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Capture One Pro Review
Capture One Pro
Thomas Boldt
Effectiveness: Extremely powerful editing and library management tools
Price: $37/month or $164.52/year. Expensive compared to similar products
Ease of Use: Huge number of tools and controls make UI confusing
Support: Thorough tutorial information available online for new users
Summary
Capture One Pro sits at the very high end of professional image editing software. This is not software intended for casual users, but rather for professional photographers looking for the ultimate editor in terms of RAW workflow, from capture to image editing and library management. If you have a $50,000 medium-format digital camera, you’re probably going to be working with this software above all others.
Despite this original purpose, Phase One has expanded Capture One’s capabilities to support a range of entry-level and mid-range cameras and lenses, but the interface still maintains its professional-level approach to editing. This makes it a daunting program to learn, but the reward for taking the time is truly amazing image quality.
What I Like: Complete Workflow Management. Impressive Adjustment Control. Huge Range of Supported Devices. Excellent Tutorial Support.
What I Don’t Like: Slightly Overwhelming User Interface. Expensive to Purchase / Upgrade. Occasionally Non-responsive Interface Elements.
Capture One Pro is Phase One’s RAW image editor and workflow manager. It was originally developed specifically for use with Phase One’s extremely expensive medium-format digital camera systems, but has since been expanded to support a much wider range of cameras and lenses. It features a complete range of tools for managing a RAW photography workflow, from tethered capturing to image editing to library management.
What’s New in Capture One Pro?
The new version offers several new updates, they are primarily improvements on existing features. For the complete list of updates, you can view the release notes here.
No, it isn’t. But there is a 30-day free trial offered for you to evaluate this RAW editor.
How much is Capture One Pro?
There are two options for purchasing Capture One Pro: an outright purchase which costs $320.91 USD for a 3-workstation single-user license, or a subscription plan. The subscription plan is broken down into several single-user payment options: a monthly subscription for $37 USD per month, and a 12-month prepaid subscription for $164.52 USD.
Table of Contents
Why Trust Me for This Review
Hi, my name is Thomas Boldt, and I’ve been a photographer for over a decade. I have worked as a professional product photographer in the past, and I am a dedicated photographer in my personal life as well. I’ve been actively writing about photography for the last several years, covering everything from image editing tutorials to equipment reviews. My experience with image editing software started with Photoshop version 5, and has since expanded to cover a wide range of software that covers all skill levels.
I’m always on the lookout for impressive new image editing tools to incorporate into my own personal workflow, and I take the time to explore each new piece of software thoroughly. The opinions I share with you in this review are entirely my own, and I share the same conclusions that I make when considering purchasing editing software for my own photography practice. Phase One has had no editorial input on this review, and I did not receive any special consideration from them in exchange for writing it.
Capture One Pro vs. Adobe Lightroom
Capture One Pro and Adobe Lightroom are both RAW image editors that aim to cover the entire editing workflow, but Lightroom has a somewhat more limited feature set. Both allow for tethered shooting, the process of attaching your camera to your computer and using the computer to control all the camera’s settings from focus to exposure to actually firing the shutter digitally, but Capture One was built from the ground up for such usage and Lightroom has only added it recently.
Capture One also provides better support for localized editing, even going so far as to include a layering system similar to that found in Photoshop. Capture One also provides a number of additional workflow management options such as variant management, where you can easily create virtual copies of an image and compare various editing options, as well as control over the user interface itself in order to create custom workspaces that match your particular requirements and style.
A Closer Review of Capture One Pro
Capture One Pro has an exhaustive feature list, and there’s no way that we can cover every single aspect of the software in this review without it being 10 times longer. With that in mind, I’m going to go through the major features of the software, although I was unable to test the tethered shooting option. My much-beloved Nikon camera finally suffered death by misadventure at the beginning of July after almost 10 years of shooting, and I haven’t replaced it with a new one yet.
Please note that the screenshots used in this review are from the Windows version of Capture One Pro, and the Mac version will have a slightly different user interface.
Installation & Setup
Installing Capture One Pro was a relatively simple process, although it did also install a number of device drivers to enable the tethered capture feature, including drivers for its own medium-format camera system (despite the fact that I won’t be buying one unless I win the lottery). This was a minor inconvenience, however, and it hasn’t impacted the daily operation of my system in any way.
Once I ran the program, I was presented with a number of options about which licensing version of Capture One I was going to use. If you have a Sony camera you’re in luck, as you can use the Express version of the software for free. Of course, if you’ve shelled out $50,000 for a Phase One or MiyamaLeaf medium-format camera, paying a few hundred dollars for the software is hardly a drop in the bucket – but regardless, those lucky photographers get free access as well.
Since I’m testing the Pro version, I chose that option and then the ‘Try’ option. At this point, I was starting to wonder when I’d be able to actually use the software, but instead I was presented with a more important choice – how much help did I want?
