Hey everyone, my name is Raju Fderazi and in this video I am excited to interview our special guest Fletcher Chu to discuss his work at PRAA in Taiwan and the current efforts to end the HIV epidemic. But first I'll introduce our esteemed guest. He is the Director of Communications at Persons with HIV Aids, Writes Advocacy Association of Taiwan, also known as PRAA. PRAA is a non-profit organization that was set up by and for people living with HIV along with advocates, friends and families in 1997. Fletcher's work focuses on HIV policy monitoring, community-led research and communications of the rights of people living with HIV. All right, Fletcher, thank you so much for joining me. I'm so glad to have you on. Thank you for having me and I'm so happy to be here to share with the audience here too. Yeah, so I'll start out with like a really broad question that I ask people as they when they come on. What is your general view of the current state of the global HIV AIDS epidemic? And you can answer that however you like. Okay, I think the current global HIV AIDS epidemic is still something that we need to address, especially with recently there's a launch of UN AIDS Global AIDS Update 2023. And the document was entitled The Path That End AIDS. I think it kind of like in the introductory of the documents it emphasized a lot about the political whales on the matter of how to end HIV and AIDS epidemic. And that's very important things because I think we know all the tools and all the methods that we can end this epidemic, but it's just a lack of the willingness to prioritize this work for the population to really end HIV and AIDS in different region and different places. Okay, very good. And then bringing it home to where you currently reside, what is the current state of HIV specifically in Taiwan? If we are talking about the current state of HIV in Taiwan, if we're using like UN AIDS 95-95-95 goal in that situation, like for Taiwan currently in 2022, we have 90% of people living with HIV already know their status. And among 95% of them are already on antiretroviral treatment. And among those who are on antiretroviral treatment, 95% of them already reach undetectable viral loss. So it's quite good at the moment for those indicators. It's 95-95, but it still gets us that a way that we need to move forward in terms of those testing targets or get people on treatment and maintain viral suppression. And you said for the moment, is the trend heading in a positive direction? Has it plateaued or what does that look like? The new infection actually has been decreasing for a couple of years. And especially for this year, we believe that it's going to be lower than a thousand for the new infections. And I think it's for the first time since 2017 that we got new infection lower than a thousand. And I think that's the efforts of all the prevention tools and the treatments available for the population to get access to. And I know there are countries that are aiming to have zero transmission to end transmission completely. Is that something that's also in your goal, in your near-term future? I think I believe for the governments and for public health aspect for zero new infection would be an ultimate goal of that. But I think from our side as an organization that advocating for rights of people living with HIV, we're mostly more focusing on at the time that we haven't had a cure for everybody. We focus more on how to maintain the quality of life for those who are living with HIV already and will be living with HIV for the rest of their life before the cure comes out. Yeah, and you mentioned fighting for the rights of people living with HIV. On that note, what is stigma like in Taiwan? I would say compared to the very beginning of the epidemic, the stigma is kind of like a hidden stigma for the current states. People wouldn't really say bad things about you in front of you, but if they're on the internet or other things that we observe in healthcare facilities or a nursing home, maybe they know about your status, they wouldn't decline you in front of you, but they will use other excuses, say maybe we don't have available services for you at the moment, maybe you can try to check out somewhere else. They do it politely, but you know they're refusing you based on your status. And do people have good access to care as well? For Taiwanese citizens, yes, because we have national health insurance, it's assistance that all of the Taiwanese citizens there will be included in that national health insurance and it's quite affordable and there are a couple options of first-line treatment that people can choose on, but for expats or foreigners it's quite different because the mechanism for that treatment is different. So for the expats and foreigners, if they already have the national health insurance, but they haven't have like a register in Taiwan for their HIV status, they might still have to wait two years for the first two-year periods. And for those periods, they kind of need to come up with their own means to try to find treatments or if they found the brand medicine is affordable for them in Taiwan, they can buy it in Taiwan, but mostly it's quite expensive for them. So what part of our work, we are also assisting people who are foreigners or experts in Taiwan and they try to get access to the treatment, whether from their home country or they will buy from online pharmacy and import it into Taiwan. And on that note, they will need to apply for food and drug administration, drug importation approval, and it's quite, although it's free, but it's quite complicated for that process. So and it's all only in Mandarin in that survey, so we will help them with the language and all the process. And do you find that there's adequate funding support from the government as well? From our perspective, because we're doing advocacy and advocacy is always not a very like the piece that the government would tend to fund. So to our knowledge, most of the government or domestic funding for AIDS or HIV would mostly focus in on prevention and also like some of the care cascade and healthcare facility for the healthcare staff to maintain the relationship with the patient to get them on the treatment and maintain virus oppression. Yeah, I'm curious because here in the US, you know, we're dealing with a phenomenon, especially recently, where certain political leaders are trying to actually roll back some protections and then especially preventative care like PREP, based on the right on the belief that it infringes on religious beliefs and what have you. But essentially at the end of the day, it