White background with Capture One
How do you do it?
I'm still using Capture One 12, and it works great!
1. Use the color readout to see if the background is really 255 (chances are it is not, or you'd be flaring your subject)
2. Note the falloff towards the edges of your background.
3. Make a new filled layer.
4. Move the top-right point of the curve to the left, bringing all points of the background to 255.
5 & 6. Erase the mask on your subject to return them to normal (leaving only the background as the thing adjusted)
7. Make a new empty layer to address the outer corners of the background.
8. Move the top-right point of the curve a lot to the left. This will make sure that new layer is 255 white.
9 & 10. Draw in the mask for this new layer where the background needs to be fixed.
This is how I do it in Photoshop
https://headshotcrew.com/post/359636
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the final white background
Thank you, Scott, I appreciate you taking the time to post this! I book mark all your posts
Thank you Scott, this a super helpful, I appreciate you taking the time to post this!
Thanks Scott - very helpful - it's easy to go overboard with just one layer, where smaller adjustments can keep adjustments just where they are needed. I've done this on faces, but hadn't applied to backgrounds yet.
I've done multiple curve layers for the background if the hair is super tricky. It seemed to reduce the need for super refined masks.
On faces? In what way? Highlights/shadows? I'd love to hear your process.
I just worked on this headshot, and after applying some of the new moves, her cheeks and top of her face were nicely saturated, but her chin was undersaturated, and her nose a little too saturated, to I made masks and applied them to different vibrance/saturation layers in PS, and adjusted to make it look more consistent. I've noticed this in several photos where my clients had darker skin, that chins seem to be less saturated (could be my lights, I suppose). I used to try one layer, and using different amounts in the mask layer to do this, but that's way more difficult, compared to multiple layers.
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