@Jesse Duran Try Dxo Photolabs It's a one off purchase which is significantly cheaper than Capture One. They have a 30 day free trial and once the trial is over they normally offer a 20% or 30% discount if you decide to buy the software. I found it very easy to use and overall gives great results.
also you can just get a perpetual licence instead of the endless subscribtions shit. which atm is really starting to annoy me so im trying capone out now.
Hi Adam. Great video. Couple of pointers: - learn to use the layers. They add so much more editing freedom and options; - if you go to the adjustments tab you actually do get a lot of the tools in one menu that you can scroll through. - go to the Capture One Leaning Hub and watch most or all of the webinars with David Grover and Alexander Flemming. They helped me out so incredibly much. Keep at it and you'll learn to love it soon!
I switched to Capture one 2 years ago and instantly my workflow and quality improved significantly, so much so that I am going back through all my old raw files a redoing a lot of my fave pics
Good video. I switched from LR on the recommendation of a pro photographer I met a few months ago. I basically didn't want to update LR from v.7. The newest version of Capture One does have a library module (not as robust as LR) and the interface is totally customizable. Your right, the color module is more powerful than what LR has. It would be interesting to do a comparison with Luminar 2018 which will eventuality have a library module.
If you set the details in Capture One correctly it will bring out much more information during pixel peeping and non of the fuzzy Lightroom-mush. Once you get used to that you won't be able to return. You should also use the LCC feature to remove vignetting and colour cast from your image, it gives you an absolutely clean image.
Capture one is sooooo good! I made the switch after using lightroom for YEARS. and after an hour with Capture one I was sold. The biggest thing for me, was the Layers. You can adjust EVERYTHING in capture one when you make a mask and make adjustments. whereas lightroom you are pretty limited with adjustments on masks. also the fact you can put presets on layers in capture one, and lower the opacity (and any layer mask edits, for that matter) also, the mass amount of options for exporting is way nicer in capture one. I will say, I do still have lightroom because as mentioned, HDR merging in lightroom is just very nice to have. so for the images I bracket, I still use lightroom, because I have it and its there.
I'm giving Capture one a try. Both programs work the same for me, but I love how in Capture one gives me more control on the colors and has the layers options. The ability the customize the panels is very nice too.
Lightroom is more versatile for me. In terms of quality it depends on your style. They are both great. I personally love most things adobe. This is becoming the new Mac vs pc, iPhone vs Android. In the end it doesn’t matter.
I googled "Capture One vs Lightroom" for the very reason of the point you made within the first 1 min of this video. That sir, convinced me to keep watching. I have been battling Lightroom with a 850 image shoot I did for a client that I ended up having to split into 4x catalogues just so I could even reasonably process the images. Even then I am experiencing crazy input delay and 15+ secs every time I perform an action.. It's driving me up the wall.. My computer should really give Adobe no excuse either.. On that note.. I am going to continue watching yoru video.
There is a library view, simply use CTRL+ALT+V (or change the shortcut to what you want) to close the viewer and all your thumbnails show up just like it looks in LR.
Missing a lot of the functionality in C1Pro. UI is completely customisable, curves available as local adjustments, Luna curve adjusts contrast but not colour like RGB curve, masks can be feathered and refined like in PS, colour editor selections can be turned into masks etc.
switched to capture one when I upgraded to digital medium format last year. At first I did it on the off chance that I needed to tether my camera, but I don't really shoot in a studio. Starting using C1 for doing my normal raw processing as well and I fell in love with it. Felt weird abandoning lightroom after nearly 9 years of using it, but the change was needed.
Like the video but re one thing, the layers, I do like how Capture One separate layers like Photoshop on the panel while Lightroom has 'dots' overlay on the image itself instead. However, Lightroom actually has exactly the same feature with adjustment brush and in fact, you can even select range of colours (like the colour wheel) and luminance mask or colour range mask too, which is quite powerful.
Nice go-through and comparison! I see that Lightroom is more all-round fully featured than Capture One (C1). C1 appears to me, as you show, much more capable when it comes to color editing and handling colors in general. Also, I really like the sharpening that C1 applies out of the box - the images do not get oversharpened and still they are very sharp. I'm shooting a 5DsR and have color-profiled the combinations of my camera, my lenses and my filters under sunlight conditions, into ICC profiles for C1 using the Lumariver software (very cheap compared to anything else I've seen, and very good, although a bit nerdy and complicated). The colors that come out my C1 are just beautiful and truthful - much more pleasing than those from my color-managed Lightroom workflow (both workflows using the same ColorChecker Passport). Additionally, having done the calibration process right in Lumariver gives me the ability to recover up to 2 stops of highlights in C1 from my Canon, which I haven't seen with any of the tools I used previously (Lightroom/ACR, DxO). This basically eliminates my needs to go HDR (except a very few ocassions) - likely thanks to good and well-tuned algorithms that C1 uses... especially thinking about the highlight and shadow recovery sliders. When it comes to software choices... I often use multiple editors. I started with Lightroom and still subscribe to Adobe Cloud because of the inexpendable Photoshop. Then I added DxO PhotoLab (which has the best optical corrections known to me) - that's a perpetual license. Finally I went for C1 to reduce a lot of my time spent editing (especially considering my color management workflow... previously DxO + Lightroom), and C1 has been very effective at saving my time. So now I can use all three of the editors. When I need near optimal optical corrections, C1 + DxO does it best (since C1 is not as good at neither noise reduction nor correcting chromatic aberrations). You could surely do something similar with C1 and Lightroom or just use Photoshop in addition to C1 if you needed.
Re the layers thing: Maybe Adobe expect users to flip over to Photoshop to do certain tasks? Capture One is not part of a suite, so is designed to have everything in the one application. Dunno. Is that a fair comment?
All the layer support is in Photoshop, albeit not on the RAW file, which is licensed with LR ..... and Photoshop includes lots of other capability. I’m looking at what do do for my editing software .....pros and cons to both
C1 'reads' .psd files, so you can just have the .psd file, work on top of it in C1 or open it in PS in a click. So, no they do actually try to connect with Adobe products. I guess LR does the same, but I've never used LR. I don't think for one minute that they are trying to replace PS. They do keep adding features so many people will probably have to use PS less, but no way are folks not going to have to go to PS or something similar.
The capture one sharpening is way better than lightroom. But for some reason inside capture one it does not display it well. Also I find CO default sharpening settings not to be optimal for me. When sharpening try setting Amount to 25-50%, Radius to about 10-20 % and halo suppression to about 50-80% and then compare the outputted files between LR and Co in an image editor. You should see that CO destroys LR. I used LR for years and have used CO for a couple of years. The difference in image quality when you know how to use it is quite something. The colour editor is superb. You can select a colour range and even part of the saturation range for that colour. then you can create a later mask from that selection it and use nearly all of the other adjustments on your selected colour with this new layer. And of course you can wipe away what you don't want. And above all there is the speed! When you have to edit many files CO you can just tear through them with CO.
Like others, I'd be interested in a LR / ON-1 comparison. I've been using ON-1 2019 for a couple of weeks: very impressed. Blends all the more important LR/Photoshop photo processing and cataloguing features into a single non-destructive interface. I use Affinity Photo for other actions such as making collages etc (focus stacking also seems better there). I use the free Faststone viewer for quickly scanning though images (excellent)
I made the change, really happy I did. Once you’re familiar with how to use it you won’t ever look back to LR, plus, after doing several comparison tests at various focal lengths, ISOs, etc..., I found that EVERY time Capture One rendered my photos better in the end. Very noticeable sharpness and noise differences.
Focus stacking, panorama stitching and HDR stuff are the only extra things I'd love to see in Capture One. A tip Adam, go to Window > Workspace > Migration, that will make C1P look more Lightroom-y
Cool thanks Peter. To be fair the default interface is pretty well laid out and I got used to it really quickly. With the Loupedeck switching the tabs for me it was a really nice user experience.
@@Firstmanphotography Cheers. In addition to it moving the tools to the right it combines the Exposure, Details and Colours tabs into one big tab, something you mentioned in your video. You can do much of this yourself by right-clicking any tab and using the 'Add tool' or 'Add Tool Tab' menus and customising just about everything. You can even get rid of the defaults altogether and start from scratch with only the ones you want.
Adam, thanks for putting up this video. Yeah, I was about to say that you can move _any_ tool or tool tab you want to any place you want in C1. Like you, I like having some of my tools under the Exposure tool tab including Clarity, Sharpening, and the Color Editor. Also, I've shot with Fuji and C1 together for quite a long time, over 6 years now, I've found that I prefer to use a sharpening value of about 178 for Fuji files as opposed to the default C1 value. C1 provides much better sharpening than LR when you are sharpening high-frequency detail, eg. foliage, tips of tree brances, hair, animal fur, etc. Last, but not least....Capture One 12 just shipped two days ago and it now supports full _Luminosity Masking_ in all layers. Furthermore, you can export the Luma Range of a "master" Luminosity Mask to all your other files, and it will apply that Luminosity mask in your other images regardless of where the luma range is in the image; you cannot do this with brush-based luminosity mask in PS, by contrast. Also, they have significantly improved the Linear Gradient tool as well as the Radial gradient tool. You have much more control over the gradient, the gradient "distribution" and feathering than you do in LR, AND....you can apply luminosity masking with a brush using the Rasterize commnand, and still have the lumonsity masking from the Brush tool only be appled to the Luma Range you defined with the Luma Range tool in layers. This is EXTREMELY powerful. I've used LR since the year-long Beta in 2006 and C1 since Version 7 as it was the only app that could properly sharpen Fuji RAF files from the X-Pro1, and C1 12, IMHO, leaves LR in the dust, on the whole. Check out Capture One Pro 12, it is quite amazing. Cheers from the USA, -Stephen.