Considering that this is professional-quality software, the amount of tutorial information available was quite refreshing. There were a great number of tutorial videos covering a range of potential use cases, complete with sample images that could be used to test out the various editing features.
Once I clicked through all this, I was finally presented with the main interface for Capture One, and my first thought was that it was extremely confusing. There are control panels everywhere without a great deal of immediate differentiation, but a quick mouseover identifies each of the tools and they’re fairly self-explanatory – and they start to make more sense once you realize just how powerful this program is.
Working with Image Libraries
In order to experiment with how Capture One worked, I decided to import a huge batch of my own photos to see how well it handled a fairly large library import.
Processing wasn’t quite as fast as I would have liked, but it was a relatively large import and Capture One was able to handle it all in the background while I used my computer for other tasks without causing any significant performance issues.
Library management features will be quite familiar to anyone who has used Lightroom in the past, providing a range of different options for categorizing and tagging photos. Star ratings can be applied, as well as a variety of colored tags for separating out images according to any system you care to devise. You can also filter libraries by keyword tags or GPS location data, if it’s available.
Tethered Shooting
As I mentioned earlier, my poor D80 took a swim in Lake Ontario earlier this summer, but I still took a quick look through the tethered shooting options. I’ve used Nikon’s Capture NX 2 software for tethered shooting in the past, but the features in Capture One seem far more advanced and comprehensive.
There’s also a mobile companion app available called Capture Pilot, which allows you to use a number of the tethering functions from your mobile device, acting as a sort of super-powered remote shutter. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to test this either due to my temporary lack of a camera, but it would be an extremely useful feature for still-life studio photographers who need to be constantly adjusting their scenes.
Image Editing
Image editing is one of Capture One’s star features, and the degree of control it allows is quite impressive. It correctly identified the lens that I had used to take my photos, allowing me to correct for barrel distortion, light falloff (vignetting) and color fringing with a simple slider adjustment.
White balance adjustment functioned in a similar way to most software, but the color balance adjustments were handled in a unique way that I’ve never seen before in any of my image editing experience. I’m actually not sure how useful it would be for practical purposes, but it definitely allows an impressive degree of control in a unique interface. The poor green meerkats could be returned to normal with a single click of the ‘reset’ arrow on the color balance control panel, however.
Exposure controls were a bit overzealous when used with automatic settings, but using automatic settings in a program like this is sort of like putting a Formula One racing engine into a child’s toy car. Suffice to say that the exposure controls were as powerful as you would expect from a professional-quality program, and allow for as much control over exposure as you can accomplish with Photoshop.
Speaking of Photoshop, another of Capture One’s more useful features is the ability to create layered adjustments, similar to what can be done in Photoshop. This is accomplished by creating masks that define the areas to be affected, with each mask on its own layer. The number of image elements that could be controlled in this localized fashion was quite impressive, but the actual masking process could definitely be improved. Painting masks felt slow, and there was a decided delay between passing the cursor over an area and actually seeing the mask update when moving too quickly. Perhaps I’m just too accustomed to Photoshop’s excellent masking tools, but on a computer this powerful, perfect responsiveness should be no issue at all.
The User Interface
There are several unique little user interface features that make working with the program a bit easier, such as the on-location navigator that can be called up when working at various zoom levels by pressing spacebar.
Additionally, it’s possible to completely customize what tools appear where, so you can easily declutter the user interface to match your particular style. The tradeoff for this power seems to be that unless you customize, things are a bit overwhelming at first until you start to get used to them.
Curiously enough, occasionally when I was using the software I would find various elements of the user interface unresponsive. After closing the program and re-opening it during the course of my testing, I found that suddenly all of the previews for my images had disappeared. This didn’t seem to indicate that they needed to be regenerated, but more like Capture One had just forgotten to display them. Nothing I did could induce it to show them, except restarting the program, which is rather odd behavior for expensive professional-level software, especially once it has reached the current version.
Reasons Behind the Ratings
Effectiveness: 5/5
Capture One offers all the capture, editing and organization tools that you would expect from expensive, professional-level software. The image quality it produces is extremely impressive, and the range of tools it has for correction are equally impressive. It’s an extremely effective workflow management tool, and it can be completely customized to match your particular needs.
Price: 3/5
Capture One is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. Unless you’re perfectly happy with what’s available in this version, it would probably be most cost-effective to purchase the subscription license, as that keeps your version of the software up-to-date. Of course, if you’re working with the kinds of cameras that the software was originally designed for, price won’t be a primary concern.
Ease of Use: 3.5/5
The learning process for Capture One is pretty complex, and I found myself still having issues with it despite spending hours working with it. That being said, it can be completely customized to match your particular working style, which would likely make it much easier to use – if you can take the time to figure out how best to organize everything. Not all photographers have experience with user interface design, and the default setup could use a bit of streamlining.
