Full portrait retouching with only C1

Gerald Bonne

• October 30, 2014 21:40

Hi guys,

I made a vid on how I do a full portrait retouching without going out of CaptureOne.

Especially now with the healing layer and having more feats added to local adjustments, I now more than ever before, need not going to Photoshop any more.

I wonder what you think of it. Please add constructive comments whenever you feel anything could be improved.



If you browse the channel you will also find a Dutch version of that vid. in the past I also made one in Fench based on CO v7. I still have to redo that with v8.

I am on windows but that should not matter for this video.

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  PhaseoneUser55657

  • October 31, 2014 11:34

  My question, did you not find the healing/clone layers too limiting. Or did you, like what phase one did when they showed it of, use a "Special" image that, did not need a lot of touch up. (Ya, looking at the video, 1 layer for healing/cloning, I think you fixed 1 area, that could take the source from the same vector offset). I would really like someone to show a "REAL LIFE" person, that needs some pimples, blemishes and even lines removed. I would like to see someone give a video of touching up lines under the eyes, and forehead, and lets see how fast they run out of layers.
  
  A nice video, but I think yours, like phase one's video lies a little about the capabilities of the product, giving the impression that the heal/clone tool is more powerful that it really is.
  
  Robert

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  Gerald Bonne

  • October 31, 2014 12:42

  Hi Robert,
  
  I did mention that you'd need more than a layer to do another vector. And I also mention that my preferred tool for pimples/blemishes all over the place is still the spot tool.
  
  It is about deciding on the specific part of the image what would work faster or nicer. I hoped I made that obvious by first showing the spot tool then only use the healing layer to do an entire area that matches the "vector" and then still continue with spot.
  
  One issue I have with te spot tool is when teh area to fix is just too large. The "recomposed" pixels do not always produce what I want and often it looks like a pimpel with loads of foundation on it. This is when I would use the healing layer.
  
  I do not think we should comapre the CO healing layer with the healing brush in Photoshop. Although the filling of source to target pixels is practically identical, the way to select source vs destination is way different. The approach in the flow of that tool as well as the philosophy in the overal work is worlds appart. Photoshop keeps only the end result pixels in the document, CO keeps the operation in memory and executes it each time you render the image (although they surely do some caching to speedup intermediate operations till you produce an actual output). But I think the different approaches is what makes these two tools so different. And the way to use it in CO is hencefore not the same way we would in Ps.
  
  Gerald.

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