![]() Place the presets in the curve preset folder and start Capture One. The set contains 23 presets for adjusting Contrast, Highlights, Mid tones, and Shadows. After the last adjustment mentioned, I got this result.Įxclusively available for our dear blog readers, I provide you an entire set of Curve Presets. You can make a more natural look or let your creativity go all the way. You can open up shadows and darken highlights. Curves give you much more control about how an image looks in terms of brightness and contrast. In term of results nothing beats the art of a good curve. You can drag the curve point with the mouse or select it and use the cursor keys on your keyboard (the latter is Mac only).Īfter moving the shadow curve point downwards, I get a darker background which increases the dramatic impact of this low contrast image. Select the Picker Tool, select a brightness point in your image and that point will be selected in the tool. If you like to affect a particular brightness level in the image, use the Pick Curve Point Cursor Tool. Next, step two, you can give the quarter and three quarter tones an extra push in the same or reverse direction if needed. Lesson one in using the Curve Tool manually is dragging the diagonal line up (to lighten) or down (to darken the image). ![]() Whatever you do, you constantly create a new input-output translation for that point and (to a lesser extended) adjacent levels. You can move any point on the curve line up or down, and left or right. Because the curve now translates it to 33 it will become darker. In this example the input level of 53 (see orange vertical line) is lowered to an output of 33. Output levels are represented on the vertical axis. Without a curve (straight line) these input levels are translated unchanged to output levels with the same value (0 to 0, 128 to 128 and 255 to 255). Input means what the Curve Tool receives. The horizontal axis represents 256 levels on the input side of the image. I added some green text and arrows for explanation. The Curve Tool is an “input-output” kind of game. After applying the built-in preset “Mid tones – darker”, I get the following result. You can also copy/apply a curve on similar images. Note that you can easily apply a preset on a selection of images. Speed improves with experience (as always) but the predefined presets in Capture One Pro 7 give you a quick start. ![]() Preset for speedĪ reason why users often skip the Curve Tool is because it seems time consuming or looks too complex. You are now ready to start with the Curve Tool because all mentioned adjustments affect the histogram you set the curve on (that is the histogram in the Curve Tool). This is my image before I start using the curves. I also prefer to adjust the clarity and add a vignette at this stage in my workflow. I then set the black and white points using the Levels Tool, but didn’t touch the mid tones. With this image, I didn’t change the exposure or the High Dynamic Range, but I began by first cropping and rotating the image to get the composition I wanted. Do not use the Brightness slider in the Exposure Tool. Only the mid tone marker of the Levels Tool gives you ‘Curve-like’ control, but the Curve Tool gives much greater flexibility in control and much better contrast control.Īs with the Levels Tool I suggest you first make adjustments with the Exposure and High Dynamic Range Tools if necessary. Where the Levels Tool mainly controls the endpoints of your tonal scale, the Curve Tool gives you control over the tonal distribution of the entire tonal scale between these endpoint. With the Curve Tool you have control over shadows, mid tones, and highlights (darker or lighter) separately and independently. ![]() ![]() The Curve Tool differentiates itself from the Levels Tool in that it allows you to control how tonal values of the original image are translated in the end result. The tool you need for this is the Curve Tool. Just like the French say: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique” (It is the tone that makes the music). Telling your story and transferring emotions is a secret of finding the right tonal scale. However, it is the mood or atmosphere in an image that makes all the difference between success and failure. You can have a great scene, the right expression or the ultimate moment in your shot. ![]()
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