Hey man, Just recently made the switch from lightroom to capture one. As a hobby photographer the adobe subscription does not work for me, to help the transition i was looking for some videos on youtube. most of them are hour long. glad to see you are making a series to help us understand the programme and excel in it. Just wanted to show my gratitude and hit that subscription!
Thank you for starting this series. I'm a Capture One user, and I'll be looking forward to seeing how you work with the program. One thought on what you said. I do travel photography, and I use Sessions instead of Catalogs for this reason. Assume your entire collection is saved in one Catalog. That file will become massive, and every time you make the slightest change to any individual photo in that catalog, the file will be marked as having changed. I use Time Machine to backup my computer on an external drive. Even the slightest change will change that huge file, and Time Machine will back up yet another copy of it. Because catalogs are so huge, your backup drive will quickly fill up ... at least that's what I understand. By working with Sessions, you are working with smaller, more manageable files - and saving an incredible amount of backup space.
I'm really looking forward to the series! I have been using all of the major photo editors but keep on going back to Capture One. The results are always far better. I find that I trip a over the nuances of Capture One. This is why I am so interested in what Ted will be doing -- he has a way of making what he talks about so much more simple.
Thanks Ted. I tried Luminar and Lightroom but settled on Capture One because for me it seemed to be the easiest to use. I don't do much in post processing, but the little I do is right at my fingertips. I do use Sessions rather than Catalogs; that system seems to work better for me. I'm looking forward to your additional videos on Capture One. I'm a slow learner when it comes to technology, so being able to reference back to your videos is a huge help. Thanks again, man!
Cool to hear you're going to do a whole series on Capture One. It's a great photo editor, and I'm very happy with it. Two things I'd like to see you cover: 1. The use of Luma Range. 2. Soft proofing for print. Thanks!
Clarification of the versions. Capture One Express is a cut down free version for Fujifilm and Sony. There is also Capture One Pro for Fujifilm and Sony and Capture One Pro for all cameras.
As a Fuji user (and Capture One Fuji owner) I've been really trying to make the move over from lightroom. Hopefully your vids will tip the scale. Following this.
Well done! Interesting that Fuji has their film profiles available in the RAW editing pathway. Keep up the excellent work. I look forward to additional videos.
Very happy that you are doing these videos. I've been using C1 Pro for over a year and still like to see what I don't know I don't know. Vids on layers, masking, soft proofing for output would be nice.
Thanks for making it. I've bought C1 probably watching your earlier video but I was looking for something like this series. Thanks again. Looking forward to it.
Ted, I use Capture One Express for Fuji occasionally but still use Lightroom and Photoshop more. I like the results from Capture One better sometimes, but struggle with local adjustments, so I'm really interested in the masking feature. I think this will be an excellent series and I'm looking forward to it very much. Thanks!
Became a super fan of Capture One when Adobe started the subscriptions..made the switch and never looked back..love this program. Like adobe the longer you stick with the program the better you will become. Make the jump and you’ll never regret it.
Great video Ted. I started my photography journey two years ago this coming Christmas. I bought C1 and subscribed to Adobe at the same time. I was a newbie on both platforms. I think I opened Adobe a half dozen times. C1 was just more intuitive to me and (although C1 tends to sharpen the initial RAW more than Lightroom) I was always so much more impressed with the initial file. C1 has some great tutorials online. The manipulation of color in C1 is astounding. I love that I can buy it and it belongs to me, rather than leasing it from Adobe. I don't think I save that much money (I keep updating C1 every year because of great new functionality (ie Luminosity masking)), but owning the software makes more sense to me, especially if times get hard. With a lease, you will be shut out as soon as you cancel. Looking forward to future videos on C1!
I switched to Capture One a while back and never looked back. The learning curve in my opinion was not that bad. Phase One has some great videos to help you understand the interface and once you start going, you begin to realize that it works very well and in my opinion is much better than LR.
Hey Ted, Loving your channel. You and it are why I downloaded Capture One and have been happily diving into it for the past week. I'm just starting out as a headshot photographer in L.A., and I'd love it if you did a walkthrough of shooting tethered, setting up any presets to automatically adjust the image as it comes in, and any editing you'd do in post. Thanks again for the awesome channel.
Wondering about your mobile work flow - you’ve talked about Lightroom mobile syncing, Gnarbox and now C1. If you start editing in Lightroom on iPad how do you integrate with C1?
just messed up an export(the jpegs came out at 30 mb each), and then voila you showed me the perfect time saving wayto crunch them down at the end of the video, thanks. Great video as always
Would love a session on the colour wheels. How to use them to correct colours, not make wild colour changes. EG my Nikon’s usually have yellow biased greens and need to be corrected in Capture 1 - works ok in other editors. I have made custom camera profiles for use in Capture that do help significantly. Also, if you have a line to Phase, how do we create shortcut keys to edit in photoshop and open in photoshop. The edit in was available a few versions ago but has been taken away. The open in has never had short cut key ability. This is a major announce for round tripping into photoshop. Can only do it via menus.
as a photography teacher Lightroom / CR is the editing standard in a lot of schools. I usually don’t recommend starting students to step into Capture1 because of the not so welcoming interface and all the extra editing tools. As a professional photographer though, I use Capture1 as my base editing software. It extracts so much more information out of my files and most importantly of all the RAW editing software available, Capture1 gives me the opportunity to create my style of editing. That is the main key of chosing your base RAW editing software.
C1 seems to get more out of the Fuji raw files, not just in terms of sharpness, but dynamic range, recovery, tones, transitions etc. Looking forward to seeing this series...
Yes. I just bought an x-t3 and the files looked horrible in LR. Epecially the sharpening. After some searching around I found and tried Cap One and was blown away. So much so I bought the Pro version to use with my Canon files. I'm not pleased at all with Cap One and the Canon files. To my eye the RAW conversion looks awful compared to LR. I'm new to Cap One so I'm probably doing something wrong as most people seem to love Cap One. I'll just have to research it a bit more. Perhaps it's a matter of building a custom icc profile?
