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Selective color tool like Photoshop

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  • SFA

    I'm not familiar with Photoshop and I have no doubt that it offers and advanced facility that could do anything to a colour ... but I have always thought that Capture One already has a lot of selective colour options including one dedicated to subtle skin tone changes.

    What, specifically, do you think is missing that would make Capture One, primarily a RAW converter application, turn into a Photoshop killer (Primarily a Pixel manipulator)?

    I suspect that to be a PS "killer"   - i.e. to allow photographers to avoid using PS completely - it might need to offer a little more than some additional colour selection options.

     

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  • cdc

    Selective Color in Photoshop is a powerful tool, as is Color Calibration in ACR/Lightroom. Capture One is no slouch when it comes to color correction and the same end result may ultimately be achievable in Capture One that those tools provide but it is much quicker to get there using those tools in some instances. 

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  • Enric Fradera Calonge

    SFA

    In terms of portrait and fashion photography, to becomes a Photoshop Killer, Capture One should have a liquify option, be able to do a Dodge & Burn technique smoothly, and be able to apply complex skin retouching techniques such as frequency separation. But it's impossible because as you well indicate, C1 and PS are programs with different functions. But as cdc says above, the selective color tool would be a good advance, it's not difficult to implement becasuse it works with RGB channels and sliders and it's a powerful tool for fine tune colors quickly and easily and create a color grading at the same time

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  • FirstName LastName

    Selective color would be nice to have - I mean relative mode. As for me it is more handy than current color editor tool, because it uses paint logic. It works as if you add one paint into another, so you get more natural results.

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  • ---

    I too think it is more logically to work with than other tools. one reason why this very old ps tool is still so popular is because when you understand cmyk skin tones it is far easier to work with. 

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