Support: 5/5
Considering how daunting this software can be, Phase One has done a great job of introducing new users to the software. There are plenty of tutorials available, and every tool links to an online knowledge base that explains the functionality. I never felt it was necessary to contact their support staff, but there’s an easy support contact form on the website as well as an active community forum.
Capture One Pro Alternatives
DxO PhotoLab (Windows / Mac)
OpticsPro offers a number of the same features as Capture One, and provides much more support for quick adjustments. However, it doesn’t offer any kind of tethered image capture option, and it has virtually no library management or organizational tools. Still, for every day professional and prosumer use, it’s a much more user-friendly option – and it’s also cheaper for the ELITE Edition. Read our full PhotoLab review for more.
Adobe Lightroom (Windows / Mac)
For many users, Lightroom will provide all the features required for day to day image editing and library management. The latest version of Lightroom CC has also included tethered capture support, which puts it more squarely in competition with Capture One, and it has a very similar set of organizational tools for managing large image libraries. It’s only available as a subscription, but can be licensed along with Photoshop for just $10 USD per month. Read our full Lightroom review for more.
Adobe Photoshop CC (Windows / Mac)
Photoshop CC is the great grandfather of professional image editing applications, and it shows it with how many features it has. Layered and localized editing is its strong suit, and even Phase One admits that it wants Capture One to work alongside Photoshop. While it doesn’t offer tethered capture or organizational tools on its own, it does work well with Lightroom to provide a comparable set of features. Read our full Photoshop review for more.
You can also read these roundup reviews for more options:
Conclusion
Capture One Pro is an impressive piece of software, aimed at the extremely high-end level of professional image editing. For most users, it’s a bit too powerful and finicky for daily usage, but if you’re working with the highest of high-end cameras you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more capable piece of software.
Overall, I found its complex user interface to be a bit off-putting, and the couple of random display issues that I ran into didn’t help my overall opinion of it. While I admire its capabilities, I think it’s more powerful than I really need for my own personal photography work.
Final Words
So, should you switch to Capture One? It all depends on what you’re looking for.
If you really want to get off the Adobe subscription model and you don’t need to edit across various devices or platforms, it’s a great option.
It’s also a great option if you work with color a lot, need annotations or shoot tethered. Studio photographers might also choose to organize by sessions rather than the catalog.
With Capture One Pro, there’s simply no better software for viewing and editing RAWs as they were meant to be viewed by the camera manufacturer.
In the words of Master of Photography Peter Eastway, “Using Capture One after using Lightroom is like looking through a window that was once dirty.”
On the other hand, if you shoot in HDR or create panoramas, regularly use third-party plugins, face recognition, or need to use the cloud, Capture One won’t work for you. Also, if you need precise and powerful keywording options, Lightroom has this part nailed.
Price-wise it’s really up in the air, with Capture One generally coming out more expensive than Lightroom and certainly more than Luminar, On1, or even DxO Optics Pro.
However, you are able to buy Capture One Pro 12 outright, which is more than we can say for Lightroom…
What do you think? Is it worth the switch?
Highly Recommended
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Description
Note: Capture One for iPad is not free. We offer a free 7-day trial when starting a subscription.
Experience powerful RAW conversion, desktop-quality editing tools and file management that takes your photographic workflow to another level.
Shoot directly to iPad – wired or wireless: Go from shoot to delivery out in the field quickly with tethered shooting to iPad – both with a cable and without! Instantly check your images in the moment on a bigger screen, ensuring sharpness and quality without any disappointments later. Make collaboration easier and increase client confidence during the photo shoot by showing images as they are being captured, and even deliver photos quickly and directly with being able to edit and export immediately from your iPad.
Cull, edit, and export on the go: Step away from your desk and take your workflow on the go – make image selects, apply adjustments, and export your final photos to seamlessly share with clients and team members.
Start on the road, finish at home: Start editing on the road or while on location. Arrive home and pick up right where you left off in Capture One Pro, with all your edits as you left them.
Made for mobile: Use your device to its full potential with an app that is truly made for iPad, including gestures, touch interactions and Metal support.
Features
Capture: Tether camera wirelessly or via a USB cable to the iPad, apply Next Capture Adjustments.
Image editing: Take creative control of your images with powerful and precise photo editing tools, such as Styles & Presets, HDR adjustments, precise color editing and the ability to tweak exposure and contrast to your liking.
Organization: From a single photo to thousands of shots, stay on top of your projects with smart file management tools.
Photos can be imported from Files, Camera Roll, or by connecting any external device such as your camera or card reader.
The ability to sort, filter and cull images allows you to manage your catalog as you see fit – with handy export options that allow you to control the size, quality, and watermarking of your processed files.
Workflow and performance: Batch edit with ease, copy and paste adjustments across multiple images and even export as EIP for further editing on desktop. All made possible within a tailormade, snappy touch screen interface.
Transform: Crop, Rotate and Keystone to obtain the perfect frame.
Details: Process high quality RAW files with the sharpest details.
