Your point by point commentary and the reasoning behind your editing is why your teaching videos are my primary source. I am a photographer of over 30 years and print my own work. Since switching to Capture 1, I have found no other video series clearer than yours. Thank you so much. H. Davies, Inorganic Chemist, Ret. Photographer, never ending.
You are absolutely brilliant. I am a true beginner and have been using C1 for a year. This was one of the best tutorials I've watched. I am in awe. I have so much to learn. Thank you for sharing.
Kasha, I recently discovered your channel and want to extend my thanks for producing such fantastic teaching content! I’ve watched quite a few different presenters on subjects related to photo editing and can say your presentation style is one of the best. Yours aren’t too short (far too many seem to build their videos around that ten - fifteen minute mark and are too shallow) and go into great details on just on how its done but why. While I’m not a professional photography, I do enjoy my habit quite a bit… too much. Thank you for producing such phenomenal content!
Thank you for these tips. This was the first video of yours I’ve watch and I did learn a few new ways of editing portraits. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
Thank you for this excellent video (like all your videos). There is one thing that I am not sure I understand: Using the S curve, you bring down the shadows (around minute 22), but after that you open the shadows using the slider. Aren't you undoing your previous action by doing this? When do you use sliders vs. luma curve to act on luminosity ?
Kasia, Thank you so much for sharing your great Knowledge with us. I love, that you used a very underexposed image - One question: Did you underexpose it on propose whilst taking it, so the Skintones would be nice to handle?
Hi Kasia, thank you for a very fascinating tutorial. I have a question regarding "Flow" in layer setting panel. What does flow do by moving it? You keep it at 100 sometime and you move it to very low another time.
This is awesome! I am learning so much from your videos. Thank you so much. Just a small suggestion: Maybe adding a marker around your cursor and showing keys that you are using while editing would make it a bit easier to follow along with your tutorials. Just a thought. I am enjoying your tutorials nonetheless.
I know that heal/clone are ok methods to fix areas which are uniformly colored, and have small defects - e.g. red veins in the eyes… but I find that in low saturation colors, the white of the eyes - the better result is using desaturate on the area (including veins), and maybe targeted dodging of the darker veins, to fade them into the white of the eyeball
I just discovered your videos and they seem to me a real marvel. In my case I would be interested in the theory of color in Capture One. I would like to know how to use the exact color in the capture and then in the edition.
Such an excellent video! I’m just a bit lost on why you did the luminosity layer? Could you do this I’m just raising the exposure etc? Could you explain more about what you were accomplishing in rgb, etc? Or maybe that’s a topic for your new course?
Thank you Laurie! The luminosity layer helps to adjust brightness - the image was a bit too dark, with the luma curve it is corrected. The new course I'm working on will target specifically color grading. Everything that I show in this portrait editing video is covered in detail in my comprehensive Capture One course. You can check out the video lessons samples here bit.ly/2NBagkH
Thank you, some lovely tips there, I really hope C1 release some sort of AI face masking in a future release, I have to mask a lot of faces and an automatic mask on faces that take account of eyes and lips would be a brilliant tool. I look forward to your next one Kasia
You are welcome Steve! I have no idea if that works a t all, but seen this recently - you might check it out www.on1.com/products/photo-raw/photo-editing-portraits/ Apparently it recognises faces: "Flawless retouching is just a click away with ON1 Portrait AI included in ON1 Photo RAW. It uses machine learning to find every face in your photo and make them look great, automatically."
I feel those who clamour for AI (which doesn't exist) or "machine-learning" (which at best is a rudimentary technology), must be those who also cling to their iPhones and iPads, since automation may be more essential to their creative process than creativity itself. I came to Capture One myself from Luminar 4 precisely for this reason, since the latter only offered a pretty, albeit admittedly speedy interface that clearly sat squarely atop Apple´s Core Image engine and programming API, offering virtually nothing new or original. Yet they have the temerity to dub their latest offering Luminar AI. God, are we consumers that credible? With respect to ON1 Photo Raw mentioned here, I left that behind when their support personnel told me that being able to back up things on a Windows machine was not one of their priorites. Were they being serious? Honestly, I think Kasia's reply here is tinged with a little bit of sarcasm, Steve.
@@randall8496 She may be, but personally I don’t think so, ON1 is available as a plug-in for C1 so her suggestion would be very helpful for anybody who was not aware of it. I tried ON 1 AI portrait when it was first released and didn’t like it, it was a one size fits all approach and doesn’t give me the quality results I need, however it’s auto masking of the face and features was excellent and personally I would find that very useful in my work flow and would save me a lot of time not having to brush a mask on for every face or portrait. A family of four takes a lot of time for example and such an auto mask would be a big help. It could always be turned off for people who don’t need or want such a feature. I think eventually it will come given the improvement C1 is making which are workflow rather than feature oriented.
@@steveatesh Hello, Steve, I'm back because I had second thoughts about about my comment, which was a bit abrupt and unfair. You did mention that you mask a lot of faces, which I know can be a tedious and eat up a lot of time, before things become more fun and creative, so I apologize for taking things into another context altogether. I admit that I would probably welcome and use such a feature myself. I guess it's just that certain buzz-words are triggers for me (like 'AI' and 'weather-sealed') and I had a bad initial experience with ON1. Didn't know some folks use it as a plug-in for C1, except perhaps for its popular resize module, and, well, since I also do a lot of portraits, now you have me thinking about this new feature as well. So, thanks for this and sorry for that. You know, Kasia doesn't strike me as a person with a sarcastic bone in her body, so perhaps I should apologize to her as well.
@Randall Well, to be honest I wasn't sarcastic Randall :D Personally I have an approach similar to yours and I don't believe in "quick fixes" in terms of photo retouching. I've seen seamless retouching that can turn a good portrait into an amazing one, and I know that this typically takes hours of skill and patience. Certain things cannot be done with one click, or at least they cannot be done properly. But I can imagine that others have different needs and maybe there is something like decent AI that helps with retouching - especially if it doesn't have to be pixel perfect and if there is 1K wedding images that have to be processed... I've read Steve's comment, connected in my head with the copy I've seen recently and mentioned it here. And yes, I've noticed that they just write about it very briefly at the bottom of the page, without showing any examples. Hmmm, strange ... 😉
Hi George - a simple retouch is all you need for casual portraits, for family portraits and for some editorial, relaxed images. The point is to retouch the subject slightly, remove some distractions and keep it natural, without aiming for the "ideal/cover" look. Beauty retouch is what you see in fashion and beauty magazines - the images are spotless. Typically plenty of work is involved in skin retouch, correcting shapes (slimming) and so on. Professional retoucher knows how to make all these adjustments in a truly seamless way, so you are convinced that such perfect people exist LOL Casual retouch would be performed without going too much into detail, what counts is the generic look and feel. On the other hand for beauty retouch you would zoom at high magnification level and work on every single pore of the skin to perfect it.
After all these cruel and unusual punishments, the end result looks like a plastic jaundiced alien. Just because you have all these tools doesn't mean you have to use them.
Clearly some C1 elements have moved on since this video, like iris enhance tool etc. A good overall video tutorial, but all this says much more about editing capability than photography capability.
