My client has years of jpeg images. Many of them were taken of stage performances with bad lighting. The client used auto WB. As you can imagine, these images are really bad. My task has been to color correct. I made it through amount six months when I saw your ad for the WB styles. These have saved me hours of work. Thank you!
Day one purchase for me Alex, I'd have bought this for the WB changes alone as it's so fast and works about 90% of the time, which means I just have to match my other images to the ones that worked. Thanks for continuing to come up with creative ways to make capture one even better to use!
The white balance styles are awesome! I’ve thrown some really challenging images at them and somehow they just work. I’ve spent 2 hours trying to trick them with alsorts of images from weddings, portraits, to neon light lit images and they hit the skin tone every time. One image I wasn’t 100% liking the portrait wb so I hit landscape neutral and that fixed that one instantly.
Summing up, I already mentioned in my review of Capture One that this software works very well in replicating look & feel of photos from film age and the Film Styles presets take this concept one step further by providing very good representation of various films. Presets included in the collection are great starting point and with so many to choose from... Everyone should find something that will fit their needs & post-processing style. Not only photographers who miss shooting film.
Would I buy the Film Styles? Yes! There are still a few things missing but the price is fantastic and for Capture One users it's a fantastic opportunity to save some time on the workflow.
In my seven years of using Capture One, I have kept a high bar for finding the best help and insight from those presenting more than a “repackaging” of the user guide. Even today, rarely do I find an experienced user who goes beyond the surface of why and how to accomplish a single task. I have followed Alex’s concise newsletters for years and always finish reading one having learned something new, creative, and practical about Capture One workflow. Reading the preface of Capture One Hidden Features, you know that you are about to find a trove of insight that will advance your use of Capture One and RAW editing in general. Some features of Capture One truly are hidden, and Alex quickly brings them to light. For example, he explains how to completely change any color in an image, how the four separate saturation adjustments work in unique ways, and how to achieve all-around balance in image saturation. His integral presentation and examples of these concepts aren’t to be found elsewhere. The same goes for many other elements of RAW editing and processing in Capture One. His direct approach to why you would want a particular shortcut or workflow and the straightforward way to realize it is a real pleasure to read and quickly adapt into your own workflow.
I highly recommend Capture One Hidden Features for all photographers from the very experienced to the advanced newbie. I don’t claim to be a Capture One expert. On the contrary, I consider myself to be an advanced newbie. I’ve watched dozens of YouTube videos, read articles and followed Alex for some time. And while I’ve only transitioned from LightRoom to Capture One a few months ago, I was amazed at the amount of the book’s content I was immediately able to use even as a newbie. Within the first 50 pages, I was able to move myself towards a much more efficient workflow utilizing, hidden to me, shortcuts and some of Alex’s recommended customizations and preferences. I’ll admit that the book does have a professional experienced Capture One user in mind and it quickly introduces things I didn’t even know existed. Yet, everything was presented so clearly that even a newbie like me was able to get tremendous benefit.
Awesome! This book is for the basically informed user who needs as much extra knowledge about Capture One as possible. It is written with just the right amount of explanations and good illustrations, it is straight to the point, logically organized, super useful and super usable. I can recommend it to anyone who knows the basics and would like to step forward to the expert level.
This book is huge and contains an enormous amount of really good stuff. I am very impressed with how the book’s contents are presented. Every concept, or tip, is explained in detail using examples and graphics. I love using capture one, but unlike Photoshop or Lightroom there is not much information on using capture one to its fullest extent. This book will go a long way in solving this information gap.
I’m writing this review for everyone who thinks they already know everything about Capture One. People who have spent hours learning the fine points. People who don’t think they will learn anything new from this book. That’s what I thought, and yet I came away with lots of new ideas about how to streamline my workflow and exploit features. And Alex‘s enthusiasm comes through on every page. This read was such a pleasure!
As an amateur but enthusiast photographer, I’ve used Capture One, On1 Photo, DXO and Pixelmator. IMO Capture One has the best RAW engine and catalog management, but sometimes I’ve found the interface daunting…”there must be a simple way to do X but….”
Alex’s Hidden Features book comes to the rescue! It’s given me the key to so many actions I previously found frustrating. It’s well organized, easy to find what you are looking for. Also, it not only offers specific tips but also some good strategies (such as applying tools in the right order). The tips for working with layers are worth the price of the book themselves, but there’s so much more!
I learned many new editing techniques after going through this course. Alex will show you how to accelerate the culling process with the help of the Aftershoot application. If you are into professional portrait photography, you will be really impressed with the AI-based skin retouching workflow shown in this course with the help of tools like Retouch4Me. If you are a photography professional who wants to leverage the power of AI software programs to accelerate your photo editing workflow and marketing your photography business, this course will be useful.
Since 5 years I work with Capture One. Love to make portraits of nature and people. I consider myself as an advanced amateur in photography. For several years I am learning Capture One by webinars and this live stream really was an excellent addition and gave me the tools and knowledge to work more creatively on an image. The part about desaturation by color inversion is the best thing I ever learned about CO. The live stream is a great motivation to apply the color grading techniques.
My client has years of jpeg images. Many of them were taken of stage performances with bad lighting. The client used auto WB. As you can imagine, these images are really bad. My task has been to color correct. I made it through amount six months when I saw your ad for the WB styles. These have saved me hours of work. Thank you!
Day one purchase for me Alex, I'd have bought this for the WB changes alone as it's so fast and works about 90% of the time, which means I just have to match my other images to the ones that worked. Thanks for continuing to come up with creative ways to make capture one even better to use!
The white balance styles are awesome! I’ve thrown some really challenging images at them and somehow they just work. I’ve spent 2 hours trying to trick them with alsorts of images from weddings, portraits, to neon light lit images and they hit the skin tone every time. One image I wasn’t 100% liking the portrait wb so I hit landscape neutral and that fixed that one instantly.