Adjust moiré, sharpening, clarity & structure, simulated film grain and noise reduction, to ensure your images are pixel perfect.
Cloud ecosystem: Make the most of Capture One’s cloud eco-system by sending your images, their adjustments, and metadata from your iPad to desktop. Start working on the go and finish at home with the power of Capture One Pro.
Version 1.1.2
You can now shoot tethered directly via USB cable or Wi-Fi
Remotely trigger a capture from your iPad with our first shutter button iteration
Automatically apply the same adjustments to all tethered photos by enabling the “Next Capture Adjustments” toggle
Change the Fujifilm simulation of your Fujifilm RAW files from the dedicated tool
Export Originals and TIFF files
Use Auto Adjust to quickly edit your images
Change the Wheel and “Quick Edit” sliding directions in the app’s Gestures & Shortcuts section within the Settings page
Get tips on how to use the gesture interactions with our new Onboarding view
Other bug fixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
I already paid on the mac app
there really is no point of paying for the ipad app version when we already made payment for the capture one mac software.
Doesn’t work - must match your Apple ID
This is worthless. The app requires that your Apple ID and associated email matches your email information with Capture One. I already have an account with Capture One. I’m not going to create another account just so I can evaluate this app for 7 days. I am also not going to make my Apple email match my email business email. Apple and business are completely unrelated. In the FAQs fo the app: “Do I log in with the same account?” FAQ answer: “ Yes, you log in with the same account that you use for Capture One Pro on desktop. Ensure that your Apple ID uses the same email address.” This is a non-starter. Really… I could not even preview the app. Get a different developer that understands the we need 7 days to actually use the app to see if it has value. Then we can OPT IN after trying the app. Hopefully the app developers will allow us to run the app for 7 days, maybe limit us to 10 photos until we OPT IN. Please write a new version of the app. I deleted the app and I will wait for a re-write of this app. I will NEVER make my email addresses match. Apple and work are unrelated.
Clunky interface, lacks major features but still a subscripiton
The interface designers tried something. Well, at least they tried. This doesn‘t work well at all. Lightroom (while more classic) is still so much faster to work with.
Very basic keyboard support, can‘t do any editing with keys. Their system with the quick keys is great on desktop and would be a natural fit on an iPad. It baffles me to not find this in the app.
Also forget about filtering anything in this app except for ratings, stars or date. Yup, that‘s it. No metadata jpg/raw filtering.
No support for working on catalogs/session via external memory.
This list just goes on and on, really. I know they need to start somewhere but sorry, this is just not good enough to be considered an alternative to Lightroom. You‘re making your own life harder by trying to use the app. The time you might „save“ by using this app while in transit you‘ll loose trying to get the files off the device and into your sessions/catalog. Especially if it‘s more than 3 photos you‘re working with.
They have to sink another year or two into this app until it *maybe* catches up with today’s Lightroom.
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Information
Seller
Capture One A/S
Size
443.8 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
Languages
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
Capture One Pro is feature-rich with just about everything a photographer needs in an editing app.
As far as photo editors go, there are a couple of places where Capture One just rocks it. I’ve already mentioned interface customizability, but that’s just the starting point.
Here are a few of the other advantages of using Capture One Pro over Lightroom, or most of the other image editing softwares out there:
👍🏼 Excellent Raw File Conversion
Each brand has their own special recipe for rendering RAW files, but Capture One has long been known for being exceptional.
I knew this going in and I wasn’t disappointed. especially in terms of excellent color rendering, dynamic range, and detail capture.
For me, the way that Capture One displays and treats RAW files far exceeds anything I’ve seen in Lightroom or any of the other image editing applications in 2022.
Take a quick look at the video below to see how the photographer uses Capture One Pro to edit high-end fashion portraits.
It’s also interesting to hear how he uses Capture One in conjunction with Photoshop to create his final piece – evidentially, it’s easy to switch from one program to the other, for a seamless editing workflow.
👍🏼 Adjustment Tools
As far as the level and selection of standard adjustment tools are concerned – exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, white balance, and so on – Capture One is up there with the best. In the Pro version, there’s everything you need.
Some things are done differently, however. For example, to newcomers the “vibrance” adjustment seems to be missing, but Capture One users the “saturation” adjustment as a vibrance adjustment.
To edit straight-up saturation you need to go to another tab. I wouldn’t have known this if I hadn’t been doing research, but I guess that’s the case whenever you use a brand new software.
There are plenty of useful autocorrect options for just about every tool, and these work better than my version of Lightroom. (I’m not using a version with AI.)
The auto levels adjustment seems particularly spot on. I’m not a big fan of autocorrect on my portfolio photos, but for non-critical photos I don’t mind speeding up my workflow by using them.
It would take an entire separate blog post to go through all Capture One Pro offers in terms of adjustments, but suffice it to say, you’ll find just about everything you need and and at a pro level. (The Express version is obviously a bit more limited.)
