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Saving and reusing adjustments with Styles and Presets
Styles and Presets in Capture One Pro are a great
way to save specific adjustments which can then be
reused later with a single mouse click. A Preset only
contains the adjustments for a specific tool, so as
an exam- ple, the Exposure tool and the Curve tool
will save their own separate sets of Presets. Styles,
on the other hand, contain all the adjustments from
the different tools. You can think of Styles as a
collection of Presets.
Remember that Capture One Pro is using a non-de-
structive workflow which means that you can
always tweak any adjustment that has been applied
with a Preset or Style. As we will explore later in this
chapter, you can also combine several Styles and/
or Presets with the Stack Styles feature, so keep in
mind that you’re not constrained to using only one
Preset or Style set at a time.
Applying Styles and Presets
The Styles and Presets tool in the Adjustments Tool
Tab gives a nice overview of all the available Styles
and Presets. They are organizedin four groups; by
Styles and Presets respectively, and by the built-in
that ships with Capture One Pro and those you have
created and saved yourself. Note that all the Presets
are organized by tool.
Applying a Style or Preset is as simple as clicking
on the one you want, and it can be deselected
again by a second click. Notice how you can hover
the mouse over a Style or Preset and see an ex-
ample of the effect on the selected images in the
Viewer and Browser. Once a Style or Preset has
been selected, it will appear in a list at the top of
the tool. A Preset is denoted with a hamburger icon
while a Style is indicated with a brush icon.
You open and close a group by clicking on the
arrow in front of its name or by double-clicking on
the group name. A very handy keyboard short- cut
is that a whole group can be expanded or collapsed
at once by hold- ing Alt down while clicking on a
group name.
Note that if you want to apply a Style or Preset to
more than one image, you need to make sure the
Edit All Selected Variants command is enabled in
the Edit menu or make sure that the corresponding
icon in the main Toolbar is active with an orange color.
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Using Stacked Styles or Presets
You can combine more than one Style or Preset
by using the Stack Styles feature. This is enabled
by clicking on the options drop-down menu in the
Styles and Presets tool and making sure the Stack
Styles is selected.
This ensures that you get a predictable outcome
when applying conflict- ing adjustments, so just
keep in mind what order you apply the Styles and
Presets in. Also, remember that you can always
readjust anything in Capture One Pro, so no harm is
ever done.
Note that the Stack Preset option works inde-
pendently in each tool that supports Presets.
This means that you can enable the feature in the
Exposure tool and stack adjustments here even if
the Stack Preset option is disabled in the Levels
tool, as an example.

Once it is enabled, the selected Styles and presets

will be added on top of the others as noted in the
list at the top of the Styles and Presets tool.

The order in the list is very important; if two Styles
or Presets are trying to apply the same adjustment,
like adding some Saturation, there is a conflict, and
the top listed Style or Preset takes precedence.
Capture One Pro will add (Overridden) to the
name of the Style or Preset where an adjustment
is overwritten. If you hover the mouse over the
affected Style or Preset, a label will tell you which
adjustment(S) that have become Inactive.
Note that the Stack Styles option works inde-
pendently from the Stack Preset options that are
available in many tools. This means that you can
have the Stack Styles option enabled and stacking
a number of Presets even though the Stack Preset
option might be disabled in the tool(s) where the
Presets are coming from.

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Adding Presets or Styles to a Layer
You can add Presets and Styles to any Layer adjust- Be aware that not all tools can be used on a Layer
ment conveniently and directly from the tool. Find as a local adjustment, like for example the Black &
the Style or Preset that you want to apply to a new White tool. If that is the case, any Presets or Styles
Layer and right-click on it. Then choose Apply to based on that tool will simply not be available to
New Layer. Capture One Pro will then automatically choose from the submenu
create a new layer with the style or preset applied .
and name the layer accordingly: If you select a Style that contains Presets from tools
where only some are supported by Layers, you
will get a warning. Capture One Pro will notify you
about which adjustments cannot be applied to the
You can also apply a style or preset to an existing layer.Just click Apply Partially to continue.
layer by choosing Apply to Selected Layer instead,
but it will not rename the layer to match the applied
adjustment.
The other way is to create a layer first in the Layers
tool, then right-click on it, choose Apply Adjust-
ments From, and select the desired type from the
submenus.

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Creating a Preset
Creating and saving a Preset for later use is best
done directly from the tool where you have made
your adjustments. Remember that if you want to
add adjustments from several tools, you need to
create a Style instead, which is covered next. Once
you have made your edits, click on the Preset icon
in the upper right corner for a tool and select Save
User Preset....
You now get a dialog box where you can choose
which kind of adjustment you want to include in the
Preset.
Remember to deselect any adjustments that you
don’t want to be part of the Preset even if you have
not changed said adjustment from its default value.
For example, if the Exposure slider is set at 0
(zero), and you select Exposure as part of your Pre-
set, the Exposure slider will also be set to 0 when
you apply the Preset to a new image, potentially
overwriting any adjustments you have made before.
When you have decided which adjustments to
include, click Save. The preset is now ready to be
applied from the top of the Preset drop-down menu
or from the Styles
and Presets tool.
Creating a Style
Creating and saving
a Style for later use
is done from the
Styles and Presets
tool. You first need to make all the ad- justments
that you want to be part of a Style in the var- ious
tools. Once ready, click on the options icon in the
upper right corner and se- lect Save User Style....
You now get a dialog box where you can choose
which kind of adjustment you want to include in the
Style.
The list of possible adjustments is the same as you
encounter in the Adjustments Clipboard tool
(covered in an earlier chapter) with the notable
exception that you can- not save a Layer as part of
a Style.
You now get a dialog box where you can choose
which kind of adjustment you want to include in the
Style. The list of possible adjust- ments is the same
as you encounter in the Adjustments Clipboard tool
(covered in an earlier chapter) with the notable
exception that you can- not save a Layer as part of
a Style.
Capture One Pro will automatically preselect all
the adjustment options based on the edits that you
have performed on the selected image.
Remember to deselect any adjust- ments that you
don’t want to be part of the Style even if you have
not changed a specific adjustment from its default
value. If you add Satura tion with a default value of
0 (zero) that will be applied to an image as a part
of the Style. Once you are satisfied, click Save. The
Style can now be found under User Styles.
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Saving Layer Adjustments as a Style
It is also possible to create a Style based on all the
adjustments you have made on a specific Layer for
later reuse. Just right-click on the layer and choose
Save Adjustments as Style....

