Some of the things I'm correcting for may be making up for mistakes in taking the pictures in the first place but some are just challenging pictures that were taken correctly, as well. The healing and clean-up tools are much better/smarter in Photoshop and corrections to missing/minimal colors using color channels can be very helpful at extremes, but I'd expect to have to use it for that, anyway. in Capture 1 have any advantages over Lightroom. I was just wondering if Capture One, with its adjustment layers, masking and such offered better or more advanced control (no layers in Lightroom, of course), so a just some more in-depth processing than Lightroom. Of course, when you get to disparate color balance in the picture (blending flash + non-flash areas a bit), that is probably not something Lightroom will ever be good at - it isn't intended to. However, as I take pictures deeper, adjusting for color balance is much trickier in my experience and Lightroom's tools, as good as they are, haven't seemed good enough at times. I don't go into Photoshop for all of my UW photos - Lightroom is fine for shallow to shallow-mid water images. I do find I can fine tune the levels adjustment in PS with a levels layer there - again it's very quick - in PS I hold down the alt key while moving the slider and it will show where that channel is clipping - you want each channel just short of clipping unless there's some specular highlights. White balance and tint I don't move much as the levels as I describe above does a better job - I occasionally tweak tint in green water shots. If required, a little bit of clarity - easy to overdo and I always use some structure. Other things I do are exposure and shadow/highlight adjustment these should be done first if significant moves are made. Once you get used to it you are ready to edit is PS very quickly - it does create a tiff file in the folder you are browsing to open in PS - which is an extra copy. Here's the levels adjustment from a recent image I processed: In green water sometimes you might need to pull a little more green out - I do this on the green channel curve. I don't even look at the photo apart from checking highlight warnings when I'm making the adjustments - it comes out very close. On the highlight side use the highlight warning and pull it in till it just starts to show highlight warnings. All you need to is pull in the shadow/highlight points on the tool to just touch the edge of the histogram in each individual colour channel. Levels I regard as a fundamental tool without black/white points set an image will lack mid tone contrast and it is also the easiest way to colour balance an UW photo going. It has some nice features for UW work including the ability to do levels and curves in raw and certainly it gets a lot closer than what ACR can do before leaping into PS. I use capture 1 and basically use it as raw processing engine before launching into PS. I do think the Capture 1 cataloguer looks weaker than Lightroom but, again, I don't have extensive experience with it and might be wrong about that. That being said, Capture 1 seems to have some features that might be more powerful than Lightroom - it might be able to push UW photos further along before having to jump in to Photoshop.ĭo any of you have some solid experience with Capture 1 and would be willing to share your thoughts, particularly as it relates to processing UW photos? Any general thoughts for non-UW photos as well as the cataloguer are also welcome, but I am specifically looking to see if its feature set might be a better choice than Lightroom for UW photos, in particular. I do have a copy of Capture 1 and have played with it a little - I'm by no means as familiar with it as I am with Lightroom. I tend to jump into Photoshop pretty early and do a lot of the processing there. Underwater photos have their challenges, and Lighroom (where I start) isn't very useful a fair amount of the time. I've been a Lightroom + Photoshop users for years and am pretty comfortable with it.
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