![]() The effect is fairly subtle but it does give objects and outlines in the picture a little more ‘punch’.Ĭapture One Styles use some quite complex and carefully-balanced adjustments. There’s also an increase in the Clarity setting. In the Curves panel there’s a fairly strong S-shaped adjustment that darkens shadow areas (you can see that in the water at the base of the picture), lightens bright tones and increases the midtone contrast. The SN-04 Style applies two more adjustments. ![]() The SN-04 Style doesn’t apply a colour balance shift to the highlights, but it is possible to do this too, which means that the Capture One Color Balance panel can apply quite complex colour shifts across the tonal range – its often used in conjunction with the Color Editor, but they do two distinct and separate jobs. If we swap to the Midtone tab, though, we can see that the colour shift is now in the direction of amber/red. If we select the Shadow tab, we can see that the SN-04 Style has a very small colour shift towards blue. You apply colour balance shifts by dragging the gadget from the centre point of the wheel towards the colour you want – the further you drag it, the bigger the shift. This has a ‘Master’ tab for shifting the colour balance globally across the image, but it also has tabs for different Shadow, Midtone and Highlight adjustments. This is not the only way to adjust colours in Capture One, and the SN-04 Style also uses colour shifts in the Color Balance panel. This is what gives blue skies their distinctive darker/faded look with this Style. This one is much more significant, reducing the saturation and lightness of blue-sky tones and shifting the hue value slightly. In fact you can make multiple colour adjustments, and the SN-04 does indeed add a second. 03 Multiple Color Editor adjustmentsīut the Color Editor doesn’t stop at one colour. We can see that the SN-04 Style slightly increases the saturation of colours in the tan/brown range. There’s a ‘ Basic’ tab (not shown here) where you can adjust different colour ranges side by side, but this Style uses the Advanced panel, which makes adjustments to individually colours selected individually using an eyedropper tool and works separately. This is where you’ll find many of the adjustments used in Capture One Styles. Here’s our original image (left) and a Version (right) with the SN-04 Style added. When you add a Styles pack, you’ll usually find it in the ‘ User Styles’ section. In Capture One, Styles and Presets have their own panel and by default you’ll find this on the Adjustments Tool Tab – that’s the one that looks like a clipboard with a ‘check/tick’ icon. So let’s deconstruct the SN-04 Style and see just how the individual image adjustments are combined to create this effect. With the ‘SN-04’ Style applied, the picture is much stronger, with some real warmth and depth. Capture One’s default rendition is already pretty strong (left), but the version with the SN-04 Style applied (right) is much warmer and richer. ![]() Here’s a ‘before’ and ‘after’ shot showing the difference. It brings depth, warmth and contrast to outdoor shots and works particularly well for travel photography, where you’re often trying to capture a more intense yet ‘timeless’ look. The name might be bland but the Style itself is great. The Style under the spotlight in this post has the rather unromantic name of ‘ SN-04’ and it’s from Phase One’s own ‘ Seasonal’ Style pack. Styles are more complex adjustments made with combinations of more than one tool. Presets are simpler one-click image adjustments which use a single editing tool, such as Curves or Color Balance. The market isn’t as large as for Lightroom presets, but the overall standard is probably a bit higher to reflect Capture One’s expert/professional audience.Ĭapture One also offers Presets as well as Styles, so it’s worth quickly spelling out the difference. Other companies make and distribute Capture One Style packs too. You do get a selection of Styles built in to Capture One, but most are sold separately via the Capture One website as Style packs – you can also buy Capture One with certain Style packs as reduced-price bundles. These are made with carefully-crafted combinations of image adjustments which you can use as-is or inspect and modify to suit your own tastes. Like other photo-editing applications, Capture One offers one-click preset image effects, which it calls ‘Styles’.
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