Capture One 21 New Features - STYLE BRUSHES

captain one recently released an update so now we are working with captain 21.1 or 14.1 one of the brand new features are style brushes so i've been experimenting recently a bit with portraits and i was playing around with style brushes so in today's video we are going to be working with the portrait of angela and i'm going to show you how to quickly improve your portraits with style brushes so we will be working with this image this is the original raw file starting point and we'll get towards this result ready let's jump right into it hi everyone my name is kashas mokwa welcome to my channel where you will always find photo editing training and educational videos to help you grow as an artist and photographer today's video was requested by monica she dropped me an email asking for a tutorial on style brushes so here we are so first of all to see the new feature we have style brushes here under the exposure tab you need to upgrade to the current version of capture one so you can check it here about capture one and here you will see what version you are currently on it has to be 14.1 which is the same as 21.1 okay so what are style brushes before they introduced before capture one introduced style brushes we had style so if i jump over to the styles tab i have all the styles that i have either created or purchased so we have the custom styles here and styles consist of multiple adjustments so any of these styles will typically include luminosity adjustments color adjustments that would be a set of many different adjustments to get you to a certain point in comparison the style brushes tackle a specific issue so if we just take a look here we have our style brushes i don't have any custom style brushes saved yet but i have these style brushes that come out of the box so if i open them i can see they are divided into three sections color enhancements and light and contrast so for example under color we have four different style brushes balance called balance warm saturation negative saturation positive so adding saturation or desaturating under enhancements we have a detail deep sky iris enhance and so on so let's jump over to our image i'm just going to get rid of these layers where i have performed my adjustments don't scare away i have quite many of these layers because i was experimenting with all these tools and capture one by default will always create a new layer for every style brush okay let me show you how it works in action so i'm going to jump over to this image let's just hide the browser we don't need it for the moment so on my background layer i have run the auto adjustment on levels this gave me the perfect starting point for luminosity adjustments this set contrast and then on my luminosity curves i've been playing around with the rgb curve i wanted to go for the matte effect this is what i like doing for female portraits so this gives me this a little bit more i would say satin effect so before we have those shadows that are definitely on a dark side they are quite deep we have this very strong contrast the image was taken next to a large window only natural light but the contrast is quite strong and by lifting the black point by lifting the shadows so i'm talking now about this point here by changing the output value from 0 to 13 i've been able to get this matte effect and the image gets i would say softer more feminine i can go for this a bit i would say less contrasty look so this is what i've done on these two layers let's now jump over and start working with our style brushes so the very first thing that i would like to tackle here is still adjusting the luminosity levels so basically when i'm looking at this portrait the face is a little bit in the shade the shade is casted by her hands but the hands the palms the forearms the arms they are definitely too bright so this creates this super strong contrast and if we zoom in and by the way another new feature that was introduced in capture one 21.1 is that now the magnification level got increased so up till the previous version i believe we've been able to go up to 400 percent and now we can go all the way up to 1600 so this is what we are getting now so i just want to show you that in the palms here in the brightest parts we are losing a little bit of texture so if i go for the exposure warning we don't have any warnings okay we have we do so we have we are clipping some highlights here in the palms area so i'm going to use the style brush to get rid of this problem to fix this issue and we will be working with one of the style brushes from the last section light and contrast so all we need to do is to grab the highlights recovery brush and paint over the areas that we want to fix so let's just maybe zoom in a little bit and we can check out the brush settings take a note that for every layer that will be created for every particular style brush capture one will lock the size of the brush this can be done if you right click on your image and if you select it if you switch on this feature from here so you have link brush with layer this means that for every single layer in capital one once you work with particular brush the size of the brush and the other settings for the brush will be saved so this can be really really helpful i'm going to show you how it works in action so i have the brush set to this size let's just increase the size a little bit and let's just paint over the areas where we would like to recover some texture so let's paint over here let's zoom out for the sake of this video i'm working really really quickly so you can be obviously way more precise but i just want to show you what is the idea behind these tools so we can paint over here as well and now let's zoom out if i hit m i will see the overlay of the mask so if we check again i was working with very low flow so we can increase the flow and paint again these areas of the arms and hands where we were clipping some highlights let's switch off the preview of my mask and let's just see before and after so this is after working with the highlights recover style brush and this is before so the