targets marginalized groups. And I wonder if you have any kind of similar issues where you are. I think as you talk about PREP, I think PREP is kind of also a little bit scaling up in Taiwan at the moment, but not very big scaling. But our government have some pilot project where they provide partial of the funding to supplements people who need PREP if they meet certain criteria for that. But at the very beginning of the stage to launch those pilot projects, it also got some kind of backlash from the anti group. And it's also kind of based on the religious problem that you just mentioned about. So, but I think the government stand on their point at some kind of the status they have seen, especially with that mention that the new infection rate are decreasing and coming in the last couple years. I think it's a combination of the prevention tool available and also the treatment available for people who in need of those tools. Can you tell us, because I initially I saw you because I forget I think it was on LinkedIn, but you were talking about the U equals U campaign. And then I saw on YouTube as well, you mentioning about that too. So can you tell us about your U equals U efforts?  And it's awareness campaign for the general population. And we are lucky that this was supported by Gilead where we can like kind of bigger scale of this campaign to really reach the bigger population. Because at the very first that why we want to do this U equals U day campaign is that we want to take out this a message of U equals U very specifically to send out to general population. Instead of I think a lot of time that when we are doing communication, our mode focusing on our community, I'm not saying it's not important, but I think our community have already have a lot of different resource and different organization working on delivering this kind of message to them to understand what's the science for nowadays. But for the general population, it's always very difficult for non-profit organization to deliver a message to them. So we came up this second of July a U equals U day in Taiwan is try to raise the awareness among general population. And it's a very local context. Maybe you'll wonder why second of July, what is not another day?  So in the past, they define the unsafe sex solely based on the content use or not. They didn't really care about your HIV status or not, and your viral status or available condition. But that has come to a place that in 2018, the expert consensus statements addressing HIV in criminal law context and those kind of information coming out. So we kind of like want to do an advocacy about removing that barrier in the regulation where people will think about even you are undetectable legally, you're still defined as you are able to transmit the virus. So we want to do more things on that context. So because the amendment happened on second of July to include U equals U into that criteria of unsafe sexual behavior, which means that after second of July 2021 in Taiwan, if you're undetectable and you have condoned sex with others, it's not considered unsafe sex in terms of in the context of HIV. So it's kind of the remarkable day for us in Taiwan. So we make it on second of July and we also think that it would be easier for our people to really try to find information online. And we are very happy that our government CDC also stand in solidarity with us. They come to the press conference on the second of July of the launch day of the UE course U day. And how did it go? How was it? Was it well received? I think for media coverage, because we try to reach as much as media we can. But we haven't done evaluation, we already done an evaluation on the media coverage. But in terms of people who really get the message, I think maybe there will be a post evaluation to see how many people really know about UE course U after this big campaign. But it haven't been really ended for the campaign because for the second of July, it's one off, it's on that day. But along with this second of July campaign, we also create a social experiment video on YouTube where we invite a celebrity in Taiwan who is a very straight man, he's a straight and middle-aged man and he's quite famous and very hilarious host in Taiwan. And his target audience is like those people we are never going to reach. So that's the reason why we invited, we invited him. So he come and he's very good at doing entertaining shows and programs on TV. And what he famous for is a scary box. I don't know if you have ever had those kind of like you have scary thing inside box and you put a handsome. He's very famous for that. So we invited him to, we put UE course U inside the box, but we make it with different materials, maybe like brushes or something. So when you put inside your hands into the box, you couldn't see what inside. So you kind of like scare and not know what it do when you touch it. But once you reveal what is inside, it's actually nothing to you. And it's the same idea for HIV and AIDS. Like when you don't see, when you see the box HIV and AIDS and you don't see U equals U or PrEP or PAP inside, you'll be scary. But once you know this kind of information that you will clear out the scary you might have around this issue. So that's the social experiment video that we do with the celebrity on the streets of Taiwan. And following down that videos that we still gonna have several posts with some of the key influencers in Taiwan on 21 of July this year, because we found out it's zero stigma day, zero HIV stigma day on 21 July this year, maybe every year. But it's also for us another day to try to raise more awareness around stigma and how to use U equals U equals U to destigmatize the the misconceptions around HIV. Well, what what an innovative and creative and entertaining way to you know, get the attention of the masses of people like you said who normally wouldn't you wouldn't be able to reach or maybe wouldn't feel like it's relevant to them and be able to get such an important message across I think that's so genius. And I think we we in the US can definitely take notes from that and execute in that way. That's that's really brilliant. So now that the government has acknowledged that viral load is important, being undetectable is important. And that that leads to safer sex, not just condoms. Does that mean that criminalization HIV laws have also been laxed? Or what does that look like? Yeah, so currently, the criminalization though is still there. So we have an HIV special law in Taiwan since 1990. I couldn't remember exact 1919, I guess. So the criminalization though is still there. But it just like for the component that if you are undetectable at the moment, if someone take the charge on you or sue you or prosecute you and you have the evidence to prove that you're undetectable, then it's like high possibility that you are not going to the trial or going to the court. But it's still it's still possible to sue you or threaten you on that matter. So kind of like in the long term goal for us is still try to abolish or remove that ball. And is that are you talking about disclosure specifically? Yeah, so the elements of the criminalization around HIV, there are three components around that. First one is knowing yourself are HIV positive. And second one is by not telling the person that you're having sex with about your HIV status. And the last one is having on safe sex with them. So the part that we kind of already address is about the unsafe sex. If you are undetectable, then you are not having on safe sex with them.  