I hate to post this in the Medium Format section, and Admin's can move it. However I don't feel that the "software" section on this forum gets a lot of traffic.
Point of my post is that if you have not looked at the masking toolset in Capture One in a few years or so, you really need to review it. Reasons:
1. Auto mask in general has become much more useable for finer detail demarcation like tree limbs,,
2. The Luma adjustment is just amazing as how it allows you to fine turn an existing mask
3. The color selection into a mask is also much more detailed and accurate than it used to be.
Example of this, working a truss railroad bridge, I wanted to select just the bridge and with the combination of color selection and Luma adjustments, you can get a very accurate mask with no luma overlap
4. Combination of the above, work with several of these tools to get the best mask for the scene
5. Invert mask, which can be tricky, (you may need to rasterize the mask before inversion) can save a lot time.
6. Auto mask's ability to mask a skyline against a distant tree line is really impressive. Might need fine tuning at times but most times nails it.
The only issues I have are on a current 64GB MacPro, with 6 core 3.5 Zeon and 2 Radeon card, with larger IQ3 and IQ4 files the more tools you use, the longer C1 will take, but the wait is worth it. It works within normal times for D850 Z7 files, but will choke a bit on a IQ4 image and I really hope Phase can improve this processing time as many photographer may pass on it due to the times it can take.
I have moved back from LR for most of my Fuji and all my Phase files due to really impressive layering support along with masking power.
Just wanted to post this for others who may not have used the masking in C12, it's really worth looking into it.
Paul C
Point of my post is that if you have not looked at the masking toolset in Capture One in a few years or so, you really need to review it. Reasons:
1. Auto mask in general has become much more useable for finer detail demarcation like tree limbs,,
2. The Luma adjustment is just amazing as how it allows you to fine turn an existing mask
3. The color selection into a mask is also much more detailed and accurate than it used to be.
Example of this, working a truss railroad bridge, I wanted to select just the bridge and with the combination of color selection and Luma adjustments, you can get a very accurate mask with no luma overlap
4. Combination of the above, work with several of these tools to get the best mask for the scene
5. Invert mask, which can be tricky, (you may need to rasterize the mask before inversion) can save a lot time.
6. Auto mask's ability to mask a skyline against a distant tree line is really impressive. Might need fine tuning at times but most times nails it.
The only issues I have are on a current 64GB MacPro, with 6 core 3.5 Zeon and 2 Radeon card, with larger IQ3 and IQ4 files the more tools you use, the longer C1 will take, but the wait is worth it. It works within normal times for D850 Z7 files, but will choke a bit on a IQ4 image and I really hope Phase can improve this processing time as many photographer may pass on it due to the times it can take.
I have moved back from LR for most of my Fuji and all my Phase files due to really impressive layering support along with masking power.
Just wanted to post this for others who may not have used the masking in C12, it's really worth looking into it.
Paul C
