Magic Brush in Capture One 21 14.3 and New Export
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2021
- Capture One has just released Capture One 21 (14.3) update, and you'll just love it!
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We have got an entirely new tool - Magic Brush, that allows you to create a complex mask from color in a single brush stroke. Just like old color range masks, but on steroids, it's much faster and smarter. Moreover, Magic Brush works with colorless areas as well, making it a real game-changer in RAW editing.
Next, Capture One developers have fully redesigned the export workflow, making it way more user-friendly. There is now a single export window with a large viewer. Don't worry; recipes and settings are all in there!
On top of that, developers have finally added several long-awaited improvements. You can now view images inside subfolders, overwrite existing files on export, and synchronize new subfolders into your Catalog.
Sounds too good to be a free update? Download Capture One 21 14.3, and let's try out all the new features!
Magic Brush
Magic Brush is a new brush that allows you to create a mask from color remarkably quickly. All you need to do is make a brush stroke over any color, and Magic Brush will create a complex mask of similar colors.
Likewise, additional brush strokes expand the mask.
Also, you can mask similar colors on an entire image at once by selecting "Sample Entire Photo".
Basically, you can now create a complex mask from any color in a matter of seconds!
Need to enhance some area on an image quickly? Make a single brushstroke, and you're ready for adjustment.
Now, there is even more of a wow-feature: you can mask colorless areas with Magic Brush!
Thus, you can easily create a mask of shadows or highlights.
Let's take this landscape. Previously, you would need to draw a mask manually or use Luma Range to mask the background. With the new update, we can create such a mask in a single brushstroke.
Keep in mind that Magic Brush creates a standard mask so that you can easily erase, refine and invert it.
Apart from Size and Opacity, Magic Brush has two additional settings:
Tolerance defines the range of colors that will be included in a mask. Low Tolerance will restrict your mask to very similar colors only.
High Tolerance will create a mask that covers a broader range of colors.
From my experience, the universal value here is around 70. Usually, it allows you to get the required mask with fewer brush strokes.
The Refine Edge slider works similarly to Refine Mask feature. A higher Refine Edge value will create a mask with softer edges, which, again, fit most images better.
I've tested Magic Brush for a while, and I am still kind of shocked how easily and quickly we can draw masks now.
In fact, you don't draw masks anymore - you select objects on your image in one or a couple of brushstrokes. Layers now save you time, not consume it.
New Export
In the new update, developers have finally redesigned the export workflow to make it more user-friendly. There is no Output tool tab anymore; all process recipes and other settings are now located in a new Export Images window.
Here we see all the images chosen for export and a large Proofing Viewer representing selected recipe settings. Feel free to switch to the grid mode if it suits you better.
Just as before, you can create custom recipes and export images in different formats simultaneously.
Still, there are several important changes.
Advanced export settings are now hidden under "Show all options" checkmark.
Next, all preferences are now specific for the selected recipe. Previously, Naming and Location were common for all recipes. In the new version, all export settings can be different for each individual recipe.
Location tool has three new options.
Firstly, every catalog and session now has a default output folder. You can change it by clicking on the folder icon here:
Secondly, you can export images into the same folder where original files are kept.
Thirdly, you can now decide what to do with existing files on export. You are free to choose between adding a suffix to file names (as it was before), overwriting duplicates, or skipping files that have been already exported.
Also, there is a way to access export settings quickly. Long press the Export icon, and you'll access a menu with additional export options:
Here you can quickly export with previous settings, export original files, and publish images to Capture One plugins.
The new export workflow looks excellent, but what about in-app recipe proofing? It's still here! Simply long press the Proofing icon to choose a recipe to proof with.