@@raylotier Haven't used it for Canon files, but I'm sure each camera brand/sensor requires different defaults and approaches. Maybe check on the base characteristics/curve drop down menu, or lens profile drop down to make sure it's picking up your exif data
@@tjkrueger2655 Yeah, thanks. I'm a complete noob to Capture One so there is a learning curve but so far I do like it. Watching Ted's video here, he explains that the linear curve is the flat raw profile. I'll play around with that.
I'm very happy with C1, which is a great addition to my Fuji camera. I will be interesting about your serie of videos - ready to follow them. Details section, color balance wheels and jpg export options depending on screen or printing will be some subjects I would like to discover more. Thanks for your videos!
Awesome idea and video! I will be waiting for the videos on Capture One because I have just started using the program and I like the way you explain it! Thanks so much!
Perfect timing Ted! Just got out of that ridiculously priced cloud and bought Capture One 12 instead. I wish for a tutorial on the equivalent of LR brush-tool which I have used to make eyes pop and for dodging and burning. And one on skin retouching, if possible. Really looking forward to this C1 series! /Filip from Sweden
@Filip Svensson, Adobe Photographer plan is $9.99/month USD, CaptureOne is $24/month almost 2.5x month. You have to buy a year at a time to get it just under 2x as much. Is Capture One twice as good?
Thanks, Ted. Been using C1 for a little over a year and love it. Lately, I started using my Fuji X-T3 with a vintage PENTACON bellows & slide copying kit. While I found some decent techniques to convert both BW and color negatives after importing them into C1 (which I saved as user styles), I would love to get your input on working with digitized analog negatives in this great program.
I downloaded the free trial yesterday evening after trying to get my camera tethered to Darktable. Got tethering working like a breeze but got desperate about exporting the files. Watched some youtube this morning and was ready for my studio shoot at 10:00. Now my pics are somewhat ready for delivery. But i will have a second look at them to see if I can improve something. All raw developers and image editing software has a learning curve. I don’t think this one is worse.
First, thank you for doing this, much appreciated. I really enjoyed this initial video, and as a result just picked up the Pro version, as I recently switched from Fuji to Sony. I would find it very helpful for step by step instructions how to import my Lightroom library into C1 (my photo images reside in an external hard drive connected to a MacBook Pro. My plan is to maintain my CC subscription while learning C1.
I thought you would never ask. I got an XT-3 and I really like the processing of Capture One for Fuji raw files. Layers and color correction would be my interests. Thanks!
I love Capture One. It's an Amazing software but without a mobile app it's going to be hard for me to use. I will stick with Lightroom. Sometimes you got to edit on the fly. I can't rely on desktop only. I don't want to have two workflows one for mobile and one for desktop, especially when you have to pay for both softwares. What do you think?
Hey Ted! Great video and glad you're going to be diving deeper into the capabilities of Capture One. A closer look into the organization of files and related metadata would be awesome. Also - and this may not be 100% related to the C1 thread is what do you do when you shoot Hasselblad (X1D or other) and the files are incompatible? As always - love the vlog! Thanks for your contributions.
I have just switched to Fuji after being a Nikon user for 20 years. My current workflow is built around Lightroom. I have read that there are worming issues in LR with Fuji Raw files. I have been looking into Capture One and it looks like a great alternative. I like how C1 supports the Fuji files and offers all the Fuji film simulations. The main thing I am missing is the option to merge HDR raw files, I know there are several HDR merge plugins available, but as far as I know, none of them let you save the merged image as a DNG or other RAW file format, losing the RAW benefits when bringing the merged image back into C1. The alternative is to keep using LR with the Iridient X-Transformer plug-in. The downside is that LR doesn't support the Fuji system as well as C1. I was wondering whether you have any thoughts on this and how you handle the lack of HDR merge in C1.
Fuji's film profiles have always been around in Lightroom in the same manner, in fact one large reason why I still use Lightroom is that I can use the film profiles with Raws from my older Fuji cameras (X-E1, X-T1) while Capture One only supports film curves for newer models. If that wasn't the case I would've probably switched already, since C1's rendering is otherwise so much nicer.
I agree with a kind of sadness. When announced “Now support Fujifilm cameras and styles” No exclusions were named you had it find it in the small print somewhere on the Phase One website. I hear the same mistake again in the video, no exclusions made. To be honest after downloading supported raw files from DP Review, it works great. I upgrade to an XE-3 shortly but I won’t switch, I have 1000’s of older files and the rendering of skin tones is not to my taste at all.
Made my switch to C1 Pro last year. It's awesome. The only thing that is missing: Panorama stitching feature that Lightroom offers. Also a little bit frustrating in C1 is the (De-)Noise panel: I can't get the good results as in Lightroom. Whatever I tried and do Lightroom's results are always better. I watched so many C1 tutorials to achieve better results but sill not so much luck in that regard.
Im a Fuji Shooter. Looking forward to the series, as I have stopped using Lr . Can you touch on round trip editing using affinity photo. As I do miss the pano stitching that Lr has.Thanks
I switched from LR to C1 a year ago when i bought a Sony A7R3 and i absolutely love it (i had to rearrange the panels though to fit my taste). The only thing i don't like is the noise reduction. I find it very weak as it blurs the image so much.
i think most of us are fairly well verse with LightRoom. Is it possible to do a compare-and-contrast between Capture One and LightRoom? By that i mean, do a full image edit, on both softwares, to showcase the difference in workflow, and then the final output. As a LightRoom user myself, i heard many good things about Capture One, but i think it will really be helpful if we can compare how each stage of the editing would be like on both softwares, and also "pixel peep" at the final result in the end.
Excelent information and video, sure shows how good you are as a Teacher Ted Forbes! Funny, I remember when one of the options we had in the earlier Image Manipulation Programs was White Balance and how that will alter the look or Color in general of an image. Fastforward to now and many color specifics of Films(like FUJI)are part of the editing process. Very exciting times we live in, thanks for sharing so much through your channel Ted Forbes!