👍🏼 Masks and Layers
Like Photoshop, Capture One Pro (not Express) allows you to edit in layers. Lightroom has adjustment points for brushes or gradients, but that isn’t quite the same thing. (Capture One has these too.)
When you use layers in Capture One Pro, you can make targeted adjustments to your photos and still use the majority of the image editing tools available, not just the ones in a given tool. This is a huge benefit for those who like a fine level of control over photo manipulation.
For mask creation you can paint them in manually, create a linear gradient mask, or a radial gradient mask (similar to Luminar, actually). It also offers a feathering tool and edge refinements.
The Luma Range feature in Capture One Pro is a particularly useful way of selecting areas of an image.
Everything from Levels to Color Balance tools work in layers, and you can adjust the opacity of each edit layer – something that can only be done by way of a third party plugin in Lightroom (see these Lightroom Tips for more info).
This latest version of Capture One Pro 12 now has luminosity masks. They’re called Luma and can be found in the layers dialog.
This is definitely a feature win for Capture One and a reason why many pros really love it.
👍🏼 Color Adjustments
If you’re someone who likes to fine tune your color, you’ll fall in love with what Capture One can do. It’s one of the places that it’s always been ahead of Lightroom.
Capture One’s Color Balance tool is more like color grading. Unlike most other editing programs, Capture One doesn’t limit you to the 8-color HSL panel – the Pick Color tool allows you to pick any color or color range in the image.
From there you can adjust the affected color range, hue, saturation and lightness. The 3-Way option even lets you adjust the color tint separately in the shadow, midtone and highlight areas.
Do you want to affect the blues in your photo, but not the blue-greens? Easy! Need to smooth out the skin tones? No problem. Simply choose the Skin Tone tab, select a color range, and adjust the uniformity sliders.
Of course, most of Capture One‘s truly advanced color tools are only available with the Pro version. The Express version just has the Basic tab.
Also, these aren’t adjustments most beginners (or even some pros) would necessarily gravitate to and they do take some time to learn.
However, if you want to have complete control over your color, Capture One certainly wins hands down over Lightroom and everyone else in the same niche.
👍🏼 Tethering
If you shoot in a studio, odds are you know the value of shooting tethered. There’s nothing like seeing the images expanded onto a computer screen as you shoot them. It allows you to check for detail you just can’t see on your camera’s screen.
Most studio photographers who shoot tethered already use Capture One. After all, that’s what it was originally made for and it particularly excels in that area.
Tethering features in Capture One Pro makes it the obvious choice for studio photographers.
With it you can control just about everything via the tether, including details as particular as the flash curtain sync mode. You can also see your camera’s live view on your computer screen.
If you were ever thinking of shooting tethered, Capture One is the editing software to try first.
👍🏼 Spot Healing
While most of today’s editing programs have some version of spot healing, Capture One does it faster and smoother than both Lightroom and Luminar. (I haven’t yet tried OnOne yet but will be reviewing it soon.)
Unlike Lightroom, the healing points don’t overlap, making it easier to work with fine adjustments. It also just looks better – almost on par with Photoshop (which is where I usually do my more difficult spot healing).
👍🏼 Annotations
If you send your work off to an editor or work with a team, Capture One Pro has an annotations feature that makes collaboration much easier.
The annotations feature works well in Capture One Pro, especially with the Microsoft Surface Pro or a tablet device.
It lets you add notes directly to the photo – basically a layer that you can draw/write on. Definitely helpful for collaborative editing or sending an image with notes off to a client.
👍🏼 Choice Between Sessions and Catalog
Not everyone likes working with a catalog system, especially if you have a particularly high volume of photos, do a lot of individual shoots, and/or already have a good hard drive file organization system.
Capture One allows you to organize according to your photography sessions instead of of using the catalog. It’s why Capture One is a popular choice for studio pros.
If you’re coming from Lightroom you’ll probably automatically gravitate to the catalog, but it’s nice to know you have choices.
👍🏼 Speed and Performance
Many say that Capture One actually outperforms Lightroom in terms of both speed and stability.
To be honest, I haven’t tested the two softwares side by side extensively enough to draw my own conclusions on this.
👍🏼 Styles
Similar to Lightroom’s presets but a whole lot more powerful, Capture One Styles are one-click solutions for bringing some life to your RAW files.
You can apply Styles to enhance curves, saturation and tonal adjustments in your images – all without changing key capture parameters like exposure and white balance.
There are several Styles available by famous photographers, helping you emulate their color grading.
👍🏼 Fujifilm Film Simulations
One of the huge benefits of using Fujifilm X-series camera are the built-in film simulations like Acros, Classic Chrome, Velvia etc.
Capture One 12 now adds the ability to change the starting point of your editing to one of the film simulations, as Curves within the Base Characteristics Tool.
