First of all, there is no auto-cropping in Capture One. However, sometimes you might see some cropping applied by default. The reason for this is the Lens correction settings. By default, Capture One applies a distortion correction to some images. The thing is that Distortion tool modifies your image and thus affects the cropping. You can easily turn it off by clicking “…” icon and choosing “Disable Default Lens Correction”. Capture One Hidden Features eBook Capture One Hidden Features is a collection of more than 200 pro hints to improve your Capture One workflow, structured into an easy-to-read book.…
Author: Alexander Svet
Alexander Svet
Alexander Svet – Professional photographer and photography instructor. Phase One Certified Professional and Capture One beta tester.
Do you have a quality control stage in your Capture One workflow? That’s a crucial part of the image editing process. Quality control allows you to find and fix the mistakes you made during the editing. The idea is rather simple: No matter how experienced you are, your eyes get tired over longtime editing. Thus, sooner or later, you will make mistakes in image adjustments. The worst thing is that probably you would not even notice it. Because our vision quickly adapts to the current color on an image, you’re working with. Here is a typical case when this issue…
Autumn. Yellowing foliage is gently swaying in the chilly wind… You’re opening a wardrobe to take out your favorite comfy jacket… The whole nature is preparing for hibernation and whispering “The Next Capture One is somewhere out there….” Most of the previous versions of Capture One were released at the end of Novembers, so photographers here and there have started discussing possible features of the Next Capture One. In our Facebook group, Alex Gubariu started a trendy topic on features he wishes to see in the next update. I have picked out some popular requests from this post and comments:…
The contest is finished! The end of September is here, and it’s time to announce the winner of Capture One Tutorial Contest! The main prize, $100 B&H Gift Card, goes to Pete Malan for his video on real estate photography editing! Congratulations, Pete! Archive:Contest Rules In August, I decided to take a short break with regular RAW Editing Challenges and to try something new. As I can see from previous challenges, lots of you have awesome editing skills in Capture One. I’m pretty sure that you can share excellent editing tips as well! So, let’s run a Capture One Tutorial…
In the previous newsletter, I asked you to share your feature wishlist for the Next Capture One. And you have sent me a mass of excellent ideas! I’ll prepare them in a solid list and forward it to Capture One developers. At the same time, some of your feature requests are already implemented in Capture One! Vibrance Several of my readers wished to see Vibrance slider in Capture One. Basically, the Saturation slider in the Exposure tool of Capture One works as Vibrance. Here is a description of Saturation slider from official Capture One guide: “The positive values (attained when…
Hey! Recently, one of my readers, Ian MacMichael, faced a weird issue with exporting in Capture One. Ian has exported photographs, but for some reason, images appeared in a folder different from the selected path. The same happened with the next export and the one after that. The destination path had been set correctly; images just somehow refused to export to this folder. Do you have any idea of what could have gone wrong here? If not, it’s time to discuss some hidden features of exporting in Capture One. Root Folder Let’s start with solving Ian’s problem. Capture One has…