NextGen Styles for Capture One - Adjust the White Balance Automatically and Apply AI Color Gradings

Today, I'm going to reveal something I've been working on for the past year, and it's the result of numerous color grading experiments!
I've created a set of NextGen Styles that automatically adjust the white balance of your images to make them look natural!
Download 5 sample styles free of charge - alexonraw.com/...
There are styles for portraits, landscapes, travel photography, and outdoor events.
Plus, you can easily mix NextGen styles with your regular styles. Just turn on the Stack Styles feature, apply a NextGen style to adjust the white balance, and then use a standard style with color grading.
Now, you might have a question:
Do they work better than Auto White Balance? In many cases, yes!
Let's take this shot:
The original white balance is obviously too cold, but the auto adjustment makes the color even worse:
Now, let's try the Natural Smart White Balance style:
The resulting color looks way more accurate and natural!
Or let's take this portrait and auto-adjust the white balance:
Again, the result is not entirely accurate.
Let's compare it with the Cool Smart White Balance style:
The NextGen style applies natural and clear colors in a single click!
Now, a sample landscape!
The auto White Balance makes it a little cooler than it should be:
The Neutral Landscape style provides warmer and more realistic colors. However, if you prefer a cooler look, you can apply the Cool Landscape style.
For some images, it makes sense to experiment with different Smart Styles - for example, the Neutral Landscape style can also set an accurate white balance for some portraits.
Best of all, you can try these styles free of charge - just go to AlexOnRAW.com/next and download 5 free styles from the new NextGen style set.
The complete set includes over 100 styles designed to take full advantage of Capture One's AI capabilities.
For instance, I have developed Smart White Balance styles that also apply image tone adjustments. Here, I'm going to adjust the White Balance and set a classical desaturated contrast in a single click, like this:
Image tone adjustments appear as a new layer, so you can easily adjust their effect.
BTW, you can assign shortcuts to your favorite styles to make one-click adjustments:
To unlock the full potential of Capture One's AI tools, I have developed NextGen styles that contain AI masks and color grading. Now, you can easily apply color correction to the image subject or background.
First, adjust the white balance using one of the smart white balance styles.
Next, choose AI Subject or Background style, and Capture One will automatically create an AI mask with the selected color grading.
Okay, let's edit another portrait. Again, the auto white balance isn't helping, so I'm going to use one of my smart white balance styles. Nice!
By the way, there is no way to preview an AI style, so I prepared separate preview styles to easily evaluate color gradings.
Here I want to tone the background in green using the Light Green style. For the skin tone, I would prefer a more vibrant color; let's apply the Sunny Portrait style. I think it makes sense to reduce the effect of the style a bit; perfect. Let's compare before and after.
Finally, the NextGet Style set includes AI Visual Accent styles that allow you to draw the viewer's attention to the right place in your image.
For example, you can easily add Clarity to the subject to add depth and dimension. Or you can focus viewers' attention by desaturating the image background.
Now let's see how all these styles work together!
Let's take this shot, and first of all, we have an incorrect white balance here. I'm going to apply my Natural Smart White Balance style. Okay, looks much better!
Next, I need a nice color grading for the main subject. Let's try the Warm Film Look. Capture One automatically created a subject mask and applied the color grading.
Since an AI layer is a regular layer, we can easily adjust the opacity to slightly reduce the effect of the style, like this.
Now, for the background, I want to add a little color contrast here, so I'm going to use the Warm-Cool Contrast style.
Finally, let's increase the depth of the image.
First, I'm going to recover the highlights on the background, like this, nice.
Now I'm going to add Clarity to the background. Perfect, let's compare before and after.
So, with a few clicks, we have unlocked the full potential of this RAW.
As you can see, our editing is layered, and we have full control over it.

[@chrissallis5222]

The white balance styles are awesome I’ve thrown some really challenging images at them and somehow they just work

[@AlexOnRAW]

Thank you, Chris!

[@brianrolfe8128]

I just bought these without even trying the free ones and I'm very impressed! I tried them on my toughest images that I knew had problem WB and they're so good! What a time saver!! Coupled with the rest of the styles you get this is going to make life so much easier!

[@AlexOnRAW]

Thank you, Brian!

[@adamfahlund]

Man I can’t believe it took me this long to find your content, hands down the best and most in depth C1 instruction I’ve seen and I work with digital techs

[@AlexOnRAW]

Thank you, Adam!

[@theguyfromchelsea]

Impressive! Way to go Alex. 🎉

[@StevenCress]

I'm curious how Smart White Balance works. If I ever update to the newest Capture One, I might have to try these.

[@miguelangelmunagorrietxabe5773]

I usually work with a linear color profile, are these styles effective with that color profile? . In order to buy with the discount, do I have to enter a discount code? Thanks for your work

[@AlexOnRAW]

I haven't tested the NextGen styles with the Linear curve, but I think they might work pretty well with it. Feel free to download 5 sample styles and test them with your images! Discount is applied by default, no code required.

[@miguelangelmunagorrietxabe5773]

@@AlexOnRAW thankas a lot

[@FitzMichael]

got the pack and downloaded will see

[@antonioyanez9009]

What do you think? Does it white balance like how he showed?

[@AlexOnRAW]

Feel free to try 5 styles free of charge - alexonraw.com/capture-one-ai-styles-nextgen-presets/

[@chrissallis5222]

Yes the white balance works as it showed. I’ve spent 2 hours trying to trick them with alsorts of images from weddings, portraits, to neon light lit images and they hit the skin tone every time. One image I wasn’t 100% liking the portrait wb so I hit landscape neutral and that fixed that one instantly

[@naterosser5760]

Does these work on the iPad

[@AlexOnRAW]

Unfortunately, Capture One for iPad doesn't yet support Smart Adjustments and AI Masks. But when the developers add support for these tools, the styles should work on iPad as well.

[@pillubarn]

video says early bird is USD 29.99 but site says EUR 36

[@AlexOnRAW]

If you're in the EU, VAT will be added. You can enter your VAT number during the purchase process to avoid paying VAT.

[@pillubarn]

@@AlexOnRAW I did but it still cost me approx 29EUR which is more than USD 29.90 but it's not something that makes it a dealbreaker, I bought it as I am looking for a more efficient workflow for weddings where I typically shoot around 5k images. Will be interesting to see if I can use these to make things faster

[@AlexOnRAW]

​@@pillubarn Thank you for your purchase! Unfortunately, the exchange rate is set by my payment system (FastSpring). It's the same payment system used by Capture One, so I think it's common practice for the exchange rate to differ slightly from the official rate.

[@stevesharkey3312]

Look great BUT it's not really "fair" in this video comparing the single click in Capture One with your selecting one of several Next Gen styles - that's not a like-for-like comparison.

[@AlexOnRAW]

Hi Steve, thanks for the comment! Since Auto WB in Capture One has one option only, there is no other way to compare it. What would you consider a more fair comparison?

[@stevesharkey3312]

@@AlexOnRAW I think for a "fair" comparison you need to pick your one default white balance style and apply just that one to the 100 photos and compare with what C1s one method achieves. I feel confident your style would also win that comparison.

[@AlexOnRAW]

@@stevesharkey3312 The point of this video is to show the customer what they are getting for their money. If I'm going to ignore 9 out of 10 of my styles, how are customers going to see what they're paying for?

[@user-vr4tf3pm4s]

Здравствуйте, Александр! Как скачать из России?

[@AlexOnRAW]

Добрый день, напишите мне на [e-mail], пожалуйста.