When I switched to C1 about 4 years ago, I rang a colleague of mine who was already using it to tell him how pissed off with him I was for not recommending it to me! The only advantages of LR are in workflow. C1 the best choice for a photographer who values image quality. The perfect RAW conversion is through the proprietary software that comes with your camera, but C1 does it beautifully and has powerful adjustment tools.
you may want to try the ON1 2020 30-day trial. It has HDR, panorama, and focus stacking. But it's slow on my computer, but that may be because it has an old fashioned hard drive instead of an SSD. I'm trying it, and i find that it has some of the same glitches that the 2018 and 2019 versions had. I'll see how it goes. The trial is free, so you may want to try it for yourself.
A quick tip if you haven't already done so. In the settings menu in lightroom uncheck the hardware acceleration option on the graphics card. It made mine much faster.
this video is much better than a lot of the other 'pro capture one' vids, because it realises that capture one's 'initial' RAW import preset is just different to LR's ... its not that the files actually 'look' better!
Thanks buddy. People were continually telling me to try it, so I listened. I have realised how ingrained in the Adobe ecosystem I am though. If I decide to switch to Capture One I cant see the migration being much fun.
@@Firstmanphotography I absolutely love the library, keywording system and the organising in general. I think it will be hard for me to not having that.
Hi Morten. I'm a bit exited to hear that you want to try C1 since you mostly use Nikon gear (so do I). I have used LR since Adobe came out with their first version, and I have generally always been very happy with it. But I stopped at ver. 5 because they changed to the subscription model which I didn't want (and ver. 6 didn't do much for me). The thing is that I always though the Nikon color in LR could be better, so I tried C1 ver. 11, and I almost always like the color better from C1 than the ones from LR. Even though I see myself as a skilled LR user that knows how to make color adjustments. Another difference I see is that C1 has a way of handling the pictures that - in my oppinion - gives a better acuity/sharpness of the photos. I see this already on import of the RAW files. It may not be different for other cameras but for Nikon I can easily see a difference, and I like it. I don't know if LR has changed their RAW engine since ver. 5 though. But the more I use C1 the better I like it. It does take some time to get used to, but I think it's worth it. Maybe you will give us your thoughts one Friday... :-) Sorry Adam for giving this to Morten. I'm of course exited to hear your thoughts now and when you have tried it a bit more. You guys do a great job, and I follow both of you. I often don't make any comments though... Now I did :-)
I have a nikon D850 and capture one ,i swtch from lightroom to capture because it was so slow and had some bugs ,i am so clad to have maid the switch ,much more easy and fast Also affinity photo is like photo shop but much more easier from my point of view
What with all the insane behavior of Adobe of late, I have been very seriously considering abandoning them in favor of either Capture One or ON1 or perhaps Affinity. Have you compared the three alternatives? I also dropped Premier Pro for Vegas Movie Studio and am very happy with the change. Great video by the way - just subscribed!
lol that's funny i'm on this channel because of adobe ways as well. i've been using affinity for ipad since the release and i love it. 19.99 one time payment i can do whatever i can do in photoshop in affinity and on the go with my ipad. now i never have to carry my laptop.
Adam, your voice has joined the chorus of compliments I have been hearing about LR and PS. They just get slower and slower. You might want to look into Luminar. Almost identical to LR and they say there is a database coming next month. Or you could try my choice Affinity Photo. It is part of a suite of tools. It is extremely well supported. It does NOT require a lot of system resources. It is cheap. And it just works.
No doubt LR is a lot more fancier in terms of functionality. But if you're technical enough, C1 simply has the best RAW converter in the whole world. It's nth about the preset whatsoever, the way they deal with RAW, the picture quality is simply outstanding. And C1 accept session/catalog mounted on network drive. And they have the best tether solution in the industry. LR is simply miserable to work with, actually you simply can't work at all.
I notice you’ve converted your RAF files to DNG before doing the comparison. I say this because I just found out that LR is somehow smoothening the details in RAF files!!!! I thought I had a problem with my lens, but it is the rendering of the RAF files that does this. In Capture One they look super sharp and detailed!!!
Like the video. I've also toyed with switching to Capture One. I have a couple of frustrations with Adobe, being (1) customer service is quite unreliable and sometimes I encounter "tech support" that knows less about Lightroom than me, and (2) updates to Lightroom are frustrating. Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, Lightroom CC 2015. What the heck? Come on. Why isn't there just one Lightroom and why aren't things updated quickly for new cameras and universally?
Your adjustments are easily done selectively in Lightroom, even easier there because you have your brushes with automasking and then you're there. Lightroom is far better in this regard than CO with it's layer...
The actual image editing capabilities aren’t what concern me, but the workflow and organization process is more what I’d be interested in. Any plans for a video on that?
Yea, and you will probably have to get the free trial and spend time figuring out if you can organize and process more effectively or not in C1 because it will be different enough that you will likely not be happy using the same process as you have been. I found C1 took some time to set up, bit in layout, keys (I use keys a lot to speed things up) and setting up adjustment styles and such to make things as quick as possible.
Adam - I’ve tried C1 a few times but can never make the switch. 3 reasons - 1. you still need photoshop so there is no cost savings 2. While C1 is faster when rendering individual adjustments, it takes much longer to edit the entire photo because of a few key things missing - no auto adjustments for alignment, no radial filter, no visualize spots, the grad filter is really bad vs. Lightroom, need multiple layers for every different dodge burn adjustment and 16 is not enough and 3) xtransformer + Lightroom for fuji files is still better. Feels like C1 is about 3 generations behind. I find I have greater creative control with Lightroom and Nik Collection color efex pro
I get my camera level, so rarely feel the need to level in post, Levelling wastes so many pixels! And reduces cropping flexibility. I would like circular gradients, I expect they will come one day. I don't understand why you think you need so many layers, I do most of the adjustments I need using very few, including cloning and healing. Where I want selective exposure adjustments, I often find curves does what I want.
Although there may be an odd feature or two measurably better in C1 over LR the cost is not worth it IMO. It costs two years worth of the Adobe subscription for PS and LR so unless it was a clear and measurable hands down winner it is not for me but to each his own.
OneEyedPhotographer yes. It’s definitely an improvement. But it’s still not there for me. To each his own. I still don’t see much improvement vs using x transformer for Fuji files in Lightroom. I’m happy with my Lightroom 6+nick collection. But am only an enthusiast and edit photos sporadically.
Another great video Adam👍 I decided to ditch LR and PS about 2 months ago and bought capture one for Fuji and I use GIMP for focus blending, it's not as easy as in lightrom as it's not automated but it gets the job done, the two main reasons are no subscription and I really do feel that capture one produces better images for my Fuji RAW files, I know you did mention that capture one applies some auto presets but for me that great as it means I hit the ground running and my images are edited faster.
LR really needs to get HSL controls in the brush, gradient and radial gradient tools. Masking, they may not do simply because it could affect the PS market.
Great comparison review! I have been using Lightroom for a decade and recently gave Capture One a test drive. I feel like Capture One is a hybrid app where they have combined photoshop and Lightroom to give you an all-in-one app. I still maintain my Lightroom subscription, but I find myself using CO20 more and more each day. Are you still 50/50, let me know what you think today?
Why don't you use the hotkeys(should be ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab or custom) for switching between previous and next tabs? That way should be way faster than clicking on the icons and faster than using lightroom's scrolling solution.
The more I play around with Capture One, the more I am liking it, as well as being able to process multiple images quicker as I go along. It takes a little longer to import images than Lightroom, but exports at around the same time. (in my experience anyway). I like the way you can customize your workspace to suit your needs, making it look like LR if you want to. It will let you do so much more than Lightroom, all in one package.
Hi Another question, editing one picture is good is you are a landscape photographer. For wedding, vogue etc you need to edit a bunch of photos, not just one. You need a DAM, you need the ability to apply the same adjustments to 100s of pictures. You also need to be able to lift and stamp adjustment, tag photos etc. How do you find Capture One as a DAM or for working with many pictures?
Jaime Duncan that is the one drawback to capture 1, I have been using capture 1 off and on for a few years, I have used LR pretty steady for several years, but the latest update would make me switch to windows 10, it’s not worth it to me, and the new capture 1 12 is fantastic but still as far as I can find it is not as easy to add adjustments to several files like LR, however you can copy your adjustments from one photo and apply them to another image, but I don’t think you can do that as a batch
I have switched to Capture One a year ago, or at the least, that what says my last coment. I wrote it exactly one year ago. So I have been editing all my pictures in Capture One Pro for a year long. My opinion is: Capture has a SUPERB better color handling. Besides layers, luma layers and such, color handling is SUPERB. I like the idea that you can FULL SCREEN Curves, so you can see the histogram all along the screen, as bigger as much as you like (I personally do like looking at the histogram all the time). I also DO LIKE the algorythms for density adjustment much more than from the one of Lightroom. The one of Capture One is much more realistic and similar to the algorythm of Lightroom 1. There is just one thing I TOTALLY DISLIKE of Capture One and it's that you don't have an slider to de/haze. I use a lot to add haze in black and white wedding pictures for example, or pics which were taken in interiors with low light. Other than that, I just use Capture One Pro. It's incredible for landscape anbd fashion photography. I'm right now testing other raw editors.
Lightroom will do well with GFX raw files as its a Beyer sensor and not an X-trans which is where the problems lie. Load in an xtrans file with lots of foliage into lightroom and also C1 and you will see what people mean about LR not handling Xtrans files very well. If you are going to use LR with xtrans files then its best not to use LR sharpening at all as it can easily introduce "the worms" into your images. Give on1 photo raw 2019 a try, ive dumped lightroom since using the new on1.
Worms aren't as prominent in my shots as the horrid oil painting effect I get. I shoot woodland landscape and moss just ends up looking like a Van Gogh painting.
@@dirtywater5336 That exactly describes the issue I'm having. Not a single photo turns out the way I want it to be. Well it does. Except it doesn't look like a photo but a friggin' oil painting.... Did anyone solve the mystery?!
