hansvons Posted May 9 Share #1  Posted May 9 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi, I'm not affiliated with Capture One in any way, but I reckon some here might be interested in why Capture One exists and thrives like never before. Our post-production tool influences our photography subtly but hardly noticeably to the outside world. Just because the neighbour's lawn looks greener, changing your workflow won't improve your results and always comes with high costs. Money is the least important issue; think of your library and muscle memory, learning curve, you name it. That's why I always advise sticking to your workflow if you are happy. That said, if you are genuinely looking for a new editor, a photography hub, because your game has changed and you are now wrangling with loads of images shot at events, start shooting tethered and client-supervised in a studio or location, you may want to look at Capture One's newest release. I shoot fashion here and then in a studio setup, tethered and client-supervised. If that's what you are doing, you already use Capture One. However, there's so much more to it. Here's a short list of features I use daily, saving me tons of lifetime. Capture One has upgraded its unique Sessions Workflow. Sessions is a self-organising set of customisable folders that point to a particular project, allowing for sorted folders, e.g. a particular garment on a fashion shoot, a person on a portrait shoot, different locations or topics on an event shoot, or even various aspects when shooting a landscape project. Because the folder structure is organised in your computer's file system, it's easily accessible. They have added a new Retouch tool (public beta), a brilliant machine-learned tool to fix skin issues without that gross plastic look many other applications cause. It's subtle but effective and astonishingly fast. They also added a tool called Match Look a few months back that allows you to load any image for reference (moods, own photos, whatever), and let Capture One do the grading. After the fact, everything can be changed or tweaked to your liking. Super convenient for event shoots. Their AI-based crop tool is a godsend when batch cropping is required, e.g., you need identical crops on a portrait or fashion shoot. One click, copy/paste, and thousands of images share the same crop. I also shoot lots of my stuff on film, and hence need a tool to convert my negs and grade them for the printer. Here, Capture One shines too because of its tethering capabilities (I use my DSLR for scanning) and its brilliant Levels tool (in separate RGB mode), which is indispensable when colour separation is essential to you. It uses .icm profiles for camera profiling. It can't get easier if you want to customise that (I use inverted camera profiles with different gamma curves for negative conversion).  Is Capture One cheap? No. But it's faster than any other editor, including LR, because it is made for photographers and editors with valuable time. That's why it has layers, etc., to make a PS round trip unnecessary in many instances (you can do that, of course). From that perspective, it's the most affordable editor on the market. https://www.captureone.com/en   Edited May 9 by hansvons 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Derbyshire Man Posted May 10 Share #2 Â Posted May 10 (edited) All those things are great and I really like it. The addition of some simple tools like Gaussian blur to go with resize would be excellent for softening various areas or whole images without going to (and subscribing to) photoshop! Also better integration with excire would also be very helpful. Edited May 10 by Derbyshire Man 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jps1 Posted May 11 Share #3  Posted May 11 On 5/9/2025 at 9:28 AM, hansvons said: Hi, I'm not affiliated with Capture One in any way, but I reckon some here might be interested in why Capture One exists and thrives like never before. Our post-production tool influences our photography subtly but hardly noticeably to the outside world. Just because the neighbour's lawn looks greener, changing your workflow won't improve your results and always comes with high costs. Money is the least important issue; think of your library and muscle memory, learning curve, you name it. That's why I always advise sticking to your workflow if you are happy. That said, if you are genuinely looking for a new editor, a photography hub, because your game has changed and you are now wrangling with loads of images shot at events, start shooting tethered and client-supervised in a studio or location, you may want to look at Capture One's newest release. I shoot fashion here and then in a studio setup, tethered and client-supervised. If that's what you are doing, you already use Capture One. However, there's so much more to it. Here's a short list of features I use daily, saving me tons of lifetime. Capture One has upgraded its unique Sessions Workflow. Sessions is a self-organising set of customisable folders that point to a particular project, allowing for sorted folders, e.g. a particular garment on a fashion shoot, a person on a portrait shoot, different locations or topics on an event shoot, or even various aspects when shooting a landscape project. Because the folder structure is organised in your computer's file system, it's easily accessible. They have added a new Retouch tool (public beta), a brilliant machine-learned tool to fix skin issues without that gross plastic look many other applications cause. It's subtle but effective and astonishingly fast. They also added a tool called Match Look a few months back that allows you to load any image for reference (moods, own photos, whatever), and let Capture One do the grading. After the fact, everything can be changed or tweaked to your liking. Super convenient for event shoots. Their AI-based crop tool is a godsend when batch cropping is required, e.g., you need identical crops on a portrait or fashion shoot. One click, copy/paste, and thousands of images share the same crop. I also shoot lots of my stuff on film, and hence need a tool to convert my negs and grade them for the printer. Here, Capture One shines too because of its tethering capabilities (I use my DSLR for scanning) and its brilliant Levels tool (in separate RGB mode), which is indispensable when colour separation is essential to you. It uses .icm profiles for camera profiling. It can't get easier if you want to customise that (I use inverted camera profiles with different gamma curves for negative conversion).  Is Capture One cheap? No. But it's faster than any other editor, including LR, because it is made for photographers and editors with valuable time. That's why it has layers, etc., to make a PS round trip unnecessary in many instances (you can do that, of course). From that perspective, it's the most affordable editor on the market. https://www.captureone.com/en   You say "Is Capture One cheap? No.", I just compared the Lightroom subscription with Capture One! Lightroom: €14.64 / month or €175.44 / year My capture one (subscription since 2018) = €115 / year  Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrMi Posted May 11 Share #4  Posted May 11 7 hours ago, jps1 said: You say "Is Capture One cheap? No.", I just compared the Lightroom subscription with Capture One! Lightroom: €14.64 / month or €175.44 / year My capture one (subscription since 2018) = €115 / year  Current Capture One subscription: $179 / year Adobe Creative Cloud (Lightroom, Photoshop, 20GB cloud storage, etc): $120 /year 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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