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Length: Preview how the exported image will look in terms of final size, sharpness and colors. Based on the selected Process Recipe. Join David Grover for Lesson Overview of Process Recipes of Get The Most Out of Your Photos With Capture One Pro 12 on CreativeLive. To find process recipes, go to the Output tool tab on the capture one interface. This is usually the last tab, and the icon for it looks like a.
 
 

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But if you’re sending an image out to retouch, for example, sometimes you want to give them a low riel estate around the image. If they need to do some clothing or healing or something like that, so we can elect to say, ignore, crop on the crop will be ignored on the image Now, Even better, if the format that you’re exporting to is Photoshopped PSD, then here we go.

We can actually set the crop as a path on the PSD file, so if you’re sending that out to a re toucher, they see okay, they’ve cropped it like this, but they giving me all the image real estate, which I can grab from if I need to.

And then I can crop to that path as well. So that’s really useful Now. Underneath is some output sharpening options, which we’re going to cover a little bit later as well. And that’s really useful, because when we make an image smaller or larger, so if we if we reduce the scaling of the image we end up with if you like a detrimental effect, it softens the image.

So when we scale an image, we can compensate for that with some additional output sharpening. So we look at some examples of that later on in the course as well. Metadata, they simply allows you to control how much metadata is included on. One of those options is that you can include the overly as well as a layer. So again, if we using appears d former, we can include that overlay is a separate Photoshopped layer.

So again, if you’re sending out to your client or to retouch, they can see exactly how the image is supposed to fit into the magazine cover or something like that. And then finally, for water marking, we can add a text watermark or an image watermark on again later on. In the course, we’ll look at some examples of how to add watermarks and keep them dynamic as well.

So the watermark can change based on the image content, like the file name or any of the meta data copyright notices those constant things, so there’s a lot you can do in a process recipe. This is a superb course. David is an excellent teacher. I’m coming to the end of it and have learnt so much. I’ve been using the software for a year, self-learning as I went along. I had watched the odd David Grover video on YouTube, but never got much further in my understanding of the software.

Capture One is brilliant software and to do it justice you need to learn it properly from an expert. Highly recommend this course if you want to produce professional results. Excellent course and a very engaging speaker.

If you are starting with Capture One 12, this is the best class to take. The lessons are presented and explained in an organized way that it shortens the learning curve.

Thank you, David. One of the best course I’ve purchased. Very helpful and I learned so much more with this course and in a short period of time, than all the official Capture One You Tube videos put together! Anyways David Grover is the same guy who does the Phase One C1 official YouTube videos, so there’s no better person to conduct this course than him! Truly excellent and if you think you know all about C1 Pro 12 interface, wait till you watch this course.

Skip to main content. Buy Class. Sale Ends Soon! Save Class. This way you simulate the white borders or matte around your print. To change the background color, change the Color for the Viewer under the Appearance tab in your Capture One Preferences. Also, while you are in the preferences, set a widish Proof Margin, say of around 30 pixels. With that set you can easily turn on the Proof Margin with the button at the top left corner of the viewing area, next to where it says Background in this screenshot.

Finally, if you have Viewer Labels turned on, showing shooting information and the filename below the large preview of your photo, turn that off by selecting Hide Viewer Labels, under the View menu. Assuming you want to keep those changes and make further adjustments for your print, select Clone Variant from the shortcut menu. Another very useful feature in Capture One, especially when it comes to preparing to print, is the Color Readouts. Generally, when printing, you want to avoid total black and total white.

Select Add Color Readout from the bottom of the Picker tools, which is second from the right in the toolbar above the viewer in the below screenshot. Then, click on some of the key areas of your photograph. I like to check the darkest area, the brightest highlight, and a mid tone. When I placed these Color Readouts on my original, the background was 0, total black, and the shell was , which is pure white.

So, I created a Clone Variant, and adjusted my Levels, to bring these values in just a little, which would be good printing practice.

