Capture One 22 Livestream: Webinar | New to Capture One 22? Get started, fast!

good afternoon folks good morning thanks for joining me today on this webinar and this webinar is really designed if you are new to capture one and you just want a little bit of help getting started so if you are a seasoned capture one user you might find it a little bit too simple but hopefully you'll pick up some tricks along the way as well i am using capture on 22 which was launched just uh over a week ago so that will also give you an opportunity to see a couple of new features as well so uh let us get started um before we do uh for those of you on youtube you're very welcome to chip in uh with a comment and question as well so you can just comment as normal on the live chat and then myself or or diego my colleague will pick that up if you are in the web webinar room itself feel free to ask a question and then you'll find the q a tab um just try to separate your questions from the chat and then it's a little bit easier to find and one of us will pick that up as well if you want to have a bit more space on screen if you're in the webinar room then you can hit that little down arrow and then you'll get a bit more real estate for that okay so let us move over to capture one so what we're going to do today is keep it nice and simple and really go through a workflow of getting some photos into capture one doing a few edits and obviously doing an export as well what we are going to start with is really going back to to scratch creating a catalog brand new catalog which we'll talk about a bit more in a minute and as i said do that first step of importing some photos i'm going to assume that you have already installed capture one and you've been through the update wizard or setup wizard i should say that allows you to configure a few elements on screen as well and when we get to that point we'll talk briefly about customization as well but with that in mind let's go back to square one i'm going to close down this existing capture on catalog and we're going to come back to that a bit later but i want to show you the process of actually making your own catalog first of all why do i need a catalog why can't i just browse my photos on my system without having to do any of this catalog operation where you can actually do that in capture one with a different kind of file management called a session which we're not going to look at today but you're welcome to look at our other resources to find out more about that but typically if you're using a a catalog you'll probably be familiar from that workflow for example if you've come from another application like lightroom and really the purpose of a catalog is to um import the photos that you want so as i said a catalog is not a browser really the catalog is a database that knows a couple of things it knows the location of where your pictures are the ones that you choose to import into your catalogue very important so you make a decision of what's in your catalog and it knows the adjustments on each of those photos as well and a few other bits that are technical and we don't need to bore you about there's also performance reason as well so if we had to you know browse a catalog of millions of images just by looking at system information on windows or osx it would be much much slower so there's also a performance benefit to using this catalog system so first of all we are going to make a brand new catalog up here in the top left and we're going to call that webinar pm like so and all this is making right now is the catalog database so let's say okay and then we're going to get a brand new empty catalog open up in capture one what does that actually look like let's have a look in finder we made it in our pictures folder and there it is webinar pm so it's a capture one catalog it's very small at the moment because we haven't done anything with it we haven't imported anything we haven't made any adjustments so it's actually uh pretty lightweight before we talk about captions interface let's get some photos into it because then it makes more sense to see how everything works if there's actually some pictures in there now hopefully you've spotted this large button in the middle that says import images that's probably a good place to start for subsequent imports and we're going to do one or two i'm going to import from my hard drive so an existing location and i'm also going to import from a memory card so you can see a couple of variations subsequent imports this button disappears but the import dialogue can be found up in the top left hand corner but let's go right ahead and click import images like so this will open up let's make that a bit smaller this will open up a secondary window known as the import dialog and really what we're doing here is choosing where i'm grabbing my pictures from and how i want to store them there's a few other options like naming and so on but we're not going to cover everything today we're going to keep it nice and simple so first of all let's find some pictures to import so up in the top left we've got import from and a choose button so let's go on hit choose and as i said i'm going to import some photos from an existing location so i've got a small external hard drive attached so i'm going to grab one folder of images that are not too heavy although it's not too many of them from my buddy here files in and we've got a few uh fuji gfx files in there now if i wanted to by holding down my command key or alt key if you are on pc i can actually pick more than one folder so notice that it says review for import down here so if i want to look at a collection of folders together before i import then i can do so but we're just going to grab these shots here so as soon as i say review that doesn't start if you like the import process that just shows me the contents of that folder because here i can make a decision if you like of do i want to import all those photos do i want to skip some that are out of focus or not correctly exposed as an example by default you can see that if i just highlight this none of the photos are checked so also just hiding behind my head let's hide me a second you can see down here at the bottom the import button is grayed out because we haven't actually selected anything to import so a fast way to do it is just say pickle like so down at the bottom here so that selects everything and you see now everything is ticked on if i didn't want to import a couple of pictures i can highlight it and then it unchecks it like so if i wanted to see my pictures bigger and we'll look at this in a bit more detail when we import from a card i can turn on the viewer up here in the top left and then it makes it easier if i want to decide to reject a picture or pick it and a really super speedy way to um decide whether we want to include a photo or not is just tap your spacebar so if i tap the spacebar you can see that selects on and off like so oh i got two selected there sorry so let's just one like so so simple tap the spacebar i can choose to pick or reject okay more on that when we look at the card when i import from memory card i should say the second thing that we just really need to get right is this part how do we want to handle the import so by default it will say this add to catalog and what that simply means is that the photos will stay where they are they don't get moved they don't get copied they will stay in that location capture one will know how to access them so again the database that we created will know exactly where those photos are now when we come to import from memory card um we obviously don't want to leave them on the memory card so we're going to handle that slightly differently and as this is kind of getting started we're going to keep it nice and simple and leave it at that there are some other functionality for adding you know changing the name adding some basic