Adjustment allowing a better local Blur/desharpen
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First of all: I do realize, that C1 is a RAW converter. And a very fine one! (complements to the team!) I also realize, that the best bokeh is created using the lense during photography, but there are some times, when you need it in post-processing...
Since you have already added features like healing and cloning, which go way beyond raw converting I would also like to request such a local blur feature officially. And there were old discussions many years ago with this topic, I thought I might revive that ;)
I find myself going into an external picture editor just for a background blur - that completely breaks the workflow, as then there's the optimized C1 variant, then there is the output of that variant in the external image app (for blurring) and then I can only use adjustments on the final output of the image app (which is no longer raw and very limited).
If there was a good way to do blurs with masks inside C1 locally that would be very helpful.
While the direct competitor Lightroom does not offer a guassian blur per se (after all it's not Photoshop *g), it is still possible to get very strong results blurring backgrounds using various methods, as seen in articles like
"How to Blur Background in Lightroom (3 Different Methods)" Link
or "How to Blur Background in Lightroom (3 BEST ways!) - Shotkit" Link
(or available using your preffered Search Engine *g)
In regards to these articles: Even using negative clarity and structure (also with multiple stacked layers) in C1 I am not able to achieve anything near or usable to that.
If something like that could be integrated into a local adjustment (or even if changes could be made to existing adjustments resulting in better results for blurring) that would help a lot.
And it could be yet another exclusive feature - being able to do that in an easy way with a local adjustment inside C1 compared to other products. Just like you've done with healing and cloning - which is really great!!
Thanks a lot for at least considering (and please don't stone me to death for this request, dear community. It is just an opinion / a request. :-)
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For now - add some heavy NR to your negative Clarity.
That might help in some situations.
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Also try different Clarity Methods and combinations of them.
About 3 layers can produce some interesting results.
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I support your request. In fact I was planning to raise the request, glad you did it.
Proper implementation of "Gaussian Blur" and "Lens Blur" will help a lot especially Long Exposure shooters and no need to go to Pixel Editors.
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I support that request. I'm pretty sure Adobe will implement it in Lightroom sometime soon as it was mentionned in one of their survey in which they were asking users what new feature they would like the most. So if Capture One want to stay on the edge with editing feature this one should definitely be considered.
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SFA - 3 layers approach as you suggest will increase the computations for single blur operation since more layers and more tools will be added. Proper implementation of blur tools will be the best solution in my opinion.
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I do agree with this feature request. Neither lowering the clarity (whatever the clarity method) nor the Haze effect can achieve a good and "photographic" result, I've tried all these tweaks, combining methods, on several masks.
ON1 photo raw (which is unfortunately rather unreliable in many aspects and not a as good developer as CO by far) is much more capable in this area, its "Lens Blur" is pretty convincing, giving a nice fake bokeh associated with a mask.
(And by the way, I have to say that the last release of ON1 gives a pretty good Denoiser (if not pushed too far), not as DXO Deep Prime, but undoubtedly better than CO's...).Let's be frank: the ultimate goal is to avoid any appeal to Photoshop or Affinity Photo for all the "photographic" processing, and CO is close to it but can be closer.
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Recently I have been trying something new with portraits and not being able to do a masked blur in a window in C1 Pro is a major pain, I don't want to round trip to PS (or even via Instagram, really it works rather well). Is there something I am missing about how complicated this is?
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Lee, the best you can hope for is to find a way to use a control to blur. A radial mask and then tweak the common controls and hope for the best. There are so many editing functions that I left behind when I stopped using Photo-Raw...
Here is something you might find worth doing...
Often, as the very last step in my editing, I will do an open/with (tiff) into one of the Nik products. I know going from raw to tiff sucks, but C1 does show you the tif file in your browsing window, so you do not forget that you did it.
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Lee, I maybe don't understand the request correctly, but blurring i.e. the background in a portrait shot is quite easy with C1 on-board tools: Create a layer and mask on it what should stay sharp and then invert the mask. Now use Clarity and Structure and turn both to negative values. Et voila!
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It's not strong enough, as someone said before if you did it on maybe 3 layers it would work, but that seems a little complicated
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This is what I got from using tilt shift on instagram
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And this using 3 layers with zero clarity etc in C1. I much prefer the top look
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