Tone Curve Regions in Lightroom vs Capture One
Can you precisely edit the tone curve regions in Capture One the way you can in Lightroom? In Lightroom you can fine fine tune the Highlights, lights, darks, and shadows, either by dragging or changing the numerical value. That feature is critical to my editing process. I use a Mac.
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The tone curve effectively works the same in Lightroom as it does in Capture One, LR has just added some automation with the sliders. Look at how the curve changes when you move a slider in LR, then in CO create the same shape with the curve by clicking on it and moving your mouse, the effect of both will be the same.
It might be an extra click or three to match the curve in CO since you'll have to make control points along the curve to only effect highlights, for example.
Lightroom has the benefit of the slider curve tool as well as the RGB control point curve tool. Capture One has the benefit of the Luma channel (which does not effect colors) in addition to RGB channels as well as a Levels tool.0 -
Thanks! Where do I access it in CO? All I see is the RGB curve. I do not see anything that edits highlights, lights, darks, and shadows. 0 -
NNN636682603520626037 wrote:
Thanks! Where do I access it in CO? All I see is the RGB curve. I do not see anything that edits highlights, lights, darks, and shadows.
I think you misunderstood the reply. The point cdc made was that at the end of the day, a particular change to the shape of the curve would produce much the same result in C1 or in LR. But LR gives you some automation of the highlights, midtones or shadows to get there. In Capture One you either use one of the presets or you drag the curve around manually.
But try out also the extra facilities you get in the Colour Balance tool. You can lighten or darken separately the highlights, midtones and shadows as well as apply separate colour treatments to them (for instance making shadows darker and giving them a colder look).
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NNN636682603520626037 wrote:
Thanks! Where do I access it in CO? All I see is the RGB curve. I do not see anything that edits highlights, lights, darks, and shadows.
I'd recommend to research how curves tools work, a photoshop tutorial would be fine as it works the same as Capture One.
In the meantime put 4 points on the curve tool as shown in the picture below (you can also save that as a preset so you don't have to place the points each time). Slide each point straight up or down and consider those roughly equal to your Lightroom shadows, darks, lights, & highlights sliders:
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So a Lightroom adjustment like this:
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Would look like this in Capture One:
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To see how things might look, both on an image and on the curve edit screen, take a look that the Built-in presets available from
Menu>Adjustments>Styles>Built-in Presets>Curve.
There are 6 presets offered and if you have an images displayed and the curves tool open you can scroll up and down the list and see the effects displayed for the image and the way the curve looks to achieve the effect.
For the curve tool operation you can just set the points you wish to adjust and drag them around. For very fine adjustments select an adjustment point in the curve tool and you should be able to use the scroll wheel (or equivalent if not using a mouse) for vertical adjustment or hold down the Shift key (on Windows - I assume the same on Mac in this case?) to invoke horizontal adjustment.
The 5-Point-allChannels preset is probably much the same as the starting point of the sliders in the LR tool.
HTH.
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