metadata adding you know a preset or a style to your photo so that's all possible uh as well okay um i just saw a question from nor actually is it possible to have a keyword list to choose from it's not in the import dialog you can create a keyword preset and then you would choose that in the adjustments menu and then that would add a certain number of keywords but you don't have access to the keyword list let's just check for questions over here as well i think we are pretty good yeah okay uh thanks diego for handling those chat questions too all right so we're going to basically say underneath my head right here we're going to say import all so we're going to just grab the whole lot it's only 10 pictures so it won't take long like so and then straight away you're going to see the photos here or over on the right hand side let's just pick one to go in the browser and you'll see an activity window pop up called generating previews what does that actually mean again this is another catalog advantage so to facilitate nice fast browsing between photos responsiveness of sliders when you make an adjustment what's happening here is that capture one is making a small but extremely high quality preview of each photo now this is a background task so you don't have to sit here and wait for that to finish if you've imported 300 pictures or whatever then you can go ahead and start browsing immediately so do not sit and wait for that activity to finish there is no point it's just ticking away in the background so each of these raw files now have a very high quality preview of each one stored in the catalog so if we go back to this guy webinar pm you see it's got a little bit bigger because it now stores some previews now there isn't really anything that you need to particularly consider about previews the only one thing i would suggest is to go into the preferences look at image tab so this one up here and set your preview size based on the kind of monitor that you are using so if you're on a big 5k imac you would want to boost it up to this if you're on a 4k screen you would want to choose this i have it set to 4k basically because of my secondary monitor which we're not using right now we're just looking on a laptop screen if you're only operating on 2k then you could drop it down to this which is the default now the disadvantage of having it too small is that every time i go and choose a different photo capture one will then go and i have to read the raw data to show you how it looks on screen but because my preview is the right size and right quality as soon as i switch i get nice super fast browsing and you know responsiveness of sliders as well because we don't constantly have to recall that raw data so that's another catalog advantage so performance fast browsing between photos responsiveness of sliders and so on so we did an import where are the pictures so if you remember i said they're going to stay where they are so we're not going to move them or anything like that but how do i access them how do i browse between different collections once i import more photos into my catalog so now that we have some photos in the interface we can talk a little bit more about that and if we go to the very first tool tab this one here this is where we can see what's going on in our photo library so if you remember we've done one import so far if we look at that location in finder so that was on this hard drive here so if we just look at the the path so we've got traveler ssd capture on catalog demonstration images and then files and folder uh filezone files and there he is um like so so capture one is just showing us the exact path of where those photos are so what if we import something else so let's do that and then we'll talk about the interface this time um we're going to import from a card so i'm going to stick the card in the reader i hope that's the right card and then immediately you'll get a view in the import images dialog now there's about 800 ish shots on this card so i've chosen that just to show you the speed of loading and then you can see how many photos you've got right at the top here now i'm not gonna obviously import uh 805 photos so let's actually use a couple of the features to make a determination as this is on a memory card i might actually want to be able to see okay how's the exposure is it looking good in a bit more detail that i can see on a thumbnail so if we turn on the viewer i'm going to get a much better impression of how it looks and also as i stated this is again designed for performance so if i want to use my cursor keys actually let's turn on the overhead camera so we're going to hide a bit of the interface here but you'll see so if i use my cursor keys so i'm just tapping right cursor key fortunately this guy is moving around a lot so you can see how quickly i can browse the contents of the memory card so the workflow for this would be let's just go back to the start so if i tap spacebar on my keyboard that just tags that as a good shot or ready for import selected for import so i'm just going to pick a couple of others like so and you can move through nice and quickly back and forth so obviously i'm not going to import that one that's no good but let's choose that one and the snarly one and one more like so so i've just picked eight photos as i said i'm not going to import hundreds on this now the crucial difference of importing from a memory card to an existing location is that obviously i don't want to leave the photos on the memory card i want to get them somewhere safe so i'm not going to say add to catalog i'm going to say copy to folder so this option at the bottom captron is going to say where exactly do you want to copy those so instead of putting them on the external hard drive i'm going to put them on the internal hard drive just really so you can see how that layout's going to look in the folders tool so let's make a new folder and call that my photo library like so and then i'm going to create a further folder called red panda like so and we're going to choose that as my import folder so now i can see if we um look up here we can see that a different location so they're going to be imported to red panda now if i wanted to i could actually tell capture one to make a few subfolders for me you can do some more sophistic sophisticated things by asking capture one to sort it into folders based on capture date and a few other things so if we look at this little button here and then i drag up um obviously there's an old format that was in here before so you see we've got italy and then the image date so what we could do in this case is uh let's just find something down here well we can help ourselves by saying date and time that would just reduce the amount of tokens and all these tokens are doing is pulling out some kind of metadata from the file to create a folder so if i wanted to do the image date let's do that and then this little arrow here we can then change the date format so that's going to sort those pictures based on the date that they were actually captured and you can combine tokens and do a whole load of other stuff which is kind of out of scope for this but let's just keep it nice and simple for that again we could do some renaming if we wanted to we could add some metadata and so on but again let's keep it simple so just down here you can see the import images button so let's import those eight shots like so so now those pictures are going to come in the previews are going to be built once again don't sit and wait for that to happen you can just close that down and then if you want to look at any particular photo capture one will prioritize creating that preview and there it is so it's just a very speedy weight all right so now we did two imports so how does it look over here so let's expand out what's going on in this case so you can see capture one automatically let's just get the photo on