Author: Alexander Svet

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

Capture One Fujifilm is a new version of a professional RAW converter designed to work with Fuji RAF files only. It offers industry-leading RAW editing tools and allows you to get maximum out of your Fuji RAF files. Capture One Fujifilm has two running modes: Express and Pro. Fujifilm Express is a completely free version of Capture One with a basic set of image editing tools. Fujifilm Pro offers all the professional features of Capture One and comes with a special, lower price tag. Which version of Capture One is it better to choose for Fuji photographer? Where to find…

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Today Phase One presented three new style packs developed by well-known photographers and retouchers: Michael Woloszynowicz, Marie Bärsch, and Pratik Naik. Each pack contains 7 styles, so, in effect, they are making 21 styles in total. I had a chance to test them a bit and here is my first impression: The new styles look really nice! As any other styles, these can’t be used universally, but they fit pretty well many of my portrait images. I don’t expect styles to work perfectly on any given photograph; rather I use styles as a source of inspiration. So it’s great to…

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What happened with my Fujifilm RAWs in Capture One 12? After Capture One 12 has been released, I hear this question quite regularly. Some Fuji photographers noticed that their Fuji RAWs look different now in Capture One 12 and they can’t understand what actually happened. The reason for this matter is the new Fujifilm Film Simulation feature which uses Base Curve to apply a film profile. By default, the Base Curve is set to the Auto mode in Capture One. Now, here is the thing: In Capture One 11 and older versions, the Auto mode always chose regular Film Standard…

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3D LUT Creator version 1.52 was just released and among other nice features the update brings these two: Saving of .costyle files along with ICC files for Capture One Loading and saving .copreset curves files for Capture One This is really exciting news! I’ll try to test this feature in the following days and will give you a more detailed review soon. Stay tuned! And If you are not familiar with 3D LUT Creator – I highly recommend you to inspect it closely. This app delivers fantastic tools for color correction!

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According to X-Rite, Capture One users can now create custom ICC camera profiles with new public beta software. “Creating ICC profiles is simple as 1, 2, 3! 1. Photograph a ColorChecker Passport or any ColorChecker Classic in raw file format. 2. Process the TIFF file in Capture One using the recommended settings. 3. Use Camera Calibration software v1.2 to create your custom ICC camera profile for use in Capture One. Quit and reopen Capture One. Your newly created ICC camera profile is now available and ready to use based on your specific camera and lens combination during your shooting session.”

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