You will now be greeted by a dialog box, where you

can choose all the adjustments that you want to
include as your Style.

Note that the adjustments are only copied from

the specific layer that you have selected, not from
all the layers in use on the image. Remember to
deselect any adjustments that you don’t want to be
part of the Style. Once you are ready, Click Save,
give the Style a name and save it.
It is important to point out that the mask associated
with the layer is not being saved as a part of the
Style. If you want to copy both the adjustments and
the mask to other images, you will need to use the
Copy and reuse an adjustment feature mentioned
in the Layers chapter.
Removing and deleting a Style or Preset
You can remove a Style or Preset from an image by
clicking on it in the list and choosing Clear. You can
also remove all of the Styles and Presets at once by
clicking on the Reset button in the top-right corner
of the Styles and Presets tool.
If you instead want to delete the Style or Preset
from Capture One Pro, then right-click on it under You also have the option to delete a User Preset
User Styles or User Presets and choose Delete. from the Preset drop- down menu in each tool by
Note that you cannot delete the Built-in Styles choosing Delete User Preset...
and Presets

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Copying styles to other images
You can copy the applied Styles and Presets from
one image to another by clicking on the Copy icon,
selecting Style in the Adjustments Clipboard and
clicking on Apply.

It is important to point out that this workflow will

only copy the adjustments included on the selected
Styles and Presets. It will not copy all of the image
adjustments from the source image.

If you want to include both the Styles and Presets

as well as all the other image adjustments from the
source image, do this: Once you have applied one
or more Styles or Presets to an image, go to the
Adjustments Clipboard tool. Make sure the Include
Style Name in the options menu is selected, then
click on Copy.
Next, select the images you want to copy the styles
to, and click Apply in the Adjustments Clipboard
tool. The Styles are now copied to the other images,
and you can remove them and their associated
adjustments by selecting them and choosing Clear.
Importing and exporting Styles
You can easily import Styles that other people have
made by clicking on the options icon and choose
Import Styles... from the drop-down menu.
If you have downloaded a collection of Styles, you
also have the option to just double-click on the file,
and Capture One Pro will automatically install the
collection. You will then find it under User Styles.

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It is a bit more involving when you need to export
or backup a User Style or a User Preset. They are by
default saved in folders that are located in the file
path Library > Application Support > Capture One.
Here are two folders called Styles and Presets60,
where the last contains a number of subfolders for
each tool. If you want to share or backup the User
Styles or User Presets, you need to navigate to
these folders and copy the .costyle and .copreset
files from there.
The Library folder is hidden by default on a Mac,
but if you hold Alt down and choose the menu
Go in the Finder, you can select Library from the
menu and open the hidden folder. Then it is easy to
navigate to the Application Support > Capture One
folders.
You could also just apply a specific Style or Preset Metadata Preset with the required information
to an image and then save a copy with the Save first from the Metadata tool (covered in an earlier
Styles... or Save User Preset... command and then chapter)
navigate to the desktop and save them there. That
will, however, be time-consuming if you have to
export a lot of User Styles or User Presets.
Applying Styles and Presets
during import
Adding a Style or Preset during import can greatly
speed up your workflow by making sure that all
the basic adjustments are applied right away. This
is done from the Adjustments part of the Import
Images dialog box. Just click on the Styles drop-
down menu and choose which Styles and Presets
you want to apply.
Remember to enable Stack Styles if you need to
apply more than one. Adding Presets during import
can also be a very useful way to add all the basic
metadata like copyright and your contact informa-
tion from the start. Just remember to create a
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Applying Styles and Presets during
tethered shooting
Just like you can add a Style or Preset during image
import, you can also add those when shooting
tethered. These are selected from the Next Capture
Adjustments tool. Click on the Styles drop-down
menu and choose which Styles or Presets you want
to apply.
Remember to enable Stack Styles if you want to
apply more than one.
Adding a Styles and Presets menu to the
Toolbar
If you find yourself adding Styles and Presets all the
time, you can speed up your workflow by adding a
Styles and Presets menu to the Toolbar.
This is done by right-clicking on the Toolbar and
choosing Customize Toolbar.... Then drag the Styles
icon (it looks like a brush) from the gray dialog box
onto the Toolbar area. Then click done.
You will find the same submenu by going to the
main menu and select Adjustments > Styles, but
that is a slower workflow. Notice how you get the
option to delete a User Style from this submenu.
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