Capture One 21 - STYLE BRUSHES for Landscape Edits (and when to use them)

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In this video we will focus on editing landscape photo with Style Brushes in Capture One 21. I will walk you through the complete workflow and explain when applying adjustments with Style Brushes is a good idea and when it is not. Style Brushes require painting masks manually which can often lack precision. Aiming for seamless adjustments that combine into striking image is the crucial point for any artistic edit. Watch the video and learn when Style Brushes are beneficial for your landscape images and when you should avoid them.
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[@KasiaZmokla]

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[@brianjones4561]

Hi Kasia, very impressed, thank you, I am new to Capture One ( ex L/room-P/shop) & b4 that fine art black&white darkroom printing. May I respectfully suggest that you increase your curser size & change it to solid white, as it is almost impossible to follow your tiny black one on a black or dark background....looking forward to learning from the next..thanks Kasia from Brian

[@xploremore5366]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make these Capture One tutorial videos. As someone who has just swapped over to C1 from Lightroom, they have really helped me expediate the learning curve.

[@bewithabob]

I’ve been subscribed to your channel for a long while. I enjoy your explanations and appreciate the ability to review them even a year after I first watch them. Thank you!

[@Joliaux76]

This video is very didactic ❤️ the Lula mask explanation is perfect 🙏

[@domfanny]

Just acquired capture one. Great work and great explanations

[@vanholderd]

Another very useful video. Thank you very much

[@KasiaZmokla]

So nice of you

[@randall8496]

Excellent tutorial, Kasia, somewhat more oriented to advanced users this time, which is something often lacking in many online tutorials and greatly appreciated here. That's why I love your channel. Respecting my comments after the last video, where you first introduced style brushes, well, I completely agree (perhaps because I'm equally old school, doubtless even older ;). I concede your point with respect to the strength of the new brushes as well because you've presented here a very good argument in its favor. So I've changed my mind in that respect and will probably leave the default brushes alone. I mentioned before that I was quite excited at first with the new brushes but then calmed down considerably; now I continue towards relative indifference (ditto for speed edits). Like you, I doubt that I will create many custom brushes of my own, if any, except for a basic few that are more consonant with my own customary approach (initial settings regarding dodging and burning, for example) but mostly with an eye to leveraging the welcome linked brushes feature, along with automatic layer creation/naming. That is very convenient and does save us a lot of time, I think (plus using fewer brushes will conserve more space on my little screen). I did begin my earlier comment by mentioning that that was the main game changer for me and not so much the brushes themselves. I'm not a fan of filters, presets or even film simulations in general and almost never use them. Nor do I feel that style brushes should be viewed under quite the same rubric. Like you said, every brush ALWAYS needs to be tweaked, depending on the image. I do that sometimes even among variants, when the only variable is which crop I prefer. That, in turn, often provokes other unrelated changes until every edit is entirely unique. Hell, I still struggle to produce separately two identical edits of the same image. LOL

[@KasiaZmokla]

Thank you for your input Randall! In terms of presets (in C1 - styles) I have a totally different approach. They were one of the main reasons of my switching to C1. I love having instant access to multiple different styles created by some great photographers. I'm an impatient person, so bringing home a new set of photos and trying out several different looks in a few minutes (instead of hours of processing from scratch, moving back and forth) has the power to motivate me and hook in front of the screen for couple of hours. I think I know where are you standing, I had a strongly negative approach towards actions in PS and presets in LR. Right now I'm incorporating styles into my C1 workflow to get new ideas for edits fast (typically in terms of color grading) and to learn how others do that. I might make a video on it soon. Thank you for the email, I got lost in "The Secret History" by Tartt for couple of days, just finished it yesterday. So I'm back and catching up, reply email coming soon!

[@randall8496]

