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Ch-ch-changes by Adrian Weinbrecht

So what’s next? You’ve got your raw images loaded into Capture One Pro 7, now what?

Now it’s time to set up your workspace, choose your tools and get creative! Capture One Pro 7 gives you a huge range of tools and choices, but which tools do you really need to use every day?

In this Workflow Tutorial Part II I will go through how I set up the various computers I have running Capture One Pro 7. Believe it or not the tools I use most, can be contained in one tool tab. Life is better when it’s simple.

Capture One Pro 7 makes great photography easier.

Please feel free to post any questions or comments you might have.

Check out “Data Love Part I” here and see how I set up a session, name, import and rate it in Capture One Pro 7

Thanks for watching.

Warmest wishes

Adrian Weinbrecht

Nail down exact color correction

One of the many strong features of the Advanced Color Editor is the ability to define exactly which color you wish to edit, even down to the saturation range. It is a far more accurate system than just moving arbitrary named sliders, for example.

How to make sure the right colors are selected

To assist you in seeing exactly what colors have been selected, there is an option in the editor named “View selected color range”. With this option selected, any color that is not going to be affected will be displayed as greyscale.

The Advanced Color Editor is a really simple way to nail down that exact color correction!

Examples

In our sample image I have used the Pick Color Correction cursor to select the bluebell flowers. I have subsequently raised the saturation and dropped the luminosity of the blue slightly. This darkens up the bluebells closer to what I remember them looking like. They are always a tricky subject to catch!

To see exactly which areas of the image are going to be affected, I can check the “View selected color range” box, indicated by the orange circle. The preview will now look like this:

It is very clear to see what tones are going to be adjusted in the Color Editor.

This is a really useful feature if you have a number of color tones that are close to each other and you want to carefully define what is going to be changed. In my example, it will be more obvious of course, but this image shows exactly how the color range option works.

The parameters of the selected color can always be edited, even with the “View selected color range” option left on.

In this example with the current selection in the Color Editor, I would be able to make a very precise color edit.

If I leave the “View selected color range” option on and simply expand out my selection in the Color Editor wheel, I begin to see more of the color range that will be affected by any future edit applied.

Try to get in the habit of making a quick check with the color range option, to accurately see what your color edits are doing.

Best regards,

David

Data Love by Adrian Weinbrecht

Phase One asked me to do a video showing my workflow. “Sure thing” I said, thinking I could do it very quickly. So we started filming. However, it was soon obvious that we had way too much information to share, to get it all squeezed into 1 video.

So instead of 1 video, we are creating 3. This is Part One of our workflow series.

Protect your data with a safe, smooth and efficient workflow

Few things are more critical then your workflow. What’s the point of having a client spend 1,000’s on a shoot if you can’t ingest, name, display, edit and process the images safely and as soon as possible.

We’ve been using the same workflow for years; it’s all pretty straightforward. However I’ve created this ‘Part One’ of my workflow to be useful to everyone, from seasoned Pros to absolute beginners.

Please feel free to post any questions or comments you might have.

Thanks for watching.

Warmest wishes

Adrian Weinbrecht

Move your custom-made ICC profiles to other computers

NOTE: This article discusses an outdated version of Capture One. To learn more about our latest version, click here.

You are not restricted to working on a single computer when using ICC profiles. In this post I will show how easy it is to share these custom-made profiles with other computers.

Viewing your image with the right colors on another computer

When working with Sessions, the ICC profile will be included in the settings files located within the image folder. This ensures that you can move the image folder to another computer – and still have all the necessary components available for viewing the images exactly the same way on the other computer.

If you want to use a custom ICC profile on another computer running Capture One, you can simply import the profile.

How to import a Custom ICC profile from an image into Capture One

When viewing an image with a custom ICC profile on a different computer than where it was generated, you will see the image with the right colors, as the ICC profile is included in the settings folder inside the image folder.

But if you want to use the profile on other images, you need to import the profile. You find the camera ICC Profile selector in the Color Tool Tab’s Base Characteristics Tool. In the bottom of this selector, you find the Import option as shown in the image below. Select the images with the custom ICC profile and choose Import.

The ICC selector dropdown menu with Import as the last option

On a Mac system the custom ICC profile will be located in:

Users/UserX/Library/Colorsync/Profiles

The Library folder is hidden. To open it, make sure you are in the Finder, hold down the Option key, and then choose Go > Library.

On a Windows system the profiles will be located in:

Users/UserX/AppData/CaptureOne/Color Profiles

How to install a custom ICC profile on a computer:

If you want to use one of your custom ICC profile on a different computer, you need to copy it manually to the above locations depending on the system.

If Capture One is already running you will need to restart it in order to see the profiles in the ICC selector in Base Characteristics Tool.

If you do not follow the naming convention, the ICC profile will still be available but you will need to select it from “Other” rather than under the camera name.

For more information on the naming convention see my previous tip Tweak the default color look of your camera.

All the best,

Niels