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.
What problem do you see this solving?.,
It would be useful to offer a dedicated Bokeh Tool Tab. Along with the new AI subject/background masking perhaps this could combine negative clarity, dehaze, focus to adjust the Bokeh in photos with one slider. Further, it seems likely AI could even adjust the shape, clarity and size of "Bokeh Bubbles"....which would be amazing.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Knowing I could adjust the Bokeh in post would decrease my need to opt for very wide aperture when shooting.
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Current workaround
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One? I currently combine negative clarity, dehaze, focus to adjust the Bokeh . |
Absolutely support this request.
More, and more, I am using C1, e.g. on a TIFF after demosaicing and denoising (the latter not very effective in C1) by other editors. Reason: I fall more and more in love with the new masking features, which allow very intricate control in a very quick and intuitive way. Not the least, the ability to control the luminance range of every mask is truly amazing. Many other editors have effective bokeh tools, some with incredibly fine controls (e.g. On1). It would be so great to be able to use such a tool in C1 in combination with C1's masking abilities and other fine controls.
OK, you can achieve a similar effect with negative dehaze. But the controls for the purpose are not straight forward. The "Shadow Tone" slider has considerable effect, but is trial and error for that purpose. Why not add some more suitable controls to the dehaze tool, and/or maybe simply allow to go even more "negative" than presently possible?
"You can't stop up enough to create the blurred background with an (ultra) wide-angle lens." Says who?
Maybe you can't, but I can. Just be honest, you simply shy back from the costs of such a lens. Why don't you ask ChatGPT to "create" you a fake UWW bokeh? As it's artificial anyway (wether from ChatGPT or from a fancy AI in C1) the question is, why take a photo in first place and then violate it with fake bokeh? It's again that fine line of RAW converter realm versus pixel editor realm. As Marcin already pointed out, there are many other open requests, so maybe you'd like to consider to fake your bokeh somewhere else or use your filters in your smartphone.
Totally agree that a bokeh type of Tool would be useful. DxO PL has this feature and it is particularly useful when using wide-angle lens where a natural bokeh just isn't possible. You can't stop up enough to create the blurred background with an (ultra) wide-angle lens.
Haze/fog feature would be easier to implement, I think, yet there is nothing even suggested yet. Capture One is very early in use of AI and the feature here goes considerably outside current scope of the editor. There are numerous requests pending that would improve the parts Capture One is already responsible for and they can't either get a reply or will to be implemented, so I'm asking: please focus on small steps. The request above is about as far-fetched as implementing 3D graphics. Only noise in ears of developers.
11057524292637 – People simulate bokeh today in tools like Photoshop and Affinity Photo. They effectively produce artificial blur when they don't have expenses lenses with fast f-stops or don't want to use fast f-stops to blur the background. A tool that helps us blue the background perhaps combined with a radial or gradient mask would be very useful.
Unless cameras will start producing RAWs that contain 3D view of their FoV, I don't imagine this could be for a long time in sight of a RAW editor.