@@stefanmaass7053 Yeah, switch to a different RAW processor. That seems to be the best answer anyone can come up with. Adobe seems to genuinely not care about Fuji shooters. I've tweeted them and voiced my concerns on their feedback page and I get a generic cookie cutter customer relations response in return. "We're monitoring the issue closely and our team is working on a solution" Dude it's been literal years. Many other software companies have managed to render a RAF just fine. Unfortunately every other editor is just a pain in the ass to use. Capture 1 is robust but has their tools split up into tabs so you have to click into the the color tab to adjust color, then into the curves tab to adjust contrast, a different tab to apply sharpening. Just way too much clicking back and forth. Lightroom has the best user interface and control of any photo editing software but the worming and oil painting effect is absolutely atrocious. You would think with it being so easy to just cancel your cloud based subscriptions and move to a different one, Adobe would want to fix this blatant issue with RAF files. Fujifilm is officially a major player in the photography game. They need to get on board with the X-Trans thing before they lose a ton of customers, myself included
The worms are not evident in every photo but the possibility is always there if you do more than minimal sharpening in LR. There is a work-around (convert the RAW to DNG, export to PS, sharpen in PS, send it back to LR for further editing) but it is a pain. A lot of Fuji landscape photographers are using Iridient for RAW conversion and sharpening of X-trans files. But, so far, their catalog and editing tools are crude at best so it's not a complete solution. I am tempted to try C1 but like most people I'm put off by the (steep) learning curve. But as a Fuji shooter (X-Pro-2) it's looking more and more like a task I am willing to take on.
I agreed with you in the first case. But on the second and third, Even after your adjusts, it seems like capture one still cleaner and sharper. I tried capture one and really liked it. But lightroom still very complete. Also I think it's easier to work with a bunch of pictures together, like an event. It seems like the free fuji version of capture one don't allow to work with layers. One thing which very nice in capture one is that you can customize a LOT these menus.
Great real-life comparison, I love it! Layers in C1 are great, Adobe keeps it only in Photoshop still (and I guess they will). Changing HSL within mask is something that I also would like to see in LR. Hopefully it's coming in future updates, soon.
Hi Adam. I believe that you were editing GFX raw files right? The GFX series does not use x-trans. So you are probably right about not seeing a lot of difference between LR and C1. But there is a catch. If you try the same thing with a X-Trans raw file you will notice a lot more differences. On my XT20 I notice quite a bit of a difference specially when I start to sharpen. I do think that for most files LR and Camera Raw is probably doing a good enough job... but from what I’ve tried so far I’m much more happy with C1 conversions and sharpening algorithms. I’m still learning how to use the tool and you can always edit in Photoshop from C1 for extra tweaking. I’m using the free version for fujifilm btw. It would be awesome to see a review on x-trans sensor.
Before you get too impressed with Capture One, you should consider this explanation from the "Capture One 20 User Guide", chapter 4.10, "Color in Capture One": "Capture One deals with colors in two ways: internally and for output. Capture One works in a very large color space, similar to that captured by camera sensors ..." And further: "At the end of the workflow, the RAW data has to be processed to pixel-based image files, in defined color spaces. These spaces are smaller than the internal color space used by Capture One." When I exported-imported an edited image from a Sony raw file to-from Photoshop via the "Edit with ... (Photoshop in this case)", I got a tiff file back, which seemed to have been stripped from every contrast and lighting attributes applied in Capture One - an extremely flat and boring image, not at all comparable to the one I had edited. The tiff file was exported with one of the standard receipts a.o. saying "Format: TIFF, 16 bit; ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)". So, at least at that point, the ICC profile was incorporated, and the Adobe RGB is probably one of the "defined color spaces" considered "smaller than the internal color space used by Capture One." So I asked support which color space this "very large (internal) color space" was comparable to, and got this answer: "There is no easy or straight up answer to your question. Capture One is designed as 'What You See Is What You Get'. What you see in the Preview is based on your proof profile. The default display is the ICC profile being used in your process recipe." At the same time support told me, that the ICC profile tagged to the raw file from the camera, in this case Adobe RGB, was not used by Capture One, and the "process recipe" for output was the one used while editing. As a beginner with the new Capture One I had not chosen a "process recipe" up front, as I was not prompted for one, and expected it was read from the raw file. Also, the images on the screen looked brilliant. In ACR the color profile is constantly indicated in the lower panel. So, my next question to Capture One support was: if no process recipe (i.e. a color space) has been chosen explicitly, and Capture One doesn't read the ICC profile from the raw file - then, what is the default internal color space while editing? Could it be the "very large color space, similar to that captured by camera sensors"? I got no answer, but the ticket with my headline "What happened to the quality of my image" was immediately merged into other tickets with a less inconvenient headline, and in that way the inconvenient question and problem disappeared with the original ticket. From this experience it's easy to get the impression, that "what you see is NOT what you get" when the image is exported from Capture One, because all editing has been in a "very large color space", and "at the end of the workflow, the RAW data has to be processed to pixel-based image files in (smaller) defined color spaces." This leaves me with an annoying feeling of being editing in a color space I don't really know what is. The low quality of the resulting tiff file from a tour to Photoshop and back has not yet been addressed by support, so I am back in Adobe Camera Raw 12.3 which may be a bit slower, especially when cropping, but otherwise seem to be more reliable when it comes to "what you see is what you get". Finally, in the Win version of Capture One 20, Capture One managed to introduce new bugs from the 13.0.1 to the 13.1.1. update in correcting others. New bugs are constantly popping up and takes a winter to be recognized and corrected. My impression is, that the pressure to take over the Lightroom users means less initial testing, i.e. the users are the testers of what could be called "close to beta versions". Just to let you know.
Virtually the same as lightroom; adobe just needs to fix its issues with lag and address a couple of its limitations. It would be nice if lightroom had more flexibility in HSL and a layers panel would be useful. It's interesting how the line between what lightroom and photoshop does for photographers is becoming more fuzzy each year.
@@rthomp62 I can highly recommend Affinity Photo as a superb alternative to PS. Give it a try, free trail available and it feels more modern compared to PS not to mention you can do most if not all things in it. Also, a one time fee of about 50-60 bucks.
I rarely use PS but I love LR though I hate the subscription. Im a hobbyist photographer and can go weeks and sometimes even months without editing and I know I'm sending out a tenner every month that is wasted money. I have been wanting to jump ship for a while now thank you for this video Adam I like the look of C1
I like the sharpness of C1, how images just seem to pop, but I also noticed that all my Nikon and Fuji RAW files need to have that MAGENTA tint correction. I find it kind of annoying, because originally I felt like C1 gave me the best OOC starting point, but I'm finding Lightroom much more pleasing. Also, I've spent more money on Capture One upgrades than if I had subscribed to Adobe's subscription from the beginning.
Try Luminar. Or Aurora HDR. I've been putting my Fuji 50r files into Aurora and the initial results are amazing (doesn't give HDR look) then most of editing can be completed after (in aurora). I think people don't want to admit that these programs are amazing. Regards Barrie
From someone that works as a Digital Capture Tech in the commercial photography Industry CaptureOne is the better program. I know both and I use CaptureOne 99.9 percent of the time. The 0.1 times I use LR is usually a lifestyle shooter by request. People that complain about the cost, think about how much you spend on one of your cheapest lenses. Now think that every single photo you shoot goes through a raw optimizer .... why not use the one that is considered the best in the industry (C1)? Also, people that are complaining about cloning in C1 vs PS.... Photoshop is a pixel editor C1 is a raw image editor they are completely different and they are meant to work together one is good for certain things and the other is good for certain things don't compare them. Utilize them for what they are meant for. If you are a hobbyist and don't feel like spending the money or time learning a new software use Lightroom. If you are a professional or just simply want the best images you can possibly get, invest the time and money in CaptureOne.
I’d love to see you edit (perhaps once a month) one of your subscribers photo’s, using your obvious skill in the editing process. I don’t have a significant issue in taking landscape pics but editing is difficult, I can’t make them pop like you can.
Can we Batch process in Capture One? I'm a wedding photographer and I'm tired of Adobe subscription. But I need batch processing capability. During weddings with multiple images in the same scene I can edit one image and paste the setting on the others and then make minor adjustments.
It surely depends on the amount of pictures and the format you are working with. if you have to edit small batches nothing beats the dynamic duo: Br+Ps (Bridge and Photoshop) There is nothing else you o need, it is for sure the most detailed way of working especially if you consider the usability of Smart Objects. Said that, if you work with a medium format digital back, i alway suggest to develop hires tiffs from Capture One and take it from there in Ps. Capture does a much better developing, crispier, deeper... Lightroom/Camera Raw tents to mish mash the pixels a little bit too much... but this is again pixelpicking... Feel free to ask me any question!
Great video Adam. One thing to remember about lightroom, it was originally designed as a catalogue program, most of the editing back then was done in Photoshop infact I don't think LR had any editing options, I may well be wrong on that. Capture one, however, is a photo editing program from the start so it will have more features than LR in that regard which is made apparent in the fact it has no catalogue feature. In my mind, and it is just my opinion Capture one is more based towards PS, infact if I'm really honest, I see it as a hybrid of LR and PS. I get the comments about the Creative cloud subscription issue I really do and have thought about alternatives myself, but for me, the catalogue feature of LR wins hands down. Just my opinion though. Also I have just looked at the price of Capture one, and it's not cheap, if you add in the price of PS as well then the expense just isn't worth it in my opinion also, the plan price if you go down that avenue is only for one program whereas Creative cloud is the same price for 2 programs, so that is something else to consider for people.
Capture One came from Leaf, it was first and foremost intended for tethered shooting, I think with Leaf digital backs. Catalogues in Capture One 7 were pitifully slow, I immediately started using sessions. A session would be good for, for example, a trip to the Faeroe island, a portrait shoot for Rebekah. Catalogues, I have heard, are good for stock shooters and little else.
Hi Did you has solved the panorama issue, what are you using ? . My main personal issue is how to use panarama to Stich the GFx images . I don’t want use photoshop because I want say good bye to adobe .
With the way Adobe us dropping the ball left and right, I am very close to breaking away. The two reasons that I have remained in the Adobe orbit, iOS support and synching. While On12020 is finally addressing this, though I have never been that impressed with their offerings in the past and the synching and iOS support will not ready until later in 2020. Cap1 seems to be the Go-To sanctuary for those who are defecting from Adobe, I am ready when you implement iOS and Synching.
