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Keying Background to transparent ( upgraded overlay tool ? )

jan opdekamp

What problem do you see this solving?

As a regular stills photographer and recently having shot on a few Led Volume stages I got thinking.

In these days where AI is all over the place I'd find it interesting to be able to shoot on a Grey/Green/Blue key and have Capture One automatically select subject ( With AI? ) and completely remove background to transparency. This could be sort of an upgrade to the existing Overlay tool.
For example we have and existing backplate - either a real photo or AI generated - and can match our model pretty good in realtime during a tethered shoot where background is automatically removed / transparent. With the latest update we now have AI subject/background selections, in my opinion this seems reasonably ' easy ' .

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

It could really help in future workflow for composite work. I kind of work around it right now.

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

I currently set overlay to a lower opacity but this isn't ideal so I tend to do quick composites in Photoshop to verify my work.
This could be optimised I believe.

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

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    I would certainly be very interested in this capability, as I have been putting of using Capture One for my tethering in favour of Lightroom because I did not realise Capture One had so much to offer in line with Adobe, and appears to be very much user friendly. I only downloaded it a few hours ago and I am already keen to make the switch. I am a keen photo manipulation fan so need to remover my backgrounds, which I save as .png files. In the few hours I have been using Capture One I am impressed with the masking tools, but so far, the only .png file I have managed to save, was created by masking myself as the main character and bringing the background transparency right down, before exporting it to GIMP where within minutes thanks to Capture One doing all the hard work, there was me .png file. ( I find the masking better here than Gimp and as for Adobe, I gave up before I really every got started)

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