Author: Alexander Svet

It’s Capture-One-Hidden-Features time! Previously, we have already discovered a bunch of obscure Capture One features: Hidden Features of Alt key in Capture One Hidden Features of Shift key in Capture One Hidden Features of Export in Capture One Hidden Features of Crop in Capture One Now, let’s see how to get the maximum out of your styles in Capture One. If you’re not familiar with styles in Capture One, here is a nice tutorial to learn all the basic features of styles. Structuring Styles into Folders First and foremost, you need to learn to access Capture One styles system folder.…

Capture One has recently revealed that they are developing an iPad app, and it’s coming in early 2022! Awesome news! Still, we all have many questions about how Capture One could look and work on iPad. So, let’s try to guess what we can expect from the new app. How will Capture One sync data between iPad and Desktop? Obviously, there should be some cloud service to sync files, image adjustments, and styles from your desktop machine with your tablet and vise versa. However, Capture One doesn’t have one. Yet. On CaptureOne.com, you can now notice a new “We’re hiring!”…

Hot news for Mac users of Capture One! Capture One has released an update for Capture One 21 that brings long-awaited Apple M1 native support. Additionally, with the 14.2 update, Capture One 21 has switched to Metal instead of OpenCL for hardware acceleration on M1 machines. The update adds several new camera and lens profiles: Sony a7R IIIa (ILCE-7M3A) Sony a7R IVa (ILCE-7M4A) Fujifilm Fujinon GF100-200mm F5.6 R LM OIS WR Fujifilm Fujinon XF200mmF2 R LM OIS WR + 1.4X TC F2 WR Leica APO-Elmar-S 180mm f/3.5 (CS) Sony FE 14mm F1.8 GM (SEL14F18GM) Sony FE 24mm F2.8 G (SEL24F28G)…

There are several ways to copy the color grading from a reference image with Capture One. Today, I’ll show you the simplest method that doesn’t require advanced image editing skills. However, you still need to understand two fundamental principles of working with reference images. First, reference and target images should have a similar plot. It’s pretty pointless to copy color grading from a landscape to a portrait or a wedding shot. Color plays an important but not the main role in how we perceive an image. Without a context, color simply loses the ability to deliver a message. That’s why…

Capture One has just released the 14.1.1 update that brings support for three new cameras: Olympus E-M10 Mk IV Sigma fp L Sony FX3 (Including tethering support) Also, Capture One 14.1.1 now supports the new Sony Lossless Compressed RAW file format. Apart from new camera profiles, the 14.1.1 update adds several new lens profiles: Canon RF 15-35mm F2.8L IS USM Canon EF 35-80mm f/4-5.6 Mk III Leica Vario-Elmar-S 30-90mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH Nikon AF 24-85mm f2.8-4D IF Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D NIKKOR ED Pentax HD D FA 28-105mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR Zeiss Milvus 1.4/35mm ZE Plus, the update contains a…

I enjoy experimenting with classical color contrasts in Capture One! One of my favorites is warm-cool contrast; it works excellently to enhance your image perception. When you have a strict warm-cool contrast on an image, viewers can evaluate the picture faster and with less effort. This simplicity of perception makes it easier to recognize objects on an image and understand the general plot. Our brain just loves such warm-cool contrasts! Here are three Capture One tools that will help you to implement it in your editing. Gradients The main feature of gradients is the smooth transition of the masked area.…