@@KasiaZmokla That's funny, Kasia, because it seems we came to C1 for opposite reasons (although I know, from another video, that you had other good reasons for switching to C1 as well). Unlike many, or yourself, I have no previous experience with Lightroom or any other Adobe product, so I'm not sure why I even used the term 'preset' in the first place. Rather, I started with Luminar 4, which was fun, fast and intuitive at first, because mostly everything was being done for me under the hood, so to speak; and I didn´t know much. Luminar uses the term 'looks' and offers a myriad of canned variations. They were interesting at first, sure (like C1 styles), but soon became distracting, impeded my own individual process, and finally began to annoy me by their very presence (ditto in C1). Like you, I shoot with a Fuji camera (XP3) and leave 'CC' as my default curve for everything, without exception. It seems the most neutral to me and most closely resembles what I see or recall having seen; it is my invariable starting point. From there I might adjust some things but almost never resort to other film curves/styles or experiment much that way. Indeed, I haven't a single button on my camera tied to these baked-in Fuji features, not even within my Quick Menu. I guess that makes me somewhat odd for ignoring much of what makes these cameras so popular in the first place. Ditto for B&W. I came to digital photography with years of darkroom experience in that medium and the presets are for me, frankly, redundant. I simply check the Enable BW Conversion button and proceed from there, knowing exactly what I want from the negative and how to achieve it myself. Unlike you, I suppose, I am very patient, although we are doubtless equally particular. In English, the expression 'each to his own' (common in every language of course) had its original and fuller English form in the phrase, "Each to his own, said the woman who kissed the cow." LOL BTW, in response to your question on another video and to save you time, I´m on a 14" PC laptop with a good touchpad and have a Wacom Intuos CTL4100WLK0 (7.9" X 6.3"). I have no other devices, much less an iPad. Like everything Adobe, I seem to have a similar aversion to everything Mac. The pen and tablet are still sitting idly in my saddlebag, however, waiting for you to rescue them. ;)

[@jasonball2602]

Thank you Kasia for making these tutorials, I very much appreciate it.

[@KasiaZmokla]

You are welcome Jason, more to come soon! 😁

[@TormodMalmgren]

This was really a good advice. Thank you so much for shearing 😀

[@KasiaZmokla]

You are so welcome Tormod!

[@anishdesai995]

Thank you!! You put so much effort into your presentations!!! :)

[@KasiaZmokla]

Happy to hear you enjoy them Anish! ⭐️

[@ruudmaas2480]

Hi Kasia. As always a clear presentation of the possibilities of the tools for landscape photographs. My experience is that dodging and burning with a custom made style brush (based on a luma curve and possibly refined) can generated good results to my liking. But I think it also applies to the photographs that has to be edited. At this moment I am creating a lot of infrared Black and white photographs with a full spectrum converted XT2 camera. So in those photographs the main focus next to general contrast is of course local luminosity adjustments to give more depth to the image. Also some local clarity adjustments. But with standard color photographs I think also the style brush for warming up or cooling down locally can be helpfull. For the rest I fully follow that luminosity masks can give much easier en better results. I would like to see a video concerning the editing of infrared photographs if it is possible.

[@KasiaZmokla]

Thank you for the suggestion Ruud, I've never done any infrared processing before, will check it out. Please share a link to some examples of your processing, curious to see what you are after :)

[@ruudmaas2480]

Hi Kasia on my flickr account when you search with my name Ruud Maas you can find recent uploaded infrared photographs.

[@ruudmaas2480]

Al the infrared photographs are shot with the converted fuji XT2. and processed with Capture one using a curve of across and tweeking the white balance with the white balance picker. Further more I did use the levels tool (to stretch out the histogram), a global contrast layer wth a luminance curve, and some local clarity (mostly structure) and some local dodging and burning with a luminace curve. Finaly using a vignette of negative brightness created with a radial gradient mask. If you want I can send you an EIP file.

[@KasiaZmokla]

@@ruudmaas2480 Ruud thank you for your flickr handle - I've taken a look at your infrared images. They look very interesting, there is this vague feeling about them that something is not quite right, like in a strange dream or a horror movie :) Those dark, heavy skies contrasted with landscapes filled with light create a very bizarre mood. Right now I have multiple opened projects that keep me busy, might jump into the infrared experiment when I manage to finish the current ones. Thank you for sharing the idea and inspiration.

[@ruudmaas2480]

No problem kasia. Look into it when you have the change. Yes it is absolutely another feel of the landscape :)). It gives some mysterous feel🤗🤗

[@3730enrique]

Kasya You have amazing teaching skills and for a non-native English speaker like me understanding your wonderful English is much more easy. Thank you for your videos they are excellent. Regards from Madrid, Spain.

[@KasiaZmokla]

Wow, thank you Enrique! Greetings from Poland :) 🇵🇱

[@randall8496]

De acuerdo, Enrique, y ya que mi lengua materna es el inglés puedo confirmar que el dominio de Kasia del idioma es superior. Es más, su rico acento polaco, según lo expresan los hondureños al menos, pues, es del todo 'delichoso' al oído nativo. :)

[@Robert_Kroeher]

thanxxx for that awesome tips!

[@KasiaZmokla]

You are welcome Robert, enjoy!

[@sonpois]

Is it possible to save a STYLE BRUSH with a LUMA mask? The idea is to be able to save, for example, a HIGHLIGHT RECOVERY LAYER. Amazing tool and we all can't wait for the much delayed MOBILE VERSION (snifsnif) Thanks

[@Pat-als]

Merci !!!

[@KasiaZmokla]

Profitez!