Enhance skin tones within Capture One

1 Find the skin tones in the shot Open the Colour Editor. You will be presented with three options: Basic, Advanced and Skin Tone. Select Skin Tone and you will see a blank circle, with all sliders also blank. In the bottom-right hand corner, select the colour drop tool; it will turn orange to indicate its active status. Now you can click on your subject’s skin in your photo.

2 Your selected colour range If that went to plan, your blank circle will now have sprung into life, with multiple colours showing around the edge, and a ‘cheese wedge’ section in the middle. Your sliders will now have also become highlighted and editable, beginning at a base level of zero.

3 Make your final adjustments You now have two sets of three sliders: Amount and Uniformity. The trick with these is to try to smooth everything out, but not so smooth it begins to look fake or plastic. As I edit I have my before/after tool toggled on, to allow me to see changes as they happen. I begin by reducing Smoothness to

11, then Hue to -3.4 to lose the yellow tint in the skin. Saturation lifts to 13.1, and Lightness to 4.3. Finally in Uniformity: Hue 54.2, Saturation 52.3, Lightness 11.