screen so we're not staring at black capture one automatically made that folder for me because these were shot on the 9th of august 2021 and they're shown in this path because they're on my internal hard drive these shots they're on my external ssd like so so you can no you don't have to import always to the same location a couple of other things that are worth knowing about this tool tab and then we move on to some of the interface so at the top under catalog collections these are really just shortcuts so i can see all photos in my catalog all images so this will show me if i just scroll down red pandas and then asia as we were before so this just shows me the entire contents of the catalog regardless of where it's stored underneath we've got the last 10 imports so you can see we did 13 shots at this time and date and eight shots at this time and date and then we've got folders tool showing me the exact location of my pictures now if you're on a photo and you're not actually sure where it is you can right click and say show in library and then that will show you the exact location where it is like so which is really handy if you start getting into user collections which is a way to make albums smart albums projects groups and so on now that's a bit out of scope again for this shorter simpler demonstration but if you really want to get into catalog management there's a whole webinar in this kind of similar style which talks purely about catalog management but when i switch to my other catalog you're going to see a bit more what's going on here also you can tell by the numbers that you'll also see in the parent folders the exact quantity of all pictures in that folder and any subfolders below so if i had another folder down here with 20 images i could click on this one and see the contents of both of those fairly standard photo library stuff really okay quick uh check for questions um let's see uh can we create custom tokens no you can't um to be honest i'd be surprised if you could think of any others because if we look at the token list there's i think 60 something in there which pretty much cover all aspects of the metadata lots of time and date options location tokens about where the photo is sitting none of you will use all of those tokens and i would be extremely surprised if there was one there that we hadn't uh thought of uh is it possible to have a default naming subfolder associated with the uh catalogues session um well remember not entirely sure what you mean but remember that this is sticky so if the way i set it up is that i have this folder is if you like my master folder and then the subfolders are always handled by tokens or a combination of tokens and text so i have my top folder which is my photo library and then under that i'll have you know a location like italy for example as you saw earlier and a date and divide it up by that way so really the only thing that is kind of dynamic about it is i change the location and then the date is always gives me something unique as well so that's how i do it um alan says on importing that eight images from the card were they copied to the same catalogue yep they were copied to this location and imported into the same catalog webinar pm so whatever catalog you have active at the time is obviously where the imports go and last question can you click on more than one folder in the folders tool no it's not possible so you're looking at one folder but if i was to click on this one we would see in the browser over here on the right we would see the total of all the photos underneath that if you like okay um now that we've got some photos in the interface and we've answered some questions let's just bust a little bit of jargon so we talked briefly about this area which are the various different tool tabs and these divide the tools into if you like their different purposes so exposure-based tools what we're looking at now we've got colour-based tools with this guy here and so on so they are split up into categories so tools in those various different tool tabs each tool tab has a scrollable area so i can scroll up and down and a fixed area and you can drag and drop tools in between those two areas which is separated by this solid white bar so that's a hint at some of the customization that you can do as well in the center we have the viewer so that's where we see the currently selected photo from the browser on the right hand side up the top is the toolbar and in the center are the cursor tools which change the behavior of the cursor now all of those areas as you might have seen in the setup wizard can be positioned in different places and also customize now we won't go heavily into customization but if we look in the view menu you'll see each of those element elephants elements not elephants that i mentioned have their own customize button like so so you can have in your own time and look around there and see the customizer customization potential you also might like to hide and show some of those elements so you can see here browser command b control b if you're on pc that will just hide and show the browser command t will hide and show the tools f will give me a nice full screen view and so on now something that's very useful to do is to hide and show the viewer now if you look in my setup you see i've got it set to this key which on my keyboard if you have a look is this one below escape so if i tap this then it hides and shows my viewer so that's really handy for looking at a collection saying okay let's look at this shot double click and it opens it back up into the viewer hide the viewer with the tap and i'm back to this view by default that shortcut is g so if you want to change the shortcuts you can do anything you want in the edit keyboard shortcuts menu which i won't go into but it's safe to say you know any of the myriad of shortcuts that you can see can be customized to your own preference too okay now um last bit on customization the various different tool tabs if you right click up here you'll also find some options that you can add any tool to any tool tab you can make your own custom tool tab you can delete entire tool tabs if you're never going to use it as an example if you never ever or are never going to shoot tethered into capture one right click on this camera icon and you might as well remove that entire tab because if you're not going to shoot tethered it's just taking up space if you have customized i would recommend you then save your workspace up here under window workspace and then that way you can always return to that workspace or you can make different workspace for different tasks so you could have a workspace for shooting tethered if you do that a workspace for editing a workspace for selecting and so on but just make sure you save them so you can always return to them okay i'm going to shut this catalog down i'm going to open one that i made earlier let's actually show you something i just want to check a preference uh catalog and session open a new window so if i open file open a different catalog let's grab this one you can see this one is much bigger because it's got five six thousand photos in it so it's bigger because of all the previews so let's say open that's gonna open up this catalog and a nice advantage of capture one you can actually have two catalogs open at the same time so it's a bit of a nerdy term but we actually refer to this as the document so like you would open a document in word you're opening a catalog in word often a misunderstanding is that somehow uh the photos your photos are embedded into the capture one application that's not the case you are opening a catalog like you would open a word document and i currently happen to have two catalog documents open at the same time but we only want one so i'm going to close that down and we're going to focus on this one so as i said this catalog has a bunch more photos in it if we go back