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Skin smoothing and teeth whitening

Fabio Lanza
Hi all,

just coming from Aperture, and I am lacking two features I really liked!

Teeth whitening and skin smoothing.

Can somebody give some thoughts of what would be the best way to do both in C1 Pro 7?

Thanks!
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  • Bogdan Nina
    Hi ,
    The only I know of :
    Skin - local brush and reduce clarity on that layer
    Teeth - local brush and desaturated + increase brightness
    Capture one does not have a dedicate brush for any of the above o
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    In addition to the previous poster:
    - for both issues: layer mask/brush and use Color Editor Advanced for teeth and Color Editor Skin for skin tone.
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  • Dan Donovan
    This feature is listed on the website:

    Skin Tone Enhancer
    Achieve perfect, smooth and soft skin tones with the Skin Tone Color tool. Skin tone precision sliders make it easy to attain consistent and immaculate looking skin tones for portraiture and people photography. Also, as skin tones vary from country to country the same tool can be used to optimize the skin color to your preferred reproduction.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="NN635376886096228908UL" wrote:
    Hi all,

    just coming from Aperture, and I am lacking two features I really liked!

    Teeth whitening and skin smoothing.

    Can somebody give some thoughts of what would be the best way to do both in C1 Pro 7?

    Thanks!


    Capture One skin smoothing as far as wrinkles, spots or unwanted freckle type marks etc is quite limited.
    Nothing like the tools in Aperture and not even remotely close to the tools and plug-ins available in photoshop.

    Capture One does however have a nice tool for skin color toning down, this has good tone shifting and then a
    Uniformity slider. The uniformity slider lets you select a skin tone sample (target color) you like from the face and then reduce the differences in skin color for the colors close to the target color. This has it's pros and cons.

    Cons are: The selection of what gets changed is just a simple color range selection and has no face/skin recognition from a geometric point of view so it will alter any colors that are similar to the skin. For example hair colors if close enough to the skin color will be flattened and dulled down. Lips also get altered too much as there is no feature recognition. Another example would be skin color like cloths of props... think tan cloths or hay in a haystack with a model in the hay. For this reason you really need powerful masking and blending to use the uniformity slider at its best.

    Other Con is you have to like how Capture One's initial RAW conversion is. Personally I do not like the skin rendering of many cameras with Capture One. It is to stylized and has a fake tan effect. In particular I do not like the skin rendering of the Nikon d80 profiles. However you can still work with it. I do my RAW conversion in Capture NX2 and bring the file into Capture One and make a TIFF. I do the uniformity thing in capture one and export a tiff again. Sometimes i'll export two tiffs one for uniformed "background skin"... most of the face and one for more rose colors like cheeks etc. I then take these into Photoshop and blend these together. The result is very nice and not as flat and painted looking as using uniformity only in Capture One.

    I think that the skin tone editor with uniformity slider could be a handy plug-in and sell really well if Phase One made it for Photoshop. It could be done using the type of external processing plug-in system as nik software uses.
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