So Capture One has a catalogue. Does it work the same way as the Lightroom catalogue? Assume all file management has to be done inside Capture One, yes? Does it have image versions, colour labelling, keywording, collections/albums, etc. Is there a limit on catalogue size? Does it generate and store image previews? More on the organizational side of Capture One please.
Well this is exciting. I've been interested in Capture One but am one of those who is a bit intimidated by it. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
I usually use Capure One for Sony. Is a good software, shadow recovery and noise reduction are truly efficient, also sharpness panel is smart. "Clarity" tool is very good for tonal and color contrasts to get pop images (but it greatly increases the noise). However tools that require more precision like the HSV color panel, contrast and micro-contrast panel are not well studied. Also is very incomplete software. It is VERY basic. Would you like to try a very complete program, with a really precise HSV panel and lots of improvement tools for raw (except for noise reduction which is not valid - the best noise reduction is Dfine2 Nick collection)? Try RawTherapee.
I am not sure I would call C1 basic? It is a raw converter like LR and not a pixel editor like PS. Have you used the Advanced Colour Editor, it even has a dedicated skin retouching tab? With layers, excellent selection tools including generating selections from the Advanced Colour Editor and masks that can be refined, feathered (like PS), inverted, copied to other layers, and a Luma curve which means you can vary tone (contrast) without impacting colours I find I only go to a pixel editor like PS for extensive pixel mangling cloning out objects, replacing skies etc.
Interesting! I started using Capture One BEFORE they implemented Catalogs and didn't use it for long because of that... I think these videos will get me back up to speed with what other software can do better than Adobe!
I'm so used to Lightroom that I can't be bothered to move to C1. However, I did play with it and the one thing that would make me switch over is how slow Lightroom is. Adobe really needs to step it up.
I use Capture One for quite some time now. Extremely awesome tool...when it works. For me it's quite unstable, crashes often on exiting and exporting since version 12. Also the trash bin is bugged, may result in deleted but broken files that you cannot get rid of any other way than creating a new library and importing your old one (don't delete too many pictures at once, I'm warning you). Regardless I will stay with them as this program has been vastly superior for me in contrast to LR. Otherwise I don't know if I'd recommend the Pro version if you're not a student (edu licences can be bought for cheap) and only use one brand. They update the software once a year. Hence "future proof" is not entirely correct imho, as you'd set yourself up to the costly upgrades once a year. These are more expensive for the Pro version of course. So keep the follow up costs in mind if you want the latest version. Just my two cents.
I agree about not needing the pro unless you work with a lot of cameras and in the future if you do switch at least you’ve saved money during the time you used either Fuji or Sony. It’s definitely not perfect CP1 10 crashed a lot for me in the recipe exports. Haven’t had any problems with 12 so far using the Fuji version
While not for everyone, I actually like working with an unchanging software, even if it's not there most up to date version. Stability and familiar are my reasons. And if you're a working commercially, BUY THE FULL VERSION. In the commercial industry, renting specialized cameras is so common you'd be shooting yourself in the foot to just use the version for your brand. I own mostly Sony now but rent medium format whenever I have a big project with the budget for it.
@@cwdaly2032 It's the other way around then. I'm on Windows and during the time I used LR it never crashed I think. For a friend of mine though with the same basal configuration (win10, 12 pro, sony camera) it did not crash yet.
I use C1Pro 12 for FujiFilm Camera raw files. It is intense but worth the effort. Since your doing a series could you do one to explain how to get true blacks in B&W photos, and how to fix color casts like yellow and brown. I learned about color balance some but really don’t understand how to use it yet. Black and white is my favorite any help is appreciated!!
Nice overview...I've owned C1 for about 2 years and REALLY need to convert over completely (from LR) Please go into skin correction in-depth. Thanks. Can you also do a tutorial on how to "convert" all my LR files into the C1 "system."
You touched a bit on sessions vs catalogs and if possible it would be nice if you could expand upon that. I use sessions all the time because it's easy and gives me the folder structure you mentioned, makes organizing so much easier as I often work across two or three computers.
Hate to say this but, after many years use of Photoshop Elements and its very user-friendly interface (and as a rusted on Luddite), I found Capture One (2022 version trial copy) and this video a study in confusion-plus!!! Perhaps a less rushed intro video for the absolute beginner on the latest version of C1 might help someone like me. Also a book called "Capture One for Dummies" could be useful!
I agree. Capture One is a wonderful program and relative easy to use. For someone coming from Lightroom you can rearrange the program to mirror the look of Lightroom.
I have used LR since its launch and have become mildly proficient in PS for what I need (a lot of photo restoration and wildlife). So, what would be your top three technical (not cost) reasons to switch? I shoot mostly Nikon (thousands of images going back to the D3x and on through to the D5 and D850 plus both the Z6 and Z7), but I also have a fair number of Sony ARW files and lots of old photo scans using a CanoScan 9950F. Thanks for your opinions regarding this question!
Hi liove he channel especially the history and documentaries of photographers. I used to shoot alot on film but left the hobby. Just started to get involved with digital. I'm a little overwhelmed with how I should be processing my raw files. Since I'm a newbie with digital I dont know which way yo go Lr or capture. Is there any info on walking through the workflow with both programs? A little overwhelming! Lol
I’ve toyed with moving to Capture One from Lightroom and what puts me off isn’t the feature set, it’s the fact that I’ve got a workflow which involves running Lightroom Classic on my main Mac synchronising particular folders to Lightroom on my laptop and mobile devices. I think until Capture One has a way to duplicate that, (or perhaps it does and I’ve missed it!) I’m not able to consider moving..