to my uh folders tool you can see it has just under six and a half thousand uh so you'll see there's a lot more folders going on uh as an example if i click on this folder then we see a whole bunch of headshots it says because there's some shots in this folder and there's 116 in this folder so that gives you an idea of how that works in the user collections you can see i've made my life easier by organizing my catalogue into different categories so you see i've got a group here called live streams and then i've got my getting started with capture one project with a few folders like so or just this one album like so and we can populate that as we go so you can see how that works so the first thing that you might like to do when you're in capture one uh is to crop and straighten your photos and this is where you'll get introduced into cursor tools so these change the behavior of the cursor cursor this is also where it's handy if you can learn a few shortcuts now depending how many your brain can hold depends on the speed that you can move around capture one so if you can manage to remember three that's going to help you a great deal so the cursor tool that i tend to stick with by default is this one the pan cursor tool now if i hover over it you'll get a description of what that cursor tool does and also a reminder of what the shortcut key is which is h so that's the first one you should try and remember and what the pan tool does it allows me to zoom in to 100 and allows me to scan around the photo so i can check for details and so on if i need to do any healing and cloning dust bust etc so the pan tool is very handy double click and we fit back to screen so h to select that if you want to crop your photos then we can use the crop tool here and if i hover over that you'll see you'll get a reminder that it's c for crop so that's the second shortcut that's good to remember now as soon as we select the crop tool you'll see the boundaries pop up on the corners and you can't quite see it because it's bright there but if we go down the bottom you can see this other one so we can either drag a corner and squeeze the crop in like so or we can drag a side boundary so if i wanted to crop tighter that would be the way to do it if you want to crop to a particular aspect ratio good shortcut just right click or control click and then the crop sub menu will pop up which you would normally select by long pressing on the crop tool itself but that's not as efficient so doing a right click and say you want to crop by four by five we could do so and then the crop tool will snap to 4x5 like so or if i want to unconstrain it again i can choose that once more if you'd like to rotate then hover over the corner of your crop area click drag and then you can jog the rotation a touch as well so that's one way to rotate so right click to change your aspect ratio hover over the side to rotate standard things you'll find in other applications if you hold down shift key then it will lock the aspect ratio where it is if we hold option key or alt then it will crop about the center like so so if you've fixed your central position and you just want to squeeze the crop in but lock the center that's an option click now we spoke briefly about rotation so there's another way that we can rotate so let's uh just select these three pictures um let's grab one more oh last thing about crop tool notice i'm still on my crop cursor tool so the crop will show in each of the pictures i could actually crop them independently if i wanted you don't have to apply the crop if you like all you need to do is move away from the crop curtain tool so if i hit the pan tool again then i'll see the full side full sorry um the photo will fit to the viewer that's the words i'm trying to get out as it is cropped if i go back to the crop cursor tool then you'll see the crop boundaries now another way of course that you can straighten it does have a specific rotation and flip tool down here so if i select these three photos it's bothering me that there's only three let's grab a fourth um let's just find something up in the a's that we can grab just something that is in a landscape so it's a bit more um of a better test so let's grab that so now we've got four pictures let's select that one too and i'm gonna reset the crop so you'll see in the rotation and flip tool if i go on this shot we've got 1.59 degrees in there and this one's got 0.23 this one's got zero because it hasn't been rotated and it's actually quite wonky um so i'm going to reset all of the rotation on those four shots and that little icon there is the reset button so that's going to reset adjustment for these four photos there we go so we're back to zero degrees on each one so another thing that you can do is auto straighten so this magic one button here that will auto straighten each photo based on a small amount of ai technology now if i click on that let's see what happens then all those photos rotate now like any auto function nothing is is a hundred percent effective if you like or has a 100 hit rate but if you've got 800 pitches that you need to rotate and clean up and straighten then it's much faster to select all hit the auto let capture one do its work and then if you need to tweak you know a few of them then you still saved a bunch of time as well okay so we've done cropping rotation let me just check uh the notes so now we can actually talk about some basic adjustments so let's make sure we can see capture one it's just off the edge of the screen there let's look at some photos so let's go to why not let's pick farzan's again as they're nice to edit and if i wanted to move them to a collection that was a bit easier to find i'm just going to right click here and add myself a new album let's call this falzan like so and then i'm going to select all of these and just drag them to this collection so now i've got nice easy access to get deeper into catalog management as i said there's a whole webinar on our learning hub we'll drop you a link later to the learning hub where you can dig much deeper into you know building yourself collections and a catalog that you know helps you find photos faster is nicely organized and so on okay um let's edit a photo and we're going to talk about let's take this one we're going to talk about the first steps that you can do in the exposure tool tab so the exposure tool tab this one up here this is where we can deal with things like exposure contrast white balance is also there because it tends to be one of the first things that you attempt to do um clarity which we look out look at dehazing vignetting and so on so you can do a lot to a photo just by remaining in this tool tab and that's an important point i'd like to make don't feel you have to learn everything in capture one within your 30-day trial or within four months of using it or six months or whatever there's tools in here that i personally never need to use because it's not relevant to the kind of stuff i do good example if you don't shoot tethered you'll never have to learn anything about tethering great happy days that saves you a bit of time so in that customization setup process you can make capture one work for you in that respect and remove the tools that you're not going to use you also as i said don't have to use every single tool on every single photo so we're just going to do a few simple adjustments that demonstrate you know the impact if you like that a few adjustments can can make to the photo let's try and actually auto rotate this one and see if anything happens do we get benefit there we go a little twist and that's straightened up nicely so if i reset that it's ever so slightly off auto rotate and there we go um first tool that you'll find in the exposure tool tab is white balance now this will bring the photo in as shot so whatever the camera deemed was the correct white balance if it's on auto or however it was set so