Improve Capture One
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
It would be extremely useful to be able to clamp the levels output so that no matter what adjustments are made, the output never exceeds the desired clamp level. This is possible due to the way the pipeline works in Lightroom, but not so in Capture One, possibly because of how the pipeline is set up with ICC profiles. I believe RNI Films discusses this for their presets. They list being able to control highlight clipping in Lightroom, but not being able to support that feature in Capture One.
This would be great for specular highlights that clip abruptly to White so you dont have to keep going back and adjusting any layers that control those areas. It would be so much easier to just have the curves or levels tool, or some other setting, be a global adjustment at the output stage so that if I set a highlight roll off in the curves, there will never be an abrupt clipping above the max value.
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Current workaround
Currently I have to just keep going back and forth as adjustments are being made to make sure the highlights aren't clipping. |
Hi there, thanks for the suggestion!
While not fully possible in the way you describe today, there is a pretty good workaround: you can apply thoe changes to an images and the set those settings as default for your camera:
any choice you've made for output values will be automatically applied to new images shot with this camera model.
A limitation of this is that if you then apply auto-levels, it will change your output values. But (and sorry this is convoluted) you can set default output values for auto-level operations in the software Preferences (Capture One > Settings > Exposure).
So if you set the same output values in the preferences and as a default for your camera model(s), you should be fairly clamped, at least until you manually go into the tool to make a change that doesn't respect that.