Removing the background
Hi, I have recently purchased a licence but I have been unable to remove the background (a green screen) so that I can insert a new background. [I was able to do this using Photoshop many years ago before the licence stopped working on newer Macs].
Can anyone help me to achieve this with Capture One Pro.
Thanks, Nicholas
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That's not something that Capture One (primarily a raw converter) can do. (Just as in the Adobe world, you'd need to go to Photoshop from Lightroom to do it.) You could take the image into something like Photoshop, or Affinity Photo, to achieve that.
Ian
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That's right, not an editor but a converter.
As pixel editor (since I am Adobe free) I use Sérif's Affinity Photo
and it works very well in duo with CO.0 -
Many thanks for your prompt replies.
I will try Affinity Pro albeit buying a licence (hopefully permanent) for another product is not what I planned!
As an aside, CO is rather more than a raw converter since it has layers and so, in principle, I don't see why the background cannot be removed and replaced.
Regards, Nicholas
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Nicholas, CO is a converter with extra talents.
Remember that CO. being a converter, will work on RAW files — an
editor can't do that — and RAWs are data… not images.
As such, RAWs an unalterable data records. A converter will create
sidecar files to reflect you tweaks. All created layers and recorded
tweaks will be read by CO that will apply tweaks and layers to the final
published rendition.
Layers — in the sense of a pixel editor app — are images.0 -
Nicholas,
Affinity licences are, so far, perpetual and not very expensive.
Seems to be a good PS alternative for Photographers and includes some RAW conversion capability to generate the files it needs (PS like) to allow the use of its extensive editing capabilities in pixel level graphics mode.
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Yes, AP has a "Develop Persona" that does tweak RAW files but
none them of them will be recorded by means of sidecar files like
CO does and,since RAWs cannot be modified, the work will have
to be exported to any image format for further PP.
The "Develop Persona" can only work on one file at the time.0 -
Yep the Develop option is better then nothing and one can open multiple files at the same time but I don't recall any way of batch processing and of course there is no current concept of any DAM functionality. The competitor target seems to be clearly Photoshop rather than the Lightroom/Photoshop combination.
Unless they have added something in the very latest update which I have not yet downloaded.
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