hello I'm Robin Whalley welcome to lenscraft a little while back I pre
purchased an upgrade to capture one to the new 2020 version I've now received
the email saying the software's available so today I'm going to talk you
through some of the changes in this latest version the first one we'll look
at is the crop tool this has had a very simple change which
is adding drag handles to the edges of the crop frame
strangely this has made it a whole lot easier to see and use the developers
also added a couple of modifier keys you can use when cropping if you hold down
the option or Alt key on your keyboard the crop changes from the center of the
crop area rather than from the edges when you drag from one edge normally the
crop only changes that side
but if you hold down the option or Alt key while dragging the crop changes so
that both sides change relative to the center
the other modifier key is the shift key hold down shift while dragging the crop
area and the oar locks the aspect ratio at the crop
you can even hold down both modifier keys together
to lock the aspect ratio of a crop and crop from the center at the same time
personally I don't have much use for the modifier keys but I know there are quite
a lot of people out there who will appreciate the enhancement the next
change I want to mention and the shortcut keys two of them that I think
are particularly useful and the . key and that zooms you into 100%
magnification and if you want to fit the image to the preview window press the
comma key there are also a few other minor interface changes but once there
might be minor they do improve the overall working experience now one of
the big changes that I want to look at is the basic color editor
this is no more compact another eight rather than six color zones and there
are a few of the changes is probably best to demonstrate how this works
rather than focus on the differences start by picking a color zone in one of
two ways first you can click the colored squares
and then make any adjustments
notice you can now see an indication of the sliders effect on the color range
alternatively you can use the color picker tool and select the color zone by
clicking the image
after that I can adjust the sliders to affect the color I can also vote click
and drag up and down with the adjuster to change the saturation
if I drag left and right I changed the hue
I can also hold down my option or Alt key while dragging from left and right
and change the lightness
now if you don't like these settings you can change them using the new settings
option
here you can see the hue has the horizontal adjustment saturation
vertical and likenesses old and horizontal but you've got other
options
it's also possible to and changed the color zones by clicking
the options icon
this opens the color range editor showing the width of each of the color
zones these relate to the swatches that you see here also notice there's an
option to view the selected color range when this is active the image becomes
desaturated apart from the color you've selected this allows you to see the
affected area more clearly
now if you select and move the edge of the segment you can increase or decrease
the range of color that it affects
you also have a smoothness slider and this helps you to blend the transition
between the zones to become more natural watch what happens to the edges here
when I move the slider left and right as you can see when I move the slider
smoothness to its maximum value the zone between the different segments becomes
more blurred that is the blending effect that takes place once you're happy just
click apply but for me the big improvement is that I can now use this
tool on adjustment layers I'm not restricted to just using it on
the background layer now let's look at one of my favorite tools which is the
high dynamic range adjustment
the old tool was very effective at recovering highlights in shadow detail
from raw files but sometimes the sliders didn't give enough control while these
tools now had to makeover and we now have white and black sliders if you've
never used this tool before let me show you how effective it can be
I shot this image using a Fuji xt3 and it's underexposed by about two stops I
also didn't use a filter so perhaps it's even under expose by more now if I use
the exposure slider to correct and dark areas
the sky becomes blown out but if I now use the high-dynamic-range sliders I can
correct the image
now if you're thinking big deal lots of converters of these four sliders I don't
blame you what's different about the sliders in capture one in my opinion is
that the results look totally natural and the colors are absolutely excellent
and once I've recovered the dynamic range from the Ralphs file I can adjust
the image further using the levels and curves tool
and everything is looking natural this is a really good result no we only have
this area of dark rocks to deal with and I can do that using a radial gradient
adjustment layer now here's where you'll find further interface changes I can now
see and select the different types of tools to adjust the image width I can
also change the masking options I'm not needing to mess around with drop
downs and pop ups to deal with the adjustments that I want to make and this
is making the software much easier to work with I think this is a huge
improvement over the previous version now to make my changes I'll add an a
radial gradient
and to ensure that I don't adjust any of the highlight areas in error I'll make
this a luma range
and I can change this to just deal with the darkest areas in the image
now there's also another improvement to the interface I want to show you
I can take any of these blocks of controls and I can actually pin them to
the pinned area at the top so now when I scroll up and down I don't lose the tool
it's pinned here so that I can access it easily and when I'm done with it
I can remove it and move it back to the scrollable area again a small change but
it really makes a difference to when you're working with the image now let's
recover the dark rocks in this area using this radial gradient
and that's created a very believable result if i zoom into the area at 100%
you can see the result is excellent it doesn't seem to matter that we've done
lots and lots of recovery work in that area it's still a very good believable
result
no let's look at the image side-by-side with the original we've been working on
a clone version so here's the original image
and side-by-side you can see that we've made loads of recovery and we've ended
up with a very clean detailed image that looks very natural
the original is well underexposed as you can see and it's quite amazing how much
these software's managed to pull back now there are other enhancements and
changes to the software I focused on what's important to me as a landscape
photographer if you want to learn about the other changes don't just watch the
short promotional video on the website after searching the website I've
actually found a few pages that summarize the changes quite well I'll
include the link in the video details below and I also want to stress that if
you're thinking of upgrading or buying capture one be sure to download the
trial version and spend some time using it now I hope you've enjoyed this video
if you have please share it with others I'm Robin Whalley you've been watching
lenscraft I'll see you next time for another video