Author: Alexander Svet

Today Palette presented an updated version of Palette Gear controller for Capture One. Palette Gear is a modular controller, that can be fully customized for your editing preferences. Basically, Palette Gear offers a variety of different control modules and you’re free to mix them any way you want. The new Palette Gear controller gives you a direct access to Exposure, White Balance, Clarity, Levels, HDR, Black & White, and other Capture One tools. Plus, you can individually customize the range, sensitivity, and function of each module for Capture One. According to Palette, in January 2019, they are going to add…

Today Phase One released Capture One 12 with a mass of long-awaited features. The new Capture One 12 brings Luma Range Masking, Radial gradient (finally!!), reworked Linear gradient and publishing Plug-ins. Plus: The new interface Fujifilm Film Simulation A number of user experience improvements (my favorite one – copy/apply adjustments can now ignore cropping!) Ok, begin downloading Capture One 12, grab something nice to drink and get yourself comfortable. We’re heading to inspect Capture One Pro 12’s new features in all their detailed glory! 1. The New Interface Capture One developers called the new interface “super flat” and yes, can…

Hi, folks! I’m on vacation in Sicily now! This picture I’ve taken a few days ago with my favorite travel camera – Sony RX1 Mk II. If you also own a Sony camera and you use Capture One Express Sony I have some important news for you. Phase One just announced that on the 25th of September they will increase the prices for: – Capture One Pro Sony (same for bundle) – Capture One Pro Sony Upgrade Share this info with your Sony-photographer friends! Why upgrade to Sony Pro? You will get: – Fantastic Layers (seriously, you’re missing half of…

Let’s talk about keyboard shortcuts in Capture One. Do you use it? Have you created your custom set of hotkeys? In my Free Guide to Capture One, you’ll find out how other photographers are using shortcuts in Capture One. Here I wish to discuss Capture One features which have no shortcut’s by default, but you can set them up manually. Top five hotkeys I highly recommend you to assign: 1. “Delete” shortcuts As you might know from my article “Why It’s The Time to Upgrade Your Capture One 9”, there are three different ways to delete your files in Capture…

Today Phase One presented the new XF IQ4 Camera Systems and released Capture One 11.2.1. Phase One XF IQ4 Camera Systems are built upon the new and expandable Infinity Platform. Three full frame medium format camera systems, based on the Infinity Platform, include the IQ4 150MP (151-megapixels), the IQ4 100MP Trichromatic (101-megapixels), and the IQ4 150MP Achromatic (151-megapixels). Capture One 11.2.1 is a service release supporting the new range of digital backs. Also, the update brings new lenses support (Sony FE 400mm) and bug fixes for Mac and Windows versions of Capture One 11. To learn more about the 11.2…

Here and at my Capture One Live Show, we’ve already discussed lots of tools for editing in Capture One. Today, let’s look under the hood of Capture One. I found three preferences you need to set up: 1. Preview Size That’s an essential feature of Capture One engine that has a significant impact on your catalog size. The point is that Capture One generates preview images for each image you’re working with. The larger the preview size is, the more space it takes. That’s why larger preview size would make your catalogs (or image settings folders in sessions) noticeably bigger.…