Capture One Editing Workflow with Emily Teague

[Music] [Music] hi everyone emily teague here today we're going to be mixing things up a bit and instead of talking about one of my usual lighting tutorials we're going to be talking about the editing software capture one and how to edit in my style so a bit about my background when i was 15 years old i started using lightroom and i absolutely loved it for years but about four years ago i was introduced to capture one and i ended up making the switch for numerous reasons but the most important reasons being the advanced features the color grading options the difference i immediately see in a raw file when i'm first importing it and the ease of tethering in today's video i'm going to be doing an overview of how i do a basic edit within capture one keep in mind the numbers that i'm choosing on the sliders the colors masking choices it's not going to be a copy and paste scenario where you can apply all the same numbers to your image because every image has a different exposure different lighting scenario different colors but i'll be talking about why i'm making these choices and you'll find throughout my style of editing it's pretty consistent which leads me to my next point and disclaimer which is this is just how i edit and capture one this absolutely is not a strict guide on the only way to edit and capture one but hopefully if you're starting out and you're looking for some guidance or inspiration this video is going to help do that for you we'll start with this basic overview of capture one but if this video does well i would love to return and talk about more specific and advanced features but with that said let's get started so we're here in capture one version 21 and this might look a little bit different if you are new to capture one if you're coming over from lightroom but the cool thing is you can actually totally customize your workspace so there's a few different ways to do this the first way that i'm going to show you is if you go up to window and then down to workspace we have a few different options here so we have default simplified wedding migration dual monitor dual monitor for anyone switching over from lightroom who might be a little intimidated by the new workspace you can go to migration let's click on that and this is going to be pretty similar to lightroom so you see you have your film strip at the bottom you have all your adjustments to the right and if you prefer it this way you can totally keep it this way i prefer to have it more how it is when you first come in to capture one so i'm just gonna go back to window workspace and then i have my settings saved as normal workspace emily so that covers workspaces the other thing though is lots of features are adjustable you can drag stuff around so if we go up to the very top section here and we right click we can go to customize toolbar and now you can see if we want to get rid of anything if something is looking overwhelming and you're never going to use it you can get rid of that so for example maybe i'm never going to use my exposure warning i can just click that and drag it back in and now it's disappeared from up there or let's say there's something in here that i would like to add in like let's say i want to add the tips setting in i can take that and just add it back in here or i can move it to any other spot so there's really a lot of options in here similarly if we go over to our left hand side where all these options are you can see we have our white balance our exposure and you can just click on one of these sections and drag it anywhere you want so if there is a specific order that you like to go in when you're editing you can totally customize that to how you want it okay so a couple things to make sure that i'm doing um i am on my little select key at the top so that's all good i'm on my background layer and to that note capture one works in layers so a lot of what i'm going to be doing initially will be on my background layer and i'll talk about this more later on but if we go to our plus right here you can either add a new empty adjustment layer or a new field adjustment layer or later on we'll talk about these as well but new clone layer and new healing layer as well but to not complicate anything let's start just on our background layer so style brushes i have right here i'll also go over those later but for now we're just going to talk about white balance which i was moving it around earlier but i'm just going to drag this back to the top we're currently just on shot and i'm looking at this image and you'll notice as i'm making these edits i'm staring at my image a ton to see exactly what i'm doing so this is a tiny bit warmer than i would like i'm just going to pull a little bit down on my kelvin and cool this off a little bit and that's going to be a very small change but to see what i've done i'm going to hit option on my keyboard and then there's a reset key right here at the top if i click that it'll just show me that one adjustment and for something so subtle like this it's not going to show a lot but to show you an example if we take our exposure slider and i drag all the way up to something gross like that and then i hit my option key and i click that reset key that will show you just a before and after of what you're doing with this individual section or if i don't hit option and i just hit the reset key it will adjust and reset my exposure settings so looking good here i'm just going to go through i think exposure is looking great i don't need to touch that contrast i do tend to add a little bit to my images and i'm going to be repeating this a lot throughout this video but i try to keep everything very very subtle it's all these subtle adjustments that add up to create a nice looking image that doesn't look so overly edited but let's take our contrast and as i'm raising this i'm going to be staring at my image so i'm dragging up slightly right about seven is looking good to me and then again if i want to see what i've done i can just hit option hit reset i can see that nice subtle contrast that i've gotten skipping down to brightness i'm looking right under her eye this spot right here is really bright there's some very bright spots