basic adjustment workflow

Chris Cheshire

• 2018年11月30日 03:36

Hi, C1 noob here (picking this up again after a long hiatus)

Is there an optimal order to applying adjustments, or does it not matter? If I adjust white balance, exposure, highlights, and shadows for example, is the output always the same, no matter the order in which I perform them?

Do any adjustments alter depending if the image is cropped or not?

Chris

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • 2018年11月30日 09:34

  

  If you make the same adjustments to your image in respect of white balance, exposure, highlights and shadows, etc, you will get the same result irrespective of the order in which you do the adjustments.
  
  If you crop the image before you do the adjustments or after it will make no difference if you make the same adjustments.
  
  BUT... would you make the same adjustments? If, for example, you crop the image and then use the auto levels adjustment, you will get a different result from the auto adjustment, because Capture One will base the auto adjustment only on what is included in the crop. Try it - use auto levels on an image with a bright area in one corner. Then instead crop the image to cut out the bright corner and then apply the auto levels. You will get a different adjustment because the auto levels will no longer be trying to avoid blowing out the highlight in that corner.
  
  Also if you, for instance, adjust white balance before you adjust exposure, you may decide that what exposure looks best to you is different from what you would have chosen if you had done the exposure first and the white balance second. But that is a difference in what appears good to you in achieving the look you like. Many people think you should adjust white balance first. I only agree with that to some extent. If I know that I was in cloudy conditions when I took the photo but had used a different WB at the time (or the camera auto WB had not done a good job on that occasion) I would probably correct the WB first using the cloudy preset. But if I had been in rather mixed lighting conditions and wanted to change the WB to what looked pleasing to me, I might well adjust the exposure first, because my perception of what colour seemed good would be affected by how bright the image looked.
  
  But most of that is a difference in how you or I would behave with a different order of adjustments, not how the program would behave.
  
  Ian

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  Chris Cheshire

  • 2018年11月30日 19:44

  Cheers, that explains it perfectly. I was seeing different results when fiddling, but it comes down to the auto adjustments before/after a crop.

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