if we want to alter it we can we can use the magic wand so let's just try that that's did what i hoped it would which was just to warm it up ever so slightly or you can of course drag the sliders manually as well but auto actually looks pretty good for that so that's our first job oh we've actually got some adjustments here let's reset everything i did that on purpose because you can see up at the top here we've got our reset button so let's reset that back to default let's um just do my auto rotate again that's good and also white balance or you can use the gray balance picker there like we could pick off this wall as an example uh probably it's too cool up there but either works so exposure tool pretty obvious what's going on here but there's a couple of sliders that you might presume to do something which they don't so let's make sure you know exactly how they work so exposure you can probably guess makes the entire photo brighter and i say the entire photo because it's really shifting all the tones to the right and when i say to the right i mean in the histogram up here so everything is getting brighter the shadows get brighter the midtones get brighter the highlights get brighter everything gets pushed up which is great if you have a dark photo it's the closest thing to changing the exposure on camera itself so would i brighten this picture probably a tiny bit contrast you probably can guess that's really pinching either ends of the histogram and stretching it out so the darker stuff gets darker and the brighter stuff gets brighter so if we drag contrast across you can see what's happened i block up my shadows and the highlights get brighter what i will say about contrast is that if you're used to other applications you can probably push it harder in capture one the color will remain pretty stable so it won't over saturate or it won't desaturate if you go in the other direction so don't think contrast sliders are bad based on your knowledge or use of other applications give it a try and capture one so i am actually going to add a few points of contrast now the interesting one is brightness because what brightness does is similar to exposure but it avoids brightening the highlights so you'll see if we go and do something silly with exposure you'll see these peaks here this brighter stuff which is kind of you know the mountain range you see where i move my cursor you see that orange line that's telling me where i am in the tonal range obviously the bright stuff so if i do something silly with that then obviously the bright stuff gets too bright and it's falling off the edge of the histogram so let's not do that but what brightness does is that it makes your photo brighter but it tends to lock to a greater extent the highlights where they are so if i want to make my photo brighter but not lose important highlight detail like this or highlight detail up here then brightness actually pull the exposure down a bit brightness is a good friend to have so i can pull that up open up the mid tones a bit but not affect my highlights too much so it's a very very useful slider saturation you can probably guess makes stuff more saturated or less saturated again what i will say is that if you already have a very saturated color so something like this it will get less treatment than something which is less saturated so there's a bit of intelligence going on there as well um oh i just saw a good question from laurie ding any chance we will get a select subject and a select skying capture one like there is in lightroom well you actually have something better than that uh called the magic brush which is kind of a bit out of scope for this webinar but let's say you wanted to select the sky so i grab my magic brush this one over here and then let's just check what tolerance is going on um and then i would do a little brush like that my grayscale mask is on one second once it's done that so basically we've now got a mask of the sky like so now we've got a couple of gaps like these clouds so i can just fill those in so one there one there there we go sky is masked so simple as that lorry i would say the limitation of lightroom's subject and sky is what if you don't have a subject or a sky and in this case what is the sky and what is the subject so it becomes harder than for an algorithm to determine something like in this photo what's the subject is it these people here is it the little tuk-tuk or is it the sky again if i wanted to select the sky so let's display my mask for a minute and then do that let it calculate the mask this is 100 megapixels so it's obviously got a little bit number crunching to do there is my sky selection like so if i wanted to select my subject which could be this dude so if i just select uh the tuk-tuk i can then fill in the gaps adjust my tolerance a little bit so to avoid it going in there and so on so i believe the magic brush is a lot more versatile than that lorry so that was a slight segue what we will do in january is actually dive deep into the layer side of things fairly early on in january and then you can see all the cool stuff about layers but i believe our magic brush just has more versatility really especially when you don't have a well-defined subject and a well-defined sky and you want to isolate something quickly and easily where were we oh yeah so we spoke about exposure let's actually give it a bit more saturation and then now we've got high dynamic range again throw away any preconceived ideas you might have about other applications because these behave in a different way and i'd actually say a more accurate way and i'm going to switch to a different photo because there's a good example in this one so let's just quickly edit this so we're going to do our rotation actually 0.4 i'd actually make this a bit stronger i think i want to push it a bit more so i find if i want to nudge the rotation a bit an easy way to do it is to use your cursor keys so if i tap on up then that's just jogging it by point one of a degree if i do shift whoops over here if i do shift and up then that will give me a 0.1 jog like so so i find that easier than dragging a slider or rotating with the crop tool because i can make very small you know adjustments quite nicely so why did i want to show this picture oh yeah i dynamic range so let's just also the white balance i'm going to brighten it and touch but i don't want to go too bright because you see what happens quite quickly but i do want to brighten it overall when i use the brightness and then we've got you know a good almost ready picture now when it comes to high dynamic range let's drag this tool out we've got highlights and shadows whites and blacks why do we have four of those highlights you can probably guess what happens if i pull the highlights down and let's do it dramatically you can see the sky gets darker the paving gets darker because we're bringing back some detail and density into those highlights and if you watch the histogram let's pull this down as well as i pull that down you can see the brightest stuff up here get pushed over to the left same with the shadows if we open up the shadows and i'll do you know a dramatic adjustment let's zoom in a bit as well so if we open up shadows you can see the effect that's having and notice what's going on here it's pushing that peak down and to the right so the mid tones are kind of growing if you like and the shadows are getting pushed into that space so then you might ask well why do we also have white and black well these are the fine versions to simplify it of those adjustments so whereas you saw highlight and shadow had a relatively broad effect let's look at highlight first you see it's making the ground a bit darker and the sky darker when we play with the white slider actually notice it's a lot more subtle because it's really only attacking the top the brightest part where it does have a nice effect on this shot is