One of the most frustrating things about C1 is the layout. The constant clicking in and out of tabs to do edits that seemingly go hand-in-hand was maddening. For example, in this video you explained the camera profile is in one tab and the lens profile is in another. Why? It makes no sense to separate them. They go hand-in-hand. Those two belong in the same place. That's just one example. If I want to adjust color, its in one tab, exposure is in another tab, cropping is in another tab. Too much clicking! I hate to say it but this is something Lightroom does sooooo much better than just about every other raw editing software. The interface, layout, and controls are way more intuitive. It's all in one scroll menu and related editing sliders are grouped together. The exposure, white balance, shadows, highlights, blacks and whites sliders are all in one place as they should be. The camera nd lens profiles is one one place as it should be. The highlights and shadows sliders is another thing that bothered me. You can only go one way with it. What if I want to bring down shadows? In Lr, the slider is in the middle and you can darken your shadows without touching your highlights. C1 you can't. It the It just seems a little archaic in my opinion. I tried to get into it because it renders Fuji RAF files the best but unfortunately it interrupted my workflow too much and I just ended up being frustrated
Hi Ted, Long time LR user and considering the switch over to Capture 1. All of my imagery is completely organized from top to bottom using collections and metadata(keywording, geo-tagging, the works). I would love to know your thoughts on conversion of the entire library to C1 and perhaps the best method, and of course any tricks to smooth the process. I'm aware that many of the lightroom edits wont transfer which is what it is. I regularly do pano-stitching and while Capture one doesn't have it at the moment, curious if you have any recommendations for other stitching software the could couple with C1 that outputs a RAW or DNG option. Thank you for all the time and great content.
Nice clean staring point👍 Question related to part one Can you backup/copy the catalogue to another off machine location or separate drive ? I have on two or three occasions needed to point to a copy in early Lightroom 3. Thanks Ted
I'm no Lightroom proponent, but just to be clear, and maybe others have mentioned this already, the Fuji film profiles/curves are available in Lightroom as well. It's not specific to Cap 1.
Frankly, at first Capture One was so easy to me to look cheap... But it's definitely effective! PLUS you can move the individual photo folder anywhere, 'cause C1 system files inside it are enough for the software to rebuild your last stage of that workflow 👍 👍 👍 👍
I am considering Capture One right now; growing tired of Lightroom. Looking forward to your future videos. I think I'd like to process edits on my local drive and then move the processed files to a catalog on an external drive for storage. Instructions on how to do that would be appreciated. Importing files from Lightroom (and keeping Lightroom edits, if possible) is something I also like to see.
Advanced editing would be really nice! i've already settled with a way of working with my images and finding a better way to work in Capture one would be great!
Believe I heard that LR catalogs WITH EDITS can now be imported into C1? Would love to tutorial on that. I have 100k+ RAW images, and would hope to import the original files with LR corrections applied as C1 [non-destructive] edits. Also, does C1 support JPG images now? Think it used not to. Thanks!
I wish I can really say what I want to say. But because it is a public form. I will say thank you and I cant wait to see all the videos you are getting ready to do!!!!!!
I'm currently a Lightroom user and have been looking at Capture One. One thing I'm concerned with is how C1 does and organizes photos in is catalogs. Does it for any organizing of where files are stored on the drive or is it tamper free with those and just saves edits in the catalog? I'm concerned that if I make the editor switch I'll mess up how I'm currently storing files on disk. Thanks.
Please show the process of selecting and marking the keepers of a large set of images you import and the issues and techniques associated with this initial selection.
Really curious about this over Lightroom , I think it would fit my workflow better. Any idea if they're ever going to do a mobile version, I do most of my stuff from mobile workflow ?
Yay Ted! Adobe out grew me. I found Sony .arw files OOC always look better w/CaptureOne than LR. I get better results more easily. Recently I've been frustrated though. I like to make adjustments on a calibrated cheap IPS monitor and print on Canon Pro 10. Everything works great mostly..... Now when I'm working on a file with the proofing on, it gets pixilated when I magnify. If I turn off proofing that's the only way to magnify 100% clearly. I must have changed a setting unwittingly. If you can assist that'd be so good. But you can't be everybody's fixer upper either. So I summarize that I'm excited to follow your C1 instructional series like your other vids in the past. Good man, if I say so.
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Hey man, Just recently made the switch from lightroom to capture one.
As a hobby photographer the adobe subscription does not work for me, to help the transition i was looking for some videos on youtube. most of them are hour long. glad to see you are making a series to help us understand the programme and excel in it.
Just wanted to show my gratitude and hit that subscription!
Out of curiosity, what features do you use frequently in Capture one that you would miss going without if you moved back to LR?
Thank you for starting this series. I'm a Capture One user, and I'll be looking forward to seeing how you work with the program.
One thought on what you said. I do travel photography, and I use Sessions instead of Catalogs for this reason. Assume your entire collection is saved in one Catalog. That file will become massive, and every time you make the slightest change to any individual photo in that catalog, the file will be marked as having changed.
I use Time Machine to backup my computer on an external drive. Even the slightest change will change that huge file, and Time Machine will back up yet another copy of it. Because catalogs are so huge, your backup drive will quickly fill up ... at least that's what I understand.
By working with Sessions, you are working with smaller, more manageable files - and saving an incredible amount of backup space.
Impressive. Creative people are so lucky nowadays, having a variety of choice, regarding quality tools.
Looking forward to your next episode.
I'm really looking forward to the series! I have been using all of the major photo editors but keep on going back to Capture One. The results are always far better. I find that I trip a over the nuances of Capture One. This is why I am so interested in what Ted will be doing -- he has a way of making what he talks about so much more simple.
C1 rules. I use it since version 6, I can't imagine to work in a different way. Live view and tethering are a godsend :D
Thanks Ted. I tried Luminar and Lightroom but settled on Capture One because for me it seemed to be the easiest to use. I don't do much in post processing, but the little I do is right at my fingertips. I do use Sessions rather than Catalogs; that system seems to work better for me. I'm looking forward to your additional videos on Capture One. I'm a slow learner when it comes to technology, so being able to reference back to your videos is a huge help. Thanks again, man!
Glad to see you're doing a series on C1. I've used it since I got my a7, but know I'm missing a lot. Looking forward to the coming videos!
