Step By Step With Capture One 5
September 14, 2010 1 Comment
How easy is it to process a raw file? Once you’ve transferred your files to your computer and opened Capture One, it can be as simple as four steps. Of course, once you’ve mastered these four steps, there is a whole world of control available elsewhere in Capture One 5.
Step 1 White Balance
The White Balance tool can be used manually, but I like the automatic eye-dropper tool. I click on a grey cloud and the colour balances is instantly neutralised.
Step 01 - White Balance
Step 2 Exposure
Next I play with the four sliders in the Exposure section – Exposure, Contrast, Brightness and Saturation. It’s amazing the corrections and improvements that can be made with these four controls.
Step 02 - Exposure
Step 3 Crop
Shooting from a boat meant a few angled horizons in Antarctica, and often I wanted a different format as well. The image is cropped and rotated, quickly and easily.
Step 03 - Crop
Step 4 Process
Often this is all you’ll need to do, so click on the Process control and the raw file will be processed and saved in a format and to a destination of your choice. Raw processing couldn’t be easier!
Step 04 - Process
Your comments are incomplete and inaccurate, at least for the version of Capture One I recieved with my camera from Leica. The ‘process’ button on Capture One does *absolutely nothing* unless some adjustments have been made to the selected image(s). As far as I can see, Capture One lacks the capability to simply, without adjustment, take a RAW file and convert it to jpeg or tiff. I regard this as something of a drawback for a product that deceptively touts itself as being especially good at dealing with RAW files. The manual for Capture One is even worse, since in the section dealing with “export” of files, it simply has the brilliant and oh so explanatory sentence “there are many ways to export images”. Duh! Yeah! Well what the f**k are they? On this point there is no further help. Did I say the manual was mediocre? Well it is, not even an “index” boys!