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Capture One

Capture One is an all-in-one image capture (tethered shooting), cataloguing and editing software from Danish company Phase One. Born out of its medium format studio camera products, Capture One is now a professional RAW conversion tool for DSLR and mirrorless camera owners too. It’s a premium product and its closest rival is probably Adobe Lightroom.

This is how Capture One makes your wide-angle lenses even wider!

March 31, 2025 by Rod Lawton

Capture One wideangle lens correction

I’ve been puzzling over this for a while but now I think I know the answer. This is how Capture One (and DxO too, by the way), can appear to ‘see’ a wider angle of view than the camera can. It’s a particular characteristic of wide-angle lens corrections that looks like it shouldn’t even be possible but has a rational and extremely interesting explanation.

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One

Edit history: Stormy sky over pier

March 4, 2025 by Rod Lawton

There’s this idea in digital photography that your gear or your software must be at the heart of everything you do. That’s not true. The art of photography lies not in the tools you use, but knowing what to do with them.

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One

Capture One lens correction profiles: why they seem to keep changing

September 13, 2024 by Rod Lawton

Capture One lens corrections

Capture One can apply automatic lens corrections to fix all the common lens aberrations – distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting. But then why does it sometimes show Manufacturer Profiles or Generic profiles instead?

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One

Rediscover the lost art of dodging and burning in Capture One

August 31, 2024 by Rod Lawton

Capture One Style Brushes

Dodging and burning isn’t just an old-school black and white darkroom technique. It’s just as useful on color images, and Capture One’s Style Brushes update this classic technique with powerful digital enhancements.

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One

Recreating an 1970s analog street photography vibe in Capture One

August 23, 2024 by Rod Lawton

Analog style in Capture One

Recreating the look of analog films is a surprisingly subtle job that can require several different tools. There are of course magic filters for mobile apps that attempt to achieve the analog look, and desktop applications that have powerful and effective analog presets, like the DxO Nik Collection or ON1 Photo RAW. For this project I’m creating my analog effect manually in Capture One – though you can do the same in Lightroom (see the brief instructions at the end) and other photo editors.

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One

Capture One Pro review (Dec 23)

November 30, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Capture One Pro

Verdict: 4.6 stars Capture One Pro is not cheap. It’s not designed for beginners, and it doesn’t have Adobe’s cloud-based ecosystem – yet. But it’s excellent for tethered shooting, it offers both session-based and catalog-based workflows and its editing tools and output are superb.

Filed Under: ReviewsTagged With: Capture One

Can you use DxO PureRAW with Capture One? Yes, and here’s how

November 25, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

DxO PureRAW with Capture One

DxO PureRAW integrates really well with Lightroom. You can send a RAW file to PureRAW from within Lightroom for processing and it’s returned to your catalog ready to use. It will even have any edits you’ve previously applied in Lightroom. Capture One does not offer an equivalent workflow, but there is still a simple way to send raw files to PureRAW and get them returned to your catalog.

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One, DxO PureRAW

The new Capture One AI Remove Dust tool in action: it’s very good!

November 10, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

Capture One AI dust removal

Sensor dust is an issue with most interchangeable lens cameras, and some more than others. My old Sony A6000 was particularly badly affected, as this landscape image shows. The closer you look at the sky in the top left region, the more spots you see. In fact they are everywhere, all across this image.

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One

The new Capture One AI Select tool and how it works

October 28, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Capture One AI Select

The Capture One Pro October 2023 update has brought a new AI masking (AI Select)  tool to compete with Adobe Lightroom’s own AI masking options. So how does it work, is Capture One’s AI masking as good as Lightroom’s and will it really save you time and effort?

Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: Capture One

Referenced vs managed files in cataloguing software: what’s the difference?

February 14, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Well, there’s quite a lot, as it happens, and it affects the way you store, access and organize your photos

Filed Under: GeneralTagged With: Capture One, Lightroom (CC), Lightroom Classic, Organizing

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