 Hey everybody it's Greg back to here and welcome to this Capture One tutorial for beginners. So if you're new to Capture One then this is a perfect video for you. Make sure you stick around and watch all the different things that I go through in this video. Also if you stick around to the end I'll show you how you can save 10% off new versions of Capture One as well as upgrades. So that'll be at the end of the video. All right let's get started. So let's have a look at the interface. Now if you've downloaded the free trial or if you've had it for a while your version of Capture One may look different than what you're seeing on your screen right now. You can configure Capture One pretty much any way you would like. So let me show you how to do some of those basic configuration adjustments and then we'll progress from there and then I'll show you how to do some basic landscape adjustments by the end of this video. All right so let's get started. So you can see here we have what they call the browser on the right hand side. Now if I wanted to adjust the size of these images you can see here if I just click and hover over it we have double arrows left and right I can drag this. So now we have larger thumbnails that we can look at and say okay that image looks pretty good let's check that out. Now let's say you had a couple of different images and you wanted to kind of compare them you can do that in a lightroom you can do that in Capture One as well. Now an easy way to do that is we've got this one highlighted you could see the white box around it if you look in your upper right. Now all we have to do is click on another image and we can compare that one as well. So I'm going to hold the command key on the Mac I'm not sure what the command is on a PC but I'm going to click on that. Now you can see we have these two images side by side. Now if I wanted to add a third one again I click on the command key and then I've added a third one and then let's say okay I'll add another one. So just by holding that command key and clicking I can preview these different images and the more I add they'll show up in the screen but they'll get smaller. So I don't like to do more than four at one time but I could look at these four and I could say hmm out of these four I think I like this one. So also we have to do to deselect is the same thing click on command click on the image it disappears and then you can see it's highlighted so we just click on that it's easy to remember which ones you've clicked on because they're already highlighted with a white box. Now let's say you had a series of images in a row you could click on the top one here so that's what we're looking at if you hold the shift key and click on the bottom one then it will highlight all four images at once. So I'm going to click here and you can see my computer's hung up but there we go so we have the four images. Now you can see out of these four we have some red in this image so I'll walk you through that next. So what we'll do is we'll just de-highlight these so again just command and click those will disappear and then we'll be left with just the one image here. Now the highlights here are in red so these are blown out highlights. Now if you don't have that set if you look at the top here the top right you see this triangle with the orange and the explanation mark all you have to do is click on that to enable it or click on that to turn it off. Now you can also adjust when this kicks in so to do that if you go up here to capture one and you go to preferences and then if you look at this box right here exposure now you can see here if I click on defaults these are the default settings 250 and zero so 255 would be the extreme white point and so they've got 250 right here and that's when those warnings kick in if you want to kick it in sooner you could do that but I usually leave it at default and then I just sort of adjust by eye I never really push it that far as far as my exposure so if you want to bring this exposure down for example you can see here the exposure tab it's already at minus 50 so this was from a series of HDR images where I took multiple exposures that's why it's overexposed but I could still recover quite a bit of those highlights in capture one you can see although those were saying they're overexposed I was able to do quite a bit of highlight recovery although I recommend trying to get a good exposure right off the bat so anyway that's how you do that so let me sort of go through more of this interface we talked about the browser window on the right hand side now if you want to move that you can if you come up here where it says view you can see here there's a whole bunch of sections here now there's also keyboard shortcuts as well if you want to familiarize yourself with those but if we wanted to move that browser window from the right we can move it to below so if we go here place browser below so if you'd like to have it more like that you can do that and then again too you can change here by looking at the lower left you have list mode where you can see there's a little bit more information about your ISO and your aperture and your shutter speed and focal length and things like that you could have it that way or you could have it this way whatever you're comfortable with really I just sort of like to see the image and then I can click on it and I do feel like it gives me a little bit more screen real estate if I have it over on the right so we go over here place browser right and then once you've picked your images and you're not really looking