Lightroom is fine with X-Trans files, but Capture One is still vastly superior (to my eyes at least). Especially for highly detailed images (rocks, foliage etc). The color adjustments in C1 are amazing. You can obviously do the same stuff with LR/PS, but it's just more power with less effort IMHO. It's also ridiculously faster. When using LR with X-Trans, I recommend doing no sharpening at all, then using high pass in Photoshop for sharpening. It's way better than LR's sharpening algorithm. I also do a lot of bracketing, but I prefer Photoshop's HDR tool over Lightroom's. Aurora sometimes is superior to PS depending on the image, so I really don't miss Lightroom for that. And regarding the sliders and layout, C1 is 100% customizable. It even has a prebuild workspace layout for LR users, that emulates that interface. I started with that and then slowly migrated to my own layout.
Not to mention C1 is giving you a preview which is scaled down to 2560 pixels wide by default, whereas LR renders the actual raw image, the quality and speed of Capture One is incredible!!!
Great Adam capture one is definitely the closest alternative to adobe. I for the past six months went round them all looking for an alternative to adobe and in particular, Lightroom classic CC. I bought capture one thinking 'This is it' I'm now converted but from then on I discovered other other things I was missing but, I soldiered on looking for ways to adapt my workflow which is mainly Landscapes and some Stock. Adding meta data was a problem but to be honest the main issue was me ! I discovered at 65yrs I was too old to change and went back to adobe. I shoot only Fuji and even with having to use Iridient I was happier with Lightroom. The newer Lightroom Classic CC is much better with Fuji files as long as you do sharpen and or noise reduction in photoshop although not sure about Fuji Medium format Files? Good luck and I hope it works out for you.
I raised the issue of blending exposure with David Grover. He argued that I might not need to, and it's true that it isn't often a problem. I would like stitching and focus stacking though. Capture One is non-destructive, and Phase One regularly makes that point. I notice you didn't use the tone curve. I would have, and I would choose luminosity over RGB because luminosity does not affect saturation. Capture One earned its reputation for handling Fujifilm raw files better than Adobe becase it deals better with the X-Trans sensors. It might not apply to the medium format cameras. But then, Fujifilm and Phase One have an agreement, I would expect more improvements from Phase One in handling the Fuji raw files than from Adobe. I generally start my edits by pressing the Auto button, and use that as my starting point. I think the fact you couldn't see much between the final results speaks well of C1. As you gain experience, you might well find differences every time you try to. Capture One videos used to be on the Phase One channel, the Phase one created a new channel for Capture One. I don't know whether the old videos ot moved. There are one or two videos by Christian Fletcher you should watch.
This popped up in my feed, I hope you switched- Capture One is way better than Lightroom. You’ll see the difference more on x-trans sensors and C1 treats skin tones way better
I switched to Capture One for good. After using it for a few months now I thought I`d try Lightroom again for fun; to compare, and there is NO way I`d go back.
Great review. thank you. Since LR comes with Photoshop, the review should perhaps include this in the comparison to maintain fairness? I do not need tethering speed as much at the moment. If I did more studio stuff I would likely also shift from Adobe. For me, LR with PS is a biggie. If it was only LR, I would move to C1 in a split second.
After fighting LR for a couple of years, I had enough...the performance issues are the last straw...on an i7 8 core PC solid state drive good graphics card still lags badly. Adobe is clearly addressing LR as a legacy software...
Good video. I came to a different conclusion, however. It seem quite obvious to me that I prefer the edit you made in Capture One. Thanks for the video.
I am far from any Lightroom Expert, but just wanted to check Under Lightroom, Catalog settings, Files handling, have you got preview quality set to high and standard preview size (set to a PX size to suit your monitor) Its Auto to 1920px on mine,but has got option for higher, if you have the monitor or video card to suit. Enjoyed the Vlog Thank you.
I just discovered that LR also bugs seriously just in rendering RAF files. Somehow fine details disappear while the same files viewed in Exposure 4 or Capture One have nice sharpness and detail.
Great video, one thing though, I'm not in my editing PC right now, but I'm almost shure that you can change the color of any part of the image with the Brush Tool, the farthest to the right were you have the Crop, Healing, Red Eye, Gradient and Brush Tool, I might have missed one LOL. But in the Brush tool you can adjust the color, I think in the brush tool adjustments panel there is even a small rectangle at the bottom that says color :-) I hardly use it since it natively edits to PS, but I'm almost sure it's there. Maybe I'm wrong, not sure but I think it does have the feature.
I like the "color balance" tool in C1 for adjusting color balance in highlight, mid-tone and shadow individually. It's much more intuitive than curve tweaking in Lightroom. Moreover, we can combine it with layers to make adjusting on whatever portion of the image. Handy! On the contrary, Lightroom curve tool cannot be used with layer.
Capture One should have a PRO II version that does REAL HDR and just mark it up $50 USD. Now it can edge out Lightroom and Skylum. As a sidenote: All 3 are named in the dropdown list of the Loupedeck keyboard editor (knob controls).
I will like your work even if you put a complete black video, with just 10 - 12 seconds of you talking! In short.... I'll love to watch any of your videos, your face is enough for me, the way you're always happy and positive is amazing!
I think LR don't work with advanced techniques like layers, because you can do this in PS. I switch to C1, because the import/export between LR and PS is anoying.
I tried the capture one spending many hours to learn it but I don't like the way it handles the blue sky and the highlights.With Lightroom all my photos with minimal work look more vibrant and alive.The only positive of the C.O is the layers module.
I have a 6D2 and I noticed that sometimes the shadows retain more detail on Capture One than in Lightroom, but that may be caused by how Capture One apply a preset to the default RAW file, just like it did for the XT-3. For some reason the sharpness is set to 25 in Lightroom, while on a crop sensor from the same year (2000D) is set to 40. I really don't know what's up with how Lightroom handles RAWs in the first place, is that due to the software developers or is it something Adobe does in conjunction with camera manufacturers?
Capture One is a good program but for me Lightroom is much simpler to use! Lightroom has some advantages over the Capture One , I'm sorry that Capture One does not have the option of automatically leveling the horizon! I use this option a lot. Dxo Photolab also has this option! Lightroom also has the advantage of stitching panoramic shots and HDRs as well , latest version can merge HDR panorama shots!
Just downloaded C1 a week ago. I have a problem that C1 doesn't convert to DNG on import, or that you can add presets on import. You can, but they are there presets, and you can only guess at what they do. Any comments?
Layers are much more powerful. You can combine adjustments, mask independently, adjust the layer transparency. You get much of the power you'd expect from Photoshop directly.
I have a photograph of a canola (rapeseed) crop in an exhibition. There were clouds in the sky, I used an adjustment layer with a gradient mask to mask the sky, reduce exposure, increase contrast to give a more threatening look. I could have used the clarity tool to reduce sharpness. I could have duplicated the layer to try an alternative treatments of the sky. I could have used the eraser tool, perhaps to protect some rocks or trees from the adjustments. I could return to that layer at any time and change it, even delete it. I had some eucalyptus trees between the crop and the sky., a bit dark. Another adjustment layer, soft mask over the trees, and tone curve to adjust the contrast and brighten the white bark.. I might have increased exposure a smidge.
At 9:15, the conclusion “no difference” is, because you used a GFX raw, which has a Bayer layer on the sensor. You must compare a raw from a X-Series camera. That’s where Lr has problems: it can not handle X-Trans layer. Try it with e.g. a portrait image and zoom in to the eye lashes or lids or something else with fine line in details... Can send you a sample, zoomed to details, if you want, it’s shocking difference, Lr a catastrophic result...
I’m looking to switch for my digital work. I’ll still keep lr to use negative lab pro for my film work (also cus the $10 photo plan is the cheapest way to have photoshop).
i been using CAPTURE ONE for long a bit , i too switch from lightroom, a piece of advice always use layers when you are working with colors on the pic doing that u wont jeopardize the original RAW file,
Biggest issue for me with lightroom is the subscription model, at least with capture one you can buy it outright albeit rather expensive.
@Jesse Duran Try Dxo Photolabs It's a one off purchase which is significantly cheaper than Capture One. They have a 30 day free trial and once the trial is over they normally offer a 20% or 30% discount if you decide to buy the software. I found it very easy to use and overall gives great results.
I just switched to Capture One. Not only is it a more powerful tool, it runs much faster, so I no longer need to buy a new computer!
This is very helpful. I am using LR5 and finding it excruciatingly slow.
Also, the version of Capture One I tried worked fine on Windows 7, when the new Lightroom version requires Windows 10.
@khtaha, 1 year later, is it still fast?
also you can just get a perpetual licence instead of the endless subscribtions shit. which atm is really starting to annoy me so im trying capone out now.
Lol😂
Hi Adam. Great video. Couple of pointers:
- learn to use the layers. They add so much more editing freedom and options;
- if you go to the adjustments tab you actually do get a lot of the tools in one menu that you can scroll through.
- go to the Capture One Leaning Hub and watch most or all of the webinars with David Grover and Alexander Flemming. They helped me out so incredibly much.
Keep at it and you'll learn to love it soon!
I switched to Capture one 2 years ago and instantly my workflow and quality improved significantly, so much so that I am going back through all my old raw files a redoing a lot of my fave pics
I'm quite doing the same thing; a totally new world of endless possibilities instead of highlight-whites-shados-darks- dummy LR sliders.
Good video. I switched from LR on the recommendation of a pro photographer I met a few months ago. I basically didn't want to update LR from v.7. The newest version of Capture One does have a library module (not as robust as LR) and the interface is totally customizable. Your right, the color module is more powerful than what LR has. It would be interesting to do a comparison with Luminar 2018 which will eventuality have a library module.
In an ideal world lightroom would fix itself after seeing everyone leaving
If you set the details in Capture One correctly it will bring out much more information during pixel peeping and non of the fuzzy Lightroom-mush. Once you get used to that you won't be able to return.
