Black point compensation

briaydemir

• January 02, 2011 19:57

Does anyone know where the "Black point compensation" setting is? I see it described at http://help.phaseone.com/en/CO6/Optimiz ... ences.aspx , but when I go to Capture One > Preferences > Color, I see only a drop-down menu for Rendering Intent---nothing about black point compensation.

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  Aztecaphoto

  • January 05, 2011 22:30

  I think it will only works (and shows) if you are working on CMYK

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  thowi

  • January 05, 2011 23:44

  BPC is only availabe in the printer tool.
  unfortunately.

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  Nicolas

  • January 14, 2011 20:37

  [quote="thowi" wrote:
  BPC is only availabe in the printer tool.
  unfortunately.

  
  This means you cannot process your file into cmyk space directly from C1.
  You have to export first an RGB (preferably Adobe, imho) and then convert to cmyk in PS with black compensation…
  Not a good idea, something to be worked on by the Phase devs…

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  thowi

  • January 15, 2011 10:21

  [quote="Nicolas" wrote:
  

  [quote="thowi" wrote:
  BPC is only availabe in the printer tool.
  unfortunately.

  
  This means you cannot process your file into cmyk space directly from C1.

  actually you can. but old school.
  you have to push the black level of the file with the (upper) black slider in the levels tool so that the blacks don't clip.
  of course this will affect the whole image, so you have to counter balance the midtones, too.
  However BPC is a really useful feature here and it's a pitty it's not available in C1.
  I've outlined in how far the missing BPC feature also leads to a mismatch between C1's preview and the processed TIF viewed in Photoshop here: viewtopic.php?p=43123#p43123
  So... file a feature request 😉

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  Nicolas

  • January 15, 2011 10:49

  Hi thowi
  yes I do remember that discussion…
  
  I'll submit a feature request as you suggest.

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