Lessons
Class Introduction
14:41 2History of Capture One
11:50 3Dave's Capture One Workflow
07:03 4Licenses, Versions, Keeping Up To Date
05:27 5How & Why to Upgrade
12:15 6Workflow Organization Tools
28:57 7Raw Files & Sidecars
13:46 8Sessions & Catalogs
19:23Why Shoot Tethered?
15:55 10Tethering Styles & Presets
10:30 11Adding Capture Folder To Session
05:27 12Studio Tethered Shooting Demo
14:53 13Nino's Post-Tether Workflow
06:34 14Color & White Balance Adjustments
23:01 15Clarity and Retouching Tips
05:29 16Layers and Local Adjustments
12:59 17Capture One vs. Photoshop Workflow
11:14 18Dave's Post-Tether Workflow
15:13 19Overview of Tools
09:17 20Using The Color Editor
04:11 21Using Capture Pilot
09:51 22Capture One Styles
10:21 233-Way Color Balance
04:00 24Creating a Color Mask
03:12 25Skin Tone Adjustment
06:59 26Advanced Color Mask
05:07 27How to Make a Smart Album
06:02 28More Ways to Sort Photos
12:47 29Histograms
10:09 30White Balance
05:47 31Color Balance
10:07 32Exposure & Highlights
06:45 33Levels & Curves
10:19 34Clarity
04:07 35Vignetting
01:44 36Lens Correction
04:43 37Keystoning
05:06 38Chromatic Aberration
04:05 39Lens Cast Correction
12:08 40How To Fix a Dirty Sensor Image
03:50 41More Ways To Use LCC
02:52 42The Crop Tool
06:34 43Rotation & Flip
01:59 44Advanced Keystoning
04:05 45The Overlay Tool & Navigator
02:23 46Focus & Sharpening
04:14 47Noise Reduction
03:43 48Adding Film Grain
04:09 49The Spot Removal Tool
05:53 50Adjustment Styles
03:51 51Keywording & Metadata
03:40 52Nino's Outdoor Image Workflow Overview
56:57Lesson Info
Overview of Tools
so exposure levels and, of course, pulling our exposure down a little bit. Maybe, maybe let as you're saying, we're just gonna pull the HDR back. And that's one of things I probably didn't because exposure isn't bad, but we're hard. Lights are hot, and so were the highlights. Being hot. I want to bring them down and you'll see how they change with HDR and, yes, HD. Ours uses a correction so many ways. This is not HDR to crush. This tool isn't designers. HDR is a crutch. This isn't massive amounts of Let's really crazy change this image. This is coming into the highlights and pulling detailed just back in the highlights. This doesn't allow you to to do the photo shop crazy HDR. It's giving you control to give you a better reproduction, and you're much later on. And so you'll see a huge difference if we put that color readout or if you just see the before and after, I'm just the highlights to bring them back in. So that's again one of the reasons will I leave it here. The crop tool crop ...
tools in important here, Also it let's say we know that we're going 8.5 by 11. We actually have to make it a get half by 11 here if I want to. So we can go and add an aspect ratio of. And I can't believe I'm going to do this without telling you all the reasons why. So you'll have to tune in here to know why I did 8.5 11 box, which is actually 85 by 110 uh, and give me that aspect rages. There's my 8.5 by 11 with the crop tool selected to 8/2 a letter. So this isn't a and half by a ratio ratio only you'll notice that it's pixels right now. One of the reasons it's pixels is because I've said it to the Facebook pixels output format. And so, in order to do in 8/ 11 quickly, I'm going to show you quickly here. Ah, because we're gonna get into this later. More in depth. I'm gonna come in here to do a new 8.5 by 11 recipe. So we have a and half by 11 recipe. I'm going to go into the long edge. I'm gonna tell it, I want a long edge of 11 inches, and now you'll see it snaps 2.5 by 11. If I crop it vertical or horizontal, it's still a and 1/2 by so we'll talk again in the next segment. So what phase was thinking and why they did it in that way, giving us ratios and then output size? There's some good reasons, but we're gonna get to that later. But I keep that here in crop for my up here in my my tethered solution. So that again, while I'm shooting, the art director can quickly see what it's gonna look like on their page for what it's gonna look like. They're well, so there's that crop and there's there. There's how to preview it. Rotation and flipped curves. We just put them there. The lens correction, sharpening noise reduction, All of this we're going to get to. But let's go into another tool. So let's go into another tool that I really love. Wall tethering. Okay? And that is the overlay tool. So with the overlay tool, I'm gonna come to my over lace on here, some images we shop for over a two. I'm hungry. I do this. And what you do is you the drop in image in or you go find an image. I don't want to go find it image and find something that I've created for an overlay. I've already let's see already selected one. But of course, it's not being, um, easy on me right now. Someone have to remember eight while I'm going to actually remember where I put something and go into especially overly file and grab my sushi overlay. Now they're sushi overlays a photoshopped file. Um, this overly overly tool works really well with files