You should also use the LCC feature to remove vignetting and colour cast from your image, it gives you an absolutely clean image.
Capture one is sooooo good! I made the switch after using lightroom for YEARS. and after an hour with Capture one I was sold.
The biggest thing for me, was the Layers. You can adjust EVERYTHING in capture one when you make a mask and make adjustments. whereas lightroom you are pretty limited with adjustments on masks.
also the fact you can put presets on layers in capture one, and lower the opacity (and any layer mask edits, for that matter)
also, the mass amount of options for exporting is way nicer in capture one.
I will say, I do still have lightroom because as mentioned, HDR merging in lightroom is just very nice to have. so for the images I bracket, I still use lightroom, because I have it and its there.
that was possible in Apple Aperture (sad they have discontinued the program).
I'm giving Capture one a try. Both programs work the same for me, but I love how in Capture one gives me more control on the colors and has the layers options. The ability the customize the panels is very nice too.
so how was that mate... I did a try 4 days ago and my jaw still dropping.
Lightroom is more versatile for me. In terms of quality it depends on your style. They are both great. I personally love most things adobe.
This is becoming the new Mac vs pc, iPhone vs Android. In the end it doesn’t matter.
I agree with you!
I googled "Capture One vs Lightroom" for the very reason of the point you made within the first 1 min of this video. That sir, convinced me to keep watching. I have been battling Lightroom with a 850 image shoot I did for a client that I ended up having to split into 4x catalogues just so I could even reasonably process the images. Even then I am experiencing crazy input delay and 15+ secs every time I perform an action.. It's driving me up the wall..
My computer should really give Adobe no excuse either..
On that note.. I am going to continue watching yoru video.
There is a library view, simply use CTRL+ALT+V (or change the shortcut to what you want) to close the viewer and all your thumbnails show up just like it looks in LR.
Top tip. Thanks
Missing a lot of the functionality in C1Pro. UI is completely customisable, curves available as local adjustments, Luna curve adjusts contrast but not colour like RGB curve, masks can be feathered and refined like in PS, colour editor selections can be turned into masks etc.
yep yep yep! all the tasty stuff!
switched to capture one when I upgraded to digital medium format last year. At first I did it on the off chance that I needed to tether my camera, but I don't really shoot in a studio. Starting using C1 for doing my normal raw processing as well and I fell in love with it. Felt weird abandoning lightroom after nearly 9 years of using it, but the change was needed.
Like the video but re one thing, the layers, I do like how Capture One separate layers like Photoshop on the panel while Lightroom has 'dots' overlay on the image itself instead. However, Lightroom actually has exactly the same feature with adjustment brush and in fact, you can even select range of colours (like the colour wheel) and luminance mask or colour range mask too, which is quite powerful.
Nice go-through and comparison! I see that Lightroom is more all-round fully featured than Capture One (C1). C1 appears to me, as you show, much more capable when it comes to color editing and handling colors in general. Also, I really like the sharpening that C1 applies out of the box - the images do not get oversharpened and still they are very sharp. I'm shooting a 5DsR and have color-profiled the combinations of my camera, my lenses and my filters under sunlight conditions, into ICC profiles for C1 using the Lumariver software (very cheap compared to anything else I've seen, and very good, although a bit nerdy and complicated). The colors that come out my C1 are just beautiful and truthful - much more pleasing than those from my color-managed Lightroom workflow (both workflows using the same ColorChecker Passport). Additionally, having done the calibration process right in Lumariver gives me the ability to recover up to 2 stops of highlights in C1 from my Canon, which I haven't seen with any of the tools I used previously (Lightroom/ACR, DxO). This basically eliminates my needs to go HDR (except a very few ocassions) - likely thanks to good and well-tuned algorithms that C1 uses... especially thinking about the highlight and shadow recovery sliders.
When it comes to software choices... I often use multiple editors. I started with Lightroom and still subscribe to Adobe Cloud because of the inexpendable Photoshop. Then I added DxO PhotoLab (which has the best optical corrections known to me) - that's a perpetual license. Finally I went for C1 to reduce a lot of my time spent editing (especially considering my color management workflow... previously DxO + Lightroom), and C1 has been very effective at saving my time. So now I can use all three of the editors. When I need near optimal optical corrections, C1 + DxO does it best (since C1 is not as good at neither noise reduction nor correcting chromatic aberrations). You could surely do something similar with C1 and Lightroom or just use Photoshop in addition to C1 if you needed.
Re the layers thing: Maybe Adobe expect users to flip over to Photoshop to do certain tasks? Capture One is not part of a suite, so is designed to have everything in the one application. Dunno. Is that a fair comment?
Yeah I think so. Amazon brought the high street all into one place and I never went back to the high street again.
All the layer support is in Photoshop, albeit not on the RAW file, which is licensed with LR ..... and Photoshop includes lots of other capability. I’m looking at what do do for my editing software .....pros and cons to both
No. C1 developers/users acknowledge that, for many of us, PS is a normal part of the editing process; start in C1, continue in PS.
C1 'reads' .psd files, so you can just have the .psd file, work on top of it in C1 or open it in PS in a click. So, no they do actually try to connect with Adobe products. I guess LR does the same, but I've never used LR.
I don't think for one minute that they are trying to replace PS. They do keep adding features so many people will probably have to use PS less, but no way are folks not going to have to go to PS or something similar.
@@RiceCake-ep9gu time to try again.
I am switching from LR to Capture one 2020..Thank you so much for the tips
The capture one sharpening is way better than lightroom. But for some reason inside capture one it does not display it well. Also I find CO default sharpening settings not to be optimal for me. When sharpening try setting Amount to 25-50%, Radius to about 10-20 % and halo suppression to about 50-80% and then compare the outputted files between LR and Co in an image editor. You should see that CO destroys LR. I used LR for years and have used CO for a couple of years. The difference in image quality when you know how to use it is quite something.
The colour editor is superb. You can select a colour range and even part of the saturation range for that colour. then you can create a later mask from that selection it and use nearly all of the other adjustments on your selected colour with this new layer. And of course you can wipe away what you don't want.
And above all there is the speed! When you have to edit many files CO you can just tear through them with CO.
Like others, I'd be interested in a LR / ON-1 comparison. I've been using ON-1 2019 for a couple of weeks: very impressed. Blends all the more important LR/Photoshop photo processing and cataloguing features into a single non-destructive interface. I use Affinity Photo for other actions such as making collages etc (focus stacking also seems better there). I use the free Faststone viewer for quickly scanning though images (excellent)
The luminosity masks in C1 version 12 are a really great new feature. Sometimes i do not go in PS anymore…
I made the change, really happy I did. Once you’re familiar with how to use it you won’t ever look back to LR, plus, after doing several comparison tests at various focal lengths, ISOs, etc..., I found that EVERY time Capture One rendered my photos better in the end. Very noticeable sharpness and noise differences.
Focus stacking, panorama stitching and HDR stuff are the only extra things I'd love to see in Capture One.
A tip Adam, go to Window > Workspace > Migration, that will make C1P look more Lightroom-y
Cool thanks Peter. To be fair the default interface is pretty well laid out and I got used to it really quickly. With the Loupedeck switching the tabs for me it was a really nice user experience.
@@Firstmanphotography Cheers. In addition to it moving the tools to the right it combines the Exposure, Details and Colours tabs into one big tab, something you mentioned in your video.
You can do much of this yourself by right-clicking any tab and using the 'Add tool' or 'Add Tool Tab' menus and customising just about everything. You can even get rid of the defaults altogether and start from scratch with only the ones you want.
Adam, thanks for putting up this video. Yeah, I was about to say that you can move _any_ tool or tool tab you want to any place you want in C1. Like you, I like having some of my tools under the Exposure tool tab including Clarity, Sharpening, and the Color Editor. Also, I've shot with Fuji and C1 together for quite a long time, over 6 years now, I've found that I prefer to use a sharpening value of about 178 for Fuji files as opposed to the default C1 value. C1 provides much better sharpening than LR when you are sharpening high-frequency detail, eg. foliage, tips of tree brances, hair, animal fur, etc. Last, but not least....Capture One 12 just shipped two days ago and it now supports full _Luminosity Masking_ in all layers. Furthermore, you can export the Luma Range of a "master" Luminosity Mask to all your other files, and it will apply that Luminosity mask in your other images regardless of where the luma range is in the image; you cannot do this with brush-based luminosity mask in PS, by contrast. Also, they have significantly improved the Linear Gradient tool as well as the Radial gradient tool. You have much more control over the gradient, the gradient "distribution" and feathering than you do in LR, AND....you can apply luminosity masking with a brush using the Rasterize commnand, and still have the lumonsity masking from the Brush tool only be appled to the Luma Range you defined with the Luma Range tool in layers. This is EXTREMELY powerful. I've used LR since the year-long Beta in 2006 and C1 since Version 7 as it was the only app that could properly sharpen Fuji RAF files from the X-Pro1, and C1 12, IMHO, leaves LR in the dust, on the whole. Check out Capture One Pro 12, it is quite amazing. Cheers from the USA, -Stephen.
I really wish you’d have shown a portrait example to focus on skin tones
When I switched to C1 about 4 years ago, I rang a colleague of mine who was already using it to tell him how pissed off with him I was for not recommending it to me!
The only advantages of LR are in workflow. C1 the best choice for a photographer who values image quality. The perfect RAW conversion is through the proprietary software that comes with your camera, but C1 does it beautifully and has powerful adjustment tools.
you may want to try the ON1 2020 30-day trial. It has HDR, panorama, and focus stacking. But it's slow on my computer, but that may be because it has an old fashioned hard drive instead of an SSD. I'm trying it, and i find that it has some of the same glitches that the 2018 and 2019 versions had. I'll see how it goes. The trial is free, so you may want to try it for yourself.
A quick tip if you haven't already done so. In the settings menu in lightroom uncheck the hardware acceleration option on the graphics card. It made mine much faster.
this video is much better than a lot of the other 'pro capture one' vids, because it realises that capture one's 'initial' RAW import preset is just different to LR's ... its not that the files actually 'look' better!