But we are still kind of very aware about what if people who are not undetectable, it shouldn't really just based on their HIV status. And another big component of that law is also about for people who are not for the case where the new infection didn't really occurred. It's still punishable. So it's quite a goal against the principle that your needs are holding that your needs are actually very rooting for if there there's no infection, there's no new infections happen in this kind of context, and there shouldn't be any prosecution or sue among those cases. Well, okay. And speaking of the government and overall healthcare organizations here in the U.S., especially, I think it was aggravated by the COVID pandemic, but there is intense distrust between community and healthcare, community and government, institutions, scientists. What's it like in Taiwan? I would say that healthcare provider, especially physicians are usually and they are still kind of like very well-respected in Asian region, in Asia regions. And for Taiwan, I think during COVID pandemic, there's not that much mistrust happening in between the healthcare provider scientists and with the society, because I think our government tried to control it pretty well. And I think one thing that COVID have contributed to HIV during this period of time is the health literacy for the people, because like during COVID, a lot of people are talking about PCR. It's one of the tests, how you test the viral law within somebody. And in the past, there are a lot of people who are not, who don't care about how to really understand what is PCR, what this viral law means to them. But during COVID pandemic, it's actually kind of become a norm for people to talk about, oh, do you know PCR? Do you know what viral law and if you're infected with COVID, how's your viral right now? So it's kind of give us an options also in the U.E. course, U.D. campaign I mentioned earlier this year. We can use this idea in terms of the viral load. We can use that to explain to the general population. Like back in the COVID, you know about if you have less virus in your body and it's not able to transmit, it's the same idea for HIV. So as HIV positive, you can take medication to lower the viral law in your body, and it wouldn't be able to transmit just like COVID. Okay, brilliant. So there's some, you found some intersectionality there between COVID and HIV, and you were able to piggyback on what people were already learning about the science and the medicine, and then use that to explain HIV. That's great. Speaking of COVID, did the pandemic have an impact?  I think for, for during the COVID pandemic, there's not that much effects in terms of the HIV epidemic in Taiwan, because I think for different places or regions, maybe there are some of the disrupt of treatments in terms of people maybe being locked down or not able to go back to a healthcare facility to get access to treatment. But I think mostly in Taiwan during that time, people are still able to access to treatment. So the infection rate didn't really go off. And also because of social distancing, so people are not able to interact with other people sexually. So I guess that's one of the reasons why there's not a climb up in terms of the new infections rates during that time. And what would you say are the most at-risk groups, populations in Taiwan for HIV transmission? For the moment, it's still the men who have sex with men population. But generally, if we're talking about the transmitting methods as mostly about on safe sex transmissions, and within that, MSNR is still a big population of that. And okay, so what are your short-term long-term goals to achieve through PRAA in Taiwan? I think short-term is still like for this year and next year, we'll try to like really get the message out about UE course U because we found it could be a very helpful and powerful tool for a general population to really understand the science of HIV has progress that much. And the reason why we want to pick it up like very individually is that we think this is very easy message for a general population to understand. And the long-term goal I would say is still like very broadly the quality of life of people living with HIV and to remove the punitive law, especially the part that we just talked about about the decriminalizations. And I think stigma is also a very big component. It's kind of like related to what you just mentioned about, you asked about how's the population affected by HIV right now at the moment in Taiwan. It's still mostly the MSN population and it will kind of give the general society an idea that this is just an issue that relevant to a certain population and it kind of recreate the stigma. And although the statistic really shows that, but I think for us we know it's because of the lack of information, lack of access to treatment or prevention tools, those kind of inequities that lead to that result that we are seeing now. But for them they only see as an issue that relevant to a certain group. I think that certainly would be a part that we need to address whether it's in short or long term. I realized I meant to ask you this earlier, but how did you get involved with PRAA and HIV advocacy in general? Yeah, I started out with a research called stigma index. It's a research that was initiated by GMP plus global network of people living with HIV and ICW and urnates. So it's a research tool to evaluate the people living with HIV, how they feel about the stigma, the stigma they are experiencing in their country. So back in 2017, I was part of that research team doing the stigma index in Taiwan. And after that, because on that