difference is quite striking again before and after take a note take a look at the histogram how it changes so now basically on the right hand side it shows that we are clipping just in the blue tunnel but otherwise everything else is fine if i switch this off so this is before the adjustment we were clipping both in the blue channel and in the red tunnel if i go again and enable the exposure warning it shows us that we were clipping the highlights here and now i will switch on the layer where i have applied my work with style brush i can see that i almost managed to fix this let's just paint again over these areas so if the adjustment is not enough what you apply on one layer you can create another layer and basically repeat the operation but in case of this image we can see that we've managed to fix the problem so let's switch the exposure warning so this is one of the style brushes with this one we've been recovering the highlight so let's see again before and after so the next thing i would like to fix in this portrait let's get rid of the histogram is to focus on the teeth so we can see that constructing those style brushes in this way that they are tackling a specific issue can be really really helpful for those of you who don't have enough knowledge to do this manually but even if you know what you have to do to correct the teeth it is still way faster just to jump over here and use the tool and remember that you can always reverse engineer so if you would like to learn how to recover the highlights first of all you can just play around with these tools you can try them out but remember that if you click on this specific tool you will always have access to the settings so you can basically as i said reverse engineer and you can see how you can recover the highlight so you can check the values you can see that basically the highlights and the whites were pushed towards the negative side you can check other tools and see what was used to get the particular effect and this can be really really helpful if you want to learn capture one and if you want to see how these things are done properly okay so let's keep playing around and let's white and teeth so i'm going to grab this one i'm going to decrease size of the brush manually but let's check what are the brush settings so this is done by capture one you are getting these settings out of the box so if i right click i have set the flow at 15 opacity at 100 and the brush is linked with layer so let's paint over the teeth so i'm working with the style brushes and at the same time i'm explaining how they work how to use them but if i would be just editing those images quickly for myself working with style brushes will take me really just a few minutes to get really decent results so that way i've been working with the style brush white and teeth let's see so this is after the adjustment and this is before the adjustment and remember that we are working with layers so you can always fine-tune these results with the opacity value so if you feel that this is too much that we've overdone this you can always go down you can always go towards lower opacity value i'm going to leave it at 100 percent so just with these two adjustments let's zoom out and let's hit y we went already from here to here okay let's keep playing around let's see what else we can do so if we take a look at our style brushes basically by looking at them you can guess ideas what you can apply in your portrait and how you can enhance it so let's go for the red skin reduction as you can see here for every style brush capture one is creating a separate layer and if we click on the first one highlight recovery take a note at the size of the brush so this size and all these settings for the brush are basically linked are saved for this particular layer if i jump over to the other layer white and teeth we've been working with way smaller brush and this size plus all these settings were linked to this particular layer okay let's see what can be done with the red skin reduction so i have selected this style brush and if i take a look at the image i can see there is a little bit of redness in the face in comparison with the face the hands the arms are way more neutral and specifically this arm to the left has this yellow color cast but this can be fixed on a separate layer let's now focus on the face so just by grabbing this brush red skin reduction and painting over the face i'm going to increase size of the brush capture one will create brand new layer and on this layer we will have the redness corrected so as i've mentioned before you can first play around with these brushes and later on you can check different tools and see which tools were used to create this results to correct the redness and you can learn from that so let's see this is after the correction and this is before so i would say that with opacity 100 this is a it would be too much the face is a it will be too desaturated to my liking so i will fine tune this with lowering opacity value i will go for something let's say around 68. okay let's now try out the dodging and burning brushes this can be really really helpful you don't have to manually create new layers you don't have to play around with curves you have the style brush ready for you to use so let's start with dodging so i'm going to grab the dodge brighton brush let's zoom in and here i would like to first of all introduce some highlights to the hair i've been using these brushes before and the settings particularly for burning are quite strong when it comes to dodging i would go always for quite extreme curve because i don't mind introducing these strong highlights in the hair area however with burning i had manually adjusted the curve but if you don't want to touch the adjustments you can play around with the style brushes as they are out of the box and you can always fine tune quickly the opacity value so this is it for the hair let's now paint over the highlights in the face to introduce a little bit more light so working with dodging and burning is very often called painting with light because you can use the highlights that were already present