on her forehead but i'm going to be affecting that with my highlight slider mainly so with brightness why don't we just go down like negative two and if i want to see exactly what i'm doing if these um settings that i'm pulling right now are too small to see i can pull all the way down and see what it's going to do to this image so it's affecting a lot more than just that light bright spot on her face so i'm gonna pull down just a little bit about negative one negative two feels good i'll go negative two saturation i tend to keep my images more on the desaturated side just because if things are too saturated it starts getting these really clownish colors that i'm not interested in my work so i'm gonna bring it down to about negative two again very very subtle adjustments hold that option key go to reset and this is what i've done so far looking good skipping down to our high dynamic range setting so again highlight here is going to be affecting those very bright spots let's pull all the way down and you can see especially in her forehead you can see it being affected you can also see a little bit in the flowers a little bit on the white in her shirt i never well a lot of the times i don't want to bring it all the way down but i will go a little bit more than i would with my other settings here so about negative 20 is looking fine to me skipping down to shadows i tend to pull these down as well because i really like this rich kind of dark feeling in my photos i'll pull it all the way down so you can see what it's affecting versus all the way up ah definitely don't want that we'll pull this down to about negative ten whites same thing i'm just constantly showing you guys what it's affecting so this is affecting a lot of her face let's bring it up to about two just a subtle little difference and then blacks let's do it again so this is really affecting a lot of the darker areas in her clothing in her hair kind of near the corners i'm going to pull this up and raise those blacks just a little bit and then let's see what we've done with this entire section so again option hold that reset key super subtle but this is still bringing in some nice contrast it's kind of darkening those darks that i want um while also making sure that nothing is too blown out and as i'm looking at her face i think we could go down even a little bit more with our highlights so let's go down to about negative 25. that looks good to me and now let's skip down to levels so levels there's a ton of stuff you can do the most basic thing that i do with levels is i'm just going to take my highlights on the right hand side and pull in slightly [Music] usually i'm sticking about let's say 245 and up we'll leave it at 245 for right now my mid tones are in this middle section here i can either pull them to the left and i can raise them or if i pull them to the right i'm really going to be darkening those mid-tones for my style of editing i tend to stick on the darker side so i'm going to pull this just ever so slightly to the right hand side maybe a little bit more than that about negative 0.04 and then again i'll show you what difference this is making but switching over to our shadows on the far left i'm i if i pull these into the right hand side it's really going to bring bring out those shadows and deepen them this one i really want to be subtle with because it it can make a big difference very quickly so i'm going to leave it at 2. now that we've done this section let's hold our option key again go over to reset and we can see everything we've done here again adding some really nice contrast so with our option key we can go to each section and hold it down and see what we've done with that individual section so another thing we can do is i can go to my before and after slider on the top right and if i click on this we have this feature where we can drag and see what our image was at the very beginning this is our raw versus if we pull it over we can see how it's looking after so this is all the edits that you've done versus if you just want to see that one individual section which is where you're holding option and the reset key but this is really really helpful also to make sure that you're not going too overboard with your editing and then just to get rid of this you'll click again on that before and after slider on the top so going back levels looking good if i wanted to talk a little bit color grading which i will later on we can talk about switching to our red green and blue channels within levels as well but for now we'll just leave it on rgb going down to our curves later so we have a few options here as well we can either work in rgb which is affecting all of our colors or we can go over to luma which is not going to be affecting our colors but will still affect our contrast so i tend to make a very very subtle adjustment in here with everything in capture one i don't want to go overboard but especially with curves whether you are in capture one or photoshop a little bit of difference tends to go a long ways so i'm just going to put a point down here by clicking so now we have one point on this coordinate and i'll put another one up here towards the top so down here we're going to be affecting our shadows up here we're going to be affecting our highlights and i'm just going to create a really subtle s curve so clicking on this point and dragging slightly down and then clicking on our highlight point at the top and dragging slightly up so you can see very subtle difference but already as i'm looking at this image this top point even though it doesn't look like much it's way too much for me so i'm actually going to click on that again and bring it closer to this line and let's see exactly what we've done with this image so option clicking on reset for curves so a big difference already but i'm really i'm i'm liking it and if i look at the image when i'm done with this edit and i see that i've gone too far i can go back and adjust anything but i think for now this is looking okay so again i'm affecting my luma curve because i don't want the color affected and i'll leave the rgb and red green blue channels for another time when i'm wanting to do more color grading work down here we've got clarity which is a really