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Lightroom preset to capture one4/14/2024 ![]() ![]() The default is RGB mode, and this basically performs Auto-Levels on the combined red green and blue channels at once. To use Auto-Levels in Capture One, simply click on the little magic wand icon in the top corner of the Levels tool panel.Īuto-Levels has two modes. Auto-Levels used to be the goto way of quickly fixing an image in Photoshop many years ago (showing my age here!) and it’s still a useful tool now and then when you just want to quickly adjust the overall brightness and contrast in an image with a single click. There’s another useful feature of the Levels tool, and that’s Auto-Levels. I actually covered this in a previous tutorial, so if you don’t know how to use the levels tool, check it out here. The levels tool can also be useful for fixing things like low contrast images quickly, or photos where the black levels are too high, which can happen with some RAW conversions especially on older cameras due to Capture One’s default tone curve. (It’s not exactly the same, as you can only go one way, but it gives you sort of similar result) ![]() ![]() In Capture One the black and whites sliders work differently than they do in Lightroom, so if you want a similar black and whites adjustment, then you will need to use the levels tool. These are equivalent to the black and white points on a levels tool, except you can adjust them above and below what would be the limits on a normal levels tool. While there isn’t a straight-up levels tool in Lightroom, the black and white sliders sort of do the same thing. Levels is another one of those tools that many Lightroom users will be familiar with (from Photoshop) but probably hardly ever use. While an exposure adjustment will always give a more photographically accurate adjustment, knowing how brightness works is really useful for those occasions when it might work better for what you’re trying to achieve. For the most part, you’ll probably mostly use Exposure and only have to use Brightness now and again, but it’s worth learning about. If you’ve ever had to adjust the exposure on a shot and then had to bring the highlights back down because the exposure adjustment had caused them to blow out, then in this case a brightness adjustment might give you a better result. ![]()
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