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.
Please, please, PLEASE add Highlights and Shadows to Smart Adjustments. Surely, plenty of time has passed to the point where there's enough trust in the tool to start adding options? The ability to establish a range for highlights and shadows on top of an exposure baseline would make so much sense.
What problem do you see this solving?
As a wedding photographer, my shoots can cover a broad variety of lighting, color and contrast situations. The Exposure setting establishes a decent baseline, but it's hardly enough to cover the wildly varied dynamic ranges that are common across a multiple-venue wedding day. Speed Edits in batch mode are useful to a point, but not enough to allow Smart Adjustments to approach its potential. It's difficult to accurately judge the effectiveness of batch adjustments in real time using what amounts to a glorified thumbnail when you have much more than 4-6 images selected. And you can't see more than a dozen at a time anyway, so getting through hundreds of images is still a piece-by-piece process. A smart dynamic range would improve things exponentially compared to exposure alone.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Every wedding I shoot, including this past weekend.
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Current workaround
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One? As mentioned above, after I get a baseline batch exposure I then start with Speed Edits, Smart Styles and Brushes, copy/paste where useful, etc., but mostly only a few at a time. It's still a cumbersome process with hundreds of images |
I'm looking for automated highlights and shadows recovery over a wide range of exposures and lighting situations, based on a reference image. Normalize doesn't do that, but the SA tool appears to have the potential for precisely that functionality.
Have you tried the normalize tool?