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Limited vignetting options compared to Lightoom and DXO

2eyesee
Capture One seems limited in how much control you have over vignetting compared to DXO Optics Pro and Lightroom.

Sometimes I like to introduce quite a strong vignette in my images, and in DXO and Lightroom this is easy to control as you can set the midpoint of the vignette so it doesn't encroach too much on the image.

In Capture One, however, you can't set a midpoint, which I find very limiting on how much control I have over the vignette.

Am I missing something?
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  • NFGphoto
    You are correct, the only vignette control in C1 is the single slider.
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  • SFA
    Why not use an adjustment layer and create whatever vignette construction you wish to apply?

    Very flexible for choice.



    Grant
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  • 2eyesee
    Thanks for the tip, Grant.

    What I ended up doing was creating an adjustment layer and using the brush to paint the entire image with it, then applied a negative exposure to the layer. Then I changed the brush to 'Erase' and made it a huge size with minimum hardness and painted out the centre part of the image I didn't want affected by the negative exposure.

    Is this the sort of thing that you mean?
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  • Ian Wilson
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    The other thing you could do is first paint the area you don't want affected, then invert the mask, then apply your negative exposure compensation. Comes to much the same thing, really.

    Ian
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  • 2eyesee
    Thanks, Ian - I'm getting the idea now 😊
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  • SFA
    Well between you and Ian I think the core option are covered. 😉

    Bear in mind too, if you want to get really artistic, that you can experiment with opacity, hardness and possible size as additional tools available to refine the look you want - although it may take some experience to fully familiarise yourself with the possibilities.

    I think for a consistent vignette - equivalent to the vignette tool as a starting point but with control over where it applies - I would use Ian's suggestion.

    Using your "Paint on and erase" is quite similar - you can also invert the mask before you paint anything at all - the equivalent of using the brush to cover the entire image without having to "paint" at all and then erase as required.

    If you use less than 100% opacity you have the option to amend the opacity of any part of the mask by using multiple brush strokes (Painting or Erasing both work.) So you can build and refine your vignette in subtle ways should you wish to do so.

    I suspect there may be a few other approaches to vignettes that do not include using layers but I think the layers approach may be the most flexible option open to us.

    HTH.



    Grant
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