Capture One can sync adjustments in a number of different and flexible ways. In this video and blog post I cover three of those that I use the most often. Read on below for a more in depth discussion of each. Flexibility and the Adjustments Clipboard Capture One is extremely flexible, from it’s easily rearranged […]
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Capture One: Creating High Quality Local Adjustment Masks
Capture One local adjustments include many powerful tools for creating high quality masks. During this quick edit walk through, I will create a couple of different masks, some simple, at least one complex. Planning Your Edit Before you set out to edit a photo, it’s a good idea to plan your actions and form a […]
Star Trail: Shooting and Editing, Start to Finish
Photographing star trails involves a lot of complications. In this video I go through the entire process of photographing the star trail including dealing with light pollution. Then I go through an entire edit from start to finish. I edit the RAW files in Capture One, and then iterate through stacking the images in StarStax […]
Capture One: RAW File Storage Location
How do you choose a Capture One RAW file storage location? Capture One is flexible. That’s one of the things that makes it superior to the alternatives (also, it produces better results and is faster, but I digress). That flexibility can be a little confusing to new photographers and those converting from Lightroom to Capture […]
Capture One: Exporting Finished Photos with Recipes
A Capture One Process Recipe provides an easy way to export photos from within the standard editing workflow. There is no dialog box or other step to break your editing. You can process images through one or multiple process recipes at the same time. And thanks to Capture One’s highly configurable interface you can add […]
Capture One Imports: 3 Powerful Methods
Capture One imports are highly flexible. Like many things in Capture One, it doesn’t require you to adopt any particular directory structure or import method. Instead, you can configure it on an import by import basis to do whatever you like. Or, you can keep life simple and let Capture One Imports handle things. There […]
Capture One: Changing Background Colors Using Adjustment Layers
How do I change the background color in capture one? Sometimes I can’t control the color of the background during a photo shoot and I have to change the background color in post production. Normally, I would go Affinity Photo and make use of it’s superior masking tools. Capture One added a powerful Refine Mask […]
Workflow: Taming the Beast by Splitting Your Photo Catalogs
In my previous post about high level workflow design and breaking vendor lock-in, I referenced different types of workflows: the monolithic, semi-monolithic and project based workflow. I didn’t go into detail then (that post was already getting long), but now it is time to talk about them in detail. This article is primarily about the […]