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Add Highlights and Shadows to Smart Adjustments

Loren Scott Fiedler

Please, please, PLEASE add Highlights and Shadows to Smart Adjustments.  Surely, plenty of time has passed to the point where there's enough trust in the tool to start adding options?  The ability to establish a range for highlights and shadows on top of an exposure baseline would make so much sense.  

What problem do you see this solving?
As a wedding photographer, my shoots can cover a broad variety of lighting, color and contrast situations.  The Exposure setting establishes a decent baseline, but it's hardly enough to cover the wildly varied dynamic ranges that are common across a multiple-venue wedding day.  Speed Edits in batch mode are useful to a point, but not enough to allow Smart Adjustments to approach its potential.  It's difficult to accurately judge the effectiveness of batch adjustments in real time using what amounts to a glorified thumbnail when you have much more than 4-6 images selected.  And you can't see more than a dozen at a time anyway, so getting through hundreds of images is still a piece-by-piece process.  A smart dynamic range would improve things exponentially compared to exposure alone.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Every wedding I shoot, including this past weekend.

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?
As mentioned above, after I get a baseline batch exposure I then start with Speed Edits, Smart Styles and Brushes, copy/paste where useful, etc., but mostly only a few at a time.  It's still a cumbersome process with hundreds of images

Are you happy to be contacted further about this suggestion or request?
Yes

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  • Brian Jordan

    Have you tried the normalize tool?

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  • Loren Scott Fiedler

    I'm looking for automated highlights and shadows recovery over a wide range of exposures and lighting situations, based on a reference image.  Normalize doesn't do that, but the SA tool appears to have the potential for precisely that functionality.

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