research, I was working in a hospital with a doctor on that project and we collaborated with PRAA at that time. And after I done that project, I found I want to do more about the community size. So I come back and go to PRAA and stay here until now. Amazing. Well, everyone is fortunate to have you on board. Because during that stigma index, although it's a questionnaire, but it's a semi construct questionnaire. So we get to interview a lot of people living with HIV in Taiwan. I think we interview 843 people living with HIV all over Taiwan. And half of them were done by me. And it's actually an experience that you get to hear a lot of different life stories and how they struggle or not struggle anymore and already live in their life in their ways. But throughout that time, you can really feel that there's a lot more to do to really make the community feel that they can leave the life as people who live in without the virus. Is there something that you learned from those interviews that was surprising or unexpected? I think it's the interactions that give me a lot of impressions. Like I remember one interview that I did is that a middle-aged man, when I was doing an interview with him and after the interview, because he shared a story about, he's not the only one who is HIV positive in his family. His brother also is HIV positive because of the share of needles in the back where they were not aware of their serious range program where they can get access to clean needles. So they share a needle and they get infected. And his brother killed himself because of that back in that time where he kind of like didn't have enough information knowing that he can survive and he can get access to treatment. But it was kind of like 20 years ago. So the situation was quite different. But when he kind of like shared all those stories that he experienced and after the interview, I wanted to give him a hug, then I asked him about that. And the questions, the response from him is that, are you really willing to touch me? Like when I say to him that, can I give you a hug? Then his reaction is like, oh, are you not afraid? I think that that kind of internal stigma that still withholds on some of the populations that maybe, I think, but it's mostly for people who may be elder or lack of information. Because I'm also seeing that those young people living with HIV or people living with HIV who are newly diagnosed, but with more information and knowledge like you equals you, they are more confident with their status and maybe more confident about coming out on their HIV status. Wow. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that story. It reminds me too, when shortly after I was diagnosed, I remember my doctor made an effort to take off their glove and touch my hand. And I just remember kind of get shocked a little bit because you don't realize when you learn certain things about, for example, people living with HIV that you internalize this perception on yourself and then almost see yourself as less than human and less valuable. And so for someone to make that gesture, it means a lot and communicates a lot more than just words. And especially, I think when you talk about that, how we internalize the concept of people living with HIV might be not good in a certain way. For people who don't know a message about you equals you or don't know a message about HIV prevention tools, it will be very easily for that kind of things to happen. And what we're trying to do in terms of the communication to the journal society is that whether you are living with HIV or not, it's all the same. Right. And it should be treated like any other chronic manageable condition. If someone has diabetes, okay, you manage it. And it's also your personal and private medical information as well and should be treated that way. Yeah, totally agree. Well, you know, I've noticed over the years on YouTube, especially a lot of my viewership is from Asian region. And I like to think that it's because my content is just so amazingly good. But I think the reality is probably that there isn't that many people like me speaking out openly on social media, that a lot of people from different parts of the world have to turn to my content to get that information. So my question is how do you feel about the visibility in the public media?  But overall, do you think in media there is enough visibility in role models and things of that nature? Yeah, that's very good questions. And when we were talking about the social experiment videos that we have in Taiwan, and you said that's something that you can learn from the States. But at the same time, in my mind, from my perspective, I see a lot of different figures on the Internet or TVs or stars that on whether it's from the States or from Europe or typically Western countries are willing to stand out and share their life journey about being HIV positive. I think that's very big components for people to really see a person, not just a story behind the scenes or a picture behind it and to get the real human human context of how people living with HIV would look like. And I think to my knowledge, they're actually some of the public people living with HIV in HIV positive region, but that the problem may lies in the language and the cultural differences. So huge difference in different countries in our region, whether it's in Southeast Asia or in East Asia, we speak totally different language. And I think to my knowledge, there are South Korea and Japan and Taiwan and Thailand and Indonesia. I kind of all know there are certain people with HIV would go public about their status. But it's just that how the social media is helping to get those message out to the general population. Or on the other side, is the general population being interested in getting this kind of information? And if not, what kind of strategy that we need to use to really generate their interest on this topic? Well, I mean, I think that your country has served in many ways as a very good model of how to handle the epidemic. I mean, you've shown that by getting very close to 95, 95, 95. And you continue to have government support, funding, you have trust. I think that's another important element that we sometimes overlook is how important you can have all the best resources, you can have all the best doctors, you can have all the best programs. But if you don't have that trust there, then what does it matter? Because no one's going to listen to you and no one's going to take what you're giving, what you're offering. So that's important, having the visibility to the extent that you do. And yeah, I just