Backdrop creased

Paul Topol

• July 19, 2019 01:36

Hi, Took a couple of hundred family pics using a cloth backdrop.
Unfortunately the white backdrop is VERY creased.
Is there a way to perhaps blow out the background, or blur the background, in CapOne whilst keeping the subject sharp and properly exposed?

Would probably be very easy to do in Photoshop but doing it in CapOne would be much more convenient for me.

Thanks
Paul

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  Permanently deleted user

  • July 19, 2019 07:34

  Make a new layer and mask the backdrop the way you want. Refine the mask or use the luma range if you need (since your backdrop is white, the luma range, applied to a filled layer, could be a fast starting point). To blow out you can increase the exposure or bring the black anchor point in Curve tool all the way up. You can work with curves also to make it just more even and you can decrease clarity and structure to soften the creases a bit.
  You can copy or save your edits and apply them to all of your pictures but you will need to set your mask picture by picture.

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  Paul Topol

  • July 19, 2019 11:47

  Thanks. Gonna try that. Appreciate the quick advice

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  SFA

  • July 19, 2019 12:05

  https://learn.captureone.com/tutorials/ ... y-masking/
  
  This may help a little.
  
  If you can select just the creased parts of the backdrop with the mask (for example - it may not be quite that simple in reality but that's a place to start) and then just erase the mask where you do not want it to be if it appears in your main subject area the results might give you what you need.
  
  Having once ended up with a similar situation (albeit with a flash colour tinted sheet due in part to an unexpectedly low ceiling having a negative effect on my planned set up) I can appreciate your problem.
  
  That was some years ago, before I started to use C1, and my options for fixing the problem on the night before delivering the printed and framed images were extremely limited.
  
  
  Grant

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