nice feature and i i tend to use it a ton if i'm doing street photography but i've noticed that when i'm shooting in studio there's already so much detail in my skin i'm going to zoom in by pressing command plus and then hitting my space bar to drag up and you can see there's so much detail in her skin so i don't want to add even more clarity because that's just going to make it a lot harder we touch i already have a ton of information there so for this image i'm not going to affect clarity and then to zoom out command minus so we'll skip on that for now dehaze i don't need that in this image and then vignetting i do tend to add this if an outside portrait but generally when i'm in studio i don't feel that i need it so i'm going to skip these and i will just close these sections by clicking on the arrows to the left and then let's see again what we've done with our before and after so you can see we've made this image much much darker it's almost too dark for me and so now i get to decide okay what do i want to lift a little bit my first thought is going to the high dynamic range and taking the blacks and raising those a little bit so let's go to about 15 16 that's looking better already to me we can also look at our shadow instead of negative 10 i might go about negative eight and just to let you guys know where my head's at as i'm changing these numbers everything that i'm doing i'm looking at the image and i'm seeing exactly how i affect it there's no magic number of if you go to negative eight or if you go to plus 15 that that's the correct number it's all just about your individual image and how it's affecting it but for now i'm gonna say this is a pretty good basic edit for me so why don't we start talking about other options okay so this whole time we've been working in our exposure tab which you can see at the top but we're about to work in our color tab instead but before i do anything else i'm going to go down to my layer section which we're now ready to talk about so i've been working on my background layer but for color i tend to go too far with color and not realize it until after and then instead of making all these adjustments what i can do is i can just affect the opacity of my layer which is a lot easier so let's create a new layer for this i'm going to the plus right here and i'm going to create a new filled adjustment layer and this just means everything all these adjustments that i'm making are already there within that layer and i'm going to rename this so instead of adjustment layer 1 i will double click and just name this color and you can see on the right hand side we are at 100 opacity for this layer this check mark on the left is just showing that layer on and off which i'll when we actually make some changes will make sense but now let's move over to our color tab up at the top here so in this tab there's really two main things that i'm looking at and that is my color balance and my color editor so starting with color balance this is honestly one of the reasons that i ended up deciding to switch to capture one because this is such an amazing and advanced feature so we have our master color three-way which is just going to be showing you the shadows mid-tones and the highlights all together and then with that said shadows mid-tones and highlights so let's start with master for this it's all about feeling and emotion um there's no correct color or at least not in the way that i work so what i'm going to do is i'm going to this middle section right here and i'm just going to click on it and now i'm going to drag it all the way around the wheel and as i'm doing this you'll see my image is updating with those colors and so if i pull it close to the center that is going to be less saturation or if i pull it all the way to the outside edge that's going to be full saturation so just to see how this image is feeling with each color i'm keeping it close to the outside edge with full saturation i'm just gonna move it around slowly and see what color kind of speaks to me and resonates with the emotion that i was capturing in this photo so these lighter colors aren't doing it for me and generally they don't i tend to stick with cooler colors also because my images tend to have this kind of rich royal moody feel to them so once i start getting in this kind of blue dark green dark purple area that's where i tend to be happiest for this image i'm really liking this dark blue color that's looking beautiful to me right about there looks pretty good and so once i decide on that color obviously we don't want to leave it fully saturated so instead of dragging it to the center i can go to the left hand side where there's this bar and i will click on the top and i'm just going to drag this down and you see if i drag it all the way down this is zero percent saturation and i'm going to start there i'm just going to slowly drag it up until it starts feeling pretty good and right about there is looking good to me and again similar to how we were doing it before if we want to see what we've been doing just with our color balance i can press my option key press the reset key and i can see everything that i've done and as we start adding in more color that'll start becoming a much more obvious change so i'm going to skip three-way just because this is showing you all of them and we'll go right into shadows which i love affecting the colors and shadows so and it tends to be pretty close to the color that i decide for master but let's drag this around again and i'm just looking at how all these different colors are affecting the image i love once we get to the blues that's looking really good greens are looking kind of fun too i think for this i'm going to stick closer to that blue and purple purple's a little too much for me let's go closer blue right about there so kind of in between blue purple that's looking really nice so now we have two options one we're going to take our saturation like we did before and drag it way down right about there keeping it subtle but then we also have the option of our luminosity so this slider on the right hand side is our luminosity and if we bring it all the way up you can see that's pulling your luminosity all the way up which doesn't look really