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Retouching in Capture One on the iPad

First and foremost, Julianna needs no retouching whatsoever and anyone who says otherwise is delusional. But, one of my goals from the workshop was to really get myself in to a more “mobile”workflow.

I’ve been shooting tethered to a MacBook for years, and prior to that close to ten years using the CamRanger… To my point:

I’ve finally found some downtime to sit down with some of the images from the NJ workshop. Didn’t intend to take this long, but business is cranking busy, and work comes first. I am still determined to retouch these on the iPad in Capture One.

Workflow issues I’ve run in to:

C1 masks are still missing on the iPad, and it’s something I’ve grown to really appreciate, especially ai masking and ai select. Hopefully they will add it at some point soon. So for now, C1 on the iPad is limited. Oh I’m using the new M4 btw. Why can my iMac with an intel chip do Capture One ai masking but the M4 iPad can not?

I was going to try Photoshop for the iPad, but I’ve also paid for Affinity Photo 2. So I decided to go that route. And it’s a good solution. Also a heck of a lot cheaper if you compare.

Affinity Photo for the iPad also has masks, layers, includes a decent frequency separation filter… and a plenty more.

Unfortunately, as much as I hope evoto had an iPad. There is still no Evoto solution for the iPad. There are hints they’re working on it in the fb group but nothing I’m aware of. They even sort of mention evoto for iPad directly on their website blog.

I’d be happy to help anyone or talk settings and techniques if anyone wants to discuss.

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Craig Capello

Aug 26

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September: Layers

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Craig Capello

Aug 27

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This won’t be a quick answer Jeff. I’ve been using the iPad wirelessly tethered to a Canon camera for +-10 years via CamRanger (I was one of the first to buy the original, when I shot real estate, and I think he still uses some of my photos on the website). The last version 2.0 CamRanger is lites out the best way to wirelessly tether, shooting interiors, with builders, architects and interior designers on site. I’ve also see Ian Spanier using it for his portrait work very successfully of course. And I’ve even used the remote view to a second iPad feature when collaborating with designers. But it’s just to control the camera and see the jpegs/sraw, and rating. Beyond that… sure it does bracketing, focus stacking and other things but it can not retouch, or make adjustments like we can in capture one.

I’ve been playing with capture one for the iPad since the beta demo came out. I couldn’t get it to work for my workflow.

First issue is: one port on the iPad

You can only tether and save to the iPad and then move the photos off the iPad later… or so I thought!

I upgraded my iPad to the new m4 pro version. If I buy the Magic Keyboard by Apple it has an additional usbc port on the keyboard. So that frees up one to tether and the other save on a portable SSD, theoretically.

So I am hoping I could use it the same way as using c1 tethered to a notebook/desk and portable SSD. But I am not be buying the keyboard until we at least get layers in c1.

Til then I’m just waiting on the next c1 update. Does any of this make sense?

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Jeff Carpenter

Aug 27

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You’re right! That wasn’t a short answer haha. I kind of with you as far as being able to integrate the iPad into my actual workflow. I’ve used it successfully for workshops and smaller jobs, but I still find myself back to the laptop for most gigs. You didn’t hear it from me, but Evoto is very close to releasing an iPad app, that will have tethering capabilities (eventually) but definitely won’t have wireless initially. At least u don’t imagine it would. Have you tried the cascable app? I think that’s what it’s called

Craig Capello

Aug 27

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I forgot about that piece with evoto. Yeah I found it on their website blog that mention “evoto for iPad”. For Julianna’s shots I was using c1 to Affinity Photo for iPad too (because it has layers and built in FS option.

Ideal workflow would be one app to tether and retouch. I’ll check out Cascable.

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Retouching in Capture One on the iPad