Is there a way to view a sharpening mask similar to Lightroom?
Lightroom has a feature where if you hold the ALT key while moving the 'masking' slider you can see what areas sharpening is being applied:
The further you move the slider to the right the less the whole image gets sharpened leaving only the in focus areas up for sharpening. This way you can leave the soft areas soft and the in focus areas sharp.
I believe the 'threshold' slider in Capture One does the same thing. The problem is I cannot see exactly what areas are being sharpened with precision. It would help if there were a visual aid like in Lightroom.
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Permanently deleted userNo, but it would indeed be welcome - even ACDSee can do this, and it's extremely helpful in gauging and controlling the effect of sharpening.
You can raise it as a feature request: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/360000154057-Feature-Requests
I'll certainly support it.
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Something like this could/should replace the outdated "focus mask" which is very imprecise anyway.
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Calling the Focus Mask "imprecise" is being excessively kind to it. It's absolutely useless as a way to gauge sharpness in images you've already taken.
It serves a different purpose anyway - this suggestion is a way to exercise granular control how much sharpening is applied to detailed and smooth areas of the image, which the Focus Mask in Capture One isn't designed to do.
Capture One would SERIOUSLY benefit from such a function - I use it ALL. THE. TIME in both LightRoom and ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2022.
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What I meant was that it basically serves the same function; it displays the areas that are in focus.
A sharpening mask overlay would simply add a 'circle of diffusion' around those areas, showing where exactly sharpening stops.
Though I have to say a precise focus mask would be quite a bit more important for most photographers (especially those working tethered from a distance in a rather technical environment with product photography, reproduction etc) - most would feel perfectly fine adjusting the sharpening the usual way. Though I understand the appeal!
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What I meant was that it basically serves the same function; it displays the areas that are in focus.
That's not the job of the Adobe/ACDSee Focus Mask at all, C-M-B - as I say, its purpose is to allow the user to control where sharpening is applied.
But it doesn't differentiate between supposedly in focus and out of focus areas in any way.
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I think you're confusing a visual representation of the sharpening area via a mask with the settings themselves.
The mask would only show you where it starts/ends and that would basically follow the same principle as the focus mask with its threshold adjustments. Or at least it should/could if the focus mask would do its job properly.
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