Capture One Pro
Capture One
Photo editing software
Capture One (also known as Capture One Pro) is a photo editing application, developed by Phase One. In addition to image editing it performs image cataloguing, raw image file processing, and tethered photography.[1] Capture One works with raw files from many different digital cameras as well as TIFF, PSD, JPEG, and DNG image files. Since 2020, Capture One has operated as an independent entity.
Features[edit]
Capture One 21 is available for macOS and Microsoft Windows. It is localized for Chinese (simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Swedish.
There is a version available for owners of digital camera backs from Phase One, Mamiya, and Leaf called Capture One for Phase One (digital back only).
Versions of the software that work only with Sony, Fujifilm or Nikon digital camera raw images are available called Capture One (for Sony)/Fujifilm/Nikon or the free versions called Capture One Express (for Sony)/Fujifilm/Nikon.
Features include[2] film grain, healing and cloning tool, Layers, keystone correction, black and white conversion, ability to print directly from Capture One, and extension to iPad and iPhone with Capture Pilot,[3] noise reduction, color correction, spot removal, High Dynamic Range tools, lens tools and sharpening tools.
Version history[edit]
Capture One 22 — December 2021 - Panorama, HDR merge, Wireless Tethering for Canon, Auto Rotate for horizons
Capture One 21 — December 2020 - Speed Edits, new Dehaze tool, ProStandard ICC profiles, revamped importer, easy brush adjustments, Leica tethering, HEIF file support
Capture One 20 — December 2019 - New Healing tool, new Basic Color Editor, High Dynamic Range Tool, improved noise reduction, scrolling tools, improved Crop Tool, support for DNG files, support for copying layers and masks, interface improvements, image culling tools and new keyboard shortcuts.
Capture One 12 — November 2018 - New User Interface, Luminosity Mask, Linear Gradient Mask, Radial Gradient Mask, Plug-in Capabilities, Fujifilm Film Simulations
Capture One 11 – November 2017 - New Annotations tool, Layers integration and Masking versatility.
Capture One 10 – December 2016 - New Camera Focus tool, new Filter for orientation of images, more Apple Script properties, Optimized for Jpeg Output, LCC for 100MP, move folders in catalogs, compressed raw support, auto masking and openCL default. New lens and camera body support.[10]
Capture One 9 – November 2015 - Improved DNG color treatment, Luma curves and local curves, revised contrast algorithms and asset management tools.
Capture One 8 – September 2014 - Improved image quality, repair layers, film grain, local white balance, improved user interface.[9]
Capture One 7 – Catalogs, advanced OpenCL
Capture One 6 – December 2010[8]
Capture One 5 – October 2009 Capture One 5 PRO, Capture One 5 DB, Capture One 5.[7]
Capture One 4 – Capture One 4 PRO, Capture One 4 DB, Capture One 4 – first in December 2007[5] and in October 2008 for the PRO version,[6]
Capture One PRO, Capture One DB, Capture One LE
Timeline[edit]
2003: The independent Capture One brand was established, when we began supporting other camera brands
1994: Capture One was only a raw conversion and tethering tool for Phase One cameras
References[edit]
Final Words
So, should you switch to Capture One? It all depends on what you’re looking for.
If you really want to get off the Adobe subscription model and you don’t need to edit across various devices or platforms, it’s a great option.
It’s also a great option if you work with color a lot, capture one pro, need annotations or shoot tethered. Studio photographers might also choose to organize by sessions rather than the catalog.
With Capture One Pro, there’s simply no better software for viewing and editing RAWs as they were meant to be viewed by the camera manufacturer.
In the words of Master of Photography Peter Eastway, “Using Capture One after using Lightroom is like looking through a window that was once dirty.”
On the other hand, if you shoot in HDR or create panoramas, capture one pro, regularly use Movavi PDF Editor Crack Key For U plugins, face recognition, or capture one pro to use the cloud, Capture One won’t work for you. Also, if you need capture one pro and powerful keywording options, Lightroom has this part nailed.
Price-wise it’s really up in the air, with Capture One generally coming out more expensive than Lightroom and certainly more than Luminar, On1, or even DxO Optics Pro.
However, you are able to buy Capture One Pro 12 outright, which is more than we can say for Lightroom…
What do you think? Is it worth the switch?
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Description
Note: Capture One for iPad is not free. We offer a free 7-day trial when starting a subscription.
Experience powerful RAW conversion, desktop-quality editing tools and file management that takes your photographic workflow to another level.
Shoot directly to iPad – wired or wireless: Go from shoot to delivery out in the field quickly with tethered shooting to iPad – capture one pro with a cable and without! Instantly check your images in the moment on a bigger screen, ensuring sharpness and quality without any disappointments later. Make collaboration easier and increase client confidence during the photo shoot by showing images as they are being captured, and even deliver photos quickly and directly with being able to edit and export immediately from your iPad.
Cull, edit, and export on the go: Step away from your desk and take your workflow on the go – make image selects, apply adjustments, and export your final photos to seamlessly share with clients and team members.