Cool to hear you're going to do a whole series on Capture One. It's a great photo editor, and I'm very happy with it. Two things I'd like to see you cover: 1. The use of Luma Range. 2. Soft proofing for print. Thanks!
Clarification of the versions. Capture One Express is a cut down free version for Fujifilm and Sony. There is also Capture One Pro for Fujifilm and Sony and Capture One Pro for all cameras.
Thanks! Started using C1 a few months ago, have found it mostly intuitive, but do need help. Looking forward to this series!
As a Fuji user (and Capture One Fuji owner) I've been really trying to make the move over from lightroom. Hopefully your vids will tip the scale. Following this.
Well done! Interesting that Fuji has their film profiles available in the RAW editing pathway. Keep up the excellent work. I look forward to additional videos.
Great Video, hearing the thoughts behind the edit are very helpful. Looking forward to the series.
Very happy that you are doing these videos. I've been using C1 Pro for over a year and still like to see what I don't know I don't know. Vids on layers, masking, soft proofing for output would be nice.
Thanks for making it. I've bought C1 probably watching your earlier video but I was looking for something like this series. Thanks again. Looking forward to it.
Ted, I use Capture One Express for Fuji occasionally but still use Lightroom and Photoshop more. I like the results from Capture One better sometimes, but struggle with local adjustments, so I'm really interested in the masking feature. I think this will be an excellent series and I'm looking forward to it very much. Thanks!
Thanks for starting this series Ted. I love your videos.
Great! I'm using Capture One Pro 12 for Sony. Can't wait for your upcoming videos ~
Dude you are the man. Your videos are so helpful. I hope you know how much we appreciate you !
Became a super fan of Capture One when Adobe started the subscriptions..made the switch and never looked back..love this program. Like adobe the longer you stick with the program the better you will become. Make the jump and you’ll never regret it.
This is what I was looking for, I switched to C1, Since I started shooting on Fujifilm. Thank you for this video very helpful.!!
I love C1, it’s great to see more content for it instead of the usual Lightroom stuff 👍
Great video Ted. I started my photography journey two years ago this coming Christmas. I bought C1 and subscribed to Adobe at the same time. I was a newbie on both platforms. I think I opened Adobe a half dozen times. C1 was just more intuitive to me and (although C1 tends to sharpen the initial RAW more than Lightroom) I was always so much more impressed with the initial file. C1 has some great tutorials online. The manipulation of color in C1 is astounding. I love that I can buy it and it belongs to me, rather than leasing it from Adobe. I don't think I save that much money (I keep updating C1 every year because of great new functionality (ie Luminosity masking)), but owning the software makes more sense to me, especially if times get hard. With a lease, you will be shut out as soon as you cancel. Looking forward to future videos on C1!
Thanks for the upcoming series. I’ve adopted C1 for my Fujifilm files. Worthwhile to learn and I have more to learn.
I switched to Capture One a while back and never looked back. The learning curve in my opinion was not that bad. Phase One has some great videos to help you understand the interface and once you start going, you begin to realize that it works very well and in my opinion is much better than LR.
Hey Ted,
Loving your channel. You and it are why I downloaded Capture One and have been happily diving into it for the past week.
I'm just starting out as a headshot photographer in L.A., and I'd love it if you did a walkthrough of shooting tethered, setting up any presets to automatically adjust the image as it comes in, and any editing you'd do in post.
Thanks again for the awesome channel.
Hi Ted could you cover printing. I'm not sure if it is the best option to use capture 1 or is it preferable to report an image and print in Photoshop?
Great video, clear and simple, waiting for the next episodes!
Great video Ted! You are one of my favorite you tubers!
Detailing the printing process would be nice!! Fine art stuff; ICC profiles, etc.
Agreed
Also printing on notecards and other non-standard sizes.
Wondering about your mobile work flow - you’ve talked about Lightroom mobile syncing, Gnarbox and now C1. If you start editing in Lightroom on iPad how do you integrate with C1?
just messed up an export(the jpegs came out at 30 mb each), and then voila you showed me the perfect time saving wayto crunch them down at the end of the video, thanks. Great video as always
Thank you Ted! Just the video I needed. Looking forward to future capture one videos 👌
Would love a session on the colour wheels. How to use them to correct colours, not make wild colour changes. EG my Nikon’s usually have yellow biased greens and need to be corrected in Capture 1 - works ok in other editors. I have made custom camera profiles for use in Capture that do help significantly.
Also, if you have a line to Phase, how do we create shortcut keys to edit in photoshop and open in photoshop. The edit in was available a few versions ago but has been taken away. The open in has never had short cut key ability. This is a major announce for round tripping into photoshop. Can only do it via menus.
Thank you. I just switched over last summer and am loving it. I wish Capture One success.
as a photography teacher Lightroom / CR is the editing standard in a lot of schools. I usually don’t recommend starting students to step into Capture1 because of the not so welcoming interface and all the extra editing tools. As a professional photographer though, I use Capture1 as my base editing software. It extracts so much more information out of my files and most importantly of all the RAW editing software available, Capture1 gives me the opportunity to create my style of editing. That is the main key of chosing your base RAW editing software.
C1 seems to get more out of the Fuji raw files, not just in terms of sharpness, but dynamic range, recovery, tones, transitions etc. Looking forward to seeing this series...
This is why I have switched to Capture One. My previous editor was making a mess of my Fujifilm files. It's like night and day.
Yes. I just bought an x-t3 and the files looked horrible in LR. Epecially the sharpening. After some searching around I found and tried Cap One and was blown away. So much so I bought the Pro version to use with my Canon files.
I'm not pleased at all with Cap One and the Canon files. To my eye the RAW conversion looks awful compared to LR. I'm new to Cap One so I'm probably doing something wrong as most people seem to love Cap One.
I'll just have to research it a bit more. Perhaps it's a matter of building a custom icc profile?
@@raylotier Haven't used it for Canon files, but I'm sure each camera brand/sensor requires different defaults and approaches. Maybe check on the base characteristics/curve drop down menu, or lens profile drop down to make sure it's picking up your exif data
@@tjkrueger2655 Yeah, thanks. I'm a complete noob to Capture One so there is a learning curve but so far I do like it.
