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. I think the main pitch was to persuade potential buyers that having a vast selection of styles available was a justification for purchasing the software even though they would be unlikely to use most of what was offered.Like other photo-editing applications, Capture One offers one-click preset image effects, which it calls ‘Styles’. However, in all cases a lot of scrolling was evident (quantity of styles being important for sales?) even though the presenter, using his own images, almost always used exactly the same 2 or 3 styles for all of his images no matter what the content subject matter. I recall, perhaps a decade or more past, watching some sales video guides for a different product that offered a huge number of styles. It seems to me that the Built-in and Paid-for packs would need to be offered just as they are and it should be left to the user to turn them into User Styles and Presets, sitting alongside their own Styles, in order to manage how they are grouped (and, as now, permit multiple copies of the same Style or Preset to make grouping in preferred "sets" simpler? Also to provide consistent use of the Keyboard Shortcut feature.) (I am not sure as I do not have any paid for Packs.) The same goes for Style Packs with the difference that, potentially, they would bot be automatically updates with each update or version upgrade.
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(There may be some issues about managing those styles and who has the rights to modify them if working in a Multi-User environment but that probably goes beyond the scope being discussed here.)įor Built in styles that are not copied to be User styles one can still modify the structure (i.e the Style Sets groups) used for delivery as part of the application installation BUT as the next new installation the styles and presets will be re-installed (potentially with some updates for functional compatibility reasons).
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However, as a thought challenge for how to work with a development design, there are certain considerations.įor User Styles (including copies of Built in styles and presets, as Okular has previously described) there is already the possibility to create and save a folder structure containing the required styles.
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I'm not a great Styles user so this does not really concern me much.