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Dehaze

Darren W Hood

I'm just beginning my journey in CaptureOne and I have to say, I'm extremely impressed. As a former software trainer, I always taught "translation" as a means of moving from one application to another of the same type. In other words, there are tasks I performed in Lightroom that I'd like to know how to perform in CO.

I've already identified several "translations," but am still trying to figure out how to perform the equivalent of Dehazing in CO.

Anyone have any advice?

Thanks!

dh

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  • Ian Wilson
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    There is no dehaze control as such. In my experience, the best way to reduce haze is to create a layer, paint over the area that needs dehazing, then adjust clarity, contrast, brightness and the shadow control point on the Levels tool to get the effect you want.

    Ian

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  • SFA

    To add to Ian3's sound guidance ...

    Save the result as a Style to obtain a quick starting point for repeated use.

    Remember that the layer offers Opacity control and Luma and colour range selections for masking areas to be adjusted.

    Grant

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  • Permanently deleted user

    There's a tutorial I had found and shared on the old forum last year.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2js4ELed3U

    The result is not exactly the same and maybe there's something more or different that he could have been done to get the image closer to LR. However the video shows that with a fast process you can get a good starting point with a natural look.

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  • Ian Wilson
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    As it happens, I had occasion to want to do this today, on a scanned old slide. I reckon that moving the centre control in the levels tool to the right may be better than moving the left hand (shadows) slider in. Or perhaps a combination of the two.

    Ian

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  • SFA

    My personal preference in most cases is to run Auto-Levels in separate colour channel mode as an early step. This tends to balance the levels for you and even out the colour which usually helps some aspects of the "haze" effect.

    Add a little saturation usually helps too.

    Sometimes a rather different direction can be the best option.

    Sometimes looking at the image in grey scale can point to a specific approach to investigate.

     

    Grant

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  • Keith Reeder

    There's no way to replicate Dehaze in Capture One, Darren - proper Dehaze/Clearview does a lot more to an image than tweak levels and saturation, and Capture One simply doesn't have the tools to reproduce the effect.

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