Watching Ted's video here, he explains that the linear curve is the flat raw profile. I'll play around with that.
I'm very happy with C1, which is a great addition to my Fuji camera. I will be interesting about your serie of videos - ready to follow them. Details section, color balance wheels and jpg export options depending on screen or printing will be some subjects I would like to discover more. Thanks for your videos!
Awesome idea and video! I will be waiting for the videos on Capture One because I have just started using the program and I like the way you explain it! Thanks so much!
Great start to what should be another excellent series thanks Ted!🇬🇧🇨🇦🇬🇧
Perfect timing Ted! Just got out of that ridiculously priced cloud and bought Capture One 12 instead.
I wish for a tutorial on the equivalent of LR brush-tool which I have used to make eyes pop and for dodging and burning. And one on skin retouching, if possible.
Really looking forward to this C1 series!
/Filip from Sweden
I love watching the Capture One weekly videos. They touch on lots of subjects and it was how I learned to use the program
@Filip Svensson, Adobe Photographer plan is $9.99/month USD, CaptureOne is $24/month almost 2.5x month. You have to buy a year at a time to get it just under 2x as much. Is Capture One twice as good?
Thanks, Ted. Been using C1 for a little over a year and love it. Lately, I started using my Fuji X-T3 with a vintage PENTACON bellows & slide copying kit. While I found some decent techniques to convert both BW and color negatives after importing them into C1 (which I saved as user styles), I would love to get your input on working with digitized analog negatives in this great program.
I did not know I could access the Fujifilm profiles in C1. Mind. Blown. Good video!
You can do the same in Lightroom
mavfan1 thanks 😊
I downloaded the free trial yesterday evening after trying to get my camera tethered to Darktable. Got tethering working like a breeze but got desperate about exporting the files. Watched some youtube this morning and was ready for my studio shoot at 10:00. Now my pics are somewhat ready for delivery. But i will have a second look at them to see if I can improve something.
All raw developers and image editing software has a learning curve. I don’t think this one is worse.
First, thank you for doing this, much appreciated. I really enjoyed this initial video, and as a result just picked up the Pro version, as I recently switched from Fuji to Sony. I would find it very helpful for step by step instructions how to import my Lightroom library into C1 (my photo images reside in an external hard drive connected to a MacBook Pro. My plan is to maintain my CC subscription while learning C1.
I thought you would never ask. I got an XT-3 and I really like the processing of Capture One for Fuji raw files. Layers and color correction would be my interests.
Thanks!
I love Capture One. It's an Amazing software but without a mobile app it's going to be hard for me to use. I will stick with Lightroom. Sometimes you got to edit on the fly. I can't rely on desktop only. I don't want to have two workflows one for mobile and one for desktop, especially when you have to pay for both softwares. What do you think?
editing on a phone won't be able to create the best photos anyways, editing on the fly should be done on a laptop, maybe a macbook
Hey Ted! Great video and glad you're going to be diving deeper into the capabilities of Capture One. A closer look into the organization of files and related metadata would be awesome. Also - and this may not be 100% related to the C1 thread is what do you do when you shoot Hasselblad (X1D or other) and the files are incompatible? As always - love the vlog! Thanks for your contributions.
I have just switched to Fuji after being a Nikon user for 20 years.
My current workflow is built around Lightroom. I have read that there are worming issues in LR with Fuji Raw files. I have been looking into Capture One and it looks like a great alternative. I like how C1 supports the Fuji files and offers all the Fuji film simulations.
The main thing I am missing is the option to merge HDR raw files, I know there are several HDR merge plugins available, but as far as I know, none of them let you save the merged image as a DNG or other RAW file format, losing the RAW benefits when bringing the merged image back into C1.
The alternative is to keep using LR with the Iridient X-Transformer plug-in. The downside is that LR doesn't support the Fuji system as well as C1.
I was wondering whether you have any thoughts on this and how you handle the lack of HDR merge in C1.
Fuji's film profiles have always been around in Lightroom in the same manner, in fact one large reason why I still use Lightroom is that I can use the film profiles with Raws from my older Fuji cameras (X-E1, X-T1) while Capture One only supports film curves for newer models. If that wasn't the case I would've probably switched already, since C1's rendering is otherwise so much nicer.
I agree with a kind of sadness. When announced “Now support Fujifilm cameras and styles”
No exclusions were named you had it find it in the small print somewhere on the Phase One website.
I hear the same mistake again in the video, no exclusions made.
To be honest after downloading supported raw files from DP Review, it works great.
I upgrade to an XE-3 shortly but I won’t switch, I have 1000’s of older files and the rendering of skin tones is not to my taste at all.
Ted, thx for doing this, if you don't mind I like to have a short one about how to turn Sessions into Catalogs.
Great timing, I have less than a month left on my Adobe subscription. I've been trying alternatives the past several weeks.
Cool video and perfect timing as I plan to test it for my Fuji files 👌🏻
Been wanting to try capture one for a while now !
Love C1. I have a sneaky suspicious that they are working on porting it to iPad OS which would be killa.
Made my switch to C1 Pro last year. It's awesome. The only thing that is missing: Panorama stitching feature that Lightroom offers. Also a little bit frustrating in C1 is the (De-)Noise panel: I can't get the good results as in Lightroom. Whatever I tried and do Lightroom's results are always better. I watched so many C1 tutorials to achieve better results but sill not so much luck in that regard.
Thanks Ted, looking forward to more. I need to know how to do some preliminary “bulk” editing. Thanks
Love it! Would greatly appreciate understanding the difference between sessions and catalogs and how to use them in different situations.
Im a Fuji Shooter. Looking forward to the series, as I have stopped using Lr . Can you touch on round trip editing using affinity photo. As I do miss the pano stitching that Lr has.Thanks
So glad I switched to C1 from LR. It started with being offended by Adobe's newer software rental pay model. I am using C1 and Gimp now.
