Author: Alexander Svet

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

Capture One offers a variety of tools for copying image adjustments. If you’re a novice mastering Capture One, I suppose you need batch editing for either of these tasks: 1. To copy all image adjustments from one image to another. Just use shortcuts! On Mac Shift + Cmd + C to copy and Shift + Cmd + V to apply adjustments. In Windows Shift + Ctrl + C/V, accordingly. When I’m editing images, my left hand is always positioned by the keyboard to work with shortcuts. And Capture One has lots of them! They are quick and easy to use…

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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. Plugins were introduced in Capture One 12 and… they went kind of unnoticed at the release. There is a fair reason for this – there are only a few plugins available at the moment. But still, plugins can be really beneficial to your workflow, so I decided to test all of them and share my experience with you here. This week I have tried the Format…

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Two years ago I published an article with my ten reasons to switch to Capture One 9. It had dozens of thousands of views and hundreds of shares and comments. Thank you all for your feedback. Time has passed, and Capture One 10-12 releases brought us new robust features to be added to the list. That’s why I have updated the post and divided it into two parts. The first part is dedicated to amazing features that Capture One delivers besides the processing itself. The second part, which you’re reading, is all about the RAW editing; Layers with opacities, RGB…

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Some of my colleagues are still using old versions of Capture One and thus are missing a lot of new RAW editing tools. That’s pretty reasonable – update costs money and you’ve already got used to good-old editing tools… Well, this is exactly how you’re slowly strangling your creativity. At some moment you will notice that photographers around you are editing images better, faster and with next-level results. The reason for this is rather simple – bit by bit they were implementing innovative tools in their workflows! Now, these photographers are using all of them and you’re still tied to…

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Two years ago I published an article with my ten reasons to switch to Capture One 9. It had dozens of thousands of views and hundreds of shares and comments. Thank you all for your feedback. Time has passed, and Capture One 10-12 releases brought us new robust features to be added to the list. That’s why I have updated the post and divided it into two parts. The first part is dedicated to amazing features that Capture One delivers besides the processing itself. The second part is all about the RAW editing; if you’re looking for new tools -…

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