Author: Alexander Svet

Technically, Capture One allows drawing only one gradient on a layer. However, you can avoid this restriction by using the Radial Gradient tool. A radial gradient in Capture One supports a significant level of transformation and you can quickly form it into an elongated shape, making two gradients out of one. Plus, here are a couple of gradient tricks from my Capture One 12 review: “You can control gradient smoothness by moving the internal circle of the radial mask. And if you wish to change the shape of the gradient, just hold the Alt and move one of the anchor…

I’m pretty sure, lots of you are using styles in Capture One! Some styles we apply more often than others. For instance, I have about a dozen of favorite styles which I use for 70-80% of edits. Recently, I thought: “I need to have shortcuts for these styles!”. Sadly, Capture One has no such a feature; you just can’t set a hotkey for a style. Now, for the good news: Style shortcuts can be assigned natively in Mac OS! Check this out, it’s really simple: 1. Open System Preferences –> Keyboard and select Shortcuts tab 2. Now choose App Shortcuts…

The next Capture One is going to be… Capture One 20! Phase One has revealed this in Capture One store: Plus, you’ll get a free upgrade to Capture One 20 if you would purchase a new license now! Plus, till the end of October, you can buy or upgrade Capture One license with a 10% discount using this code: OCT-AF-HZ15

Different light sources have various color temperatures. For instance, a standard incandescent lamp is much warmer than daylight. Thus, if you have distinct light sources in a scene, it’s impossible to set a correct WB using only White Balance tool. Luckily, Capture One offers plenty of ways to edit such images. In some of the cases, you can go with a simple gradient mask. It works well for scenes where you have natural light from a window and artificial light from a lamp. Things get a bit more complicated if you’re dealing with mixed light sources across the whole image.…

Capture One offers a helpful tool to inspect photographs – Focus. Focus tool always shows your primary variant image, and you can set up it the way you need it. Focus window is fully resizeable; you can make it huge and place it on a second display or make it small and put anywhere in the interface. The best thing is that you can zoom in and out of your image in the Focus window separately from the main viewer: Plus, Focus has a handy cursor tool Pick Focus Point to change displayed area quickly.​​

Today I would like to discuss one of the most underrated features of layers in Capture One – Invert Mask. It’s a pretty simple tool that brings mind-blowing results. Let’s see how Invert Mask can enhance your editing: 1. Mask areas which are tough to select Invert Mask is the easiest and quickest way to select areas, which are difficult to mask using standard techniques. Say, you need to mask water on this image: You can’t create a mask from color here – water has no solid color on this image. Manual mask drawing would take too much time. The…