Start on the road, finish at home: Start editing on the road or while on location. Arrive home and pick up right where you left off in Capture One Pro, with all your edits as you left them.
Made for mobile: Use your device to its full potential with an app that is truly made for iPad, including gestures, touch interactions and Metal support.
Features
Capture: Tether camera wirelessly or via a USB cable to the iPad, apply Next Capture Adjustments.
Image editing: Take creative control of your images with powerful and precise photo editing tools, such as Styles & Presets, HDR adjustments, precise color editing and the ability to tweak exposure and contrast to your liking.
Organization: From a single photo to thousands of shots, stay on top of your projects with smart file management tools.
Photos can be imported from Files, Camera Roll, or by connecting any external device such as your camera or card reader.
The ability to sort, filter and cull images allows you to manage your catalog as you see fit – with handy export options that allow you to control the size, quality, and watermarking of your processed files.
Workflow and performance: Batch edit with ease, copy and paste adjustments across multiple images and even export as EIP for further editing on desktop. All made possible within a tailormade, snappy touch screen interface.
Transform: Crop, Rotate and Keystone to obtain the perfect frame.
Details: Process high quality RAW files with the sharpest details.
Adjust moiré, sharpening, capture one pro, clarity & structure, simulated film grain and noise reduction, to ensure your images are pixel perfect.
Cloud ecosystem: Make the most of Capture One’s cloud eco-system by sending your images, their adjustments, and metadata from your iPad to desktop. Start working on the go and finish at home with the power of Capture One Pro.
Version 1.1.2
You can now shoot tethered directly via USB cable or Wi-Fi
Remotely trigger a capture from your iPad with our first shutter button iteration
Automatically apply the same adjustments to all tethered photos by enabling the “Next Capture Adjustments” toggle
Change the Fujifilm simulation of your Fujifilm RAW files from the dedicated tool
Export Originals and TIFF files
Use Auto Adjust to quickly edit your images
Change the Wheel and “Quick Edit” sliding directions in the app’s Gestures & Shortcuts section within the Settings page
Get tips on how to use the gesture interactions with our new Onboarding view
Other bug fixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
I already paid on the mac app
there really is no point of paying for the ipad app version when we already made payment for the capture one mac software.
Doesn’t work - must match your Apple ID
This is worthless. The app requires that your Apple ID and associated email matches your email information with Capture One. I already have an account with Capture One. I’m not going to create another account just so I can evaluate this app for 7 days. I am also not going to make my Apple email match my email business email. Apple and business are completely unrelated. In the FAQs fo the app: “Do I log in with the same account?” FAQ answer: “ Yes, you log in with the same account that you use for Capture One Pro on desktop. Ensure that your Apple ID uses the same email address.” This is a non-starter. Really… I could not even preview the app, capture one pro. Get a different developer that understands the we need 7 days to actually use the app to see if it has value. Then we can OPT IN after trying the app. Hopefully the app developers will allow us to run the app for 7 days, maybe limit us to 10 photos until we OPT IN. Please write a new version of the app. I deleted the app and I will wait for a re-write of this app. I will NEVER make my email addresses match. Apple and work are unrelated.
Clunky interface, lacks major features but still a subscripiton
The interface designers tried something. Well, at least they tried. This doesn‘t work well at all. Lightroom (while more classic) is still so much faster to work with.
Very basic keyboard support, can‘t capture one pro any editing with keys, capture one pro. Their system with the quick keys is great on desktop and would be a natural fit on an iPad. It baffles me to not find this in the app.
Also forget about filtering anything in this app except for ratings, stars or date, capture one pro. Yup, that‘s it. No metadata jpg/raw filtering.
No support for working on catalogs/session via external memory.
This list just goes on and on, really. I know they need to start somewhere but sorry, this is just not good enough to be considered an alternative to Lightroom. You‘re making your own life harder by trying to use the app, capture one pro. The time you might „save“ by using this app while in transit you‘ll loose trying to get the files off the device and into your sessions/catalog. Especially if it‘s more than 3 photos you‘re working with.
They have to sink another year or two into this app until it *maybe* catches up with today’s Lightroom.
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Size
443.8 MB
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iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
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English, Dutch, French, German, capture one pro, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
In Capture One Pro, there are plenty of options when right-clicking.
Every program takes some getting used to, and Capture One is no exception. In fact, as similar as it may seem to Lightroom, capture one pro, it’s actually quite a steep learning curve.
In the brief time I’ve been using it, I’ve become aware that, given time to get used to it, the interface is even more powerful than Lightroom’s.
Unlike Lightroom, Capture One’s interface doesn’t offer different workspaces for different functions (i.e. library, develop, etc.). Instead, everything sits in one interface and you toggle through buttons to change functions.
There’s a toolbar at capture one pro top with different tool options (6 in Express, 11 in Pro) and a side panel with 8 different options which you toggle through by clicking on the buttons at the top.