in the image you can strengthen them you can shape your image that way so let's just brighten a bit here let's go along the nose and a little bit here around the face okay let's now try out the burn brush so i'm going to zoom in so with this brush i'm going to go slightly over the eyebrows just a bit over the eyelashes okay let's now jump back to our dodging brush and i'd like to introduce a little bit more light along the upper lip and here okay i could get really carried away when working with dodging and burning because i know that with this every single small stroke i will get really great results in the end so that's the secret of editing you are going for seamless edits you don't want to have any visible brushed strokes you want to have the effect that will look natural and by building up the effect that way you can really get some fantastic results in the end you can really transform your images so now we are burning i've made the eyelashes a little bit darker and here i would like to apply some burning on the hands so we have this very bright part still here and i want to make them a little bit more three-dimensional so i want to darken these parts very very subtly nothing overly dramatic just to make the shape of the fingers of the palms a little bit more three-dimensional to add depth by darkening those shadows and by making those shadows darker i'm bringing back the texture as well let's now zoom out and i'm going to use a bit bigger brush and just go along the forearm let's do this again here along the arm and here okay so that's how you can work with the dodging and burning brushes in the hair area we have introduced some highlights now we can deepen the shadows and just play around that way so this is our burning layer this is before and this is the after and this is the layer where we've been working with the dodging tool so on these few layers we've been working with the style brushes let's now see our before and after so we have started from here and with these few adjustments we have reached this point as i've mentioned before this yellow color cast is bothering me a bit so i'm going to fix this for this i'm not going to be working with style brushes this is going to be targeted correction so i will use a mask okay so first of all let's create new empty adjustment layer and let's rename it let's call it forearm fix and here i'm going to begin by painting a quick mask so i have my brush let's go for high flow and high size so i want to paint over this area where is this yellowish color cast the yellow color was reflected from the wall that she was facing okay a bit here so this is the preview of my mask the red overlay and let's now quickly jump over to the color tab here i'm going to go for the advanced and just sample the yellow tone so let's click here let's click on this icon to make sure that the whole saturation range will be included we can include a little bit more just to get rid of this tone so here i will be first working with hue if i push the slider towards the left i will be adding red or magenta and if i go towards the right i will be adding yellow or green that's zero out so definitely i want to go towards the left but let's go for really subtle value here i don't want to introduce any pink tone so this is definitely too much let's go for something around negative 6.7 so this is before the adjustment and this is the after so the yellow tone this was something really foreign to this image and just by applying this small adjustment it helped a lot i would go here to the left hand side as well just to reduce saturation very very lightly so on this layer i've been able to get rid of this yellow color cast and as the very last touch i would like to throw in some very quick color grading so let's add new filled adjustment layer and let's call it color grading so we'll be working with color balance tool let's just jump over here and maybe pull this tool out this is super easy super intuitive tool when you want to apply quick color grading so let's begin with master so my idea for this color grading is to introduce to create more color contrast right now we have this sort of cyanish background and quite cool skin tones so i would like to push the background towards deeper tone and basically i feel that by going for cooler tone on mid tones it will create stronger division stronger color contrast between the model between the subject and the background so let's try it out so on the master i will add a bit of blue just a notch something like this and let's now jump over to the shadow when it comes to the shadows i will go for a cool tone as well so we have the strongest shadows in this image apart from this fold on the background here here around the face so the face will be always on the warm side this will be tackled in the mid tones tub this is our mid tones this is the skin tones and to create a stronger distinction i will cool down the shadows so they are i would say on a warm side if i hover over i can take the color red out so we have 29 on the red and the values for the green and for the blue are lower so i want to push the shadows towards the cool side i will go for sort of cyanis blues here so let's go for something like this there's no need to go for stronger saturation this already works well and i'm going to maybe deepen the shadows a bit just a notch okay when it comes to the mid tones i'm going to experiment here let's see typically i would go for warming up the mid tones and going for the yellowy orangey tone but in this case it doesn't really work let's try something different so i will go for the blues something very very subtle we don't want to cool down the skin a lot so something like this works well and i'm going to darken them just a bit so let's go for something like this and when it comes to the highlights here i will add a bit of orangey tone just to warm up these highlights a bit okay so this is my color grading for the image this is before and this is the after let's now quickly jump to the luminosity curves layer and let's add a little bit more contrast so let's add curves i've just dropped it somewhere and i don't remember