Great video Adam - I am tempted to give it a try:)
Thanks buddy. People were continually telling me to try it, so I listened. I have realised how ingrained in the Adobe ecosystem I am though. If I decide to switch to Capture One I cant see the migration being much fun.
@@Firstmanphotography I absolutely love the library, keywording system and the organising in general. I think it will be hard for me to not having that.
Hi Morten.
I'm a bit exited to hear that you want to try C1 since you mostly use Nikon gear (so do I).
I have used LR since Adobe came out with their first version, and I have generally always been very happy with it. But I stopped at ver. 5 because they changed to the subscription model which I didn't want (and ver. 6 didn't do much for me).
The thing is that I always though the Nikon color in LR could be better, so I tried C1 ver. 11, and I almost always like the color better from C1 than the ones from LR. Even though I see myself as a skilled LR user that knows how to make color adjustments.
Another difference I see is that C1 has a way of handling the pictures that - in my oppinion - gives a better acuity/sharpness of the photos. I see this already on import of the RAW files. It may not be different for other cameras but for Nikon I can easily see a difference, and I like it. I don't know if LR has changed their RAW engine since ver. 5 though. But the more I use C1 the better I like it. It does take some time to get used to, but I think it's worth it. Maybe you will give us your thoughts one Friday... :-)
Sorry Adam for giving this to Morten.
I'm of course exited to hear your thoughts now and when you have tried it a bit more. You guys do a great job, and I follow both of you. I often don't make any comments though... Now I did :-)
I have a nikon D850 and capture one ,i swtch from lightroom to capture because it was so slow and had some bugs ,i am so clad to have maid the switch ,much more easy and fast
Also affinity photo is like photo shop but much more easier from my point of view
What with all the insane behavior of Adobe of late, I have been very seriously considering abandoning them in favor of either Capture One or ON1 or perhaps Affinity. Have you compared the three alternatives? I also dropped Premier Pro for Vegas Movie Studio and am very happy with the change. Great video by the way - just subscribed!
lol that's funny i'm on this channel because of adobe ways as well. i've been using affinity for ipad since the release and i love it. 19.99 one time payment i can do whatever i can do in photoshop in affinity and on the go with my ipad. now i never have to carry my laptop.
Another great vlog Adam always on the ball and reviewing equipment for better landscape photography this is exactly what we want .
Thanks David. Really appreciate your comment, means a lot.
Adam, your voice has joined the chorus of compliments I have been hearing about LR and PS. They just get slower and slower. You might want to look into Luminar. Almost identical to LR and they say there is a database coming next month. Or you could try my choice Affinity Photo. It is part of a suite of tools. It is extremely well supported. It does NOT require a lot of system resources. It is cheap. And it just works.
By default, C1 viewer will show you the view of your selected output recipe as you edit. Also you can customise palettes and have floating palettes.
No doubt LR is a lot more fancier in terms of functionality. But if you're technical enough, C1 simply has the best RAW converter in the whole world. It's nth about the preset whatsoever, the way they deal with RAW, the picture quality is simply outstanding.
And C1 accept session/catalog mounted on network drive.
And they have the best tether solution in the industry. LR is simply miserable to work with, actually you simply can't work at all.
I notice you’ve converted your RAF files to DNG before doing the comparison. I say this because I just found out that LR is somehow smoothening the details in RAF files!!!! I thought I had a problem with my lens, but it is the rendering of the RAF files that does this. In Capture One they look super sharp and detailed!!!
Like the video. I've also toyed with switching to Capture One. I have a couple of frustrations with Adobe, being (1) customer service is quite unreliable and sometimes I encounter "tech support" that knows less about Lightroom than me, and (2) updates to Lightroom are frustrating. Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, Lightroom CC 2015. What the heck? Come on. Why isn't there just one Lightroom and why aren't things updated quickly for new cameras and universally?
Your adjustments are easily done selectively in Lightroom, even easier there because you have your brushes with automasking and then you're there. Lightroom is far better in this regard than CO with it's layer...
The actual image editing capabilities aren’t what concern me, but the workflow and organization process is more what I’d be interested in. Any plans for a video on that?
I'd suggest you take a look at the webcasts on Phase One's channel, they go into lots of depth on organising, sessions vs catalogues, etc.
Yea, and you will probably have to get the free trial and spend time figuring out if you can organize and process more effectively or not in C1 because it will be different enough that you will likely not be happy using the same process as you have been. I found C1 took some time to set up, bit in layout, keys (I use keys a lot to speed things up) and setting up adjustment styles and such to make things as quick as possible.
Adam - I’ve tried C1 a few times but can never make the switch. 3 reasons - 1. you still need photoshop so there is no cost savings 2. While C1 is faster when rendering individual adjustments, it takes much longer to edit the entire photo because of a few key things missing - no auto adjustments for alignment, no radial filter, no visualize spots, the grad filter is really bad vs. Lightroom, need multiple layers for every different dodge burn adjustment and 16 is not enough and 3) xtransformer + Lightroom for fuji files is still better. Feels like C1 is about 3 generations behind. I find I have greater creative control with Lightroom and Nik Collection color efex pro
I get my camera level, so rarely feel the need to level in post, Levelling wastes so many pixels! And reduces cropping flexibility.
I would like circular gradients, I expect they will come one day. I don't understand why you think you need so many layers, I do most of the adjustments I need using very few, including cloning and healing. Where I want selective exposure adjustments, I often find curves does what I want.
OneEyedPhotographer good for you. I was referring to my issues
Although there may be an odd feature or two measurably better in C1 over LR the cost is not worth it IMO. It costs two years worth of the Adobe subscription for PS and LR so unless it was a clear and measurable hands down winner it is not for me but to each his own.
@@sumitagg1 circular grads just arrived. See Capture One 12.
OneEyedPhotographer yes. It’s definitely an improvement. But it’s still not there for me. To each his own. I still don’t see much improvement vs using x transformer for Fuji files in Lightroom. I’m happy with my Lightroom 6+nick collection. But am only an enthusiast and edit photos sporadically.
Another great video Adam👍 I decided to ditch LR and PS about 2 months ago and bought capture one for Fuji and I use GIMP for focus blending, it's not as easy as in lightrom as it's not automated but it gets the job done, the two main reasons are no subscription and I really do feel that capture one produces better images for my Fuji RAW files, I know you did mention that capture one applies some auto presets but for me that great as it means I hit the ground running and my images are edited faster.
Do use C1 a fair bit. Note that you can also move all the modules to the right hand side and set it up almost identical to LR workflow.
LR really needs to get HSL controls in the brush, gradient and radial gradient tools. Masking, they may not do simply because it could affect the PS market.
Adam you can customize the whole capture one space to your needs! You can even arrange ALL the tabs exactly like Lightroom has them!
There are also preset workspaces, and the means to create your own.
Great comparison review! I have been using Lightroom for a decade and recently gave Capture One a test drive. I feel like Capture One is a hybrid app where they have combined photoshop and Lightroom to give you an all-in-one app. I still maintain my Lightroom subscription, but I find myself using CO20 more and more each day.
Are you still 50/50, let me know what you think today?
Why don't you use the hotkeys(should be ctrl+tab/ctrl+shift+tab or custom) for switching between previous and next tabs?
That way should be way faster than clicking on the icons and faster than using lightroom's scrolling solution.
The more I play around with Capture One, the more I am liking it, as well as being able
to process multiple images quicker as I go along. It takes a little longer to import images than
Lightroom, but exports at around the same time. (in my experience anyway). I like the way
you can customize your workspace to suit your needs, making it look like LR if you want to.
It will let you do so much more than Lightroom, all in one package.
Hi Another question, editing one picture is good is you are a landscape photographer. For wedding, vogue etc you need to edit a bunch of photos, not just one. You need a DAM, you need the ability to apply the same adjustments to 100s of pictures. You also need to be able to lift and stamp adjustment, tag photos etc. How do you find Capture One as a DAM or for working with many pictures?
Jaime Duncan that is the one drawback to capture 1, I have been using capture 1 off and on for a few years, I have used LR pretty steady for several years, but the latest update would make me switch to windows 10, it’s not worth it to me, and the new capture 1 12 is fantastic but still as far as I can find it is not as easy to add adjustments to several files like LR, however you can copy your adjustments from one photo and apply them to another image, but I don’t think you can do that as a batch
I have switched to Capture One a year ago, or at the least, that what says my last coment. I wrote it exactly one year ago. So I have been editing all my pictures in Capture One Pro for a year long. My opinion is: Capture has a SUPERB better color handling. Besides layers, luma layers and such, color handling is SUPERB. I like the idea that you can FULL SCREEN Curves, so you can see the histogram all along the screen, as bigger as much as you like (I personally do like looking at the histogram all the time). I also DO LIKE the algorythms for density adjustment much more than from the one of Lightroom. The one of Capture One is much more realistic and similar to the algorythm of Lightroom 1. There is just one thing I TOTALLY DISLIKE of Capture One and it's that you don't have an slider to de/haze. I use a lot to add haze in black and white wedding pictures for example, or pics which were taken in interiors with low light. Other than that, I just use Capture One Pro. It's incredible for landscape anbd fashion photography. I'm right now testing other raw editors.
I'd love to see your review of Capture 1 vs PhotoShop to see if both can process RAWs from Fuji. Thanks, Adam!!
At 5:00, you can add whatever tools you want to each tab. No swapping.
Lightroom will do well with GFX raw files as its a Beyer sensor and not an X-trans which is where the problems lie. Load in an xtrans file with lots of foliage into lightroom and also C1 and you will see what people mean about LR not handling Xtrans files very well. If you are going to use LR with xtrans files then its best not to use LR sharpening at all as it can easily introduce "the worms" into your images.
Give on1 photo raw 2019 a try, ive dumped lightroom since using the new on1.
Worms aren't as prominent in my shots as the horrid oil painting effect I get. I shoot woodland landscape and moss just ends up looking like a Van Gogh painting.
