How to Create a Custom Preset in Capture One 11

As photographers, we often find ourselves working on multiple photos from the same shoot, trying to achieve a consistent look across all of them. This can be time-consuming and tedious, especially when dealing with varying lighting conditions. Fortunately, Capture One Pro offers a solution to this problem - Smart Styles.

Smart Styles are a feature in Capture One that allows you to create your own custom presets for specific shooting scenarios or genres of photography. These styles use advanced algorithms to analyze faces and skin tones, making adjustments to exposure, white balance, and other settings to give your images a consistent look.

To start creating your own Smart Style, open the Styles tool in Capture One 11. From here, you can select from hundreds of premade styles or create your own by adjusting multiple tools at once. The key benefit of Smart Styles is that they can be applied to one or more images with just one click, saving you hours of editing time.

Another feature of Capture One is Presets. A preset is a pre-made adjustment to a single tool, whereas a style is a saved set of adjustments using multiple tools. This means that a preset can only adjust one specific aspect of an image, such as exposure or color balance, whereas a Smart Style can make complex adjustments across multiple tools.

To create a custom preset in Capture One 11, follow these steps:

1. Open the Presets tool and select the tool you want to adjust (e.g., Exposure).

2. Make your desired adjustments to the selected tool.

3. Click on the 'Create Preset' button at the bottom of the screen.

4. Choose a name for your preset and click 'Save'.

To create a custom Smart Style, follow these steps:

1. Open the Styles tool and select the style you want to base your new style on (e.g., FL-01 from the Film Styles pack).

2. Make adjustments to multiple tools at once using the advanced algorithms in the Smart Adjustments panel.

3. Click on the 'Create Style' button at the bottom of the screen.

4. Choose a name for your style and click 'Save'.

Once you have created your custom preset or Smart Style, you can access it instantly from the Presets tool or Styles tool, respectively. This allows you to apply your desired look to multiple images with just one click, saving you time and effort.

In conclusion, Capture One 11 offers a range of features that make editing easier and faster. By creating custom presets and Smart Styles, photographers can achieve a consistent look across their images, whether they are shooting in studio or on location. With the ability to save hundreds of premade styles and create your own, you can edit different types of photos within all genres and take your photography to the next level.

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