Capture One Pro is a complex application that bundles professional tools, designed for image editing.
Upon program startup, you are welcomed by a screen where you can view an intro video, as well as online tutorials, or select your workspace (default or simplified).
The user interface is intuitive and flexible. Nevertheless, most novices need more time to get accustomed to it, in comparison with expert users.
The View menu contains a wide array of options - the Viewer (large image preview), Browser View (displays image thumbnails), Loupe tool (to quickly check focus while viewing the entire image), full screen, slideshow, Capture Pilot (rate and capture images on Apple devices), and many more.
Furthermore, you can use various tools from the toolbar menu - select (move to, trash), pan (overlay, watermark), zoom (pick focus point, loupe), crop (add or remove aspect ratio), straighten (rotate freehand), keystone (vertical, horizontal), remove spot, local adjustments (draw, erase, toggle mask display), effects (pick white balance, skin tone, shadow level etc.), and apply adjustments.
The Tool Tabs offers you access to Library, Capture, Quick, Color, Exposure, Lens Correction, Metadata, Adjustments Clipboard, and Output. So, you can configure color sensitivity, split tones, curve levels, contrast, brightness and saturation, sharpening, noise reduction (basic and advanced), moire, spot removal, clarity, styles and presets, optimize workflow, customize the toolbar, workspaces and hotkeys, simultaneously work in two sessions, and more.
Capture One Pro demands a massive amount of system resources, and sometimes it has a slow response time. The software comes with a well-drawn documentation (contains snapshots and video tutorials). However, it would probably be difficult for first-time users to work their way through Capture One Pro. Nevertheless, we strongly recommend this software for advanced image editing.
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release:
Importing:
· Import of Adobe Lightroom catalogs on Mac (beta).
Performance:
· Faster CPU based processing and adjustment frame rates in a number of cases.
· A number of other performance improvements across the board.
· Progress bars for some blocking potentially long lasting operations.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed a number of stability issues when shooting tethered.
· Fixed a stability issue sometimes occurring if quitting shortly after launch on Mac.
· Fixed a number of general stability issues
· Fixed a number of other bugs.
Camera support:
· Tethered USB support for Phase One IQ backs.
· Tethered USB support for Leaf Credo backs.
· File support for Canon 1D C.
· File and tethered support for Canon 700D/Rebel T5i and 100D/Rebel SL1.
· File support for Nikon V2, J3, S1 and Coolpix A.
· File support for Leica X Vario.
· File support for Panasonic DMC-G6 and DMC-GF6.
· File support for Samsung NX300.
· File support for Sony SLT-A58 and NEX-3N.
· Support for CinemaDNG.
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Lens support:
· Canon EF ...