Creating great black-and-white images - Capture One Pro Tutorial

- [Instructor] One of the areas that Capture One Pro excels at is converting images to black and white. I'm going to show you a few of my favorite tricks right now. All right, so we're going to convert this shot here to black and white. Believe it or not, we come to the color tab. That's where the black and white panel is. It makes perfect sense, doesn't it? And I could just check this box, enable black and white, and it's going to look really good, almost every time, right out of the shoot. You could stop right there. Now, if you wanted to, you could continue to play with the different sliders to change the appearance of the black and white. But, I have another way that I'm going to suggest over that, which is come up to where the three lines are right there. And you have all of these presets. Now there's three different types of presets. These color presets are referring to mainly film and film filters. So, like, when we look at the red yellow here, that's like putting a red yellow filter over the lens. So, red and yellow filter over the lens to influence how the black and white shot looks. Down here, we have split toning, and that's where one tone is applied to the highlights, and the other tone is applied to the shadow areas to create this look that can sometimes be absolutely beautiful. Now, people will still perceive this as a black and white shot, even though it's split toned, but it sometimes lends a little bit more warmth or a little more coolness depending on the mood that you want to convey to the image. And then we have this straight toning down here and this is a single color tone that, again, influences how people perceive the mood of the shot, all that kind of stuff. So, you have all of these down here and you can just pick what you want. Now, you can continue to play with it, although you probably won't need to. So, for this shot, I'm going to go with the red yellow too. I like it because of the way it lightens his face a bit. See. I like the face a little bit lighter. So, we're going to go with that right there. Already, we're in pretty good shape, but there's another trick, and we got to go over to the details tab to use it. Down here, we have film grain, and film grain is a nice touch to black and white shots. So it really gives it that toothy, kind of gritty black and white feel that we want. But you have all sorts of different types of film grain to choose from. We have fine, silver rich, soft grain, cubic grain, tabular, and harsh. I really like silver rich. That reminds me of traditional black and white films, such as Tri-X. And I can do the impact here. Now, one of the things that adding grain does, and we have the size, the granularity too. One of the things that adding film grain does is sometimes it increases the perceived sharpness of the image as well. That's a little too much for me. We can zoom in on this here. Just hit the Z key to bring up the magnifier. Come in here. It really enhances the sharpness of the image as well. Now, that may be too much grain for you or the wrong type of grain. So we could do something like fine grain, which is, that's very nice, even at this high impact level. Maybe back that off a bit. Isn't that beautiful? I mean, really. That is a beautiful shot. I'm going to hold down the space bar so I can reposition just a little bit. That is a gorgeous black and white shot that was converted this way in Capture One Pro, even though it just started out as a regular, old digital image. So keep this in your back pocket. Both parts of it. Go to the color tab for the black and white. Don't forget about all these wonderful presets that we have here. And then after you do that, finish it off by going over to film grain. Oops, did I undo? I undid mine. Come back, come back! I know where I was. I was down here at red yellow. I like that one right there. There we go. And then finish it off by going over to the details tab and adding a little bit of grain, and make yourself a beautiful black and white image.