@@dirtywater5336 another lightroom issue, ive not experienced that problem in either capture one or on1
@@dirtywater5336 That exactly describes the issue I'm having. Not a single photo turns out the way I want it to be. Well it does. Except it doesn't look like a photo but a friggin' oil painting.... Did anyone solve the mystery?!
@@stefanmaass7053 Yeah, switch to a different RAW processor. That seems to be the best answer anyone can come up with. Adobe seems to genuinely not care about Fuji shooters. I've tweeted them and voiced my concerns on their feedback page and I get a generic cookie cutter customer relations response in return. "We're monitoring the issue closely and our team is working on a solution" Dude it's been literal years. Many other software companies have managed to render a RAF just fine. Unfortunately every other editor is just a pain in the ass to use. Capture 1 is robust but has their tools split up into tabs so you have to click into the the color tab to adjust color, then into the curves tab to adjust contrast, a different tab to apply sharpening. Just way too much clicking back and forth. Lightroom has the best user interface and control of any photo editing software but the worming and oil painting effect is absolutely atrocious. You would think with it being so easy to just cancel your cloud based subscriptions and move to a different one, Adobe would want to fix this blatant issue with RAF files. Fujifilm is officially a major player in the photography game. They need to get on board with the X-Trans thing before they lose a ton of customers, myself included
The worms are not evident in every photo but the possibility is always there if you do more than minimal sharpening in LR. There is a work-around (convert the RAW to DNG, export to PS, sharpen in PS, send it back to LR for further editing) but it is a pain. A lot of Fuji landscape photographers are using Iridient for RAW conversion and sharpening of X-trans files. But, so far, their catalog and editing tools are crude at best so it's not a complete solution. I am tempted to try C1 but like most people I'm put off by the (steep) learning curve. But as a Fuji shooter (X-Pro-2) it's looking more and more like a task I am willing to take on.
I agreed with you in the first case.
But on the second and third, Even after your adjusts, it seems like capture one still cleaner and sharper.
I tried capture one and really liked it. But lightroom still very complete. Also I think it's easier to work with a bunch of pictures together, like an event.
It seems like the free fuji version of capture one don't allow to work with layers.
One thing which very nice in capture one is that you can customize a LOT these menus.
Great real-life comparison, I love it! Layers in C1 are great, Adobe keeps it only in Photoshop still (and I guess they will). Changing HSL within mask is something that I also would like to see in LR. Hopefully it's coming in future updates, soon.
Hi Adam. I believe that you were editing GFX raw files right? The GFX series does not use x-trans. So you are probably right about not seeing a lot of difference between LR and C1. But there is a catch. If you try the same thing with a X-Trans raw file you will notice a lot more differences. On my XT20 I notice quite a bit of a difference specially when I start to sharpen. I do think that for most files LR and Camera Raw is probably doing a good enough job... but from what I’ve tried so far I’m much more happy with C1 conversions and sharpening algorithms. I’m still learning how to use the tool and you can always edit in Photoshop from C1 for extra tweaking. I’m using the free version for fujifilm btw. It would be awesome to see a review on x-trans sensor.
Before you get too impressed with Capture One, you should consider this explanation from the "Capture One 20 User Guide", chapter 4.10, "Color in Capture One":
"Capture One deals with colors in two ways: internally and for output. Capture One works in a very large color space, similar to that captured by camera sensors ..." And further: "At the end of the workflow, the RAW data has to be processed to pixel-based image files, in defined color spaces. These spaces are smaller than the internal color space used by Capture One."
When I exported-imported an edited image from a Sony raw file to-from Photoshop via the "Edit with ... (Photoshop in this case)", I got a tiff file back, which seemed to have been stripped from every contrast and lighting attributes applied in Capture One - an extremely flat and boring image, not at all comparable to the one I had edited. The tiff file was exported with one of the standard receipts a.o. saying "Format: TIFF, 16 bit; ICC Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)". So, at least at that point, the ICC profile was incorporated, and the Adobe RGB is probably one of the "defined color spaces" considered "smaller than the internal color space used by Capture One."
So I asked support which color space this "very large (internal) color space" was comparable to, and got this answer:
"There is no easy or straight up answer to your question. Capture One is designed as 'What You See Is What You Get'. What you see in the Preview is based on your proof profile. The default display is the ICC profile being used in your process recipe."
At the same time support told me, that the ICC profile tagged to the raw file from the camera, in this case Adobe RGB, was not used by Capture One, and the "process recipe" for output was the one used while editing. As a beginner with the new Capture One I had not chosen a "process recipe" up front, as I was not prompted for one, and expected it was read from the raw file. Also, the images on the screen looked brilliant. In ACR the color profile is constantly indicated in the lower panel.
So, my next question to Capture One support was: if no process recipe (i.e. a color space) has been chosen explicitly, and Capture One doesn't read the ICC profile from the raw file - then, what is the default internal color space while editing? Could it be the "very large color space, similar to that captured by camera sensors"? I got no answer, but the ticket with my headline "What happened to the quality of my image" was immediately merged into other tickets with a less inconvenient headline, and in that way the inconvenient question and problem disappeared with the original ticket.
From this experience it's easy to get the impression, that "what you see is NOT what you get" when the image is exported from Capture One, because all editing has been in a "very large color space", and "at the end of the workflow, the RAW data has to be processed to pixel-based image files in (smaller) defined color spaces." This leaves me with an annoying feeling of being editing in a color space I don't really know what is. The low quality of the resulting tiff file from a tour to Photoshop and back has not yet been addressed by support, so I am back in Adobe Camera Raw 12.3 which may be a bit slower, especially when cropping, but otherwise seem to be more reliable when it comes to "what you see is what you get". Finally, in the Win version of Capture One 20, Capture One managed to introduce new bugs from the 13.0.1 to the 13.1.1. update in correcting others. New bugs are constantly popping up and takes a winter to be recognized and corrected. My impression is, that the pressure to take over the Lightroom users means less initial testing, i.e. the users are the testers of what could be called "close to beta versions".
Just to let you know.
But with Lightroom I can also brush an area to isolate it and then adjust the color.
Virtually the same as lightroom; adobe just needs to fix its issues with lag and address a couple of its limitations. It would be nice if lightroom had more flexibility in HSL and a layers panel would be useful. It's interesting how the line between what lightroom and photoshop does for photographers is becoming more fuzzy each year.
If you study Cap One a little more, you will never use Lightroom anymore :)
I am getting that feeling.
C1 all the way
I edited a photo in CapOne and the eyes where perfect after shapreding. In LR the eyes went to shit.
I'm loving the structure tool.
@@rthomp62 I can highly recommend Affinity Photo as a superb alternative to PS. Give it a try, free trail available and it feels more modern compared to PS not to mention you can do most if not all things in it. Also, a one time fee of about 50-60 bucks.
2 years after this video was done what did you do and what is your feedback?
I rarely use PS but I love LR though I hate the subscription. Im a hobbyist photographer and can go weeks and sometimes even months without editing and I know I'm sending out a tenner every month that is wasted money. I have been wanting to jump ship for a while now thank you for this video Adam I like the look of C1
I like the sharpness of C1, how images just seem to pop, but I also noticed that all my Nikon and Fuji RAW files need to have that MAGENTA tint correction. I find it kind of annoying, because originally I felt like C1 gave me the best OOC starting point, but I'm finding Lightroom much more pleasing. Also, I've spent more money on Capture One upgrades than if I had subscribed to Adobe's subscription from the beginning.
Try Luminar. Or Aurora HDR. I've been putting my Fuji 50r files into Aurora and the initial results are amazing (doesn't give HDR look) then most of editing can be completed after (in aurora). I think people don't want to admit that these programs are amazing. Regards Barrie
From someone that works as a Digital Capture Tech in the commercial photography Industry CaptureOne is the better program. I know both and I use CaptureOne 99.9 percent of the time. The 0.1 times I use LR is usually a lifestyle shooter by request. People that complain about the cost, think about how much you spend on one of your cheapest lenses. Now think that every single photo you shoot goes through a raw optimizer .... why not use the one that is considered the best in the industry (C1)? Also, people that are complaining about cloning in C1 vs PS.... Photoshop is a pixel editor C1 is a raw image editor they are completely different and they are meant to work together one is good for certain things and the other is good for certain things don't compare them. Utilize them for what they are meant for. If you are a hobbyist and don't feel like spending the money or time learning a new software use Lightroom. If you are a professional or just simply want the best images you can possibly get, invest the time and money in CaptureOne.
I’d love to see you edit (perhaps once a month) one of your subscribers photo’s, using your obvious skill in the editing process. I don’t have a significant issue in taking landscape pics but editing is difficult, I can’t make them pop like you can.
Can we Batch process in Capture One? I'm a wedding photographer and I'm tired of Adobe subscription. But I need batch processing capability. During weddings with multiple images in the same scene I can edit one image and paste the setting on the others and then make minor adjustments.
Voted mate for you mate. Thanks again for all your hard work and enthusiasm
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Thanks Martin. Much appreciated.
Ok, Guitars & cameras. I'm in!
I wish capture One could stitch panoramics and merge bracketed photos.
It surely depends on the amount of pictures and the format you are working with. if you have to edit small batches nothing beats the dynamic duo: Br+Ps (Bridge and Photoshop) There is nothing else you o need, it is for sure the most detailed way of working especially if you consider the usability of Smart Objects. Said that, if you work with a medium format digital back, i alway suggest to develop hires tiffs from Capture One and take it from there in Ps. Capture does a much better developing, crispier, deeper... Lightroom/Camera Raw tents to mish mash the pixels a little bit too much... but this is again pixelpicking... Feel free to ask me any question!
