Install your Capture One styles in a few minutes, with the installer or by hand.

01 · Your pack

Every pack comes as styles for the one camera you chose in the shop.

Each style carries the colors and the film curve of the film stock. You apply one per photo. The installer downloads the styles of your camera, so there is nothing to unzip.

For Capture One on a Mac or Windows computer. Lightroom and Photoshop packs have their own guide. No AVS Lab Tech in Capture One.

02 · Two ways

Install with the installer, or copy the styles by hand.

Pick one, not both. The installer is the standard way, the manual route is the backup.

03 · The installer

One small program downloads the styles of your camera and installs them.

The Analog Vision Studio Installer is the same for every pack. It checks every file after it copies it. Restart Capture One afterwards: it reads new styles only when it starts.

1. Download the installer for your computer

   Also at lumenaryvision.com/pages/install and in your download e-mail.

2. Open it

   Mac: open the disk image, then double-click Install Analog Vision Studio. Windows: double-click the .exe. If Windows says Windows protected your PC, click More info, then Run anyway. See it step by step.

3. Sign in

   With the e-mail address you ordered with and your order number, both in your order confirmation. One order installs on up to 3 computers.

4. Check your camera

   The camera you chose in the shop is listed and ticked. Click Install. To swap a camera later, write to support@lumenaryvision.com.

5. Restart Capture One

   Wait for “Everything is installed.” first. Capture One open during the install is fine, it just needs the restart.

6. Open your user styles

   In the Styles tool, with a raw photo from your camera. They sit in the folder “Lumenary Film Library” with your camera's name, sorted by scanner and film.

04 · Capture One · Important

Turn on Stack Styles, so a second style adds to the first.

Capture One replaces your first style when you apply a second one. With Stack Styles on, styles add up: your film style stays, and the toolkit adds its changes on top.

1. Open the Styles and Presets tool

   It holds the built-in styles and your user styles.

2. Open the tool's menu ⋯

   In the header of the tool.

3. Choose Stack Styles

   A check mark shows that it's on.

4. Apply the film style first, then the toolkit styles

   Where two styles change the same tool, the one you applied last wins.

05 · By hand

Copy the whole style folder of your camera into Capture One's Styles folder.

The backup way, for when the installer can't run. Reply to your order e-mail and I'll send you the ZIP file. Unzip it first. Copy the folder, not single styles: every style needs the .icm file that sits next to it. Used the installer already? Skip this chapter.

Find a folder named Styles50 instead of Styles? Use that one. Copy the AVS Toolkit folder into the same Styles folder.

06 · Is it working?

Four quick checks tell you in one minute.

Do them in Capture One, with a raw photo from the camera you chose. Nothing shows up? Restart Capture One first. It only reads new styles at startup.

1. Your styles are listed

   In the Styles tool, open your user styles. A folder “Lumenary Film Library” with your camera's name holds one folder per scanner, and in it one per film stock.

2. A style changes the photo

   Click one, for example a Portra 400 style at 0 EV. The photo changes and looks right.

3. The camera matches

   Each style is built for one camera model. A raw file from another camera won't look right with it.

4. Stack Styles is on

   In the menu of the Styles and Presets tool, Stack Styles is ticked. A toolkit style then adds to your film style.

07 · Using the styles

Your styles are sorted by scanner and film stock, with six exposures in each.

Pick a film stock folder, then one style.

08 · AVS Toolkit

The toolkit adds 48 styles for quick edits on top of your film style.

They sit in the folder AVS Toolkit, in three series. Each one sets only its own tool and leaves your film style alone. Most come in two strengths. Turn on Stack Styles first, otherwise a toolkit style replaces your film style.

• Tone · 18 styles

  Contrast and density

  Contrast, Shadows and Highlights, each in + and − with a stronger ++ and −−, on the Luma curve. Faded Blacks, Faded Whites and Faded Blacks and Whites, each with a stronger +, on the RGB curve. A contrast style and a fade style work together.

• Color · 20 styles

  Tints and saturation

  Shadow tints in cyan, green, blue, red and magenta, highlight tints in red, yellow and cyan, each with a stronger +. Saturation + and − with a stronger ++ and −−.

• Grain · 10 styles

  Grain and softness

  Fine, Medium, Coarse and Mono grain, each with a stronger +, for the whole frame. Softness and Softness + take the digital edge off: stack one on a grain style.

• Install

  One set for every camera

  The installer adds the AVS Toolkit with your first camera, once per computer. Installing by hand? Copy it along with your styles, see By hand. The masking series of the Lightroom toolkit isn't part of this version.

09 · Your edit, in order

One job per tool: work from top to bottom and don't go back up.

If a later step sends you back, the earlier step was off. Fix it there. Skip what you don't need, keep the order.

1. Exposure firstStart from an evenly exposed frame, before any film style. Exposure tool.
2. Film styleOne style from your camera's folder. The six exposures are a look, not a brightness. Styles tool.
3. White balanceStart from As Shot, then fine-tune. White Balance tool.
4. ToneContrast and density on the curve. Toolkit: Tone styles. Curve tool.
5. ColorSingle colors and mood. Toolkit: Color styles. Color Balance tool.
6. Local adjustmentsMasks come after the whole frame works. Layers.
7. FinishGrain and sharpening come last. Toolkit: Grain styles. Film Grain and Sharpening tools.

10 · Quick fixes

Most problems are solved by one restart of Capture One.

11 · Support

Still stuck? Write to me.

Include your Capture One version, your camera, whether you used the installer or installed by hand, and what you clicked. Installer problem? Click Copy diagnostics in the installer and paste it into your e-mail.

License. Analog Vision Studio, including the film profiles, the camera profiles, the workflow presets and the AVS Lab Tech plugin, is licensed, not sold, for use by a single user. You may use it for personal and commercial photography on devices you own or control. It may not be redistributed, resold, shared, sublicensed or made available to third parties in any form. All files, including source code and embedded data, remain the intellectual property of Lumenary Vision, Sebastian Koch. Modification, reverse engineering, decompilation or extraction of the files or their data is not permitted.