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From Phase One, the maker of top-end photography equipment like the megapixel IQ4 MP , comes Capture One Pro 22 photo editing software , sometimes affectionately and efficiently known as C1. It offers digital photo importing, raw camera file conversion, image adjustment, local and layer editing, and some organizational features. The latest version has a decent number of improvements, including HDR merging, panorama stitching, a Dehaze tool, and a clever new system for quick editing called speed edit.

The software supports tethered shooting aka capturing , hence the software’s name with a live monitor view and focus tools for controlling a camera with the app.

Capture One is a strong competitor to Editors’ Choice winners Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, DXO PhotoLab, and others in the pro photo workflow space, thanks to its deep arsenal of professional photo editing tools and flexible interface. With Capture One Pro, you do get three activations for your money, however, which is more than Adobe’s two-computer maximum. A free, fully functioning day trial version lets you test the software before purchasing. Note that there’s one way you save money on Capture One software.

If you shoot exclusively with hardware from one of these makers, it’s a good deal. Capture One Pro is available for macOS Apple Silicon-based Macs get native support. I tested the Windows version, which took up a little less than 1GB of space on my hard drive—significantly less than Lightroom Classic’s 3GB. I had to upgrade my image catalog on first running the update, but doing so was quick. You activate the software using a Capture One account as well as a serial number. In all, installation is no harder than getting going with Lightroom.

Since our last review update, Capture One’s developers have been busy adding features. Here are the highlights:. Speed Edit. Speed editing lets you edit using keyboard shortcuts, saving you from finding the adjustment slider you want. Hold down the keyboard shortcut, and a slider appears over the image for adjustment, or you can click and drag to adjust.

Cleverly, all the most common adjustments are the four leftmost keys—brightness, contrast, and so on. The new Dehaze tool, according to Capture One documentation, “uses deep analytic algorithms to assess and automatically adjust contrast, saturation and a matrix of other parameters to remove haze.

Enhanced Tooltips. Enhanced Tooltips are similar to the photo thumbnails in Photoshop that appear when you hover the mouse over a control button. They offer a quick way to show you what the tool does. Faster Asset Management. Improved Import. You can now specify that all subfolders be included in an import, thumbnails are higher-resolution, and you can perform backup during import.

It now also supports HEIC files, commonly used by smartphone cameras. Wireless Tethering for Some Canon Cameras. Capture One Live. Capture One Live is an online service for sharing photos either during capture or from the catalog. Auto Rotate. Auto rotate is another tool that other photo software has offered for a few years. If you dismiss it, you can get it back up from the Help menu. Just about everything in the hub opens a webpage in your browser, so I’m not sure why there isn’t just a link on the program window to a web index page with the same information.

Despite some interface tweaks, the app is still recognizable to longtime Capture One users. The dark adjustable gray window features three large buttons for Import, Export, and Capture for tethering. Next to those buttons are clear Undo, Redo, and Reset buttons, which I appreciate in the error-prone field of photo editing. A split view shows a before-and-after comparison; the Split View button top right also offers full-screen before and after views.

Unlike Lightroom Classic’s interface, Capture One’s is not modal. That is, it doesn’t present different workspaces for different functions, such as organizing, editing, or output. Instead, you do everything in one interface. You use buttons on top of the left-side control panel to switch between eight views based on what you’re doing at the moment—Library, Capture, Lens, Color, Exposure, Details, Adjustments including presets , and Metadata.

You can remove any view or section of the sidebar you don’t use frequently and drag out any panel to have it float freely on the screen. Just as in Photoshop, right-clicking or click-and-holding any of these buttons opens a drop-down of more cursor choices, including Zoom and Pan.

The Apply Adjustments cursor lets you copy and paste adjustments between images. The paste functionality is smart enough to not include spot removal and cropping. The program offers good right-click menu options and keyboard shortcuts. You can even create your own shortcuts for any of the program’s menu options.

