Capture One: Local NR, Edit history

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• August 26, 2013 16:36

Hi,

I am considering purchasing Capture One 7 and transitioning from LR (working with LR4 now).
My questions:
- It looks like CO7 has good Noise Reduction tools, but I have an image that I need to do selective NR on. Meaning, I need to work on one section of it where it got noisy, but don't want to soften the entire image. The local adjustment layers don't give NR as an option, although lessening the clarity on the masked area may help. Any other ideas here?
- One thing I like in LR is unlimited edit history. Is this available in CO7? Also can you see when you exported a file ( I will track that as a way to make sure I get back to where I was before doing more edits)?
- Finally, is editing a file in Photoshop (CS3) after doing some CO7 edits fairly easy? I do this some with LR, specifically for retouching - the clone tool is at times the best way to really clean up an image.
Thanks,
Tom

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  sizzlingbadger

  • August 28, 2013 07:47

  Get the trial version and use it really hard for 60 days with *lots* of images before you spend your cash.
  
  I bought CO to replace LR but I really think it was a mistake for me. LR is a pretty mature product and reliable. CO v7 is the first version to use a catalog and its pretty unstable in my experience.
  
  Once you have used it in anger for a month or so you'll be able to make a better decision.
  
  The local adjustments are layers which is nice but there actual adjustments are fairly limited.
  
  No history at all in CO but you can use ctrl-Z to step backwards (sometimes anyway)
  
  There is a lot to like about CO but I feel it needs another 12 months development before it gets really useful. (All my opinion of course)

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  15Bit

  • August 31, 2013 07:57

  The Edit History is something i also miss in C1. Hopefully it will come in later versions.

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  SFA

  • August 31, 2013 22:18

  [quote="15Bit" wrote:
  The Edit History is something i also miss in C1. Hopefully it will come in later versions.

  
  
  I sometimes use another editor, in many ways quite similar to C1 rather, that has a complete edit history. I rarely found a use for it and cannot recall the last time I bothered with it.
  
  Personally I find it easier to create a series of variants, when I feel the need. C1 somehow makes this a readily remembered approach whereas my other software allows exactly the same feature but seems for some reason to be less prompted at those important staging points.
  
  The good thing about variants (as opposed to a list of changes in a history) is that you can compare all of them side by side.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant Perkins

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