how to blur background in C1 20
Hi,
What is the best way to blur/defocus background in C1 20?
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There is no way to get real blur in Capture One. You can get a modest reduction of sharpness by reducing sharpening and clarity, but it won't do proper blur. You'd need Photoshop, Affinity Photo, or some other pixel editor for that.
Ian
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Whilst this is true, you can get some nice background "blur" by setting the clarity sliders all the way down or to your taste twice, e.g. in two layers, and then you can selectively brush or otherwise mask in the blur into the image background, start with one layer and afterwards copy the layer mask to the second layer.
regards
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Walter, very true.
Another effect I would like to use with gradient masks (or selectively in general) is film grain, e.g. to simulate/enhance surface structure, and fade this effect away gradually would be awesome.
Sorry to go off topic but that popped to my mind immediately when I saw your reply, and I am looking for advocates requesting the film grain tool to go to layers... 😙
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Hmm.
Film grain would not act like that for film.
Some other type of "grain effect" maybe but then presumably PS and others already offer something for such a specific need?
ETA: I forgot to include my original point which is that to some extent one can use noise reduction, perhaps in conjunction with the other suggestions, to influence a degree of "blur".
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Walter wrote: "The idea is to avoid PS or any other pixel editor and get as much as possible right in Capture One."
Exactly!
Also, more and more tools were made available in layers, and though the film grain tool originally (and mainly) is intended to simulate real film grain which has a uniform distribution over the whole image (so no selective grainyness via masks) and the film plane is not tilted (so no gradient needed), it would enhance the usefulness of this tool.
regards
Edit: Sorry for going off topic
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