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MORE OF THE IMMEDIATELY IMPRESSIVE
THINGS
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by right-clicking on the main image, you get an enlarged
circle which you can slide over the image to give you a detailed
portion. This tool makes it easier to correct WB or check
for over-exposure, since you see the RGB values of any area
you enlarge as you move your pointer around.
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the process window gives you the estimated time it
will take to finish a batch, and a percentage indication of
how far the batch processing has gone.
The two main windows that you'll be using to edit RAW files
will be EXPOSURE, and WHITE BALANCE.
That's why it's a pity that you have to hit tabs to move between
these two screens, for every image. It's poor ergonomic design.
You could use the short-cut keys (F3 and F4, or Alt-C and
Cntl-E) to move between the tabs as you edit sequences of
images, but ideally I would've preferred these controls available
on a single palette.
That
said, the controls for Exposure and White Balance are plentiful,
and easy to understand. Here's what the White Balance tab
looks like, with the drop-down menu to show the options. The
colour wheel is an excellent tool as well, for fine-tuning
white balance / colour balance. (Of course, you have calibrated
your monitor !?)
For
WB correction, you have an eye-dropper tool, as well as two
small panes where the white balance is compared as a kind
of before and after, to see what the WB would be like if you
chose that specific area. (They are obscured in the screen
capture below, but can be seen in the previous screen capture.)
An
interesting feature of Capture One, is where different film
curves can be applied, giving you options as to whether you
want to favour highlight or shadow detail.
Contrast
and Saturation are also changed within the Exposure
tab.
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