Get BETTER Black and White Photos with Capture One

Capture One gives you an amazing amount of control when converting your images to black and white. Rather than just de-saturating the image, Capture One gives you access to color sensitivity sliders which allows you to control the light and dark areas of the image by their original color regions. Capture One also gives you access to split toning. This allows you to apply tonal colors to both the highlights and shadows much like you have in analog printing processes.

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Ted Forbes
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[TEEJAYMOVIES]

Dear Ted - Fantastic video like always. Watching you since the very first days. Both our hair turned into gray without any filters. Stay curious, loving it.

[CanadianArchivist]

I love black and white. Your example of changing the image with the sliders for each separate colour.

When I studied black and white with film years ago, we used colour filters on the end of the lens. Darken skies, use red or yellow. Same concept. Digital cameras do have the option of shooting in monochrome, so anyone doing this, have to remember to change the camera back to colour and remove filters in the lens. Or use the software
As you mentioned, different toners for the darkroom. It’s a craft. You can really create some amazing moods and dramatic images.

Love this video. You are always so informative

[HDBerlin]

P20 pro user here who loves starting with a dedicated B&W lens. You start seeing objects differently than with a colour lens. Great ideas, thanks!

[sbai]

As someone who has created Sepia prints from Black and White Film, thanks to you Ted. I loved the Artist Series and your videos on the issues that affect all of us in this wonderful craft of photography. Thanks again.

[JaredTremper]

Very helpful! I’ve used C1 for a few years, but this clarifies the power of monochrome manipulation. Thanks for this!!

[romiemiller]

You can use red, yellow, and blue filters on the lens with black & white film. That kinda sorta does the same thing. Also, I'm a huge fan of Capture One. * Like you, my early film work was about 90% B/W.

[gpdoyon]

Ted, thank you very much for using several different photo editing applications. As my interest in photography has grown I've used Photoshop, Lightroom, Luminar and now Capture one. I appreciate your learning all of them and providing instructional videos of them that helped me in my growth / transition.

[ill]

Thank you. Your tutorial helped me with color photos of nice, grey clouds. The color wasn't working, so I decided to try black and white (grey tones 😂). I like it. So, yes, thank you!

[KennethDillard]

I really dig that "Spilt Tones" section. It opens up whole new possibilities.

[garethdwatkins]

Hi there,
I have used the b&w setting from time to time, (used this process all the time in Camera Raw, when using Adobe) but generally in the Xpro2 I prefer to use the Fuji b&w presets as a basis. I can then work on dynamic range, dropping the highlights boosting the shadows, and adding some clarity...
I at time bring the brightness down and boost the shadows to get a really gritty b&w look reminiscent of say grade 4 paper..
For the most part Acros with a R filter gives a great starting point...

[philipshucet]

Ted, thanks for another CaptureOne tutorial. This one is right down my alley. I only see muted colors, so my workflow includes converting the raw image to black and white. But so far I’ve only used the saturation slider in the exposure tab. I’m going to give a go at working with the bw palette in the color tab. Keep up the good work!

[MinerDolan]

Thanks Ted! I have been relying WAY too much on the Acros film simulation (fantastic, btw) because I didn't feel comfortable learning the complexities of editing B&W with purpose. This definitely makes it easier to understand how to use the color mix sliders.

[savagefrieze]

You r timing is practically perfect... I’ve been playing with these sliders lately.. fun! Thanks.

[TheCwboyWay]

You're right about the power of photographing in color first. I have full control over the image!

[davidromano]

In addition to what he says here, you can also use the saturation slider and white balance . All the color editing tools still work. I do a lot of black and white images, much of it with skin tones. The red slider is great for minimizing blemishes. The yellow slider can be used to add depth to the skin. A common setting that I use is 35 for both red and yellow, and it gives me a nice glowing skin. By increasing the saturation of the image you get better color separation and therefore better control over the different individual colors. Also, I would advise not moving a slider all the way to the left or right, strange things can start to happen at edges when the sliders get too far away from zero

[jenethompsonart]

🤔 makes sense to use colors to change effects in the capture. When I use my yellow filter with black and white film it enhances skin tones and red my red filter deepens tones like the sky, etc. Great video!

[magnuswidqvist]

Brilliant video! Thank you.
As one who was very much into lith-printing, but no longer have access to a darkroom, this was a godsend! Now I might be able to replicate those coarse black shadows and those delicate peach and golden highlights.

[christianpetersen]

Thanks Ted. I have very recently moved from Lightroom to Capture One because CO processes the Fuji RAW images like Fuji processes its JPEGS in-camera by default. They can of course be edited further in CO.
Some interesting ideas here especially re the split toning thanks again.

[Sailingbill]

Super helpful man! Thank you. You brought clarity to a struggle. Love this tool but unless you use it on a regular basis you forget basics.

[valdiskrebs]

Very instructive, thanks. I like to see monochrome in my live view before taking the picture.
This makes a good argument for shooting monochrome in JPG + RAW!