The best feature in the new Capture One Pro upgrade (free for existing license owners or subscribers) is that heal/clone layers can now feature an unlimited number of source points:
However, not all is well. Unfortunately, a new brush access system was introduced as well.
Previously, one used one universal brush (keyboard shortcut "B") that did the right thing, depending on the type of the layer that was selected.
Now there are are three different type of brushes: Adjustment ("B"), Healing ("Q"), and Cloning ("S").
While it is cool that one can just select one of these and start drawing -- a corresponding layer of the right type will either be created or automatically selected -- there are also two serious downsides:
First, previously one could assign the same key to both universal brush and the Eraser brush with the only difference being a modifier key such as "Alt" or "Option" for the Eraser brush shortcut. This made it very simple to switch back and forth between positive brushing (one of the none-erasing types) and negative brushing (Eraser brush).
Now one has to choose "E" for erasing and then one of "B", "Q" or "S" to go back to positive brushing.
This is way less efficient.
Second, now, when revisiting a layer to tweak its mask, one has to manually select the right brush type after having selected the layer. If one has the wrong brush type activated, Capture One will jump away from the targeted layer to the topmost layer that is of the type that fits the currently selected brush.
Selecting the brush first does not help, as now, whenever one changes the brush type, an automatic layer selection will take place and one then has to subsequently select the target layer. With a bit of tough luck the automatically selected layer and the target layer won't both fit into the layer list panel so one possibly doesn't see the layer that has been automatically selected.
Either way, what once was a simple one-step selection now needs two steps (if a change of layer type is involved).
All the above downsides would be very easy to fix by simply bringing back a universal brush type again.
This (additional) brush would have the correct (adjusting, healing, cloning) behaviour depending on the type of the currently selected layer.
With such a universal brush the above multi-step layer tweaking would become a simple step action again, and one could use one shortcut key for brushing and erasing again, with erasing just requiring a modifier to be pressed when selecting the brush.
If you support the resurrection of the current "universal" brush behaviour (which could perfectly coexist with the new design), please consider upvoting my respective
feature request.
N.B., the other changes are a new introduction tour for beginners, improved importing of Lightroom catalogues, a special (cheaper) version for Nikon cameras, and a new "before/after" tool (which I find pointless in its current form, but at least it doesn't hurt any existing functionality like the new brush design does).
Last edited by Class A; 05-19-2020 at 03:11 AM.