Dodge Burn Capture One



I purchased Capture One Pro for my Nikon one week before the Nikon version came out. I love the product and trying desperately thing to move away from Adobe. Know matter how much I worked with some of the tools, I miss the DODGE & BURN in P/S. Please work on that, I learned Dodging and Burning in Photo School it's very helpful. Simplify the creation of dodge and burn layers with a single click The power of Capture One and its support for layers has grown tremendously over the years, which has allowed it to serve as a stand-alone photo editor without the need for Photoshop.

Photo by Kishore Sawh.

In this post, photographer Kishore Sawh shows you how dodging and burning can improve your images, as well as how simple it is to accomplish in Capture One 20. He takes you through the process step by step in this helpful guide.

Kishore Sawh:

“A major benefit of using Capture One 20 [for dodging and burning] is that unlike Photoshop, it’s a raw processor, so with it, you’re working on a raw file. This means you’re working with the most information possible, whereas with Photoshop, you are working on a lossy file that degrades as you work it. In addition, Photoshop manipulation of those files tends to introduce strange Gamma adjustments…

Dodge And Burn Capture One

“Capture One’s layer functionality is high, especially with 20, and the confluence of the layers, luminosity masking on those layers, and the flexibility of brushes makes Capture One a truly powerful platform for dodging and burning. It’s also nice that you have to do less round-tripping from raw processor to Photoshop, as you can do much more in Capture One.”

You can check out the complete article over at the Fstoppers.com website. Also be sure to view Phase One’s Dodge and Burn tutorial.

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Dodge And Burn In Capture One 12

Layers make every tool in Capture One more useful and more targeted.

Even though Capture One’s suite of tools offer precision editing, on occasion its necessary to target your edits with a little more finesse, by drawing a mask.

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Also, using Layers allows you to dig into more advanced techniques like dodging and burning.

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Get extra precision in your edits by maximising what they can do.

Learn about:

Dodge And Burn In Capture One Pro 12

  • Different ways to draw masks
  • Effective ways to use brush dynamics like Flow and Opacity
  • Techniques like Dodge & Burn

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