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Editing Images (mobile)

Denis Huk
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Viewer

Tap an image in your catalog to edit it in the Viewer.

Viewer recognizes a number of gestures:

  • Tap on Viewer to see the Fullscreen Preview
  • Two finger tap on Viewer to Show / Hide Histogram
  • Long press on Viewer to see Before / After
  • Double tap on Viewer to Zoom to Fit / Zoom to 100%
  • Double tap on tool value or tool name to Reset Tool
  • Pinch the preview to zoom
  • Swipe left or right to go to the next image or the previous image

On iPad, you can see other images from the album in the film strip browser at the bottom of the screen. Long press the image preview in the film strip browser to create a New Variant, Clone Variant, Copy Adjustments, or Apply Adjustments.

Tap the three-dots (⋯) button to access additional options:

  • Tools Right toggle on iPad
  • Viewer Options (Histogram, Exposure Warning)
  • Setting and Feedback

Some options with a dedicated button in the iPad Viewer are listed under the three-dots (⋯) menu on iPhone:

  • Export
  • Duplicate: New Variant option creates a new, virtual copy of the source image without any adjustments, while Clone Variant copies the selected image variant with adjustments to make another one
  • Delete
  • Copy and Apply Adjustments: allows you to copy all or selected adjustments from one image variant and apply them to other image variants. For details, see the Copy and Apply Adjustments section below
  • toggle Next Capture Adjustments, for details, see Capture Images (iPhone).
  • view image Metadata

 

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Tools

The Tool Tabs store the main editing tools on the left side of the screen on iPad. There's a setting to show tools on the right side. On iPhone, Tool Tabs are at the bottom of the screen.

There are five Tool Tabs in Capture One mobile:

  • Review
  • Styles and Presets
  • Crop
  • Adjust
  • Sharpening

Review Tool Tab

Tap the Review Tool Tab button to access the Star Rating and the Color Tag in Capture One mobile.

Star ratings and color tags are shown in the Browser.

Styles and Presets Tool Tab

Styles and Presets are tool settings that can be applied to images with a single tap. Presets are tool-specific settings, while Styles can contain any number of tool settings. Presets, as well as stacking multiple Styles or Presets, are available on iPad only.

Tap the Styles and Presets Tool Tab button to view available Styles and Presets in Capture One mobile.

Alternatively, tap the Preset button when using a supported tool to apply or create a Preset.

You can use the built-in Styles and Presets to optimize your workflow and save time, or create custom Styles and Presets in Capture One mobile on iPad or Capture One desktop.

Styles created in Capture One desktop allow you to fully utilize the desktop Capture One rendering engine on mobile. While not all desktop tools are accessible on mobile, the Style can still apply these tool settings, such as Advanced Color Editor adjustments. See Import Styles from Capture One Pro below.

Tap the Preset button when using a supported tool to create a Preset in Capture One mobile on iPad, then tap Create Preset.

Crop Tool Tab

Tap the Crop Tool Tab button to access the Rotation Tool (Angle), Keystone Tool (Vertical, Horizontal, Amount, Aspect), as well as the Turn Image button and the Aspect Ratio button (Free, Original, Square, 1x2, 1x3, 2x3, 3x4, 4x5, 5x7, 16x9).

Adjust Tool Tab

Tap the Adjust Tool Tab button to access core adjustments:

  • Black & White Tool (Enable / Disable toggle with Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Magenta controls)

  • White Balance Tool (Shot, Tungsten, Daylight, Cloudy, and Shade with Kelvin and Tint controls)

  • Exposure Tool (Exposure, Contrast, Brightness, and Saturation controls)

  • HDR Tool (Highlight, Shadow, White, and Black controls)

  • Levels Tool (RGB, Red, Green, Blue)

  • Curve Tool (RGB, Luma, Red, Green, Blue)
    • tap once to add a point, double-tap to remove a point

  • Clarity Tool (Natural, Punch, Neutral, and Classic with Clarity and Structure controls)

  • Dehaze Tool (Auto and Manual with Amount controls)

  • Color Editor Tool (Color selector with Hue, Saturation, and Lightness controls)

  • Vignetting Tool (Elliptic On Crop, Circular On Crop, Circular with Vignetting controls)

Sharpening Tool Tab

Tap the Sharpening Tool Tab button to access finishing adjustments:

  • Sharpening (Amount, Radius, Threshold, and Halo controls)

  • Noise Reduction (Luminance, Details, Color, and Single Pixel controls)