Nice video, Ted. Looking forward the new ones. One suggestion, though. Would you consider the video about inverting C-41 negatives in C1?
I switched from LR to C1 a year ago when i bought a Sony A7R3 and i absolutely love it (i had to rearrange the panels though to fit my taste). The only thing i don't like is the noise reduction. I find it very weak as it blurs the image so much.
i think most of us are fairly well verse with LightRoom. Is it possible to do a compare-and-contrast between Capture One and LightRoom? By that i mean, do a full image edit, on both softwares, to showcase the difference in workflow, and then the final output.
As a LightRoom user myself, i heard many good things about Capture One, but i think it will really be helpful if we can compare how each stage of the editing would be like on both softwares, and also "pixel peep" at the final result in the end.
Thank you @@DJVARAO - i did not know such videos exist. The link is much appreciated.
Excelent information and video, sure shows how good you are as a Teacher Ted Forbes! Funny, I remember when one of the options we had in the earlier Image Manipulation Programs was White Balance and how that will alter the look or Color in general of an image. Fastforward to now and many color specifics of Films(like FUJI)are part of the editing process. Very exciting times we live in, thanks for sharing so much through your channel Ted Forbes!
So Capture One has a catalogue. Does it work the same way as the Lightroom catalogue? Assume all file management has to be done inside Capture One, yes? Does it have image versions, colour labelling, keywording, collections/albums, etc. Is there a limit on catalogue size? Does it generate and store image previews? More on the organizational side of Capture One please.
Well this is exciting. I've been interested in Capture One but am one of those who is a bit intimidated by it. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thank me for clarifying the Catalogs vs Sessions. This for me was very confusing at the beginning.
I usually use Capure One for Sony. Is a good software, shadow recovery and noise reduction are truly efficient, also sharpness panel is smart. "Clarity" tool is very good for tonal and color contrasts to get pop images (but it greatly increases the noise).
However tools that require more precision like the HSV color panel, contrast and micro-contrast panel are not well studied. Also is very incomplete software. It is VERY basic.
Would you like to try a very complete program, with a really precise HSV panel and lots of improvement tools for raw (except for noise reduction which is not valid - the best noise reduction is Dfine2 Nick collection)?
Try RawTherapee.
I am not sure I would call C1 basic? It is a raw converter like LR and not a pixel editor like PS. Have you used the Advanced Colour Editor, it even has a dedicated skin retouching tab? With layers, excellent selection tools including generating selections from the Advanced Colour Editor and masks that can be refined, feathered (like PS), inverted, copied to other layers, and a Luma curve which means you can vary tone (contrast) without impacting colours I find I only go to a pixel editor like PS for extensive pixel mangling cloning out objects, replacing skies etc.
Interesting! I started using Capture One BEFORE they implemented Catalogs and didn't use it for long because of that... I think these videos will get me back up to speed with what other software can do better than Adobe!
I'm so used to Lightroom that I can't be bothered to move to C1. However, I did play with it and the one thing that would make me switch over is how slow Lightroom is. Adobe really needs to step it up.
You've finally got me to give it a more serious try.
excellent, cool education and dispelled myths, TY
I use Capture One for quite some time now. Extremely awesome tool...when it works. For me it's quite unstable, crashes often on exiting and exporting since version 12. Also the trash bin is bugged, may result in deleted but broken files that you cannot get rid of any other way than creating a new library and importing your old one (don't delete too many pictures at once, I'm warning you). Regardless I will stay with them as this program has been vastly superior for me in contrast to LR.
Otherwise I don't know if I'd recommend the Pro version if you're not a student (edu licences can be bought for cheap) and only use one brand. They update the software once a year. Hence "future proof" is not entirely correct imho, as you'd set yourself up to the costly upgrades once a year. These are more expensive for the Pro version of course. So keep the follow up costs in mind if you want the latest version. Just my two cents.
I agree about not needing the pro unless you work with a lot of cameras and in the future if you do switch at least you’ve saved money during the time you used either Fuji or Sony. It’s definitely not perfect CP1 10 crashed a lot for me in the recipe exports. Haven’t had any problems with 12 so far using the Fuji version
While not for everyone, I actually like working with an unchanging software, even if it's not there most up to date version. Stability and familiar are my reasons.
And if you're a working commercially, BUY THE FULL VERSION. In the commercial industry, renting specialized cameras is so common you'd be shooting yourself in the foot to just use the version for your brand. I own mostly Sony now but rent medium format whenever I have a big project with the budget for it.
That’s odd. It has never crashed on me & I’m on an iMac that would freeze all the time in LR.
@@cwdaly2032 It's the other way around then. I'm on Windows and during the time I used LR it never crashed I think. For a friend of mine though with the same basal configuration (win10, 12 pro, sony camera) it did not crash yet.
EnormousSmartass interesting. How much RAM. I have 32GB.
I use C1Pro 12 for FujiFilm Camera raw files. It is intense but worth the effort. Since your doing a series could you do one to explain how to get true blacks in B&W photos, and how to fix color casts like yellow and brown. I learned about color balance some but really don’t understand how to use it yet. Black and white is my favorite any help is appreciated!!
Hi Ted, Thank you For this video. I a.m gong to purchase C1 Pro so your new series will be great, Thank you so much.
Looking forward to the series.
Sessions all the way, jpg outputs to Apple Photos. Love C1!
Nice overview...I've owned C1 for about 2 years and REALLY need to convert over completely (from LR) Please go into skin correction in-depth. Thanks. Can you also do a tutorial on how to "convert" all my LR files into the C1 "system."
Wow, you, Sir, made it that much more difficult to start with this program. No idea what a Catalogue is or should be anymore.
You touched a bit on sessions vs catalogs and if possible it would be nice if you could expand upon that. I use sessions all the time because it's easy and gives me the folder structure you mentioned, makes organizing so much easier as I often work across two or three computers.