think it can serve as a model and Western countries should and can take note of that. But I think that when you talk about trust, it also reminds me about the partnerships. I think in the last couple of years in Taiwan, it's kind of like a close partnership within the community and also the professional, especially the physician, where they are willing to help to promote the science of you equals you and the message of you equals you. And I think I also see that trend states as well that especially, I remember on 4th of July National Day on Twitter, HIV, CDC HIV, they tweet about a picture about you equals you. I think like for us, it's context of 2nd of July. But for you, National Day, 4th of July, for governments, institutions, they're willing to get the message out on that. I think that's also a very important component for the citizen to see the political willingness to acknowledge that kind of information. Absolutely. And especially having a more progressive government at the moment also helps. But again, at the end of the day, there is so much more distrust here that you can see those things. But I think I find often it's met with cynicism. So it's hard to get past that. So that's our challenge here, for sure. I'm sure you're kind of like push it through with advocates like you. Yeah, we'll do our best. And part of that is really understanding community and understanding what the community needs and what the community wants instead of just saying, okay, we're going to develop a drug. And here you go. Take it. It's like, well, what are the needs of the person? Are they unhoused? Do they have drug use problems? Do they have mental health struggles? Are they financially okay? Because if they're worrying about all these other things, then going to a clinic to get prepped on a regular basis, and maybe pay for it if they have to, is going to be at the bottom of that list. So it's like this holistic way of approaching it with wrap, we'll call it wrap around care. That I think is how you begin to foster trust again. All right. Well, we are coming up on our time here. So before we go, is there anything else that you would like to talk about or share or say to our viewers that we haven't discussed already? I think we pretty much cover all of it. But because I mentioned about U equals U day in Taiwan, it's on 2nd of July. But the idea of that is not try to only talk about U equals U on that day. I think the concept that we are coming out for that day is kind of like the pride. You will have a prideful for a day or for a month. But it's not only for that day or for that month to talk about LGBTI rights. But it's a month or a special time for you to unapologically allow to make the message out for the people around you. And it's also an opportunity for people who want to support this kind of message. But I think some people maybe found awkward to share on day to day basis because they will find the people around them asking them why do you share this kind of information? Is this relevant to you?  Are you HIV positive? So I think a special day or a special period of time, it creates a savior song for the people who would like to stand in solidarity with us to get the message out as possible as you can. Okay, wonderful. Well, thank you so much for taking the time. I love all the work that you're doing and let's keep in touch. If you have updates or want to fill me in on anything, I'd love to bring you back on or just share some information that you have. Everyone at home, please comment below your thoughts, your questions if you have any, I'm happy to follow up on those with Fletcher as well. And do let me know if you'd also be interested in having him back on the channel. Thanks so much, everyone. Please like this video, subscribe, hit that bell so you get a notification every time there's a new video. And please share this with anyone who you might feel might find this valuable. I will continue to do content that talks about HIV, not just here in the US or in the Western world, but all around the world because it's a global epidemic and we need to have these discussions all around the world. Cheers, everyone. Thank you.


Hey everybody it's Greg back to here and welcome to this Capture One tutorial for beginners. So if you're new to Capture One then this is a perfect video for you. Make sure you stick around and watch all the different things that I go through in this video. Also if you stick around to the end I'll show you how you can save 10% off new versions of Capture One as well as upgrades. So that'll be at the end of the video. All right let's get started. So let's have a look at the interface. Now if you've downloaded the free trial or if you've had it for a while your version of Capture One may look different than what you're seeing on your screen right now. You can configure Capture One pretty much any way you would like. So let me show you how to do some of those basic configuration adjustments and then we'll progress from there and then I'll show you how to do some basic landscape adjustments by the end of this video. All right so let's get started. So you can see here we have what they call the browser on the right hand side. Now if I wanted to adjust the size of these images you can see here if I just click and hover over it we have double arrows left and right I can drag this. So now we have larger thumbnails that we can look at and say okay that image looks pretty good let's check that out. Now let's say you had a couple of different images and you wanted to kind of compare them you can do that in a lightroom you can do that in Capture One as well. Now an easy way to do that is we've got this one highlighted you could see the white box around it if you look in your upper right. Now all we have to do is click on another image and we can compare that one as well. So I'm going to hold the command key on the Mac I'm not sure what the command is on a PC but I'm going to click on that. Now you can see we have these two images side by side. Now if I wanted to add a third one again I click on the command key and then I've added a third one and then let's say okay I'll add another one. So just by holding that command key and clicking I can preview these different images and the more I add they'll show up in the screen but they'll get smaller. So I don't like to do more than four at one time but I could look at these four and I could say hmm out of these four I think I like this one. So also we have to do to deselect is the same thing click on command click on the image it disappears and then you can see it's highlighted so we just click on that