You can see that now, in my resulting image, my darkest background has a luminance of 2. My brightest highlight, the shells on this Himba Girls traditional necklace, is Her face is Another option for checking the darkest and brightest areas of your print image, are the Exposure Warnings.

These can be turned on with the warning triangle icon. I set my highlight warnings at and my shadow warning at 2. If you want to make any other modifications for print, increasing contrast, changing the colors to stop them going out of gamut, now would be the time to do it. Just as I always printed from Lightroom, I love to be able to print right in my processing and workflow tool.

In Capture One Pro, you can hit the Print button from the top menu at any time, regardless of where you are in the program. The print window opens, and you get to select your settings. This is unlike Lightroom, where you go to the Print module to print. We can create templates in Capture One Pro to save margin and layout information. However, it forgets about page size and ICC profiles whenever you close the program. Fortunately, these are quick settings to change, so select your paper size and the ICC profile for your printer and media combination from the Color Profile menu.

You may need to change this, depending on how sharp your original image is. Also, it may need to be increased for larger prints too. You can set your margins depending on how much border you want. You can see the dimensions I use in my Print Borders spreadsheet, which you can download here. Once you have entered your border dimensions, click the Templates pulldown, and select Save User Template.

In the above screenshot you can see that I called this one 18 x 24 inches borders. Another cool thing about Capture One is when you switch from Landscape to Portrait orientation, the borders automatically switches. Consequently, I no longer have to save a separate template for each orientation. That was all for now. If you have any questions or advice for this topic, please let me know in the comments.

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Export for Web Process Recipe. Add a Watermark. Edit With Dialog. Soft Proofing for Print. Using Color Readouts.

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Capture one 12 process recipes free.Capture One: Exporting Finished Photos with Recipes

So once again, quick recap one. In the second to last tool tab, we can see all the process recipes here up the top. And then if I cycle through any of these selected recipes, you can see the recipe change, indicating what that recipe is going to do.

So to make a new recipe, we need to click the plus button, so let’s just do one. So let’s make a ah tiff for its own pool tinfoil, which is a bit and fools go, so I know exactly We can choose here on the resolution and scaling. So that’s if you like the bare bones of what that process recipe is going to do. So if we look in the file management tab, this gives us some options off handling the destination of where those images are going to go to.

Now, if you leave this tab alone and leave it on the default, you’ll see that the first option here is set to output location. That means when you run this process recipe capture, one will look at this and say, Okay, I need to use what set in the output location so it will bypass anything here and go straight to the output location tool and see Okay, I need to output to the output folder on by default. If we click on the arrow, that’s the output folder off this particular session.

So you see CEO puffy output. So any session the destination folder will always default to the output. Now there’s a sub folder option here which allows us to use tokens again, something which is being popping up as we’ve being moving through capture one to control that destination of output.

And we have a look at some examples shortly adjustments. This is super handy. This allows us to actually control some of the adjustments that have been placed on the image in the output itself, said the 1st 1 respect crop. So that means if I’ve cropped the image like I have here, for example, that crop will, of course be respected, and the image will be output with that crop in place.

But if you’re sending an image out to retouch, for example, sometimes you want to give them a low riel estate around the image. If they need to do some clothing or healing or something like that, so we can elect to say, ignore, crop on the crop will be ignored on the image Now, Even better, if the format that you’re exporting to is Photoshopped PSD, then here we go.

We can actually set the crop as a path on the PSD file, so if you’re sending that out to a re toucher, they see okay, they’ve cropped it like this, but they giving me all the image real estate, which I can grab from if I need to. And then I can crop to that path as well. So that’s really useful Now. Underneath is some output sharpening options, which we’re going to cover a little bit later as well. And that’s really useful, because when we make an image smaller or larger, so if we if we reduce the scaling of the image we end up with if you like a detrimental effect, it softens the image.

So when we scale an image, we can compensate for that with some additional output sharpening. So we look at some examples of that later on in the course as well. Metadata, they simply allows you to control how much metadata is included on. One of those options is that you can include the overly as well as a layer. So again, if we using appears d former, we can include that overlay is a separate Photoshopped layer.