great here or if we pull it all the way down also doesn't look really great but if we affect this subtly it can be really nice so generally with my shadows i tend to pull my luminosity down a little bit right about there is looking good and again let's see what we've done option key reset key and now you can really see it a lot more this is looking great i can already tell this is end up going to end up being too much for me but again like we talked about with our layers and our opacity at the very end i can just go in take the opacity of the entire layer and bring it down a bit but for now i'm feeling good about this so let's skip over to our mid-tones same as before again there's going to be a lot of repetition here but with mid tones and with highlights it can go well with mid-tones it can go either way for me with highlights i stand it tend to stick with lighter colors usually yellow to complement the blue that i've chosen for my shadows but with mid-tones let's pull it around and see what's looking good and this is affecting her skin a lot so these colors like like pink like orange all of that isn't sparking a lot of joy for me this is looking a lot nicer though so kind of closer to this like cyan green i'm liking that it's giving this really nice effect so let's pull this one down i'm going to pull the saturation on this down even more than i did with my shadows and for the mid tones i don't feel like my luminosity needs to change at all so i'm just going to leave that there but let's skip over to highlights and as i mentioned because i have this cooler tone the blue for my shadows and my master color i'm going to complement that with a lighter color the yellow for my highlights and also the highlights are really affecting her skin tone so if we pull it all the way up you can see this is all about her skin so let's stick right around there and i'm going to bring this way down that's looking pretty good sometimes with luminosity i might bring this up a little bit for highlights but again i don't feel like this image needs it very much but i will bring my saturation up just a little bit as i'm looking at this image so now let's see what we've done holding the option key clicking on color balance this is everything that we've done for it which it's giving this a really nice feel but as i suspected i'm going to want to bring this down a little bit so i can go to my color layer right here and right above it we have our opacity so let's slide all the way down this is with no adjustment i'm going to say normally for me it's within about 60 to 70 percent because i get close to what i want but then i think okay this can be a little bit more subtle that's looking pretty good to me our color editor so there's a couple different options in here we have basic which looks pretty similar to how it does in lightroom if you're coming from lightroom we just have all our individual colors as well as our global color and then we also have advanced and skin tone and so for this i'm actually going to show you another image and i'm going to try to keep this video short but i'm going to try to also show you as many features as i can without it getting overwhelming but for now i'm saying this looks pretty good for color i won't go into it too much for now but if we go back to our exposure tab as i mentioned before we can also affect the color with our levels or with our curves so i'm going to do something really quick and i'm just going to go to our red channel within levels so we're still working with our shadows our mid tones and our highlights but we're also working with color now so let's take our shadows within red and if we start pulling this in we're going to get this really nice blue color to complement it and so now in our shadows of this image we're having a lot of blue so this is way too much for me but again let's bring it to about two three something nice and subtle and it's complementing that kind of blue color grading that we've already been giving it with our mid tones if you see if we pull it all the way to the left that's really bringing in that red versus if we pull it all the way to the right that's bringing in that kind of blue green color again so i'm going to pull it just ever so slightly to the right at negative 0.02 looks pretty good to me and then let's skip over if i'm just to show you guys if you want you can do the same thing with green um with blue but i think right now just bringing in a little bit of blue through the red channel feels good to me similar with curves you have your red your green and your blue channels here which you can also affect let's do something just as an example here so i'll make a point down here and if i pull way down it starts bringing in this really nice warm kind of yellow color but i don't want to bring in too much so keeping very close to the line right about there let's see how that looks so subtle it's really kind of like what we're doing with the highlight bringing in that yellow we're doing just a little bit of that here too so let's and actually as i'm staring at this image i'm like too much yellow so i'm actually going to bring it up even more and maybe we won't play with that for now but let's look at everything we've done in this image so far with our before and after so before this is our raw file and after and i do notice as i'm doing this i think there's still too much black in here so i'm just going to leave my before and after slider up and then instead of working on my color tab up here i'm going to go down to background again where we made all of our exposure adjustments and i will go down to levels down here and i'm going to go to my mid-tones where there's a lot of this dark and instead of bringing it down like i thought i wanted i'm actually going to raise it a little bit because that will start to help raise some of those dark areas right about there and then let's switch this on and off that's looking pretty good for me if i was going more into this which i i don't want to because i know this video is already going to get long i might fine tune this a little bit more bring those blacks higher up but as an overall edit i'm thinking this looks pretty good okay so next thing to show you guys which is just a really quick