Adding a border to a photo
I purchased Capture One 22 Pro in 2022. Am I correct that this $300 program does not have a quick way to add a white or black border "around" a photograph? Please tell me how to do this or I may request a refund. If the program is missing this basic move what else can't it do?
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Capture One is a developing software, with some extra settings, such as local adjustments. It is not a software for graphic purposes, as is Photoshop or other basic softwares you are thinking about.
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I'm not a graphic designer, I'm a landscape photographer who wants to frame his photographs with a white or black border. This is hardly a graphics capability, in fact, it's so elementary it boggles my mind that Capture One 22 Pro which has been "developing" its software for 10 years hasn't added this basic functionality. No wonder Adobe is the number one photography editing platform, and by a long shot, I might add. I went with Capture as a means to support Fujifilm... clearly I made a mistake.
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Thank you for your thoughts, Martin. After more Google and YouTube searches, it appears that there are a couple ways to add a white or black border to Capture One 22. One involves adding an HTML-type script (which I have no understanding) and the other is to use an external application that an individual developed for adding borders. Given this, I'm going to use Photoscape X, a post-editing software product I purchased before moving to Capture One 22 Pro. It's another program to program added to the workflow, however, it provides the solution. Again, thank you and Robert for your thoughts.
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Am I correct that this $300 program does not have a quick way to add a white or black border "around" a photograph
As Robert rightly points out, Capture One is a RAW converter, not a pixel editor.
Please tell me how to do this or I may request a refund
You think you're entitled to a refund because you assumed wrongly and tested poorly before buying?
Riiiiiight...
But C1 does allow watermarks to be added to images, which surely have to be produced by pixel manipulation,
Nope. They're more akin to layering than pixel editing.
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Never mind my stupid comment about a refund. I shouldn't have said that. I apologize. I found a solution and that's enough. I'm a consumer, not a pro, so when I evaluated Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop's photographer's software version and compared it with Capture One 22 Pro I thought I was comparing Apples to Apples. As you point out, Capture is a RAW converter that allows editing but lacks the functionality of a platform that has considered the final output, including borders. I consider this okay now... thanks again for your thoughts.
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For those following this link, I received an email from Capture One Support you might find useful. Thank you again for taking the time to respond to my query... Tom
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Hi Thomas,
Thank you for reaching out.
This is not something we offer as a baseline feature, but there are some tweaks available online that can help you do it in conjunction with Capture One.
See here: https://danphotostudio.com/en/shop/bordo-bianco-con-capture-one-pro/
and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo64wrPIJL0Best regards,
Victor
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You can do this using export recipes, automator and imagemagick software. Let me know if you're interested and I can post a quick guide.
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Thank you, Gabriel for your kind offer to assist me. After reading all of the comments related to my question I understand that C1P was designed for RAW conversion and editing and Photoshop is for print finalization. For printmaking, I will use additional software to complete the workflow.
Best regards,
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In the past days I've been thinking about borders, so I'm chiming in. I don't think that adding a border is "graphic purposes": it's a common operation that one performs when printing. In fact C1 does support borders (called "margins") through the "Print" menu; the problem is that, as other options of the print menu, this feature is missing from the export recipes. When one needs to print photos by means of a printing service export recipes are much more effective than the Print menu for many reasons. Resorting to Photoshop or such is meaningless since it is not practical for batch processing, that is when you have dozens or hundreds of photos to finalize.
So I think it makes sense to ask for C1 to incorporate some features from the Print menu, such as borders, into export recipes.
In the meantime the solution pointed by C1 support in the previous post of TLM makes sense, and € 20 is a reasonable price. The problem is that you only have a single "Open with" option, and if you need some other kind of external post-processing you can't.
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I wrote a program for Windows that adds the border and can be used with Capture One. It's available for free. In my version, there's only one setting: the border is 5% of the photo's length (relative to the shorter edge). The executable file, along with the source code, is available here: https://github.com/MaxGripe/jpg-white-border-adder (you can find the "Releases" link on the right side).
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My printing workflow (and I do a lot of it), using an Epson SCP800, for what it's worth in this discussion of borders (and I do add, change borders during the printing):
1. output TIFF from Capture One
2. open this file in either Epson Print Layout (where I can adjust margins to give narrow or wide borders) or, for black and white prints, Print-Tool and its associated app QuadTone RIP, which together give very fine control over greyscale and allow border changes. EPL also has an Advanced Black and White option but when you use this option you cannot specify a icc profile for the paper. It works fine, but I prefer Print-Tool.
QuadTone and Print-Tool both available at http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRoverview.html
I find the print dialogues in both Capture One and especially Adobe LR to be less than helpful. Note however that these borders are just non-printed areas the colour of the paper. For anything more sophisticated (or tacky) I would use PS or another pixel-based editor.
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Max Gripe Thank you, thank you, thank you!
THIS is THE solution. And 5% white border is perfect. I appreciate what you have offered here, and for free.
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Thanks, David P I'm glad someone is using it :-) I wrote this program because I needed such frames for the Canon Selphy mini printer. There is an option to add frames, but it’s implemented in a terrible way - it cuts off the original edges of the photo...
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Max Gripe .. QuadToneRip indicates it only supports up to macOS Ventura.
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Walter Rowe I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're trying to say. I don't use QuadTone and have never tried it.
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The link above was to Quad Tone Rip. I sensed someone was recommending it.
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