So again, if you’re sending out to your client or to retouch, they can see exactly how the image is supposed to fit into the magazine cover or something like that. And then finally, for water marking, we can add a text watermark or an image watermark on again later on.

In the course, we’ll look at some examples of how to add watermarks and keep them dynamic as well. So the watermark can change based on the image content, like the file name or any of the meta data copyright notices those constant things, so there’s a lot you can do in a process recipe. This is a superb course. Once this is set, click the Process button, and your selected images will be output to the specified Output folder. Resized, watermarked and ready for the Web.

If you want to specify an output location for certain image types, you can select a different location under the File tab. This is saved in your Process Recipe, which is very useful. To send a selected photograph to another application for editing, you can right click a thumbnail and select Open With. Here you can select the third party application, such as Photoshop, from the submenu.

Keep in mind that this method will open the original file without any of the changes from Capture One. If you want to keep your changes, a better option is to send the image straight to the other program.

To do so, right click the image and select Edit With. This opens a dialog for you to select the format and color space etc. Note also that this will create a copy of the image that it sends to Photoshop.

Moreover, note that under the Adjustments tab of this dialog, there is a Disable Sharpening option. Most of the time, RAW files need some sharpening to make them look normal again. Keep this option in mind, and uncheck it to enable sharpening when necessary. The great thing about this Edit With method is that the copy is automatically added to your Catalog. One of the coolest things about Capture One Pro is that you are pretty much always in soft proof mode. This gives me the most wiggle room when editing my images.

Most of the time, as I switch between these various sized color spaces, the software correctly converts them. I have a few black and white images processed in Capture One Pro, that change slightly in the Capture One Pro interface.

A very import application of this soft proofing feature is that you can choose to view your images using either a specific profile, or always use the profile that you have selected from the Process Recipes list, regardless of where you are in the user interface.

This is an advantage in order to get a soft proofing view of your images before printing them. This way you simulate the white borders or matte around your print. To change the background color, change the Color for the Viewer under the Appearance tab in your Capture One Preferences. Also, while you are in the preferences, set a widish Proof Margin, say of around 30 pixels.

With that set you can easily turn on the Proof Margin with the button at the top left corner of the viewing area, next to where it says Background in this screenshot. Finally, if you have Viewer Labels turned on, showing shooting information and the filename below the large preview of your photo, turn that off by selecting Hide Viewer Labels, under the View menu.

Assuming you want to keep those changes and make further adjustments for your print, select Clone Variant from the shortcut menu. Another very useful feature in Capture One, especially when it comes to preparing to print, is the Color Readouts. Generally, when printing, you want to avoid total black and total white. Select Add Color Readout from the bottom of the Picker tools, which is second from the right in the toolbar above the viewer in the below screenshot.

Then, click on some of the key areas of your photograph. I like to check the darkest area, the brightest highlight, and a mid tone. When I placed these Color Readouts on my original, the background was 0, total black, and the shell was , which is pure white. So, I created a Clone Variant, and adjusted my Levels, to bring these values in just a little, which would be good printing practice. You can see that now, in my resulting image, my darkest background has a luminance of 2.

My brightest highlight, the shells on this Himba Girls traditional necklace, is Her face is Another option for checking the darkest and brightest areas of your print image, are the Exposure Warnings. These can be turned on with the warning triangle icon. I set my highlight warnings at and my shadow warning at 2. If you want to make any other modifications for print, increasing contrast, changing the colors to stop them going out of gamut, now would be the time to do it.

Just as I always printed from Lightroom, I love to be able to print right in my processing and workflow tool. In Capture One Pro, you can hit the Print button from the top menu at any time, regardless of where you are in the program. The print window opens, and you get to select your settings.

This is unlike Lightroom, where you go to the Print module to print. We can create templates in Capture One Pro to save margin and layout information. However, it forgets about page size and ICC profiles whenever you close the program.

Fortunately, these are quick settings to change, so select your paper size and the ICC profile for your printer and media combination from the Color Profile menu. You may need to change this, depending on how sharp your original image is.