at these you can just sort of drag this over and make those thumbnails smaller giving you more sort of screen real estate to edit your image with so that's how I like to have that set up so let's go back up here to capture one we click on that again you could see that we have different options we have preferences and we can check for updates and things like that if we go over to file you can see we can create a new catalog or a new session I often create new catalogs versus sessions and then we can also look at ones that we've opened recently and then we can close this window we can import images we could save as template so you have a lot of different options here also we can edit with so if you want to take this image and go to photoshop you would click edit with I'll show you how I do that I go edit with and here is where you would set up your basic recipe so I want to export this in a tiff format 16 bit all you do is click on these boxes and you'll see the options jpeg tiff psd I have tiff you see here we have the choice of 8 bit or 16 bit if this is a raw 16 bit image I recommend you export at 16 bit if you're going to photoshop and then we have options zip or uncompressed and then here's your profile pro photo being a larger color space so you have s rgb which is the color space of the web you have adobe rgb which is a larger color space or pro photo which is even larger than that so these are some of the settings that I use and if you don't have these just click on your box here if you don't see all of these you can go to show recommend just click around and explore it show all for example so maybe you only see one or two you go to show all and then when I click on that I can see all of it so just explore the interface sometimes things aren't where you think they should be or so just click around and you should be able to find things so we were back over here so we are on file now again you can export images as well and you can export the original or the variant for example so let's say we wanted to export an original now again you would pick the destination so you create a folder where you want to put this so that way when you go to look for it you know where you put it and then you can also have different image names so you can adjust that for example like if I wanted to go here and say okay image name and aperture you could do personalized things like that when you go to export it and you can see here you can include adjustments with your export so that's how you would export images to a folder so if you're just doing a few little adjustments in capture one and then you want to put it right to a folder that's how you would do that so you go to edit here you can see we also have different things that we can explore I'm not going to go through every one of these right now but here we have view now you can show grid and guides I'll just show you that for example so we have a grid now also we can control that grid by the upper right so if I click on that the grid will disappear now you could see here as well we have a bunch of things here and I'm going to go into all of these things but anyway let's go back to view and you can see here we have different things as well hide tools add tools now you can also right click and add tools that way as well so let me show you how that would work so right here from left to right this is what we call the tool tabs you can see here we have our catalog we have exposure adjustments we have color if you wanted to add a tool to that you would right click and say add tool tab you can see the ones that are grayed out that are lighter gray those are already in my tool tab and then the ones that are in white are ones that I can add so if I wanted to add that I would just go add tool tab I would hit quick and it would add it to that top bar now don't confuse that with the add tool feature so with the add tool feature regardless of what we have here we can add additional tools to each tool tab so let's just go from left to right this is where I do my exposure settings but you can drag and drop these so if you find you use one more than the other and you feel more comfortable with that at the top so for example I like to make my exposure adjustments first so I like to have that then I like to adjust my highlighting shadows and then if you're more comfortable with levels say you can move that up so you can configure this interface pretty much any way you want now we have the moray here now if I wanted to get rid of that I could just go remove tool moray now that's only removing that from this tool tab you can see that we're highlighted orange up there that's our exposure tab I'm adding or removing tools to just this tab so for example again if I wanted to right click say add tool I can add the moray tool back I click on there you can see we have moray at the bottom and let's say I use it often I can drag it up to the top we have our tool tabs and then we have our tools within each tab and we can move those tools around so I suggest setting this up the way you work so for example I have all of my images on the left in the catalog then I like to do my exposure adjustments first then I like to do my color adjustments fine-tuning my white balance so I have it set up that way now also then you can do some lens corrections if you'd like so maybe you like to do your lens corrections first however you want to do that you can set up these tool tabs from left to right so that you can work in a logical order whatever you feel comfortable with now also here is where we have layers so you could see