if we look at our backpack especially if we zoom out it's a little bit overly bright it's just distracting down there at the bottom of the frame but if i pull my highlights down it's doing a nice job but it's also making the road darker which i happen to feel looks alright but if i pull the whites down so i can get that back and it has much less of an effect on the roadway here so the white slider is super handy and really the blacks is doing the same thing as that it's the darkest tones so if i wanted to use it on this photo as an example i would say open up my shadows like so and there's nothing to stop you going negatively with each of those sliders and you might think it's a bit strange to open up the shadows and then make the blacks darker but we still have an opening of the shadows effect but it's not getting unrealistic and just pulling those blacks down means we keep a nice contrast in the darkest areas it's very subtle so if i just do that if i long press on the name you can see before and after and if we open up the shadows that's before and that's after as well so long pressing on those names so those are really useful tools and as i said don't tie them with the same brush if you like of of other applications that you might have used because they do work in a different way it's a little bit more subtle i think the end result is better and so forth okay any questions let me just have a quick check um nope i think diego's mopped them all up so thanks diego uh yeah so that's good and thanks diego's popped a couple of uh notes in the chat about the deeper dive into catalog management because that's we could talk for an hour about that and you don't just want to learn about catalogs when you're starting to capture one uh right last thing to talk about is clarity now this shop probably doesn't need it so let's find stick with these let's let's go with this one because it's a bit flat let's do a quick edit of this one so let's reset once again does it need rotating see this is one where i would disagree with what the computer says so i'd probably leave it as is or just maybe tweak it a tiny bit so i'm in between what computer says and what zero is so i'd probably go something like that again it's a bit cold so i'd warm that up slightly and now we definitely are a bit too dark and maybe a bit too flat so i would open up the shadows now we do have potential to do that but that looks ugly so we need to keep some kind of realism oh incidentally what i've been doing subconsciously to reset these sliders is just double click anywhere on the slider bar so if i double tap then it takes me back to zero if we want to reset the entire tool we can just hit the little reset button here and that will take us back to zero so once again i'll open up the shadows a bit tiny bit of highlights back in and pull those blacks down slightly so what clarity does and i wouldn't want to add contrast to this picture because it's already relatively contrasty so it might get a bit too much so i'm going to reverse what i've done with the shadows i'm just going to make them darker again which doesn't make sense but what clarity does is that it adds a contrast adjustment but it's really focused in on the mid-tones um a bit like our brightness slider did that was lifting the mid tones locking off the highlights where they are clarity will add some contrast but focused only in the mid tones so if i add some clarity here and let's just bring out the clarity tool so you can see it work at the same time that's max clarity so if i ramp that back and forward you can see that it's getting contrast here but with comparison to the contrast slider we're not losing that detail in the shadows so it's a great way to add a nice bit of depth contrast without messing up your highlights and shadows i'd probably even open up my shadows maybe even blacks a little bit more as well and warm up slightly there's no reason why you can't juggle back and forth between these adjustments there's no set instructions that says you have to go through these various tools step by step even if people on youtube tell you to that's definitely not the case you can juggle back and forth with these adjustments um is this shot nice and sharp yes it is so underneath we've got something called structure which is also a clarity adjustment but it's hyper focused at pixel level so the end result of that it increases sharpness or detail so if you have anything with high levels of detail let's go back to uh the this scene here because we've got loads of you know interesting things on the the whoops sorry on the uh the stalls and so on if we increase structure especially if we look on these rugs so before and after you can see we've got that little extra bit of sharpness and definition so it's still a clarity adjustment but hyper focused at uh pixel level so hopefully michael uh preempted your question there but little warning about structure if you don't have you know good um data if i want to be nerdy in the first place then piling in structure won't suddenly make your pictures more detailed and sharper it will probably just increase noise but it's a great way of enhancing the goodness that's already there so that's when to use a structure just be a little bit um careful with it to be honest okay how are we doing for time oh we're nearly out of time i thought i was being quicker this afternoon compared to this morning but apparently not but really all we need to look at is uh the basic color editor and then tell you actually how to export your photos which is all pretty quick and easy before we do that there's one thing that i wanted to actually do so i'm going to grab some different pictures because i nearly forgot about this let's move these to a collection so we do that and let's just call this headshots and i just want to grab this set of pictures like so um whilst this is here you can see we've got a one and a two next to each picture that's just a different variant of each one so if you want to experiment with like a black and white version a color version or something like that you can make a new variant which is a virtual copy so when you're learning capture one that can be quite a nice thing to do if you want to kind of refer back to the original or you want to split into color and black and white as i said or experiment with different editing styles variance is a good way to do it so all we need to do is say new variant like so and you'll get another virtual copy so easy peasy so i only want to look at the first variant so i'm going to select all of these and we're going to collapse them so we're only going to see the number ones and twos and so on um but we should not see one two let's collapse that one and that one so i just want four shots the same and we're going to reset these back to default like so so now we've got these four pictures that we want to work with and the reason why i've got four the same if you haven't anticipated it is what if you do have a sequence of pictures like this and you need to copy apply the adjustments from one photo to another so we're going to do that right now so first of all i'm going to apply style to this which is you know just a selection of different adjustments on a bunch of different tools in capture one that's called a style so there are some built-in styles that you can play with but i've made a style here which i'm just going to hover over and that will preview the style click once and that will apply it to all the photos like so now i want to crop one of them so let's just choose the crop tool and we're going to crop a bit tighter like so and i want to make a few other additional adjustments so i feel it's still a bit dark so let's lift up the brightness and add a bit more contrast like so and pull down the highlights so now i'm happy with that edit and i want to get those same adjustments across to all the other pictures let's go to this tool tab which