feature and it's hard because i want to show you every feature in capture one but i'm also trying to make this video not go an hour long so let's go over to our plus side on the layers again and we're going to go down to new heel layer so that will come at the top and then we have all these little tools right here we have our eraser tool we're going to go over to draw healing mask and then i'm going to press command plus again to get in closer and if i need to readjust it all i will just hit spacebar and move it up so slightly but i'm just looking at these little blemishes that are distracting and i'm just going to take a few of them out just by clicking and it's going to select an area of skin around it that is good so something like this where the the blemish is bigger than my brush size i can hit my bracket key the bracket on the right will make our brush larger and the bracket on the left will make our brush smaller but let's go a little bit larger so i can select this whole area that's looking good i can also draw with this as well so let's say there are a few blemishes in a row that i want to get rid of maybe right here if i press and hold i can just draw that little brush and then i'll select that entire area for me so i can go through and do this quite a bit selecting areas like that i will say for all um my fine tune retouching i still um export my file from capture one over to photoshop but if i want to stay in capture one this is a really nice feature so that's looking pretty good to me i'm going to turn this on and off and just see what i've done with those blemishes let's get rid of a couple more just to show the difference and again clicking on and off with this heel layer to see exactly what we've done that looks pretty good so this image is looking pretty good to me um again if this was a real edit i would probably fine tune my my colors my adjustments a little bit go in maybe a little bit more and clean some stuff up but i'm going to say this looks pretty good so one final feature that is worth showing you guys is i'm actually going to go to a different image this is my other image and just real quick before i can do anything i'm going to crop this image a little bit so we can get rid of her bra at the bottom and just kind of recompose it so if i press c on the keyboard it will automatically go to my crop tool i'm just going to go to the corner and bring this in a little bit [Music] right about there and then just for a nicer composition i'll go to my top left hand corner and bring that in slightly too right about there looks good for me and then i'll switch back to my select key and we'll have our new crop so for this i'm just going to be showing you the advanced color editor and one way that you can use it so let's say we have some really bright fun colors in this image let's say we really want to play with our background color something that we can do is go back to our layers go to new filled adjustment layer and we will rename this background color and now let's go back to our color tab so in here we're going to go down to advanced again we have our basic advanced and skin tone which i would love to talk about another time but for now we'll go to advanced we're going to go to the bottom where our eyedropper is and select the background so once we select it you'll see it's going to zoomed in it's going to show up on our color wheel and there's a couple things we can do here if we want to completely isolate that color if we take our smoothness and we pull it all the way down to one then it's only going to be affecting this specific color within our color wheel or if we want it to bleed out a little bit and affect similar colors we can start pulling it up and you'll notice that that is gradually going to bleed into our greens into our blues but for now let's just keep it right about there you know what actually for this reason we can keep it anywhere because i'm gonna show you guys pretty soon what we're gonna do so 15 sounds good so now why don't we start playing around with our hue so as i'm doing this i'm looking at my background if we pull it all the way down we get this really fun like sea film kind of color or if we pull it all the way up it's going to go more into that purple color but i really like this fun seafoam color and then with our saturation let's crank it this is probably way more than i would normally do for my style but this looks pretty good so now i'm like wow this looks cool the only issue that we have is this background color is very similar to what was on her eyes so we have a couple options here because let's say we don't want her eyes to be affected by this at all one we can try going to our smoothness and isolating that color which we just did but even when we isolate it it's still picking up because the color is so similar to our background so that's not going to work so now what we can do is go to our eraser tool right here and start erasing near her eye and that is going to get rid of all that that cyan color that was on the background so let's go to our background layer and turn it on and off and you can see now we are just having to worry about that on our background so this is looking good for this image going back to this one again now that i've had a little bit of space i can see this is actually too much color for me again so final thing i'll do just before we end this is i'm going to bring this color on my opacity down to like let's say 30 let's turn that on and off and that's a more subtle grade for me so that's looking good so this one is our overview of a basic edit and this is showing just that advanced color editor but hopefully this helps show you guys a little bit what you can do in capture one so that was a lot of information packed in very concisely and i hope it wasn't too much information but there's so much to cover in capture one and hopefully this video does well and if it does i will go into more specific features and talk slower about all of those as well so i hope you guys liked it let me know in the comments what you think and i will see you guys next time [Music] bye

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Length: 32min 13sec (1933 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 18 2021