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C1 4.7: Quick Adjustments

April 2, 2009 | Tech Features, Tips & Tech Support

Capture One has always had a strong ability to work quickly with huge volumes of shots. One of our favorite features of Capture One is the speed at which you can copy one setting (e.g. a white balance of 6000k) and paste it to the entire shoot whether its 100 or 10,000 images.

However, Capture One 4.X has up-until-now lacked one of the greatest features of Capture One 3: the ability to use only the keyboard to navigate through a large collection of images and apply minor changes in saturation, contrast, exposure, WB etc based on changing lighting conditions. For instance an editorial shoot on location might have five hundred shots, and every single shot the light changed just a bit. For many photographers a variation of a fraction of a stop is not a big deal. However, for the discerning photographer or digital tech it was desired to go through and adjust each image up or down a fraction of a stop so they all matched up.

Capture One 4.7 brings this feature back with vengeance.

Basic Step by Step

1. Select the first raw by clicking on it’s thumbnail
2. Place your cursor within the text entry box for an adjustment (see right)
3. Use the up and down keys to bump that adjustment up or down.
4. Use Apple-Left and Apple-Right to move to the next or previous image.

Additional Tips

- you can leave the Apple key depressed while you push up and down to reduce the number of total keystrokes involved
- you can use tab and shift-tab to quickly change between different adjustments without using the mouse (from Guy Mancuso)
- hold shift with up or down to adjust by larger amounts (from Selsoe)

Do this for a couple minutes and pretty soon your fingers will train themselves and you can adjust upwards of an image per second.