Photoshop User - USA (2020-10)

Company: Phase One

Price: Beyond Film: $49; Beyond B&W: $49;

Beyond Styles Kit: $79

Rating:

Hot: Beautiful results; adjustments can

be edited afterwards; stackable

Not:

Stackable Effects with Lovely Results

Two new style packs are available for Capture One 20: Beyond Film

and Beyond B&W. Both include a collection of preset styles created

with associated grain settings. You can mix the Film and B&W set-

tings with any of the grains, so these styles are not meant to fence

you in. The Beyond packs combined include nine Styles in three

contrast variations and eight Grain Presets. The Beyond Film pack

contains adjustments that make your image warmer or cooler, and

that flatten it or turn it into a high-contrast picture. The Film Styles

are inspired by the most popular Fujifilm and Kodak film stocks.

The Beyond B&W pack offers settings that create soft contrasts

for smooth skin rendition to adjustments that create a dramatic

look with more detail like the one in my photo above.

With Capture One 20’s ability to use Styles and even stack them,

these nine packs give you a lot of creative leeway. It’s important to

understand, however, that stacking Styles isn’t an additive process,

which means that, if two Styles stacked onto each other contain

an identical setting, only the last one will be applied. This allows

you to stack grain on top of a B&W or Film setting, as well as stack

two different packs and obtain slightly different results.

I tried this with a few Styles in the new Beyond Styles and

stacked some of them on top of each other. The results were vis-

ibly different than when I applied one Style only, but not in an

unpleasantly harsh manner, as is often the case when you stack

adjustments in other apps that just add them without any intelli-

gence applied. In both apps, you can still edit the adjustments after

a Style pack has been applied.

The Beyond Film and Beyond B&W Style packs save a lot of time

and open up creative possibilities. You can purchase them individu-

ally, or together in the Beyond Styles Kit. n

Capture One 20

Beyond Fi lm and

B&W Style Packs

Review by Erik Vlietinck

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