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How to make it out of focus

Henrik Lorenzen
Well we all try to take sharp photos he he but sometimes i need it blurry
Well my "problem" is that i left a photo shoot some days ago all the shorts are well okay.
but i have one shot where i would like to make the back ground out of focus
i know i can do this with Photoshop/plugins but is there not a way to do in side capture pro


Henrik
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  • J M T
    I make a local selection and turn clarity and structure down 💡 SÃ¥ bliver det rimeligt sløret 😊
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  • HansB
    Combine negative clarity and negative structure with 'Skin Tone' adjustments in the "Color Editor' ('Skin Tone' doesn't necessarily need skin tones to work with).


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • SFA
    Noise reduction, often used with the tools already mentioned, can also produce interesting results if the content to be blurred is suitable.


    Grant
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  • Keith Reeder
    But why try and cobble together what is at best a workaround, when PhotoShop will do the job to perfection?

    Use the right tool for the job.
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  • SFA
    [quote="Keith Reeder" wrote:
    But why try and cobble together what is at best a workaround, when PhotoShop will do the job to perfection?

    Use the right tool for the job.


    Agreed.

    However from my POV, I've never really got on with PS or derivatives. I don't know why. The way the work does not seem to be something I can come to an understanding with.

    Plus I have no desire to shell out for a PS suite that I will hardly ever use. Something less expensive on a "just in case I may need it" "owned" licence basis - that I can accept even when used rarely.

    So finding an approach in C1 works for me and if it takes me a a few minutes longer once or twice a year to get a result I MIGHT achieve in PS more quickly, if only I understood how to drive it - then so be it.

    No harm in sharing the suggestions when someone asks.

    If they were to suggest they were processing 1000 images a week with such adjustments then my advice would probably be to take the images elsewhere that had dedicated features available for the task.


    Grant
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  • J M T
    [quote="Keith Reeder" wrote:
    But why try and cobble together what is at best a workaround, when PhotoShop will do the job to perfection?

    Use the right tool for the job.


    For me this is all about working on a RAW file... in Photoshop this is not possible.
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  • cdc
    [quote="J M T" wrote:
    [quote="Keith Reeder" wrote:
    But why try and cobble together what is at best a workaround, when PhotoShop will do the job to perfection?

    Use the right tool for the job.


    For me this is all about working on a RAW file... in Photoshop this is not possible.


    From Adobe Camera Raw (Lightroom or Bridge) you can open a RAW file as a smart object in photoshop and access ACR adjustments within in photoshop, in many cases this is essentially the same as working on a RAW file in photoshop. Yeah, I know we're talking about Capture One here, thought it was worth a mention nonetheless.

    Negative clarity & noise reduction have very distinct looks about them which are in my opinion nowhere close to natural lens blur. I fear you are out of luck to do what you are asking in Capture One and have it look natural/believable, but I'd love to be proved otherwise.
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  • J M T
    [quote="cdc" wrote:
    [quote="J M T" wrote:
    [quote="Keith Reeder" wrote:
    But why try and cobble together what is at best a workaround, when PhotoShop will do the job to perfection?

    Use the right tool for the job.


    For me this is all about working on a RAW file... in Photoshop this is not possible.


    From Adobe Camera Raw (Lightroom or Bridge) you can open a RAW file as a smart object in photoshop and access ACR adjustments within in photoshop, in many cases this is essentially the same as working on a RAW file in photoshop. Yeah, I know we're talking about Capture One here, thought it was worth a mention nonetheless.

    Negative clarity & noise reduction have very distinct looks about them which are in my opinion nowhere close to natural lens blur. I fear you are out of luck to do what you are asking in Capture One and have it look natural/believable, but I'd love to be proved otherwise.


    The negative clarity/structure trick is of course based on that you want to use Capture One raw conversion, and stay in a non-destructive workflow.
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  • Peter Holdmann
    GIMP (https://www.gimp.org) may be able to do what you want, and the price is right.

    I have also played with Focus from MacPhun (https://macphun.com/focus) which is pretty good at out of focus looks, for about a month of Adobe CC for a permanent license.
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