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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, TutorialsTagged With: Bracketing, Capture One, HDR

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

March 4, 2022 by Rod Lawton

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, SidebarTagged With: Affinity Photo, Aperture (Apple), Asset management, Capture One, Cataloguing software, DAM (Digital Asset Management), Exposure X (software), Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Luminar (Skylum), Nik Collection (DxO), ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab (DxO), RAW processing

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, TutorialsTagged With: Color adjustment, HSL adjustments

Subscriptions vs single fee software: the pros and cons

February 25, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

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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, TutorialsTagged With: Aberrations, Corner shading

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, TutorialsTagged With: Dehaze

Capture One 21 is launched, with Dehaze, Speed Edit and more

December 8, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Capture One 21 adds some interesting new features, many of which are aimed at improving the image importing and editing workflow. The new Dehaze tool may prove to be the most immediately useful, though.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, News

Icelandic sea stacks in Capture One

October 4, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The radial filter tool in Capture One, Lightroom and other image editors is great for ‘relighting’ scenes to add drama and depth.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Clarity, Radial mask, White balance

One subject, six different LUTS: choosing a ‘look’ for your images

August 26, 2020 by Rod Lawton

I’m a big fan of LUTs (lookup tables). They are used in cinematography to give movies a specific ‘look’ but they’ve now crossed over into stills photography, where they are used for everything from vintage effects to film simulations.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, GeneralTagged With: LUTs

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