where okay let's grab it from here and this was our initial setting i believe the image is a bit too flat so i'm going to go a bit lower with this point so this will darken the dark mid tones i want to maintain my matte effect i want to maintain the blocks lifted but here i can go a little bit lower and let's see if i go higher here no this is creating very strong highlights very strong division it's breaking up the image so something like this may be on this one no so just very very subtle adjustment here let's try to push this point higher up so this darkens the background and it works quite well so i feel something like this is sufficient okay so this is our edit this is our starting point and that's what we've done with the style brushes let me show you one super quick tip so i'm going to quickly jump over to the new image and these pictures were taken during the same photo shoot so we have exactly the same lighting we have exactly the same setting we have the same background so i can just copy the style from this image so i have this image selected let's just switch off before and after having the image selected i can click on this arrow and this will basically copy all the adjustments that i have performed here so what i'm after is to apply the color grading apply the targeted adjustment and show you one more thing the brush that can enhance the eyes so this is the second image and this is the starting point a raw image with no adjustments at all now i'm going to reapply the style that i have just copied from the previous picture let's just click on this arrow and this applied the crop this applied the color grading this applied as well the dodging and burning so obviously we need to switch them off because they are messing with our image so going from the bottom the luminosity curves is fine so the highlights recovery has to be switched off as well it doesn't make sense in case of this image white and tf as well we don't need it the red skin reduction it could be done again but you have to basically paint the mask again if i go and click on this layer if i hit m i can see that this was applied here so it doesn't work we need to just right click on the layer select clear mask again grab the brush so let's grab just this one and we can reapply this adjustment by painting over the face so remember to do this when you want to copy the style from the previous image and apply it to another one this can speed up your workflow a lot but you need to remember about this manual adjustment so when it comes to dodging and burning again you can switch on this layer but if you just take the preview of the mask it was applied here so we need to clear the mask and apply these adjustments manually so the forearm fix doesn't work color grading is fine so what i wanted to show you in this image is one of the style brushes that was designed to enhance the eyes this is one second adjustment and i'm sure you will love it if you've never adjusted the eyes manually so let's jump over to the exposure tab style brushes and from here let's grab the iris enhance so the size is fixed by capture one i need to readjust it manually so i'm working with the left square bracket and if we check the settings very low flow high opacity so all you need to do is to just grab the brush and paint over the iris don't go over the whites this is meant to be used only on the iris let's zoom in and let's see so this is before and this is the after it's very easy to overdo this result i think that this is already a bit too much so remember you can always jump back and go down here with opacity because we are working with layers one more brush that i want to show you particularly in this image we have the back of her top that is really interesting we have this very beautiful texture the contrast between the body the skin and the top so to make it stronger we can just use again a style brush so for this one we will use add detail so let's grab this one let's go for higher size and let's quickly just paint over this part of the top so if we want to check what this particular brush is doing we can see that it is using clarity and structure so don't go over this part of the top that was out of focus because it wouldn't make any sense we can just enhance this part where the texture is already visible and by the way the amount 60 this is a lot so if we switch it off and on it works in case of this image but if you would have finer detail this can be too much so just be really subtle with this adjustment so this is how you can work with style brushes and by copying and reapplying the style to the series of images you can create a really nice consistent set so here obviously to the image to the left we would require to apply more adjustments on the skin to make it closer to this one this image was taken further away from the window so we have a little bit cooler shadows but this all can be done and copying set of adjustments so in this case we've been working with style brushes copying the sets of adjustments or you can say copying styles applying to another image can be really time saver and can speed up your workflow when you are working on bad images and if you would like to learn more about capture one i want to invite you to my recently released free master class in this training you can learn how to work on luminosity adjustments how to work with color and how to use capture one to take your images to the next level so you can watch the free training link down below in the description to this video so in today's video we've been working with style brushes and we've been working on portraits so i have picked this image to show you how you can enhance your portraits specifically with style brushes so in the next clip i will show you how to enhance landscape how to enhance nature images with the style brushes so thank you very much for watching this was kasia's mocha from digital art classes i hope to see you soon in the next clip thanks for watching see you bye now

Channel: Kasia Zmokla

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Length: 33min 6sec (1986 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 16 2021