it's easy to remember which ones you've clicked on because they're already highlighted with a white box. Now let's say you had a series of images in a row you could click on the top one here so that's what we're looking at if you hold the shift key and click on the bottom one then it will highlight all four images at once. So I'm going to click here and you can see my computer's hung up but there we go so we have the four images. Now you can see out of these four we have some red in this image so I'll walk you through that next. So what we'll do is we'll just de-highlight these so again just command and click those will disappear and then we'll be left with just the one image here. Now the highlights here are in red so these are blown out highlights. Now if you don't have that set if you look at the top here the top right you see this triangle with the orange and the explanation mark all you have to do is click on that to enable it or click on that to turn it off. Now you can also adjust when this kicks in so to do that if you go up here to capture one and you go to preferences and then if you look at this box right here exposure now you can see here if I click on defaults these are the default settings 250 and zero so 255 would be the extreme white point and so they've got 250 right here and that's when those warnings kick in if you want to kick it in sooner you could do that but I usually leave it at default and then I just sort of adjust by eye I never really push it that far as far as my exposure so if you want to bring this exposure down for example you can see here the exposure tab it's already at minus 50 so this was from a series of HDR images where I took multiple exposures that's why it's overexposed but I could still recover quite a bit of those highlights in capture one you can see although those were saying they're overexposed I was able to do quite a bit of highlight recovery although I recommend trying to get a good exposure right off the bat so anyway that's how you do that so let me sort of go through more of this interface we talked about the browser window on the right hand side now if you want to move that you can if you come up here where it says view you can see here there's a whole bunch of sections here now there's also keyboard shortcuts as well if you want to familiarize yourself with those but if we wanted to move that browser window from the right we can move it to below so if we go here place browser below so if you'd like to have it more like that you can do that and then again too you can change here by looking at the lower left you have list mode where you can see there's a little bit more information about your ISO and your aperture and your shutter speed and focal length and things like that you could have it that way or you could have it this way whatever you're comfortable with really I just sort of like to see the image and then I can click on it and I do feel like it gives me a little bit more screen real estate if I have it over on the right so we go over here place browser right and then once you've picked your images and you're not really looking at these you can just sort of drag this over and make those thumbnails smaller giving you more sort of screen real estate to edit your image with so that's how I like to have that set up so let's go back up here to capture one we click on that again you could see that we have different options we have preferences and we can check for updates and things like that if we go over to file you can see we can create a new catalog or a new session I often create new catalogs versus sessions and then we can also look at ones that we've opened recently and then we can close this window we can import images we could save as template so you have a lot of different options here also we can edit with so if you want to take this image and go to photoshop you would click edit with I'll show you how I do that I go edit with and here is where you would set up your basic recipe so I want to export this in a tiff format 16 bit all you do is click on these boxes and you'll see the options jpeg tiff psd I have tiff you see here we have the choice of 8 bit or 16 bit if this is a raw 16 bit image I recommend you export at 16 bit if you're going to photoshop and then we have options zip or uncompressed and then here's your profile pro photo being a larger color space so you have s rgb which is the color space of the web you have adobe rgb which is a larger color space or pro photo which is even larger than that so these are some of the settings that I use and if you don't have these just click on your box here if you don't see all of these you can go to show recommend just click around and explore it show all for example so maybe you only see one or two you go to show all and then when I click on that I can see all of it so just explore the interface sometimes things aren't where you think they should be or so just click around and you should be able to find things so we were back over here so we are on file now again you can export images as well and you can export the original or the variant for example so let's say we wanted to export an original now again you would pick the destination so you create a folder where you want to put this so that way when you go to look for it you know where you put it and then you can also have different image names so you can adjust that for example like if I wanted to go here and say okay image name and aperture you could do personalized things like that when you go to export it and you can see here you can include adjustments with your export so that's how you would export images to a folder so if you're just doing a few little adjustments in capture one and then you want to put it right to a folder that's how you would do that so you go to edit here you can see we also have different things that we can explore I'm not going to go through every one of these right now but here we have view now you can show grid and guides I'll just show you that for example so we have a grid now also we can control that grid by the upper right so if I click on that the grid will disappear now you could see here as well we have a bunch of things here and I'm going to go into all of these things but anyway let's go back to view and you can see here we have different things as well hide tools add tools now you can also right click and add tools that way as well so let me show you how that would work so right here from left to right this is what we call the tool tabs you can see here we have our catalog we have exposure adjustments we have color if you wanted to add a tool