Capture One Pro Tips - Editing the Night Sky, Stars & Milky Way

[@keilacanteros1]

Good and straight to the point.

[@ThatGuyInVegas]

Been watching a load of tutorials over the last 3 months, yours hands down are the best and most thorough, explaining what each tool does, very, very helpful.

[@colindee5677]

An excellent tutorial, deserves more likes!

[@Paul_anderson_creative]

Quality. Pure and simple...

[@doL96437]

Amazing video! Loads of great content

[@pdvelasco]

Great Tutorial Paul - Learned a lot! Thank you

[@mexmax1657]

I love your Tutorials. Exactly what I was searching for.

[@neilsimpson8687]

Thank you, Paul. I really like your style of presentation, I find it refreshingly matter of fact and pragmatic and easy to understand and retain. I've not dabbled too much into astro photography but with the help of this tutorial I was able to take some half decent images of comet Nowise. More importantly, I was able to re edit some Milky Way images taken from my mums garden in the New Forest (UK) in 2014 and they now look more like the actual experience of viewing the Milky Way from her garden.

[@Paulreiffer]

Great stuff Neil - glad to hear it was useful!

[@captainheelhook]

Superb video! I rarely learned that much especially about how some tools are working in particular and how they differ from each other 🙏🏼 Keep up the work!

[@Paulreiffer]

Capture One's very much like a cake - the "just add water" solutions are nowhere near as good as when you make something properly from all the best ingredients 😉

[@Zwiesel66]

Thank you for your great C1 tutorials, I am looking forward to try out your tips.

[@AmruthKailas]

Really helpful 👍🏼

[@Vemovemo1]

Amazing as always, thank you!

[@cartercooperpa]

Thanks can't wait to try this!

[@kevinmclin8263]

I will be playing around putting some of this to use on comet shots. Thanks much!

[@lemiwings100]

Amazing!

[@matth4846]

This is a great tutorial! - I learned so much in a short time. Thanks...

[@marcosreyes1779]

Great tutorial. Thanks for this interesant video.

[@walterreichert5334]

Thanks!

[@WMedl]

Very informative. Though I do rarely shoot the sky at night I learned a lot of the exposure tab tools. And the video is withaut ado and glamrous vanities and egomanic airs!

[@Paulreiffer]

Ha ha - yeah, no room for egos when we're learning :-)

[@GeorgeENorkus]

When you said to try and use less than 30 seconds of exposure time, I chuckled. Several Pentax cameras, (K1 and K3 for example) already have an astro ability. That lets those cameras take up to around five min of exposure. Other manufacturers are starting to follow suit

[@Paulreiffer]

Different use case. Set up on a star tracker - ideally you'd want even more than that - but on a static tripod, as a single exposure, any more than 30s will deliver trails. (Of course, with a tracker, your foreground blurs so you're instantly into compositing several images together too).

[@josediazh3890]

Muchas gracias

[@jehudale2349]

With your hints to contrast I just tried something different: First I increase the exposure so that the curve is in the middle of the histogram for contrast to work best, then I set the contrast to what I like. After that I add a filled layer and on that layer I reduce the exposure. That works for me. I have a long exposure picture which was taken with moonlight so it's not pure dark sky. I tried your approach by using levels and used the clarity tool but I could not get the result I wanted. With the method of first increasing exposure, working with contrast and lowering exposure it works. Have you tried this or can you give a hint on maybe why not to do it that way? Thanks for this helpful video, Paul!

[@slawomirsobiecki3564]

Can I use them tricks with photos done using telescope? Let's say nebula pictures?

[@Paulreiffer]

For sure - same principles :-)

[@ventroart3088]

Capture One is the worth programm ever, they offer a trial to use but after you create account it says that your trial is already expired, but account doesn't have any order history, it's new and clean, cause I found this only thanks to this youtube video, so bad piar comapny

[@Paulreiffer]

That *sounds* like you've already had a free trial on that system, which the licensing code remembers (not just your account). Only 1 free trial of any version, per person/system - quite normal if that's the case. :-) If not, and this is your first ever trial on the current version, just drop a note to the support team and I'm sure they'll get you sorted out!