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Capture One is amazing. I tried it at some point and switched to it immediately. It does much more than Lightroom, its layer system is much more flexible, and i

Capture One is amazing. I tried it at some point and switched to it immediately. It does much more than Lightroom, its layer system is much more flexible, and is faster (and not made by Adobe). I highly recommend it, my Photoshop usage dropped by 90% ever since, since I could do much more in Capture Pro.

Existenceblinks 6y ago
Same, I switched 3-4 years ago. My mistake was using LR and never tried something else for long time and wonder why my color grading skill wasn't improved that much. Once I import the same photo to Capture One and grading color the same way I do in LR, I was having a stupid face because it's so much better in anyway in Capture One. It's amazing. It's wise that they added the heal and clone tools, many people only use those two in PS.
clumsysmurf 6y ago
Last I checked Capture One was missing multi exposure things like HDR and panorama merging, has this been addressed ?
- andromeduck 6y ago
  nope
andromeduck 6y ago
Its metadata DB corrupts super easily though, back it up or you'll be sorry.
- StavrosK 6y ago
  Hmm, I do back it up but I've never had a problem.
- stan_rogers 6y ago
  To be fair, the "proper" use case is based around the Sessions rather than the "throw the Lightroom migrants a bone" database feature that was tacked on later. It was never intended to be an asset manager.
nbzso 6y ago
CO in my view is the only image editing tool created with "Grading" idea in mind. Colour correction control is amazing. Actually is the best software for photography, the only setback is €349.00 price. :) But LR is €144 per year, so.. My workflow is Fast Raw Viewer for organising and metadata, RAWTherapee for raw processing and Affinity Photo for final touches. Total cost: FRW - 20EUR / RAWTherapee - free/ Affinity Photo - 50EUR - Total: 70 EUR and no strings attached:)
- mortenjorck 6y ago
  If you only shoot with one camera (or your stable of cameras are all the same brand), you can get a single-platform version of Capture One for $130. Capture One is only super expensive if you need RAW interpreters for multiple camera brands.
  - nbzso 6y ago
    For Leica?
mortenjorck 6y ago
After Lightroom went subscription-only, I tried all the major alternatives (On1 Photo Raw, DxO PhotoLab, Exposure, Luminar, and the open-source DarkTable and RawTherapee) except Capture One, because the camera-specific versions put me off. I came away disappointed; nothing I tried quite seemed to replace what I was missing with Lightroom. A few months later, I finally decided to demo the Sony version of Capture One, and it clicked instantly.

Existenceblinks 6y ago

Same, I switched 3-4 years ago. My mistake was using LR and never tried something else for long time and wonder why my color grading skill wasn't improved that much. Once I import the same photo to Capture One and grading color the same way I do in LR, I was having a stupid face because it's so much better in anyway in Capture One. It's amazing. It's wise that they added the heal and clone tools, many people only use those two in PS.

clumsysmurf 6y ago

Last I checked Capture One was missing multi exposure things like HDR and panorama merging, has this been addressed ?

andromeduck 6y ago
nope

andromeduck 6y ago

Its metadata DB corrupts super easily though, back it up or you'll be sorry.

StavrosK 6y ago
Hmm, I do back it up but I've never had a problem.
stan_rogers 6y ago
To be fair, the "proper" use case is based around the Sessions rather than the "throw the Lightroom migrants a bone" database feature that was tacked on later. It was never intended to be an asset manager.

nbzso 6y ago

CO in my view is the only image editing tool created with "Grading" idea in mind. Colour correction control is amazing. Actually is the best software for photography, the only setback is €349.00 price. :) But LR is €144 per year, so.. My workflow is Fast Raw Viewer for organising and metadata, RAWTherapee for raw processing and Affinity Photo for final touches. Total cost: FRW - 20EUR / RAWTherapee - free/ Affinity Photo - 50EUR - Total: 70 EUR and no strings attached:)

mortenjorck 6y ago
If you only shoot with one camera (or your stable of cameras are all the same brand), you can get a single-platform version of Capture One for $130. Capture One is only super expensive if you need RAW interpreters for multiple camera brands.
- nbzso 6y ago
  For Leica?

mortenjorck 6y ago

After Lightroom went subscription-only, I tried all the major alternatives (On1 Photo Raw, DxO PhotoLab, Exposure, Luminar, and the open-source DarkTable and RawTherapee) except Capture One, because the camera-specific versions put me off. I came away disappointed; nothing I tried quite seemed to replace what I was missing with Lightroom. A few months later, I finally decided to demo the Sony version of Capture One, and it clicked instantly.