the brush that's layers we can work on different layers for example let's just make some basic adjustments to this image and then we'll add a layer make adjustments to that so let's get started so we'll pick one here that is close to being where I want it just right out of the box here we are we're on our exposure tab we've got our histogram at the top on the far left is the darks on the far right is the brights it's a pretty even exposure you can see right here there's an adjustment made to that now what I can do is we have this sort of backwards arrow to the left if I click on that that'll reset that but we also have that at the top now if I hit that that'll take all the adjustments and that will zero it right to the beginning so any adjustments we've made in the different tool tabs that will take them all out so here we are starting from scratch we've got our base exposure you can see the information is at the bottom so this was shot at an iso 64 at 1 1 25th at f8 at 16 millimeters so you can find your information about the shot at the bottom left we'll make a small adjustment so I think if anything I could probably maybe bring that exposure down a bit I can also do that in a layer so I'll show you that in a second where I just bring the sky down now I'll bring my highlights down a bit so if you drag it to the right you can see the highlights come down so you can't really go left with these adjustments you can only go right so I'll go to about let's say 20 now I can't bring my shadows down but I can bring them up now again by just going to the right so you can see I can bring the shadows up I'll bring those up just a little bit maybe five those are the basic exposure adjustments that I make to all of my images just basically the exposure and then the highlight and the shadow now I like to work in capture one and photoshop on certain images but if I'm only working in capture one then I'll make a contrast adjustment as well if I'm going to photoshop later I'll often just do the contrast adjustment in photoshop but let's just bring in a little contrast you can see how that's affecting the image I think you can use a little bit of contrast I don't want to go too crazy with that also we could do some clarity which is a form of sharpening you could see here all you have to do is click on a box and then you can see the different options you can see we have natural we have punch we have neutral and classic I like the natural and then of course to add clarity or perceive sharpness we go to the right to add a little bit of blur you go to the left so we can add a little bit of sharpness there we'll just say eight and then you have your structure control and then you can see here that's sort of really kind of sharpens things I don't really like to use the structure control too much but let's just say we'll give it say like a one so we've made some adjustments now if I want it to go back you see we have that backwards arrow now if I want it to go back just on the clarity not all my adjustments I can do that or if I want to preview my adjustment I would hold the option key or the alt key on the pc hold that down click on that backwards arrow it shows you what it looks like before you made your adjustment and then you let it go and then it shows you what it looks like with your adjustment so that's the option key or the alt key on the pc that'll allow you to preview your adjustments and then if you say you know what I like the better the other way I just click on that backwards arrow and it zeros that out so you can zero that out and go back to wherever you were always by just clicking on that backwards arrow for each of these tools if you want to do it for the whole image so say you've adjusted your exposure in this tab and you've adjusted your white balance here and you're like ah I'm just starting from scratch maybe just click there and it all goes back to the beginning we covered how to do some exposure adjustments going to the right gets brighter going to the left it gets darker we talked about how to add your highlight indicator so that you can see if there's blown out areas we talked about the dynamic range the highlight in the shadow now let's go over to our next tab which is our color tab so you can see here I have color balance but again I can just close these or open these by clicking on those little greater than signs and I can drag these around configure this however you like if you find yourself making certain adjustments first then put it at the top and then sort of work your way down set it up so that you have a comfortable workflow so I have mine set up for base characteristics to nike on d850 that's what I shut it on I have the basic curve but like other parts of capture one whenever there's a box like this with the arrows on the right you can click on the box and you can see what the other options are you can explore different curves so these are different preset curves for your image and you may find that you like film high contrast over the auto curve if that's closer to what you want your finished image to look like then why not start there so you can set it like that I'll just go back to auto but again if you wanted to say compare it so we'll go film high contrast we look at our backwards arrow we hold the option key on the map alt on the pc we click on that now we can compare auto to film high contrast so you could say wow that almost looks like exactly how I want it so anyway you can do that that's sort of the preview feature so what I would do too is I shot this in auto white balance and if I wanted to