on the original photo.
If the final aspect of the photo is not satisfactory, go to
tools make a stronger change on your image, in terms of lightness, contrast
and color amount. If you ever mistake, remember to
Third step is to enhance the photo, for example reducing its
correcting
To reduce smoothness, you can use
more, you can go to
add effects, like the
adjust the curvature applied on your photo, or adding any
You can also stretch the image, according to a defined perspective. Try
Keystone Tools out!
What, if you need to correct just some parts of the image? If you need
to remove spots on the image, just go to
Removal
include the spot to remove inside the circle.
If you want to apply exposure, lightness and color just on parts of the photo,
you need to create a
the photo. Enable
To check your
Display Mask
Right-click to change radius and settings.
your Mask. If you mistake at drawing the Mask, you can right-click on
Mask
When the Mask is ready, you must open
apply the adjustments. These are the same ones met before, with the
difference that these will work just on the selected Mask.
Each Mask is a defined layer in the list above.
on the same layer, you will expand your current Mask
new one. To create a new layer, so a Mask with different adjustments applied
in the future, just click on the
define another new mask by drawing.
Mind that
layer or Mask
The
effect of all adjustments. To change this order, just drag the layers up
or down.
In case your photo is okay, you just need to
it in your session, even with everything applied, all changes are not yet
saved on the photo. To apply all definitely, you must
Simply right-click on the photo selected, and go to
between
originally. The second one with all adjustments applied. In
click on the
Format
settings, like the file format, the coding and the resolution. Then go to
Export
Very important in Capture One are the
variant
more variants to a single photo, and each of them can have different
adjustments applied.
If you right-click on a photo, and go to
of the original photo, on which you can apply adjustments different from
your previous variant. If you use
from the adjustments applied on the primary variant.
To
If you want to make
as sample and go to
to check them. Right-click again to finish with the comparisons.
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