to that you would right click and say add tool tab you can see the ones that are grayed out that are lighter gray those are already in my tool tab and then the ones that are in white are ones that I can add so if I wanted to add that I would just go add tool tab I would hit quick and it would add it to that top bar now don't confuse that with the add tool feature so with the add tool feature regardless of what we have here we can add additional tools to each tool tab so let's just go from left to right this is where I do my exposure settings but you can drag and drop these so if you find you use one more than the other and you feel more comfortable with that at the top so for example I like to make my exposure adjustments first so I like to have that then I like to adjust my highlighting shadows and then if you're more comfortable with levels say you can move that up so you can configure this interface pretty much any way you want now we have the moray here now if I wanted to get rid of that I could just go remove tool moray now that's only removing that from this tool tab you can see that we're highlighted orange up there that's our exposure tab I'm adding or removing tools to just this tab so for example again if I wanted to right click say add tool I can add the moray tool back I click on there you can see we have moray at the bottom and let's say I use it often I can drag it up to the top we have our tool tabs and then we have our tools within each tab and we can move those tools around so I suggest setting this up the way you work so for example I have all of my images on the left in the catalog then I like to do my exposure adjustments first then I like to do my color adjustments fine-tuning my white balance so I have it set up that way now also then you can do some lens corrections if you'd like so maybe you like to do your lens corrections first however you want to do that you can set up these tool tabs from left to right so that you can work in a logical order whatever you feel comfortable with now also here is where we have layers so you could see the brush that's layers we can work on different layers for example let's just make some basic adjustments to this image and then we'll add a layer make adjustments to that so let's get started so we'll pick one here that is close to being where I want it just right out of the box here we are we're on our exposure tab we've got our histogram at the top on the far left is the darks on the far right is the brights it's a pretty even exposure you can see right here there's an adjustment made to that now what I can do is we have this sort of backwards arrow to the left if I click on that that'll reset that but we also have that at the top now if I hit that that'll take all the adjustments and that will zero it right to the beginning so any adjustments we've made in the different tool tabs that will take them all out so here we are starting from scratch we've got our base exposure you can see the information is at the bottom so this was shot at an iso 64 at 1 1 25th at f8 at 16 millimeters so you can find your information about the shot at the bottom left we'll make a small adjustment so I think if anything I could probably maybe bring that exposure down a bit I can also do that in a layer so I'll show you that in a second where I just bring the sky down now I'll bring my highlights down a bit so if you drag it to the right you can see the highlights come down so you can't really go left with these adjustments you can only go right so I'll go to about let's say 20 now I can't bring my shadows down but I can bring them up now again by just going to the right so you can see I can bring the shadows up I'll bring those up just a little bit maybe five those are the basic exposure adjustments that I make to all of my images just basically the exposure and then the highlight and the shadow now I like to work in capture one and photoshop on certain images but if I'm only working in capture one then I'll make a contrast adjustment as well if I'm going to photoshop later I'll often just do the contrast adjustment in photoshop but let's just bring in a little contrast you can see how that's affecting the image I think you can use a little bit of contrast I don't want to go too crazy with that also we could do some clarity which is a form of sharpening you could see here all you have to do is click on a box and then you can see the different options you can see we have natural we have punch we have neutral and classic I like the natural and then of course to add clarity or perceive sharpness we go to the right to add a little bit of blur you go to the left so we can add a little bit of sharpness there we'll just say eight and then you have your structure control and then you can see here that's sort of really kind of sharpens things I don't really like to use the structure control too much but let's just say we'll give it say like a one so we've made some adjustments now if I want it to go back you see we have that backwards arrow now if I want it to go back just on the clarity not all my adjustments I can do that or if I want to preview my adjustment I would hold the option key or the alt key on the pc hold that down click on that backwards arrow it shows you what it looks like before you made your adjustment and then you let it go and then it shows you what it looks like with your adjustment so that's the option key or the alt key on the pc that'll allow you to preview your adjustments and then if you say you know what I like the better the other way I just click on that backwards arrow and it zeros that out so you can zero that out and go back to wherever you were always by just clicking on that backwards arrow for each of these tools if you want to do it for the whole image so say you've adjusted your exposure in this tab and you've adjusted your white balance here and you're like ah I'm just starting from scratch maybe just click there and it all goes back to the beginning we covered how to do some exposure adjustments going to the right gets brighter going to the left it gets darker we talked about how to add your highlight indicator so that you can see if there's blown out areas we talked about the dynamic range the highlight in the shadow now let's go over to our next tab which is our color tab so you can see here I have color balance but again I can just close these or open these by clicking on those little greater than signs and I can drag these around configure this however you like if you find yourself making certain adjustments first then put it at the top and then sort of work your way down set