You can access Presets instantly directly from the tool itself. However, in Capture One, a Preset is a pre-made adjustment to a single tool. People who are familiar with other editing software might know this as a preset. What is the difference between a Style and a Preset?Īs mentioned, a Style is a saved set of adjustments using multiple tools. A Style can include as many adjustments as you like, thus enabling photographers to create an extensive bank of ready-to-use adjustments for any workflow. What exactly is a Style?Ī Style in Capture One is a set of pre-made adjustments that you can apply to one or more images with a single click. In this guide, we’ll take you through what Styles are, how to use them, the difference between Styles and Presets, and some tips to get you started, save time, and take your photography to the next level. With hundreds of premade Styles available and the ability to make and save your Styles, you can edit different types of photos within all genres to easily get a consistent look and save hours as you create the perfect image. If you also want to see these adjustments coming from a certain Preset, you should check the “include style layers” checkbox on the top of the Clipping board.Capture One Styles and Presets are easy ways to give your images the look you want or get to a good starting point for your editing with just one click. This operation will ensure the right settings are applied. If you want to apply the corrections to other images, you can just copy the settings to the Clipping board and apply them to the selected images. To remove a stacked Preset, you can either click on the Preset again or use the remove option found when pressing the triangle in the “Applied … Presets” list. If you stack Presets where the individual parameters are not independent, the last Preset you add will be the one that takes effect. By stacking these Presets, we combine them within a single tool giving you a nice color look, reminiscent of the early days of color films.
Now you can select the Preset “Exposure +1/3” as well as the Preset “Old Colors”. Now a check mark indicates that stacking is turned on. Start by selecting the “Stack Presets” menu. I name this Preset “Old Colors”.īy default, the “Stack Presets” is turned off. I save this Preset and make sure that only contrast and saturation are selected in the save dialog. I set the contrast to +18 and the saturation to -56. Next, I will generate a Preset giving the look and feel of old color films. This is important, as I will later combine this Preset with Presets using contrast and exposure.
As the exposure is the only change, it is the only item that has been checked in the save dialog. I set the exposure compensation to 0.33 and press “Save User Preset” in the Manage and Apply drop-down menu. To show how you can stack Presets within a single tool, I will create two different adjustment Presets which I will combine by allowing Capture One to stack Presets.įirst, I will create an Exposure adjustment Preset pushing the exposure by 1/3 f-stop. You can stack this Preset with a Preset that turns your image into a square crop format and with a Preset that adds some general color corrections. When working with Styles, it makes a lot of sense to be able to stack Styles or Presets as they may come from different tools dealing with separate issues.įor instance, you can make a Preset that adds some basic metadata to your images like ‘creator’ and ‘copyright’. But what happens in case of two or more conflicting adjustments? Which will be saved and which will be overridden?įor each tool, you decide whether you will allow stacking of Presets, and as long as two Presets do not conflict with each other, it makes sense to stack them within a single tool.įor Styles, you also have the option of stacking. Without the stacking option you would only be able to apply one Style or Preset to each image and trying to apply a second one would remove the previous.īut with stacking enabled, you can mix and match several of these pre-configured adjustments. In Capture One you have the option of combining several Styles and Presets in one image. To learn more about our latest version, click here. NOTE: This article discusses an outdated version of Capture One.