you don't really need to look at to be honest but it's nice to know it's there and how it works let's collapse styles and presets so we're just looking at the adjustments clipboard so i want to copy the adjustments to that clipboard and then apply them to the other pictures so up in the very top right hand corner you'll find the two copy apply buttons so as soon as i hit copy watch what happens over on the left all the current adjustments that are on this photo are copied to the clipboard now to get them to the other ones all i need to do is hit apply and away we go so two clicks and we're done that of course also has a shortcut so if you can remember more than the two or three shortcuts that we spoke about uh c for crop h for the pan tool uh g to hide the viewer that's the default i've changed it to that one under the escape key and then you could probably also manage to squeeze in there the shortcuts for copy and apply now the observant people amongst you would have noticed hang on a minute why hasn't the crop copied across by default that's left off because most workflows which have a heavy amount of copy and applying the crop tends to be unique but if you want to enable that you can do so in the adjustments clipboard tool by default you see it's ticked on with adjusted accept composition if you want to have the crop included when you hit copy you just need to choose adjusted and that will do everything there is however an easy way to copy one adjustment from one set of photos to another and that's by using the copy apply button in the tool itself now this little button you'll see appear in lots of other tools so it's exactly the same principle so if i want to copy the crop across i can hit copy and apply like so if i wanted to make an adjustment like make it darker let's go stupid so you can see the difference i can hit copy and apply like so let's fix that copy oops that was the magic one let's do that copy and apply you get the idea copy and apply so the global copy and apply works great for everything and the little copy and applying each tool is great if you just want to copy that one particular thing all right quick look at the basic color tool quick look at export and then we can let you guys go home so let's go to the color tool tab let's go back to a nice colorful shot let's find this one as an example we're in our color tool tab let's bring out the color editor and we're just going to look at the basic tab today there is an advanced tab and there is one specifically for skin tone but you can accomplish a lot with the basic tab the difference with advanced it gives you the ability to control the color range much closer it allows you to adjust the saturation range as well and instead of having eight picks as you can see here or nine point six seven eight and a full color range you can have 25 so it's just basic on steroids if you like but let's just look at the basic a couple of different ways we can use this you can either manually pick the color swatch that you want to edit and then start adjusting so you can see the reds in the umbrellas just change it or if you're not sure which color patch you should be adjusting if your color vision isn't great or it's kind of a bit of an in-betweeny color you can grab the picker and say i want to edit this color here like so and then right away capture one will say oh you want to edit this color patch and then i can go ahead and adjust like so so that's the second way the third way let's reset that is to use something called the direct color editor which just allows you to click on a color and immediately adjust it so it's super efficient works very nicely we're using the same picker down here once again and we're going to go on to the photo and we're going to click and hold and watch what happens to the cursor when i do that so if i click and hold you'll see briefly it changes to a little four-way cursor and then disappears so i'll do it again four-way cursor disappears so that's indicating to me i can drag up and down or left and right and you'll also see let's bring this closer i'm going to click and hold again if you look at the color swatches notice that all of them have dimmed out except for two so another benefit of using this method is that we can edit two color ranges at the same time so capture one has deemed that the color that i'm choosing on kind of falls in between those two or covers those two so this way when i start editing let's reset it it's going to adjust two color patches at the same time which is more efficient than you manually picking each color patch and messing around in it so now i've got my four-way cursor up if i drag to the left you see it gets darker if i drag to the right and i'm dragging with the mouse or pen in this case oh you can't quite see it hang on let's move this up a bit uh where is it here so just about you can see it so click and hold drag to the left see it gets darker i'm exaggerating so you can see the pen drag to the right it gets brighter same would be if you're using a mouse no different if i go up and down then i can increase saturation if i drag downwards then i can decrease saturation now there's a third axis how do i access that hold down your alt key so option on the keyboard drag left and right like so then i can change the hue now i've actually edited the default slightly or adjusted the default so if you look in the let's just hide that for a second if you look in the little slider icons here you can control what each access does now by default um hue is on horizontal but i like to not mess with the hue when i'm playing with saturation and lightness and trigger the hue with that option click so that's my personal preference and you can also make the sensitivity greater which will means you can make smaller movements with your mouse or pen or larger movements and that's whoops that's all there is to it so if you then wanted to edit this guy so let's make the sky a bit darker let's go over here let's make that a bit brighter and then finally down here let's bump up the saturation so you can move over the picture really quickly to make those color edits so that is the basic color editor you've also got a color balance tool which is awesome in there and a black and white tool as well which is also awesome so have an experiment with them too okay before we need to finish let's have a quick look at export so let's choose four pictures that we want to export let's grab one to [Music] let's do a quick open up the shadows on this one a bit like so nice shot so let's pick one two three and four like so or umbrellas so i've selected four photos that i want to export if i click on export this is going to pop open our secondary export dialog it's going to show me on the right hand side let's just hire me for a second on the right hand side you can see the pictures that have been selected and then as before we've got a viewer which you can turn on and off if you wish to see the photo in a bit more detail which has a really important function now over on the left hand side i'm going to reset this tool so it's back to default over on the left hand side we've got a few additional tools which relate to these export recipes so all the export recipes are are different ways to export your photos so we've included some examples you can make your own by hitting the plus button should you wish to but let's say with these pictures i want to export these as full size tips so i'm going to find that recipe and i'm going to activate it so by ticking the box here means when i hit export which is just below me there export images it's going to use that export recipe just that one for now i first need to choose a location so let's pick a location and we're going to make a folder called my whoops pens in the way my exports and say create and we're going to choose that folder now right away you can't quite see it let's make this bigger it says catalog