About Thomas Fitzgerald

Thomas is a professional fine art photographer and writer specialising in photography related instructional books as well as travel writing and street photography. 

New Video: Enhancing a Photo in Capture One from Start to Finish

New Video: Enhancing a Photo in Capture One from Start to Finish

In this video tutorial I show you my editing process on an image in Capture One. While the photo is fairly good to start off, I wanted to enhance it further including tweaking the colour and doing some selective editing.

I started off by tweaking the crop of the image and then the colour of the photo using the colour editor. I then went on to add a controlled vignette using the gradient tool and a masked layer. Finally I added some sharpening to the bee to really make it stand out. Incidentally, for those wondering, this was shot using a Fuji X-Pro 2 and a Nikon 100mm macro lens (via adaptor). Here’s the before and after photos:

Click on the photos above to view large and use the arrows to do a comparison


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