Right-click options and short-cuts abound, and like Photoshop many of the tools have a number of other options when you right-click on their buttons.
What makes Capture One’s interface so capture one pro is its customizability. Like modern cameras, capture one pro, you can basically reassign just about everything to just how you’d like to use it.
It starts with simple options like where do you want your filmstrip viewer (you’ll notice that at least one of these screenshots has it on the capture one pro and then progresses to being able to assign quick keys to just about anything.
Here the film strip is on the bottom, similar to a Lightroom layout.
Making the transition from Lightroom? Simply put your filmstrip on the bottom panel and the adjustment panels to the right.
You can even assign the same keyboard shortcutscapture one pro Capture One Pro as you use in Lightroom. This is particularly awesome if you have an established workflow and know what you use the most.
All this being said, the high learning curve often has me frustrated. There are multiple ways of doing everything, but usually I can’t find them and have to look them up in the help manual. Simple things like renaming files or switching from grid to single image view are different in Capture One and they all take some getting used to.
Still, I doubt it’s really any harder than learning Lightroom – given a few more days using solely Capture One to edit and manage my photo library and I’m confident I can master it.
Capture One Pro 12 Pared-down (free) version for Fujifilm or Sony
If you shoot exclusively on a Sony or Fujifilm camera, a pared-down version of Capture One (called “Express”) is available for free.
Capture One Express comes with basic editing and workflow features of the Pro version, but lacks many others, including Luma curves and luminosity masks, Advanced Color Editor and Skin Tone tools, Capture one pro, Local adjustments, capture one pro, Focus Mask, Keystone, Film Grain, Tethering, Color Balance Tool etc.
(To download Capture One Express, capture one pro, click here then select any product, sign up, then choose ‘Express’
Capture One Review
Capture One
Photo editing software
Capture One (also known as Capture One Capture one pro is a photo editing application, developed by Phase One. In addition to image editing it performs image cataloguing, raw image file processing, and tethered photography.[1] Capture One works with raw files from many different digital cameras as well as TIFF, PSD, JPEG, and DNG image files. Since 2020, Capture One has operated as an independent entity.
Features[edit]
Capture One 21 is available for macOS and Microsoft Windows. It is localized for Chinese (simplified), Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Swedish.
There is a version available for owners of digital camera backs from Phase One, Mamiya, capture one pro, and Leaf called Capture One for Phase One (digital back only).
Versions of the software that work only with Sony, Fujifilm or Nikon digital camera raw images are available called Capture One (for Sony)/Fujifilm/Nikon or the free versions called Capture One Express (for Sony)/Fujifilm/Nikon.
Features include[2] film grain, capture one pro and cloning tool, Layers, keystone correction, capture one pro, black and white conversion, ability to print directly from Capture One, and extension to iPad and iPhone with Capture Pilot,[3] noise reduction, color correction, spot removal, High Dynamic Range tools, lens tools and sharpening tools.
Version history[edit]
Capture One 22 — December 2021 - Panorama, HDR merge, Wireless Tethering for Canon, Auto Rotate for horizons
Capture One 21 — December 2020 - Speed Edits, new Dehaze tool, ProStandard ICC profiles, revamped importer, easy brush adjustments, Leica tethering, HEIF file support
Capture One 20 — December 2019 - New Healing tool, new Basic Color Editor, capture one pro, High Dynamic Range Tool, improved noise reduction, scrolling tools, improved Crop Tool, support for DNG files, support for copying layers and masks, interface improvements, capture one pro, image culling tools and new keyboard shortcuts.
Capture One 12 — November 2018 - New User Interface, Luminosity Mask, Linear Gradient Mask, Radial Gradient Mask, Plug-in Capabilities, Fujifilm Film Simulations
Capture One 11 – November 2017 - New Annotations tool, Layers integration and Masking versatility.
Capture One 10 – December 2016 - New Camera Focus tool, new Filter for orientation of images, more Apple Script properties, Optimized for Jpeg Output, LCC for 100MP, move folders in catalogs, compressed raw support, auto masking and openCL default. New lens and camera body support.[10]
Capture One 9 – November 2015 - Improved DNG color treatment, Luma curves and local curves, revised contrast algorithms and asset management tools.
Capture One 8 – September 2014 - Improved image quality, repair layers, film grain, local white balance, improved user interface.[9]
Capture One 7 – Catalogs, advanced OpenCL
Capture One 6 – December 2010[8]
Capture One 5 – October 2009 Capture One 5 PRO, Capture One 5 DB, Capture One 5.[7]
Capture One 4 – Capture One 4 PRO, Capture One 4 DB, Capture One 4 – first in December 2007[5] and in October 2008 for the PRO version,[6]
Capture One PRO, Capture One DB, Capture One LE
Timeline[edit]
2003: The independent Capture One brand was established, when we began supporting other capture one pro brands
1994: Capture One was only a raw conversion and tethering tool for Phase One cameras
References[edit]
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