Author: Alexander Svet

Alexander Svet – Professional photographer and photography instructor. Phase One Certified Professional and Capture One beta tester.

Last week I have shared my plans for attending POCP in Amsterdam and suddenly I have found that some of you are not really familiar with this event! Listen, folks, I just can’t let you get away with this. Can’t leave you drowning in this dark ignorance. No, no, no. Grab my hand and read this short F.A.Q. for Phase One Certified Professional events I have written for your sake! Plus, I have dug into my image archive and found a bunch of images from Milan POCP to show you how it usually goes. Why become Phase One Certified Professional?…

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Every two years I’m heading to some nice place to get recertification as Phase One Certified Professional (POCP).  This year I’m planning to attend the POCP event in Amsterdam on 12 – 13 of June. So, if you wish to meet me and Paul Steunebrink from ImageAlchemist.net that’s a great chance to become acquainted!  What is a POCP event?  For two days we’ll be studying features of Capture One and using Phase One digital backs and medium format cameras. Each day includes live training from 9 am to 5 pm, you’ll learn lots of technical details on using Phase One…

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“How to delete an image in Capture One?” I come across this question pretty often from my Capture One students and the answer here is not as simple as you might think.  Capture One has three different tools to delete images and to have a full control over them I recommend you to set up some custom hotkeys. Open Keyboard Shortcut manager and go to Image section. Here you will find all the available tools to delete images: Delete That’s the safest tool to delete your images.  If you would use it on an image variant, this option will remove…

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This post contains affiliate links and/or codes, so if you purchase a product through such a link or with such a code, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. During March, every week I was publishing free chapters from the book “Photographer’s Guide to Capture One 12”: “Optimizing the Contrast with Levels” “Removing noise with Noise Reduction” “Normalize Tool in Capture One” Time to publish the last free chapter “Converting to grayscale with Black & White”, where you will learn about creating B&W images in Capture One. “Photographer’s Guide to Capture One 12” is a…

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After I have published my reviews of Format.com and JPEGmini plugins for Capture One, I was bombarded with messages from my readers like “Alex, the Prodibi plugin is available for Capture One as well!” or “have you already seen the Prodibi plugin?” and “not yet? and what about now?”. Ok, cool down, people. This week I have finally tested the plugin and now I understand what this hype is all about. Prodibi plugin offers several unique features, which can significantly improve your Capture One workflow: Share images with your clients and get ratings back to your catalog or session Auto-tag…

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