default my export now by doing that i've set up a default location for any export recipe so if we flick through these other recipes then you'll see they're all going to end up in the same export location however any recipe can have its own unique location so if you would prefer your instagram exports to go elsewhere then you could change it here so i would just choose a different folder for that specific export recipe if you want your photos to go alongside the raw files you can just say same as original file okay so let's uh export as a tiff like so you can see under format and size exactly how the photo is going to be exported so it's going to be adobe rgb a tiff at 8 bit 100 so let's do that so let's say export for photos activity window will pop on my super long activity window let's make that smaller with a progress bar if you have enabled notifications which i strongly recommend you do you can't see it but on my other monitor there's a little uh notification that says export completed four images do i want to look at them so if i click show then immediately they pop up like so and now i can see those two files simple as that what if we wanted to be a bit smarter and let's uh just select those four pictures again and say export and let's say we wanted to have a tiff and i also want to have one for instagram now notice that when i went to instagram the picture changed in the viewer why is that because this viewer is showing you exactly what it's going to look like when it's exported now it's important for this to be functioning correctly is to have this set to not 200 percent helps if oh that's funny it's my um odd uh display resolution i think so let's go to it's a little interesting thing to report it's probably because i've changed my screen resolution to be a little bit bigger so you guys aren't having to squint so much but ideally you want to set this to 100 so i'm just going to set it to 200. but what it does mean is that you can see exactly how the photo is going to look on export so if i go to tiff it's going to get much bigger if i go to instagram it's going to get much smaller why because this particular recipe is going to resize the width to 1080 pixels so exactly what we want for instagram as an example but you can set up any size scaling dimensions and so on on the various different recipes so now i'm going to have two export recipes kicking off at the same time great let's just find that location for a second it's empty so let's say export so activities are going to kick off again if we look in that particular location we can see now the jpegs and tiff's arriving like so now the only annoying thing about this is that they're all kind of jumbled up together so it's not nicely organized so let's do one last clever thing and then that will be the end of our session so four pictures let's say export tiff and a jpeg let's pop them into a sub folder based on the recipe name so for the jpeg instagram optimized i'm going to use a token like we saw way back at the start for imports so if i click on this box i'm going to find a token called recipe name so let's drag and drop that up in here so now capture one will look at the name of the recipe and make a folder based on that name let's do the same for the tiff one and because i know the token or i know what token i want to use i can just start typing so recipe name let's choose that one so now those recipes are always going to use a subfolder additionally based on the name of the recipe so let's do this one last time and say export for pictures if we go back to that folder we can now see we've got a jpeg instagram optimized and a tiff folder so they're not nicely organized like so now that's really just scratching the surface of what's possible in the export dialogue if you want to liberate some more features you can say show all options down here at the bottom like so and that will add a couple of important things like output adjustment so if we go to the let's just zoom up if we go to the instagram optimized recipe that will allow us to add some output sharpening for screen because when we resize a picture when we make it smaller or larger there's a negative impact on the sharpness so this allows us to compensate by adding some extra sharpening and you'll see i'll just zoom in a bit more so you can see as i ramp the sharpening up and down you can see we can compensate for that now on the tiff output because it's at 100 there's no point adding any additional sharpening so it's turned off in that respect uh then you can add some watermarking as well there's more metadata controls and so on so it's just additional options what you saw with the tokens again is just scratching the surface you can use them to divide your photos up by star rating color tag camera type lens aperture camera serial number all kinds of different ways but there's also an entire webinar on that as well and plenty of tutorials so there we go um hopefully that gives you a bit of a kickstart to capture one sorry we overran by a little bit again i thought i was quicker this afternoon than this morning but obviously not uh just to close off i would say don't again feel you have to learn everything if you're in your trial or you're you know 60 days into ownership or something like that use the tools that are applicable to you don't feel you have to learn everything start off slowly and build up as you go through but you can accomplish a great deal just by working in the exposure and color tool tabs even if you limited yourself to the exposure tool tab and said i'm only going to use white balance exposure high dynamic range and clarity you can still make a big impact to your pictures as well so don't be hard on yourself and keep it nice and simple uh last couple of questions um rt you're lucky because it was the last one that just came is it fully optimized for the m1 chip yes it is it was fully optimized from capture 121 some time ago so absolutely it's a universal application so it's just one download in terms of performance so you've been watching on a macbook pro uh intel so you can see it here this guy so a 2019 16 inch i also have a 13 inch macbook pro m1 which is just out of shot and i can't reach it otherwise i'd show it to you um which is the baby the 13-inch macbook pro it easily equals the performance of this machine if not exceeds it so if you're on the fence about m1 technology i would say don't be it's a huge step in performance battery life heat dissipation all that kind of stuff last couple of questions from over here if i've missed anything um let's see that's all answered can all options be added to a recipe yeah you can add or remove as many little options as you like so they're just hidden basically by saying show all options but if you want to add a watermark excuse me losing my voice resize it um sharpen it etc yes all options can be added to any recipe absolutely um and just i think that's pretty good for the questions yep diego's answered a bunch as well so we are in good hands uh for more resources learn.captureone.com our youtube channel i need to press my youtube subscribe button so don't forget to subscribe uh and hit the bell this one here because purely that means whenever we go live you'll get a notification i think half an hour before and at the time that we go live as well because we often do shorter impromptu live sessions on a tuesday which are about one specific thing and 20 minutes as opposed to 30 minutes so if you can't bear to listen for an hour and i don't blame you that's a shorter way to get into some tips as well and you'll always find the recordings on the youtube channel too so thanks again for joining me i hope that was useful and enjoy the rest of your week and the weekend when it comes so take care and see you soon bye now you

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Length: 86min 5sec (5165 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 16 2021