Great video Adam. One thing to remember about lightroom, it was originally designed as a catalogue program, most of the editing back then was done in Photoshop infact I don't think LR had any editing options, I may well be wrong on that. Capture one, however, is a photo editing program from the start so it will have more features than LR in that regard which is made apparent in the fact it has no catalogue feature. In my mind, and it is just my opinion Capture one is more based towards PS, infact if I'm really honest, I see it as a hybrid of LR and PS. I get the comments about the Creative cloud subscription issue I really do and have thought about alternatives myself, but for me, the catalogue feature of LR wins hands down. Just my opinion though. Also I have just looked at the price of Capture one, and it's not cheap, if you add in the price of PS as well then the expense just isn't worth it in my opinion also, the plan price if you go down that avenue is only for one program whereas Creative cloud is the same price for 2 programs, so that is something else to consider for people.
Capture One came from Leaf, it was first and foremost intended for tethered shooting, I think with Leaf digital backs.
Catalogues in Capture One 7 were pitifully slow, I immediately started using sessions. A session would be good for, for example, a trip to the Faeroe island, a portrait shoot for Rebekah. Catalogues, I have heard, are good for stock shooters and little else.
Great timing as I just dropped Adobe Cloud Services lats week and have been looking for a new editing program. Thanks you...
Hi Did you has solved the panorama issue, what are you using ?
. My main personal issue is how to use panarama to Stich the GFx images . I don’t want use photoshop because I want say good bye to adobe .
With the way Adobe us dropping the ball left and right, I am very close to breaking away. The two reasons that I have remained in the Adobe orbit, iOS support and synching. While On12020 is finally addressing this, though I have never been that impressed with their offerings in the past and the synching and iOS support will not ready until later in 2020. Cap1 seems to be the Go-To sanctuary for those who are defecting from Adobe, I am ready when you implement iOS and Synching.
Lightroom is fine with X-Trans files, but Capture One is still vastly superior (to my eyes at least). Especially for highly detailed images (rocks, foliage etc).
The color adjustments in C1 are amazing. You can obviously do the same stuff with LR/PS, but it's just more power with less effort IMHO.
It's also ridiculously faster.
When using LR with X-Trans, I recommend doing no sharpening at all, then using high pass in Photoshop for sharpening. It's way better than LR's sharpening algorithm.
I also do a lot of bracketing, but I prefer Photoshop's HDR tool over Lightroom's. Aurora sometimes is superior to PS depending on the image, so I really don't miss Lightroom for that.
And regarding the sliders and layout, C1 is 100% customizable. It even has a prebuild workspace layout for LR users, that emulates that interface. I started with that and then slowly migrated to my own layout.
Not to mention C1 is giving you a preview which is scaled down to 2560 pixels wide by default, whereas LR renders the actual raw image, the quality and speed of Capture One is incredible!!!
Great Adam capture one is definitely the closest alternative to adobe. I for the past six months went round them all looking for an alternative to adobe and in particular, Lightroom classic CC.
I bought capture one thinking 'This is it' I'm now converted but from then on I discovered other other things I was missing but, I soldiered on looking for ways to adapt my workflow which is mainly Landscapes and some Stock. Adding meta data was a problem but to be honest the main issue was me ! I discovered at 65yrs I was too old to change and went back to adobe. I shoot only Fuji and even with having to use Iridient I was happier with Lightroom. The newer Lightroom Classic CC is much better with Fuji files as long as you do sharpen and or noise reduction in photoshop although not sure about Fuji Medium format Files? Good luck and I hope it works out for you.
I raised the issue of blending exposure with David Grover. He argued that I might not need to, and it's true that it isn't often a problem. I would like stitching and focus stacking though.
Capture One is non-destructive, and Phase One regularly makes that point.
I notice you didn't use the tone curve. I would have, and I would choose luminosity over RGB because luminosity does not affect saturation.
Capture One earned its reputation for handling Fujifilm raw files better than Adobe becase it deals better with the X-Trans sensors. It might not apply to the medium format cameras.
But then, Fujifilm and Phase One have an agreement, I would expect more improvements from Phase One in handling the Fuji raw files than from Adobe.
I generally start my edits by pressing the Auto button, and use that as my starting point.
I think the fact you couldn't see much between the final results speaks well of C1. As you gain experience, you might well find differences every time you try to.
Capture One videos used to be on the Phase One channel, the Phase one created a new channel for Capture One. I don't know whether the old videos ot moved.
There are one or two videos by Christian Fletcher you should watch.
This popped up in my feed, I hope you switched- Capture One is way better than Lightroom. You’ll see the difference more on x-trans sensors and C1 treats skin tones way better
I switched to Capture One for good. After using it for a few months now I thought I`d try Lightroom again for fun; to compare, and there is NO way I`d go back.
Great review. thank you.
Since LR comes with Photoshop, the review should perhaps include this in the comparison to maintain fairness?
I do not need tethering speed as much at the moment. If I did more studio stuff I would likely also shift from Adobe. For me, LR with PS is a biggie. If it was only LR, I would move to C1 in a split second.
Thanx, a lot. It is a little sensation Fuji MF works with C1. Normally they don't support other MF cameras than P1.
After fighting LR for a couple of years, I had enough...the performance issues are the last straw...on an i7 8 core PC solid state drive good graphics card still lags badly. Adobe is clearly addressing LR as a legacy software...
Good video. I came to a different conclusion, however. It seem quite obvious to me that I prefer the edit you made in Capture One. Thanks for the video.
I am far from any Lightroom Expert, but just wanted to check Under Lightroom, Catalog settings, Files handling, have you got preview quality set to high and standard preview size (set to a PX size to suit your monitor) Its Auto to 1920px on mine,but has got option for higher, if you have the monitor or video card to suit. Enjoyed the Vlog Thank you.
I just discovered that LR also bugs seriously just in rendering RAF files. Somehow fine details disappear while the same files viewed in Exposure 4 or Capture One have nice sharpness and detail.
Great video, one thing though, I'm not in my editing PC right now, but I'm almost shure that you can change the color of any part of the image with the Brush Tool, the farthest to the right were you have the Crop, Healing, Red Eye, Gradient and Brush Tool, I might have missed one LOL. But in the Brush tool you can adjust the color, I think in the brush tool adjustments panel there is even a small rectangle at the bottom that says color :-) I hardly use it since it natively edits to PS, but I'm almost sure it's there. Maybe I'm wrong, not sure but I think it does have the feature.
I like the "color balance" tool in C1 for adjusting color balance in highlight, mid-tone and shadow individually. It's much more intuitive than curve tweaking in Lightroom. Moreover, we can combine it with layers to make adjusting on whatever portion of the image. Handy!
On the contrary, Lightroom curve tool cannot be used with layer.
Capture One should have a PRO II version that does REAL HDR and just mark it up $50 USD. Now it can edge out Lightroom and Skylum. As a sidenote: All 3 are named in the dropdown list of the Loupedeck keyboard editor (knob controls).
I will like your work even if you put a complete black video, with just 10 - 12 seconds of you talking!
In short.... I'll love to watch any of your videos, your face is enough for me, the way you're always happy and positive is amazing!
I think LR don't work with advanced techniques like layers, because you can do this in PS. I switch to C1, because the import/export between LR and PS is anoying.
I tried the capture one spending many hours to learn it but I don't like the way it handles the blue sky and the highlights.With Lightroom all my photos with minimal work look more vibrant and alive.The only positive of the C.O is the layers module.
I have a 6D2 and I noticed that sometimes the shadows retain more detail on Capture One than in Lightroom, but that may be caused by how Capture One apply a preset to the default RAW file, just like it did for the XT-3. For some reason the sharpness is set to 25 in Lightroom, while on a crop sensor from the same year (2000D) is set to 40. I really don't know what's up with how Lightroom handles RAWs in the first place, is that due to the software developers or is it something Adobe does in conjunction with camera manufacturers?
Capture One is a good program but for me Lightroom is much simpler to use! Lightroom has some advantages over the Capture One , I'm sorry that Capture One does not have the option of automatically leveling the horizon!
I use this option a lot. Dxo Photolab also has this option! Lightroom also has the advantage of stitching panoramic shots and HDRs as well , latest version can merge HDR panorama shots!
Just downloaded C1 a week ago. I have a problem that C1 doesn't convert to DNG on import, or that you can add presets on import. You can, but they are there presets, and you can only guess at what they do. Any comments?
Cant we use the brush tool in LR to adjust specific areas in the photo?
What is the advantage of adding layers?
I thought the same thing.
Layers are much more powerful. You can combine adjustments, mask independently, adjust the layer transparency. You get much of the power you'd expect from Photoshop directly.
I have a photograph of a canola (rapeseed) crop in an exhibition. There were clouds in the sky, I used an adjustment layer with a gradient mask to mask the sky, reduce exposure, increase contrast to give a more threatening look. I could have used the clarity tool to reduce sharpness.
I could have duplicated the layer to try an alternative treatments of the sky.
I could have used the eraser tool, perhaps to protect some rocks or trees from the adjustments.
I could return to that layer at any time and change it, even delete it.
I had some eucalyptus trees between the crop and the sky., a bit dark. Another adjustment layer, soft mask over the trees, and tone curve to adjust the contrast and brighten the white bark.. I might have increased exposure a smidge.
As it said in the video, virtually all tools are available in C1 for local adjustments whereas they are limited in LR
@@oneeyedphotographer @ian thank you for replying to my query. I will give it a shot at capture one.
So far, i am in love with LR 😃
At 9:15, the conclusion “no difference” is, because you used a GFX raw, which has a Bayer layer on the sensor. You must compare a raw from a X-Series camera. That’s where Lr has problems: it can not handle X-Trans layer. Try it with e.g. a portrait image and zoom in to the eye lashes or lids or something else with fine line in details... Can send you a sample, zoomed to details, if you want, it’s shocking difference, Lr a catastrophic result...
Switch and never look back. Image quality is outstanding.
Yep, my LR v9.1's image quality is outstanding as well, I'm just moving on...Follow the LIGHT!
I’m looking to switch for my digital work. I’ll still keep lr to use negative lab pro for my film work (also cus the $10 photo plan is the cheapest way to have photoshop).
i been using CAPTURE ONE for long a bit , i too switch from lightroom, a piece of advice always use layers when you are working with colors on the pic doing that u wont jeopardize the original RAW file,