Author: Alexander Svet

Capture One has just released Capture One 21 (14.4). The free update introduces the new Export Tool Tab and Cross Recipe Tokens for multiple recipes. Fujifilm photographers can now change camera settings during Live View. Also, Capture One now supports tethered shooting with Sigma fp and Sigma fp L cameras. Finally, the 14.4 update adds Magic Brush shortcuts, password-protected sharing, and boosts catalog performance. Download Capture One 21 14.4, and let’s take a closer look at all the improvements. The New Export Tool Tab The previous update’s radical change in the export workflow resulted in frustration among old-time Capture One…

Let’s talk about custom styles! I’m pretty sure you’re familiar with the primary features of styles in Capture One. Today I’ll share my top hints for creating superior styles in Capture One! Avoid Image-Dependent Tools In my styles, I prefer avoiding image-dependant tools, such as White Balance, Levels, and Exposure. A particular White Balance might fit your color grading just perfectly. Unfortunately, there is little chance that this effect is replicable on other images, making your WB-based style pretty useless. Still, sometimes, I use very extreme values of WB that look more or less similar on different images. For instance,…

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Capture One has just released Capture One 14.3.1 update and introduced a new tool – Capture One Live! Capture One Live allows you to share photos online directly from Capture One. Your clients can access shared images on any device using a web browser to view, rate, and color tag them. The results are synchronized with Capture One in real-time so that you can get feedback on your images without exporting them. You can provide access to a particular folder or an album, as well as to the capture folder so that reviewers will see new images in real-time as…

Capture One has just released Capture One 21 (14.3) update, and you’ll just love it! Seriously, it’s one of the most exciting free updates of Capture One ever. We have got an entirely new tool – Magic Brush, that allows you to create a complex mask from color in a single brush stroke. Just like old color range masks, but on steroids, it’s much faster and smarter. Moreover, Magic Brush works with colorless areas as well, making it a real game-changer in RAW editing. Next, Capture One developers have fully redesigned the export workflow, making it way more user-friendly. There…

Capture One offers a wide variety of tools to work with. Still, it’s not quite evident which of them should be applied first, what tools go next, and which adjustments are designed to finish up RAW-processing? Let’s dig into this topic and try to find out the right order of applying tools in Capture One. In our research, we’ll use all that we know about Capture One and… common sense! Capture One Processing Pipeline Capture One engine processes your adjustments in the sequence determined by its internal processing pipeline. Paul Steunebrink has done a great job on reverse engineering it,…