it up so that you have a comfortable workflow so I have mine set up for base characteristics to nike on d850 that's what I shut it on I have the basic curve but like other parts of capture one whenever there's a box like this with the arrows on the right you can click on the box and you can see what the other options are you can explore different curves so these are different preset curves for your image and you may find that you like film high contrast over the auto curve if that's closer to what you want your finished image to look like then why not start there so you can set it like that I'll just go back to auto but again if you wanted to say compare it so we'll go film high contrast we look at our backwards arrow we hold the option key on the map alt on the pc we click on that now we can compare auto to film high contrast so you could say wow that almost looks like exactly how I want it so anyway you can do that that's sort of the preview feature so what I would do too is I shot this in auto white balance and if I wanted to compare say how it looked with a different white balance I just click on the box like all the other boxes and I could say well how would it look if I shot it with this setting sunny or let's say I shot it with flash and you can see these adjustments are being made for you so that's the kelvin kelvin that's the temperature and then the tint now you can also adjust these by going left we'll cool it down going right we'll warm it up you can adjust these manually just by sliding these sliders or you can choose these custom settings to get you sort of in the ballpark and you can say well there was a bit of cloud how does that look like compared to how I shot it so you can see I shot it at 53 86 with a tint of 2.1 but let's say I go to cloudy and I say okay well let's compare it so the option key or alt backwards arrow that's how I shot it and that's how it would look like if it was cloudy and you might find that you like somewhere in the middle so you could say well 53 86 59 let's go with 5600 so it's easier sometimes to just highlight the box type it in and say 5600 and there's my tint do I want to go a little more green or a little more magenta or am I happy with the zero and let's say we go with about one go a little bit to the right so you can make those adjustments and then if you don't like it again you just hit the backwards arrow or again holding the option or alt clicking here comparing the before and after so those are some base adjustments so those are the basic adjustments that I make I usually make an exposure adjustment maybe a little contrast if I'm not going to photoshop highlight and shadow and then I'll go over and I'll fine tune the white balance now you can fine tune the white balance if you shot it in raw if you shot it in jpeg you can't make those white balance adjustments so it's always a good idea to shoot in raw that gives you some latitude when it comes to post if you want to change your white balance now let's cover one more thing so we have the ability to add layers so we were on the background layer now if I want to add another layer so say I want to just do something to a layer I'm going to click here and we see we have layer one now if I click on that I could say top gradient so I'm going to add a gradient to this and I'll call this one top gradient so now I'm working on this layer now you can see up here if you look at the top we have sort of what looks like a square with a little sort of half something there if I hit B on my keyboard then we just have a brush now I've hit G on my keyboard now I have the gradient tool that's the easiest way to do it now all I have to do is drag and drop from the top you see how if I get close to the image I have that plus symbol now I can drag here but now I can go left or I can go right if I want a straight gradient so straight hold the shift key on my keyboard and that keeps it straight so drag it down and now you can't see anything so if I hit the M key that'll show the mask that we have so if you thought oh I want this a little bit lower I didn't go quite far what we could do is we could go back or we could just get rid of this whole thing so for example I could hit delete on this right here I highlight on it delete that's gone I could say let's just start over so now I've got that layer one we'll just call it top for now and now I've got my mask enabled so to see that you hit the M key M we have our G key for gradient M for mask and then I'm going to hit the shift key and I'm going to drag this gradient down so you could see also to where that's falling you can see how at the very bottom it's white so just sort of have a look at that now when I drop that we can see that we have more of the sky where it gets to the mountains now I can make adjustments to this so I can change the exposure so I'm going to hit the M key again so that we can see what we're doing now you can see here I have exposure adjustments right here I'm on the top layer this is only going to affect the top layer these adjustments now I can bring down the exposure in the sky so darkening the sky a little bit now if I wanted to sort of darken the bottom say I thought the foreground was too bright I'll do the opposite I'll create a new layer I'll call this one bottom I'm going to click on here and just say bottom and I'm going to make adjustments to this so this is highlighted in orange so now I'm going to take my gradient tool so I'm on G and I'm going to just drag it up hold shift I see the little plus symbol I come up to about here and now I can add that just drag down that exposure a little bit so I've darkened the bottom and the top now I can toggle either of these on or off and say well you know did that gradient make a difference do I need it do I not so I have these on different layers so I can do different things with it now there's a lot more into capture one I don't want to go too long with this video but I'll do more videos on capture one in the future let me know in the comment section below what you'd like me to cover in future capture one tutorials just post a little comment in the comment section below so earlier I mentioned if you're on the trial or you're thinking of getting a new version of capture one or upgrading to a newer version of capture one you can use the promotional code AMB Craig AMB Craig to save 10% so when you check out you would just put that in the promotional code I'm not sure if they call it that or the voucher code or the coupon code but if you punch that in on checkout that will save you 10% on future 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