Video: How to Fix a Burnt out Sky in Capture One
In this video I look at how to fix a burnt out sky, that you can’t recover with the highlights recovery or by adjusting exposure, in Capture One. Sometimes if your image is slightly overexposed, or if you’re photographing a high contrast scene you may come across a situation where the highlights are clipped and you can’t recover them. There is still a fairly easy way to fix the problem though, and in this video I show you how.
This technique uses the Luminance masking feature of Capture One Pro 12 to select just the brightest areas of the scene and the colour balance tool to colour correct it to a shade that matches what the sky should look like. This also works for other situations with unrecoverable clipped highlights too. It doesn’t ave to be just skies, although obviously you would use a different colour for the correction layer.
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