Question mark icons in every tool take you to the appropriate help entry—very helpful indeed. A simple roll of the mouse wheel quickly zooms your photo. Capture One can’t zoom to a specific percentage. There’s no indication whether the photo you’re viewing has been fully rendered Lightroom gives you a Loading… message. In my testing, however, photos rendered faster than in Lightroom Classic.

A full-screen view in Capture One shows both the side panel and your image, but it’s far less useful than Lightroom Classic’s true full-screen view. I also find that the basic action of switching between gallery and image view is less intuitive than it should be.

Sometimes I hit the multi-image button and the program keeps me in single-image view. In Lightroom, it’s a simple matter of double-clicking an image. As an alternative to the Import button, you can set Capture One as your default AutoPlay option when plugging in camera media.

The import dialog is powerful. It lets you choose the source, destination, file renaming, and copyright metadata. Autocorrect is also a useful import option. You can zoom the preview thumbnails, view single images, and choose which images to import. You can’t rate or tag them before importing, unfortunately. The program’s duplicate detection like that in Lightroom saves you from having unnecessary copies on your drive. Like Lightroom Classic, Capture One stores information including any edits for your imported photos in a database called a catalog.

The actual image files can be stored in a different folder location from the catalog, or right inside it. Keeping them separate means you can have the large image files on a NAS drive, for example. Unlike Adobe’s app, Capture One lets you have multiple catalogs open simultaneously. The default is to open the catalog you’re importing to as soon as the import starts. A double progress bar shows both the overall import and current file operation progress. You can start working on photos before the whole import finishes, which is handy.

Even with them, I see more detail in Capture One than in the Lightroom’s initial conversion in some photos for some camera models. Lightroom sometimes tends toward oversaturation, though increasing Sharpening brought the detail up to Capture One’s initial level in my test image. Capture One’s documentation states that its raw conversion process “uses an extremely sophisticated and patented algorithm. Above you see Lightroom raw conversion on the left, Capture One on the right, using the Adobe Color profile.

The Capture One image has more detail in the back feathers and more accurate colors; both have no adjustments applied. I can usually get a result that is as good or better looking using Lightroom Classic’s tools, even though Capture One gets more detail and more-natural colors at initial raw conversion.

Where there used to be an A button, Capture One now uses a magic-wand icon for autocorrect adjustments, in both the top toolbar and each adjustment section white balance, exposure, and so on.

You can undo the autocorrect changes of any given setting individually, without undoing the others. The first few modes are more saturated, and the last two give the most detail. As its name suggests, tethered capture is a strong point for Capture One.

It offers more than just about any competitor, with its live-view Sessions feature. There’s also an iPad app, called Capture Pilot, that lets you show, rate, and capture photos using Apple’s tablet as a remote. Capture One lets you add star ratings in the bottom of thumbnails and at the lower-right corner of the main photo view.

It also lets you apply color tags for organization, but there’s no simple Pick or Reject option for people with less-granular processes. The Keyword tool accessible from the Metadata tab lets you add keywords to build a Library. The next time you start typing in the text box, any matching entry in the library is suggested.

You can even import or export keyword libraries and add hierarchical keywords. The program doesn’t, however, offer you a prepopulated keyword library. A new issue is that after adding a keyword to an image, the focus switches to the next image, which isn’t helpful when you’re trying to add multiple keywords though you can turn off this behavior.

I prefer the treatment of keywords in Lightroom Classic, which offers exhaustive help and presets for organizing your photos. You can create your own albums including smart albums based on ratings, color codes, or search criteria , projects, and groups which can include any combination of the above. But forget about integrated geo-tagged maps or people tags, such as you get in Lightroom. Capture One does offer good search options by date, filename, rating, and keyword.

One helpful organizational tool in Capture One is called Variants. Similar to Lightroom Classic’s Snapshots feature, Variants let you create multiple copies of a photo with different adjustments and edits. Organization may not be Capture One’s forte, but in its selection of standard adjustment tools—exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, white balance, and so on—Capture One is up there with the best.