compare say how it looked with a different white balance I just click on the box like all the other boxes and I could say well how would it look if I shot it with this setting sunny or let's say I shot it with flash and you can see these adjustments are being made for you so that's the kelvin kelvin that's the temperature and then the tint now you can also adjust these by going left we'll cool it down going right we'll warm it up you can adjust these manually just by sliding these sliders or you can choose these custom settings to get you sort of in the ballpark and you can say well there was a bit of cloud how does that look like compared to how I shot it so you can see I shot it at 53 86 with a tint of 2.1 but let's say I go to cloudy and I say okay well let's compare it so the option key or alt backwards arrow that's how I shot it and that's how it would look like if it was cloudy and you might find that you like somewhere in the middle so you could say well 53 86 59 let's go with 5600 so it's easier sometimes to just highlight the box type it in and say 5600 and there's my tint do I want to go a little more green or a little more magenta or am I happy with the zero and let's say we go with about one go a little bit to the right so you can make those adjustments and then if you don't like it again you just hit the backwards arrow or again holding the option or alt clicking here comparing the before and after so those are some base adjustments so those are the basic adjustments that I make I usually make an exposure adjustment maybe a little contrast if I'm not going to photoshop highlight and shadow and then I'll go over and I'll fine tune the white balance now you can fine tune the white balance if you shot it in raw if you shot it in jpeg you can't make those white balance adjustments so it's always a good idea to shoot in raw that gives you some latitude when it comes to post if you want to change your white balance now let's cover one more thing so we have the ability to add layers so we were on the background layer now if I want to add another layer so say I want to just do something to a layer I'm going to click here and we see we have layer one now if I click on that I could say top gradient so I'm going to add a gradient to this and I'll call this one top gradient so now I'm working on this layer now you can see up here if you look at the top we have sort of what looks like a square with a little sort of half something there if I hit B on my keyboard then we just have a brush now I've hit G on my keyboard now I have the gradient tool that's the easiest way to do it now all I have to do is drag and drop from the top you see how if I get close to the image I have that plus symbol now I can drag here but now I can go left or I can go right if I want a straight gradient so straight hold the shift key on my keyboard and that keeps it straight so drag it down and now you can't see anything so if I hit the M key that'll show the mask that we have so if you thought oh I want this a little bit lower I didn't go quite far what we could do is we could go back or we could just get rid of this whole thing so for example I could hit delete on this right here I highlight on it delete that's gone I could say let's just start over so now I've got that layer one we'll just call it top for now and now I've got my mask enabled so to see that you hit the M key M we have our G key for gradient M for mask and then I'm going to hit the shift key and I'm going to drag this gradient down so you could see also to where that's falling you can see how at the very bottom it's white so just sort of have a look at that now when I drop that we can see that we have more of the sky where it gets to the mountains now I can make adjustments to this so I can change the exposure so I'm going to hit the M key again so that we can see what we're doing now you can see here I have exposure adjustments right here I'm on the top layer this is only going to affect the top layer these adjustments now I can bring down the exposure in the sky so darkening the sky a little bit now if I wanted to sort of darken the bottom say I thought the foreground was too bright I'll do the opposite I'll create a new layer I'll call this one bottom I'm going to click on here and just say bottom and I'm going to make adjustments to this so this is highlighted in orange so now I'm going to take my gradient tool so I'm on G and I'm going to just drag it up hold shift I see the little plus symbol I come up to about here and now I can add that just drag down that exposure a little bit so I've darkened the bottom and the top now I can toggle either of these on or off and say well you know did that gradient make a difference do I need it do I not so I have these on different layers so I can do different things with it now there's a lot more into capture one I don't want to go too long with this video but I'll do more videos on capture one in the future let me know in the comment section below what you'd like me to cover in future capture one tutorials just post a little comment in the comment section below so earlier I mentioned if you're on the trial or you're thinking of getting a new version of capture one or upgrading to a newer version of capture one you can use the promotional code AMB Craig AMB Craig to save 10% so when you check out you would just put that in the promotional code I'm not sure if they call it that or the voucher code or the coupon code but if you punch that in on checkout that will save you 10% on future 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