The keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys in Capture One provide a great way of increasing the speed with which you can edit your photos. Once you have mastered the basic keyboard shortcuts, you can quickly switch between any of Capture One’s tools to apply the settings of your choice to your photos and perform any preset action on your image. Capture One’s hotkeys are regularly used by professional photographers who need the ability to process large volumes of photographs on a regular basis. The main purposes of the hotkeys are to allow you to quickly and easily make as many edits…
Author: Alexander Svet
Alexander Svet
Alexander Svet – Professional photographer and photography instructor. Phase One Certified Professional and Capture One beta tester.
Capture One features two great tools that allow users to save image settings: styles and presets. With styles and presets you can create your own collection of methods for processing images and applying color corrections, or you can use the actions that have been developed by other photographers. This article contains everything you need to know about working with styles and presets in Capture One. It also contains some suggestions of styles created by professional photographers that you may wish to check out.
As any experienced photographer knows – RAW processing is only half the battle. When you bring home a mountain of footage, you need to be able to quickly and accurately select the footage that will be of use to you. The problem is that you may literally have hundreds or thousands of images and the minute detail on each picture is really important: the model’s look, background objects, the focus… This all entails that choosing the “best” of a dozen good, but a little different, frames, is sheer hell for photographers. Today I will show you three simple, but very…
In Capture One 7 next to some of the tools you can find the “brush” icon. At first glance, it simply means that this tool can be used in layers with Local Adjustments. But not everyone knows that behind this icon hides a much more interesting Capture One’s feature. In this short article I’ll show how to change the settings of the Local Adjustments tool so that you will find working with layers much faster and easier.