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How I use merged HDR stacks as ’super-negatives’

April 26, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom and Capture One offer HDR tools with a difference. They don’t create wild and exaggerated HDR effects. Instead, they create what I would call DNG ‘super-negatives’ with extended dynamic range that you can then exploit however you like.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials

Recreating Kodak HIE black and white infra-red film digitally

April 23, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Kodak HIE infra-red film was one of my favorite films, delivering dense black skies, dreamy soft highlights and heavy grain. Can I get the same effect digitally?

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Nik Collection

Capture One 22 review

April 7, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Capture One review

Verdict: 4.8 stars Capture One 22 brings built in HDR and panorama merge, and new and improved perspective controls, adding to its excellent raw processing, color controls and local adjustments. This Lightroom rival is expensive, but you get what you pay for.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Reviews

Capture One 22 15.2.0 update brings improved perspective control and M1 Mac speed gains

April 5, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

The Capture One 22 15.2.0 update (free to existing users) brings more powerful keystone tools, faster M1 processing and new lens profiles.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, News, Uncategorized

How to use HDR merge in Capture One 22 – and how well does it work?

April 1, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Capture One 22 brings an HDR merge feature that quickly combines several exposures into a single fully editable DNG file with extended dynamic range. But how well does it work?

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Tutorials

The best photo editing software for organizing, editing, RAW and effects

March 4, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Choosing the best image editing software can be complicated. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are 12 programs with their own distinct strengths.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab, Photoshop, Reviews, Sidebar

Can you intensify color by reducing it?

February 27, 2021 by Rod Lawton

Color is a complex thing. It doesn’t get its intensity solely from saturation, but also from contrast. This can include color contrast with colors on opposite sides of the color wheel, brightness contrast between bright and dark colors, and another type of contrast we can call ’saturation contrast’. This is where you contrast strongly saturated […]

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General, Tutorials

Subscriptions vs single fee software: the pros and cons

February 25, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

Generally, those who object to subscription software do so on principle while those who embrace it do it out of practicality. That’s two different sets of reasons.

Filed Under: Capture One, Editing A-Z, Featured, General, Lightroom, ON1 Photo RAW, Photoshop

When to use Capture One’s Light Falloff slider

February 21, 2021 by Rod Lawton

This is a great tool when you’re working with lenses that suffer from vignetting. Most modern lenses are pretty good in this respect and Capture One will usually have a lens profile that corrects vignetting and distortion and chromatic aberration at the same time. But if you’re working with older vintage lenses, or cheap lo-fi […]

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Tutorials

The new Capture One Dehaze tool is NOT the same as Lightroom Dehaze

December 9, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The new Dehaze slider in Capture One 21 shares the same name as the tool in Lightroom, and the same aim – to reduce atmospheric haze in outdoor shots and restore contrast and depth. Capture One 21 does this using some advanced algorithms and a ‘matrix’ of adjustments which aren’t disclosed. Lightroom appears to use […]

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Tutorials

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