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?
Coming from Lightroom, I often used to blur regions of a photo.
• Mostly just on the vignette/peripheral zone to direct the viewer to the sharp center of the scene
• sometimes I need to quickly "unsharpen" and darken regions where the camera gear is still recognizable.
• when I realize that the background cloth is too wrinkled or stained
In Lightroom I can simply set the "sharpness" to a negative value (-100) regardless if I use a brush or the gradient mask. In CaptureOne I can only enter positive values...
I understand that CaptureOne should not be the tool to alter photos unrealistically but as a photographer I would consider a simple blurring of regions to be still appropriate and true to reality.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Today
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Current workaround
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One? I would have to roundtrip hundreds of photos through Affinity Photo just because there were stains on the floor that are to big to clone/repair... |
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Future consideration
I absolutely support this request! It would be extremly benefitical! Especially with the new AI masking tools it would allow to let the subject pop out more if we could selectively blur the (distracting) background. In principle the range of the already existing "structure" slider should be further extended into the negative range. Lets say -1000 instead of the current -100 minimum.
to make digital images look like film you have to blur. Please add this tool. So easy.
This should be a complete no-brainer on a photo editing, you mess about with programming for ai for removing blemishes from people’s faces but you can’t add a simple blur tool? I’m astounded that this STILL hasn’t been done. Imagine that I shoot property photos, inside a house people have photos of themselves or their kids, every single photo has to be blurred which would be a doddle in capture one. Instead i have to open every photo in my editing software and resave it. Ridiculous. Pull your fingers out before I pull out of my subscription!
Since I'm a user of C1, I asked this feature. Capture One is the only photo program that doesn't offer a basic tool like blur. What's more, it's easy to implement with the engines offered by Apple or Windows. And with intelligent background selection, it's even easier to blur the background to add depth. I don't understand why you develop super-complex tools with AI, when a basic function isn't even integrated. It's a shame to have to take the image out of the software, process it in another program and come back to finish the job!
I definitely need a blur tool or blur brush which I can save as style. My use case - the background of studio portraits is often either dirty or has wrinkles. I need an easy way to clean that. Using brush with negative clarity is not doing the job well enough.
A blur effect would be extremly helpful. But in addition to that, a brush to blur/ to smear layer masks would be extremly helpful, because if you limted to a brush and an eraser this really limits the creative posibilities.
Add blur already. What is the problem
This is essential for real estate photography where personal information needs to be blured out of a shot.
Agreed!
FWIW, choosing negative values for both "Clarity" and "Structure" achieves blurring effects.
I agree, though, that a different blurring approach should be available (e.g., Gaussian blur).
Please add a blur tool.
I was surprised to find there isn't one already.
i made a post about defocus & motion blur tools that got archived and was told to upvote this post. i believe my request was different enough but i'll mention again here.
the types of blurs i'm looking for would enhance or increase what can be done optically or in camera. applied in various ways; through a brush or radial & linear gradient.
example: directional/radial/zoom blurs to enhance motion from a slow shutter; defocus/bokeh blur to decrease depth of field; gaussian blur enhances lens vignette, hides moire & aliasing.
summary: add a variety of blur styles to enhance photographic techniques applied through the existing layer mask tools.
It will be useful tool to enhance long exposure and vignette etc..
Just Gaussian Blurr mechanism is good enough...
It would be a great tool.
It's been two months and this request has not been labelled yet.
Yes, I need a blur tool too, for portrait or landscape.
Agreed, this would be a very useful addition