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Thanks for this update.👍
Hope in the next update you spend the possibility to have different names for Clone-Variants. 😳
Thanks, Alex
What I need is photo merge or stack images. Or a way to edit a master file in PS then add files to that master file without exporting, I really only want to open these extra files but not in ACR, currently I have to export then delete the exported file....I do a lot of furniture with and without talent and with many variations. Photomerge in PS is how I currently do it but even PS is a pain to stack and add a black mask to the images. If it ever comes I have no doubt C1 will drip feed it forever and they will pat themselves on the back at every drip. I can't believe how long it took to shift click to draw a straight line! I think C1 add fringe improvements at the expense of the basics.
Great update.
The changes on the behavior of the recipes are very welcome i needed those precise changes (every recipe now saves the file name and location settings). However i don't understand why you moved it to a totally new window. And we can't keep both windows active. I'd like to have the export window on the right monitor and the edit window on my left monitor so I can edit / select and export fast on the second monitor. That would be perfect
I notice when my photo/raw file is in fit to screen mode in the viewer, the image looks slightly blurred its not until I zoom the pixels are clear, do you know anything about this in capture one ?
I'd prefer if you mentioned the positive and the negative. Moving the mask visibility options to the Viewer toolbar is a step backwards. When working with brushes, one naturally has the "Layers" tool in view, but the Viewer toolbar serves no purpose for users using keyboard shortcuts and was thus best kept hidden. The new placement of the "+"/"-" icons ("add layer" / "delete layer") is also a step backwards. The icons now wastes valuable vertical space, hiding at least one layer name, making it impossible to see or select it without scrolling. There is no longer a way to manually specify one value during exporting that is then globally used for all selected recipes. Not having a non-modal alternative to exporting is a step backwards.
It's a great update overall, but I wish they wouldn't unnecessarily make some things worse that weren't broken before.
I understand your points, but for me, these changes are not negative. It's way easier to control mask visibility and add/delete/select layers with shortcuts. I agree that the new Export breaks the habitual workflow, but as Capture One trainer, I see that it had to be reworked. For many of my Capture One students, it was a pretty frustrating experience to get used to the old Export.
@@AlexOnRAW I use keyboard shortcuts myself, but the new "+"/"-" icon placement now wastes valuable vertical space regardless whether you use keyboard shortcuts or not. Also, although I use keyboard shortcuts extensively, I very rarely use some functions (say select a grayscale mask) so I don't memorise the respective shortcuts and want a natural way of accessing the feature that does not require me to unhide a toolbar that I otherwise never use.
Regarding the exporter, I understand that some beginners face a steep learning curve, but the trick is to help them while at the same time not invalidate efficient workflows of experienced users. Do these points make sense to you?
I really hate the new export options. Why rework something that worked so great...
and still no samyang/rokinon profiles? :-\
Good update nobody asked for... I hope for panorama and focus/exposure stacking.... Or photo merge, generated content fill...
Some of the new features have been requested for years and years. Not all changes are good but some of them have been heavily requested.
@@class_a i am not saying that i am not welcoming this new features. They are great, but appart of some life quality improvements are most of them just some sort of work around for functions which already exist. I am happy to have it, but i kind of hope for this holidays "big update" for the features i listed above.
Nice video, thx! Can you put a pause in “Capture One” please...in this video you keep saying “Capchon” instead, thx.
Thanks, Dominic, I'll try :)
@@AlexOnRAW Thanks Alex! (You know many of us English speakers are complete hypocrites...)
Sadly, Capture One's magic brush is unusable on any large image from the Sony A7R family of sensors. It took five minutes to create the mask on a very simple selection that Photoshop can calculate and select in real-time. This using a fairly new 27" 5K iMac i9 with 64 GB RAM and the Radeon Pro Vega 48 8 GB with data on a 24 TB RAID Zero drive over TB 3.
I love Capture One but it is poorly optimized in many areas. Just one more example; reading a memory card that has many images already imported. Even Apple Photos can almost immediately show those that are already imported whereas Capture One chugs away for minutes reading each image before finally showing what hasn't been imported yet. It is really painful.
The export tool is a joke...