How to correct the red in CaptureOne

[usm]

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Hi!

First image is from CaptureOne (LE3...) with the latest M8 with IR filter profile.

Second is the original M8 JPEG.

 

So:

How to you correct the red color in the dark areas with CaptureOne?

Curves or Levels?

It's also in some skin tones that the red is too much.

I' m missing a real color correction.

 

Any tips?

Thanx

Mario

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[wparsonsgisnet]

Mario, I am inferring that the first picture is the one you wish to achieve.

 

In C1, you use the eyedropper to sample some place in the image that gives you gray-like tones. When you click on the eyedropper and then move the mouse over parts of the image, you will get RGB readouts at the top of the C1 picture display area. You want to choose an area where the three readings are about the same level.

 

That is, you don't care if the gray is near white (200-plus) or is quite dark (50 or so). You want all three values to be similar. So, 190 187 205 would be ok; 70 290 150, would not.

 

As an alternative (using the Beta2 of C1 v4, chose the second menu on the left. The first lets you choose a directory to retrieve from, the second lets you set color balance. At the bottom, slide the color balance until you like what you see.

 

If you're not using v4 beta 2 (that is the LE version) and you're not using the Pro version, you should download the beta. It's terrific.

 

Regards,

[AlanG]

Besides the individual image adjustments, there is a way to adjust your color profile or make a custom one that lets you fine tune the colors.

 

Go under the tab labeled "Workflow" and click on "Color Editor."

 

It can get pretty complicated so spend some time with it. You'll be able to adjust the saturation, hue and lightness of one or several specific colors and save that profile for later use. You can also save global corrections.

 

To start using it, click on the eyedropper and then click on the color you want to change in your image. You can repeat this to build a list for a number of colors and then adjust each one individually by activating it and then using the adjustment controls.

 

I'm on Windows version 3.7.7 Pro so I hope it is similar on your version.

[Jamie Roberts]

I'm really not sure what the original poster is asking.

 

There are a number of ways of changing the colour response of the camera, starting with white balance, black point and white point compensation, saturation, contrast and curves (which will affect saturation)--not to mention the profile or profile tweaks.

 

What is actually being asked here?

[bradreiman]

i like the advice here but it seams this picture does not have the red color cast you speak of. is your monitor properly calibrated?

[AlanG]

i like the advice here but it seams this picture does not have the red color cast you speak of. is your monitor properly calibrated?

 

I have no idea exactly what specific effect the op is trying to achieve. But he had a general complaint about the lack of color control in Capture One so I thought he might not have been familiar with the "Color Editor."

 

The adjustments afforded by the "Color Editor" would let him fine tune a specific color regardless of whether there is an overall color cast. For instance if the the op felt the red was too saturated, he could tone down just that specific hue.

[martinb]

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Color correction in the latest version of ACR is brilliant. Also very easy to remove magenta cast if you're shooting without filters.

[Mauribix]

Color correction in the latest version of ACR is brilliant. Also very easy to remove magenta cast if you're shooting without filters.

 

Is still there a way to correct the magenta cast in Lightroom for Mac?

How do you use ACR in CaptureOne?

 

sorry for my intromission,

best

 

Maurizio

[usm]

@ AlanG

Thanx for the "color editor". I didn't know about this tool. It should be more obvious.

 

The only thing is that this is only in the pro version and it is saved as an seperate profile and not as an image setting. But it worked.

 

Is there a way for a correction that is bound to the picture and not saved as a profile?

 

@ Jamie Roberts

My question is not about white point or black point or cast, it was about how to correct a single color in CaputerOne. I was missing the tool.

In my pictures, after correcting cast, white and black point, levels and saturation I had some time the problem that the reds are often to strong. Just the reds. It is not about a overall cast.

 

Well I think version 4 of CaptureOne will bring up this feature.

 

Thanx. Mario

[AlanG]

@ AlanG

Thanx for the "color editor". I didn't know about this tool. It should be more obvious.

 

The only thing is that this is only in the pro version and it is saved as an seperate profile and not as an image setting. But it worked.

 

Is there a way for a correction that is bound to the picture and not saved as a profile?

 

 

You can make adjustments with the Color Editor and process an image using those adjustments - without first saving the profile. However as you suspect, there is no way to associate those adjustments back to the original raw file unless you save the profile and remember to use it the next time or on a similar photo.

 

I have to say that for the past year I have been using DxO (mostly for the optical correction and DxO Lighting.) I think the color controls in DxO are better than those in C1 too. FYI - I haven't upgraded to DxO version 5 because there are a lot of issues reported about it that will neeed to be straightened out first.