Tethered shooting for Phase One and Mamiya Leaf cameras is the obvious exception, but both Capture One Pro and Lightroom support tethered shooting for a similar set of Canon and Nikon SLRs.Capture One is a professional-grade image editing application from Danish high-end digital photography equipment and software specialists Phase One. They’re applied using a gradient or brushstrokes, and the latter includes variable brush size, hardness and opacity.įor the most part, Capture One Pro is polished and highly capable, but there aren’t many knock-out features. Local adjustments are handled well, too, with a solid collection of exposure, colour, sharpening and moiré processes on hand. White balance can be set by clicking either a neutral colour or a skin tone with an eyedropper.Īnother eyedropper tool is used to define a limited range of colours to tweak for hue, saturation and lightness. It hosts a choice of colour profiles named Film Standard, Film Extra Shadow, Film High Contrast and Linear Response, which make for a useful starting point. The software’s Color tab is more successful. Highlight Recovery proved to be tricky to accomplish by other means – the Exposure control is too blunt an instrument, and the Levels and Curve controls weren’t up to the job either. It successfully rescued clipped highlights but had an adverse effect on midtones, adding an odd halo along skylines – a tell-tale sign of sloppily executed HDR processing. Thankfully, customising settings is straightforward. It often trailed behind Lightroom and DxO Optics Pro 8 Standard on default settings, and in a couple of tests it gave worse results than the camera’s JPEG output. The default sharpening and noise-reduction settings were too heavy, suppressing subtle details in low-ISO images when there was no need for any noise reduction. We expected great things from Capture One Pro’s raw-processing engine, but despite promising improved out-of-the-box image quality in this update, initial tests left us disappointed. Processing stages (such as sharpening) can be momentarily bypassed by Alt-clicking their reset buttons, but we’d like a control that stays bypassed until it’s clicked again. The rest of the interface is easy to navigate, with a series of tabs that break raw processing down into colour, exposure, lens, composition, details and local adjustments. An Advanced Search dialog box filters by IPTC and EXIF metadata such as creator, camera model and ISO speed, and the Search box can tap into this metadata, too, for quicker results.

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