Hate to say this but, after many years use of Photoshop Elements and its very user-friendly interface (and as a rusted on Luddite), I found Capture One (2022 version trial copy) and this video a study in confusion-plus!!! Perhaps a less rushed intro video for the absolute beginner on the latest version of C1 might help someone like me. Also a book called "Capture One for Dummies" could be useful!
This is really helpful, please make one on layers, overlays and watermarks.
I agree. Capture One is a wonderful program and relative easy to use. For someone coming from Lightroom you can rearrange the program to mirror the look of Lightroom.
I have used LR since its launch and have become mildly proficient in PS for what I need (a lot of photo restoration and wildlife). So, what would be your top three technical (not cost) reasons to switch? I shoot mostly Nikon (thousands of images going back to the D3x and on through to the D5 and D850 plus both the Z6 and Z7), but I also have a fair number of Sony ARW files and lots of old photo scans using a CanoScan 9950F. Thanks for your opinions regarding this question!
Hi liove he channel especially the history and documentaries of photographers. I used to shoot alot on film but left the hobby. Just started to get involved with digital. I'm a little overwhelmed with how I should be processing my raw files. Since I'm a newbie with digital I dont know which way yo go Lr or capture. Is there any info on walking through the workflow with both programs? A little overwhelming! Lol
I’ve toyed with moving to Capture One from Lightroom and what puts me off isn’t the feature set, it’s the fact that I’ve got a workflow which involves running Lightroom Classic on my main Mac synchronising particular folders to Lightroom on my laptop and mobile devices. I think until Capture One has a way to duplicate that, (or perhaps it does and I’ve missed it!) I’m not able to consider moving..
One of the most frustrating things about C1 is the layout. The constant clicking in and out of tabs to do edits that seemingly go hand-in-hand was maddening. For example, in this video you explained the camera profile is in one tab and the lens profile is in another. Why? It makes no sense to separate them. They go hand-in-hand. Those two belong in the same place. That's just one example. If I want to adjust color, its in one tab, exposure is in another tab, cropping is in another tab. Too much clicking! I hate to say it but this is something Lightroom does sooooo much better than just about every other raw editing software. The interface, layout, and controls are way more intuitive. It's all in one scroll menu and related editing sliders are grouped together. The exposure, white balance, shadows, highlights, blacks and whites sliders are all in one place as they should be. The camera nd lens profiles is one one place as it should be. The highlights and shadows sliders is another thing that bothered me. You can only go one way with it. What if I want to bring down shadows? In Lr, the slider is in the middle and you can darken your shadows without touching your highlights. C1 you can't. It the It just seems a little archaic in my opinion. I tried to get into it because it renders Fuji RAF files the best but unfortunately it interrupted my workflow too much and I just ended up being frustrated
Hi Ted, Long time LR user and considering the switch over to Capture 1. All of my imagery is completely organized from top to bottom using collections and metadata(keywording, geo-tagging, the works). I would love to know your thoughts on conversion of the entire library to C1 and perhaps the best method, and of course any tricks to smooth the process. I'm aware that many of the lightroom edits wont transfer which is what it is. I regularly do pano-stitching and while Capture one doesn't have it at the moment, curious if you have any recommendations for other stitching software the could couple with C1 that outputs a RAW or DNG option. Thank you for all the time and great content.
Nice clean staring point👍
Question related to part one
Can you backup/copy the catalogue to another off machine location or separate drive ?
I have on two or three occasions needed to point to a copy in early Lightroom 3.
Thanks Ted
I'm no Lightroom proponent, but just to be clear, and maybe others have mentioned this already, the Fuji film profiles/curves are available in Lightroom as well. It's not specific to Cap 1.
Frankly, at first Capture One was so easy to me to look cheap... But it's definitely effective! PLUS you can move the individual photo folder anywhere, 'cause C1 system files inside it are enough for the software to rebuild your last stage of that workflow 👍 👍 👍 👍
I am considering Capture One right now; growing tired of Lightroom. Looking forward to your future videos.
I think I'd like to process edits on my local drive and then move the processed files to a catalog on an external drive for storage. Instructions on how to do that would be appreciated. Importing files from Lightroom (and keeping Lightroom edits, if possible) is something I also like to see.
@@DJVARAO Which editing tools aren't available for jpg's?
Advanced editing would be really nice! i've already settled with a way of working with my images and finding a better way to work in Capture one would be great!
Believe I heard that LR catalogs WITH EDITS can now be imported into C1? Would love to tutorial on that. I have 100k+ RAW images, and would hope to import the original files with LR corrections applied as C1 [non-destructive] edits. Also, does C1 support JPG images now? Think it used not to. Thanks!
I wish I can really say what I want to say. But because it is a public form. I will say thank you and I cant wait to see all the videos you are getting ready to do!!!!!!
I'm currently a Lightroom user and have been looking at Capture One. One thing I'm concerned with is how C1 does and organizes photos in is catalogs. Does it for any organizing of where files are stored on the drive or is it tamper free with those and just saves edits in the catalog? I'm concerned that if I make the editor switch I'll mess up how I'm currently storing files on disk. Thanks.
Please show the process of selecting and marking the keepers of a large set of images you import and the issues and techniques associated with this initial selection.
Really curious about this over Lightroom , I think it would fit my workflow better. Any idea if they're ever going to do a mobile version, I do most of my stuff from mobile workflow ?
Hey Ted! Can you do a video on Phocus? I wonder how people use it in their workflow?
Yay Ted! Adobe out grew me. I found Sony .arw files OOC always look better w/CaptureOne than LR. I get better results more easily. Recently I've been frustrated though. I like to make adjustments on a calibrated cheap IPS monitor and print on Canon Pro 10. Everything works great mostly..... Now when I'm working on a file with the proofing on, it gets pixilated when I magnify. If I turn off proofing that's the only way to magnify 100% clearly. I must have changed a setting unwittingly. If you can assist that'd be so good. But you can't be everybody's fixer upper either. So I summarize that I'm excited to follow your C1 instructional series like your other vids in the past. Good man, if I say so.