that have transparent backgrounds. And you'll see why in a second when I opened that overlay file, you'll see that I could see through. I can see through the image. So I've got clients that this is the only way they shoot. They are given their layout ahead of time for that front page cover that they're shooting. They know where the types gonna go. They know where they're going to overlay the title Sports Illustrated. They know where the thoughts going to go. And so knowing that ahead of time in putting this together, they can shoot while tethered and make sure the subject matter is cropped. Write properly, and so I have some clients that use this all the time. It's It's a great tool. You could change the opacity and make it really bright and bring it back down. Now, if you don't have, you don't have a file that is a transparent background. That's gonna be the reason why you want to change capacity, because it'll be all blocked up in solid and you can't see your subject that way with transparent background. It doesn't really matter for Europe. Asi scale does matter. Is it fitting your subject right? That fitting your subject here so you could move horizontal yourself. Or you can grab the hand tool and use. Move it your hand yourself with hand tool here, so literally whole catalogues a shot. With this way, we have a client in Birmingham, Alabama, that one photographer four sets. They have the overlays set up. They've got four cameras, four sets for lighting, and the clients of the art director goes in sets the product. The stylists are setting the product because they're looking through live you with overlay and there, then setting the product do you set? All he does is go in the lights. One set knocks one off those lights. The next knocks one off and they're creating it. They're creating look, because they use in the overlays. You know exactly what they wanted ahead of time. They're laying it out properly by by styling it to the overlay. And it became becomes incredible production tool for tethered shooting from the front end again. Maybe it's not something that a lot of people are gonna use here, but it's it's nice to know it's in your bag. It's nice. No, you've got it that ability to do it in this this program, Any questions about over Like, though, Yes, it can use other files it, But, um, really should be a transparent Go back to Nino. Tethered. Haven't related. Let's go back to anything that we did not cover before the copyright metadata we did for, you know, uh, talked about that in a bit. Donna, Um, right. We talk quickly about it. Setting it compared very and And we did it by hitting the return button. The return button there. So literally as you shoot the other images, air coming in. Oh, yeah, There's one. I like that one better switch. And there is the one to compare to. So that compare variant is really nice to shoot. Use wild being tethered, then the wall that's up. Five. Start right. And then keep on. Go. Yeah, that was good. And start start rated at that time. So that's a tool that we find It's a little little known little used, But for those people that do of it, it becomes a crutch Because we can't use this building without once you find that too, Once you want. You find ago. Yeah, that's never gonna never gonna use a tool. Never use this program without it anymore. Question. Toggle your before and after honor off quickly. So each tool each tool has a has a before on an officer, Remember, Let's bring our exposure up option. The undue pulled the option key down. Well, the option key down. So I'm gonna zoom in to show this option Key down on the reset is a before and after on each tool. So the globally when I mean I know what I dio. No, you can't. So instead of globally what I would do is control Newberry. And that shows you where you were before. So that's the before and after. Easy, but control click new variant on it gives you what you're poor was. So is that like an equivalent Teoh create virtual copy? Uh, yeah, I did. It is a virtual company. So it is just a a segment of the preview, another preview file and another set of settings sidecar and added attached to that original raw. And can you retouch both separately? Absolutely, absolutely contrast. Yeah, that and that's that's really the nice part about it Is that being able to go in and change each one separately, then compare them to each other, right? All for the same role. Five. Yep. Some from the same rough. All and say OK, yeah, I've got. And that one's even, You know, that one's in black and white and really compare and honest. How many do you want to keep on doing in the new variants? New parents knew. Very. It's a four or five different copies of that same variant. All right. I use that a lot when I'm not not certain on the color work I want. I'm playing with one. I'll leave when I go. I kind of like this one. Not sure, So let me just leave it over there and make a new variant and I play in playing play and then I'll decide between two. I do that all the time when I'm playing with color.
