Capture One 21 Tutorials | Landscape Edit

in this tutorial we're going to edit a couple of landscape photos you can see both of them on the right hand side in the browser so first we tackle this one and then move on to this one so let's go back to the first and i'll hide my browser so we have a bit more space okay first of all i can see that the horizon is not quite straight so i'll grab the straighten cursor tool and draw along what i imagine to be roughly the horizon which is around here and straighten like so next i just want to modify the crop a little so i choose the crop cursor tool and just change the crop like so for editing i can see it's a little bit on the dark side so i'll increase the exposure just to change the overall brightness and white balance wise i'm going to prefer to warm it up a small amount like so now contrast wise i can see it's looking a little bit flat so in the levels tool i'll just hit the auto adjustment button and that's going to set my black and white points accordingly so now the mid tones are looking perhaps a little bit too bright overall so i'll use the brightness slider and that's just going to darken down my mid-tones somewhat and i'll improve the contrast once again and just bump up the contrast slider there we go now there's a few brighter areas of the photo that i'd like to just darken slightly so i'll reduce the highlight slider and that would just give me a bit more detail back in the sky it's only subtle but if i preview it i can just long press on highlight and i can see i've just got that little bit more detail back in the clouds now also just to make the image a bit punchier i want to darken the very darkest tones so i'll use the black slider to darken those down a little bit now finally in the exposure tool tab i'll move down to clarity and increase the value just to get a bit more mid-tone contrast now i think the only color edit i'm going to do is going to be on the blue sky so let's move to the color tool tab here and i'll use the direct color editor so that's this cursor tool down here so if i want to darken the blue sky a little bit all i need to do is click on an area of blue hold my alt key down and drag downwards and that's going to reduce the lightness on those color tones so that completes that first edit this is how it looked when it came out of camera and now how it looks with the few simple edits that we did okay let's have a look at the second landscape photo so first of all this looks pretty straight so we don't have to straighten as before but i'll hit c on my keyboard to get the crop tool and i'm just going to change the crop slightly like so now this photo is a little challenging as it has quite a wide dynamic range so there's some very deep shadow areas in the front and some brightness towards the back of the photos so let's see how we can deal with that first of all again i feel the white balance could do with warming up a little so i just increase my kelvin slider not by much just do around there once again i'll choose auto adjust on the levels and that's going to set our shadow and highlight points overall the exposure looks pretty good but it could do with a bit more contrast so let's increase that and also the mid let's drop those down slightly as well also to improve the mid-tone contrast i'll move down to clarity and increase the clarity slider okay that's looking much better but we have this very sort of dark area of trees at the front of the photo now if i use the shadow slider to brighten those it does so but it also affects the rest of the photo which i don't want so let's reset that and in this case i'll create a luminosity mask that just masks the very darkest parts of the photo so to begin in the layers tool i'm going to create a new filled layer so this will mask the whole photo so if i press m on my keyboard we can see the mask that has been created so now we're going to use the luma range tool to restrict that mask to the shadow areas now when you're creating a loom range mask it can be easier to visualize if you select the grayscale mask which you can do so by clicking here so right now everything looks white because the whole photo is masked now as i said before i want to restrict that just to the very shadow areas so i'll click on luma range like so so the shadow areas are at the end of the histogram so i'm going to change the range down to zero here and then slowly decrease the range until i reveal just the shadow areas so those the areas that are going to be masked white so it just needs to be that tree line at the front which is probably somewhere around there like so now i want to refine that mask a little bit so i can do so with the radius and sensitivity sliders so right now radius is at zero so the sensitivity slider isn't going to have any effect so i'll increase my radius to just over halfway and i'll increase the sensitivity so that it refines the masks and wraps around the fine edge of the trees a little better so let's try that first of all i can always go and refine it again if i need to so i'll say apply press m on my keyboard just to get rid of the mask and now i can use my shadow slider to increase the density in the front a little so that looks perfect and it hasn't affected the rest of the photo let's also remember to name this layer in case i want to go back to it again i'll call it treeline now i've just noticed on this layer that it's affecting an area that i don't want it to affect just over here on the right hand side so that's really easy to correct i just grab my erase cursor tool move over to this area and just erase this section of the mask like so there we go i think i'm pretty satisfied with that edit so as a reminder here's how the photo looked when it came out of camera and after a few simple but very powerful edits

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Length: 6min 48sec (408 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 08 2020