  • Film Grain (Fine Grain, Silver Rich, Soft Grain, Cubic Grain, Tabular Grain and Harsh Grain with Impact and Granularity controls)

  • Moire (Amount, Pattern controls)

Auto Adjust

Auto Adjust is available for selected tools:

  • White Balance
  • Exposure
  • Contrast
  • Brightness
  • High Dynamic Range
  • Rotation (introduce in 2.7)
  • Keystone (introduce in 2.7)
  • Levels

Tap the Auto Adjust icon once to apply auto adjustments, tap and hold the Auto Adjust icon to see the context menu:

 

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Fujifilm Simulations

Fujifilm Simulation selection is available in the Adjust Tool Tab if you view a supported Fujifilm RAW image. The default setting, auto, is whatever was used in-camera when the image was taken. If this option is not present, then the camera you are using does not support Film Simulations, or the image is not in the original RAF format

 

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Layers and Masks

Layers and Masks Overview

Use Layers and Masks to organize adjustments and make targeted edits.

Capture One mobile 2.7 introduces AI Masking for quick masking of distinct subjects like people or objects. Features include Select Subject, Tap to Select, and Draw to Select.

With the release of Capture One mobile 2.8, we've added People Masking to quickly mask specific areas of a person like body skin, face skin, eyebrows, lips, hair, pupil and iris, sclera. The Separate Masks option allows each toglable People Masking feature to be on its own layer.

Please note, Layers and Masks do not transfer with Cloud Transfer.

Access the Layers and Masks menu by tapping the Layers and Masks button, available in the Adjust Tool Tab and Sharpening Tool Tab. This button also shows the count of existing layers.

Tap the plus (+) button in the Layers and Masks menu to add a new layer:

  • Adjustments (filled layer)
  • Select Subject (AI Masking)
  • Select Background (AI Masking)
  • People (AI Masking)
  • Tap to select (AI Masking)
  • Draw to select (AI Masking)
  • Linear Gradient (parametric mask)
  • Radial Gradient (parametric mask)
  • Brush (empty layer)

Tap the three dots (⋯) button on the layer to see available layer options:

  • Edit
  • Invert Mask
  • Duplicate and Invert
  • Duplicate Layer
  • Rename Layer
  • Remove Layer

Layer options vary depending on the layer’s contents.

Tap one of the layers and adjust layer opacity at the bottom of the Layers and Masks menu.

Edit Masks

A dedicated mask editing UI appears when you add a new layer or edit a mask from the layer options.

At the top of the mask editing UI, select either the add or subtract masking mode.

On the left, you can select a tool that you want to use to edit the mask. The tools may vary depending on the mask type::

  • Gradient
  • Brush
  • Tap to Select
  • Draw to Select

The Brush tool has additional parameters on the left:

  • Size
  • Hardness
  • Opacity
  • Flow

Adjust a parameter on the right screen using the wheel controls.

Adjust the Brush size or hardness values to see the brush preview.

Use Tap to Select by dragging the select cursor to your desired subject.

Drag your finger over the subject to select it using Draw to Select.

 

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Import Styles from Capture One desktop to Capture One mobile

You can import individual Styles and Style Packs that you created or own in Capture One desktop into Capture One mobile. This allows you to fully utilize the desktop Capture One rendering engine on mobile: while not all desktop tools are accessible on mobile, the Style can still apply these tool settings, like Advanced Color Editor adjustments.

  • To find the Style files (.costyle or .costylepack) on your macOS or Windows machine, see this article: How do I back up my Styles?
  • To find the Style files on iOS and iPadOS, open the Files app and go to “On My iPhone/iPad”, tap “Capture One” and then tap “Styles”.
    • If the “Styles” folder doesn’t exist, create a new folder and name it “Styles”.
    • Organize your Style files by nesting them within folders. The folder structure should be: “On My iPhone” > “Capture One” > “Styles” > “My Styles” > “Style.costyle” files.

Now that you know where to find Styles on desktop and where to place them on iPhone, there are several ways to transfer Style files into Capture One mobile:

 

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Copy and Apply Adjustments

Use Copy and Apply Adjustments to copy all or selected adjustments from one image variant and apply them to other image variants.

Copy Adjustments

On iPad, tap the Copy Adjustments button (arrow pointing up) in the bottom right corner of the screen. Alternatively, long press the image preview in the film strip browser at the bottom of the screen, and then tap Copy Adjustments.

On iPhone, tap on the three dots (⋯) button, then tap Copy Adjustments.

 

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