Capture One soft proof adjustment technique

[Majohnson]

I am new to Capture One and am trying to find a similar workflow to the one I use in Lightroom.

In Lightroom, I evaluate my print in softproofing and dependent on the out of gamut warnings, i choose between relative and perceptual rendering intents and then make paper specific adjustments.

I can see in Capture One that I can use process recipes but I can see no way to change the rendering intent other than in preferences. Am I missing something with regards the rendering intent or do I need to just do it in preferences?

Regards
Mark

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

I can see in Capture One that I can use process recipes but I can see no way to change the rendering intent other than in preferences. Am I missing something with regards the rendering intent or do I need to just do it in preferences?

Hi Mark,

AFAIK, you can only change the rendering intent in the preferences setup.

I can understand what you are trying to achieve, but do try the very powerful Advanced Color Editor. It will allow tweaking your image colors so that they better fit into the gamut you are distributing the colors and tones in, and in the way you prefer. What's more, in that tool, you can turn the settings into a new ICC profile that you can use when importing similar images or subject matter.

Alternatively, you can create Styles to apply multiple default settings at the same time, even upon importing the raw files.

That will allow optimizing the use of either Perceptual or Relative Colorimetric rendering intents, with your specific types of image subjects, so that the need to switch between them is reduced.

Cheers,
Bart

[Majohnson]

Thank you Bart, for your response.

What you say makes sense and I will take that into account going forward.
It is taking me awhile to get used to Capture One but I am slowly being converted.
I particularly enjoy being able to use the advanced colour, curves and levels in my adjustment layers!

Regards
Mark

[LeonD]

Not sure if this is helpful but there is a rendering intent option in the print dialog box.

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Not sure if this is helpful but there is a rendering intent option in the print dialog box.

Good point Leon, assuming one is printing from Capture One or uses the print dialog proofing for editing instead of printing.

One of the nice features of Capture One is that one can create adjustment layers, and those can be specific for a certain output medium/gamut/rendering intent.

Cheers,
Bart