Class Materials
Bonus Materials with RSVP
Bonus Materials with Purchase
Ratings and Reviews
Jesse Furqueron
Yes, per some other reviews this started slow. What turned me off was the sales spiel for the class. It also came across as a sales schtick for C1, which is ok given the presenter. Stuck with it (well most of it, had to step away at times) and found it useful. I've had my eye on C1 for a LONG time. I'm not a pro, but would consider myself a pretty serious amateur. I document old mining and narrow gauge steam engines, general travel and now do our product photography (started a new company, so all $ goes to that rather than C1, which I would LOVE to own after seeing C9). Went with Aperture back in the day because of its cataloging and price. Back then C1 didn't have cataloging, though it DID have a 2 tier price structure...(Phase WHY did ya'll do away with this?????). Back to the class. After lunch on the first day I think they found their stride. Second day, especially Nino in the afternoon was quite good. That was probably my fav session. Seemed like most questions came from the in-studio "captive" audience. Expected more from the web? Constructive feedback. 1) Could have condensed things down quite a bit. I liked the more casual approach it took later on first day and on the second day. Dave especially seemed more at ease. 2) Ya'll (Dave especially) seemed to have his topics scripted out. Given the two day nature of this, would have been nice to give the attendees an idea of agenda/timeslots for topics up front. If an agenda/timeline was presented...I totally missed it. But then, I couldn't back up or rewind the live stream when I had to step away several times... if I paused it jumped to the realtime stream :-( 3) C Lve was pushing the "free trial download"...isn't there already a trial download from Phase? What value are ya'll offering in this area above what they offer? I found this annoying, if there's an extended trial period or something through ya'll cool. If not...I'm back to the annoying aspect of it. 4) Nino, get a Cintiq :-) If C1 doesn't have a profile for Cintiq (I'm going to download the trial from Phase) Phase you need to add support for it. 5) Dave's material he presented should be in vids on his website to help him expand his C1 market..fantastic selling tool there Dave....or even better....embedded in the product itself (ala SilverFast). Phase, you listening? 6) Nino, given he's coming from a different angle, eg no skin in selling C1?, he could do a 3-5 hour intensive vid(s) and I'd pay something for that. YMMV but I liked his approach and presentation. Was disappointed no C1 on his YouTube :-( Would I pay 99.00 for this class? Honestly, no. We use 3D graphics (ZBrush) and CAD (Rhino) in our company and have been learning those over the last year. To compare. There is another tutorial company whose name I shall not mention (no, it does not start with an 'L') that specializes in vid classes for those and other 3D products. They structure their offerings on a AFFORDABLE monthly/6mos/yearly all-you-can-eat fee structure. Much more consumer friendly, and quite honestly their videos are very focused and about 4-6 hours per course. I don't see myself paying 99.00 much less 129.00 for just one course like this (especially with the sales spiel content) when other companies have a more customer friendly consumption model. A value for the $ thing. In the end I did learn some things, and I'm glad I watched what I could of it. And yeah, I'm pretty sure after this review I just got taken off the free C1 license contention list...but I'm just being honest...Dave, I will be ordering some of the LCC pocket accessories if I ever get C1...those were cool IMHO. C1 has come quite a ways. When I can, I'll add it to our software arsenal.
ira potter
I have been a user of Capture One for a couple of years but have strugled to get my head around the way to use this software as my chosen raw converter, I love the improved quality that Capture One gives me but always seem to end up scratching my head and going back to Lightroom to save time. I haven't been able to watch the full presentation due to time difference, (I am in the U.K), and other commitments but I have learnt so much in the time I have spent watching that I can finally see me waving goodbye to Lightroom in the very near future. The presenters are excellent teachers, they are funny, engaging and thanks guys you really have made a p[ositive difference to how I interact with Capture One software.