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I mostly agree with the reviewer. But before that the only let down from C1 is mostly related to lens corrections. Only missing local corrections from C1 express, but it is free and way better than Fujifilm X Raw Studio. BTW, comparing default settings in test does not make sens - it says nothing what each program can do. Please enlighten us about the original colors you saw when the photos were taken. How do you know it isn't the Adobe product that shifts colors?
It would be nice to see Darktable covered. It is not a manufacturer-provided software but neither is Capture One Express. I liked the attention to detail in your article, but was surprised to see no mentioning of local adjustments. I understand Capture One Express, unlike the full "Pro" version, does not support local adjustment, which is a major downside in my view.
I'm also wondering whether LR managed to provide good X-trans support. It had issues at finest detail level in the past whereas C1 was praised in that regard. There could also be a mention of all the extra features LR offers even beyond what the full Capture One "Pro" version offers.
Having said that, I find a choice between either the free "Express" version and the paid LR a bit artificial. Before choosing LR, I'd advice anyone to have a good look at the C1 "Pro" version which offers comprehensive UI configurability and some very nice features like the "Skin Tone" tool.
Elsewhere I also find Adobe rendition more natural with the exception of the giant teapot example where Capture One is more natural. My preference is not to emulate in camera jpgs but to have a more natural starting point for edits so on that score Adobe comes out top most of the time.
DNG converter is free It's the same download for the free express or pro version for Fuji, Nikon and Sony. You just have to choose during installation what you want. You can always check the correct upgrade price from your express to the unlimited fuji, Sony or Nikon version from your capture one account. The pro version for all camera makes is the most expensive. The cheaper unlimited function versions for Nikon, fuji and Sony are the same, but just limited to this specific camera manufacturer.
Note that the installer file contains all Capture One product variants. However, you will need a license key to activate any of those starting from Capture One To get the license key for activating days fully-featured Capture One trial or Capture One Express, proceed with the links below. I prefer the C1E default look and the appearance of the highlights which as you note have more contrast.
Excepting the excessive default noise reduction C1E applies. This was all screen output? Although I appreciate these are Raw conversions, I would be curious as to how the printed output would appear.
I just organize in Bridge and work in sessions. I don't keep images that aren't print worthy. I don't see the problem. It is best to import and move folders using LR because the catalogue needs to know where the files are.
Outside of that you can use any other developer you like and it won't effect LR edits. If you are going to move folders around what is the difference between using the OS or LR. Same amount of steps. I wish Capture 1's catalog system was better. Wish dxo photolab, and all the manufacturers software had good catalogs. Could just be habit. I've been using LR from the beginning. It's fast and easy for me. As is working on images.
I've tried several different software solutions, capture one, DXO, aperture, and all the software that comes with my cameras. I've tried to stick with one that was easiest for me and learn it best as I could.
I still use the others sometimes to take a look at results. I almost always come back to what I know best. For basic edits, The free C1 option is worth looking into. Of course if you're an Adobe user looking to dump your subscription, the learning curve is a bit higher, but easier than starting from scratch. It can be limited though, but maybe pairing it with something like Affinity might be a good combo. I often saw the "free" or Express versions as very basic, for basic adjustments -- exposure, highlights, shadows, etc, and sharpening and cropping but lacking some of the more advanced options like some local adjustments.
So there's a trade-off. Darktable is completely free, has no feature limitations, a plethora of tutorials on YouTube, works with downloadable LUTs for example Fuji film simulations, but also a huge number of others, as it supports multiple common file types , styles, and plugins for example for blending , and supports both advanced and beginner-friendly workflows.
You just have to set it up. You can apply customised settings at importing in C1, please note I have the paid version, not sure if this apply to the free version. This is the reason for the decreased detail Mike notices in the higher ISO comparisons.
I use Passport profiles for all my lenses and bodies If there is please let me know how. I know C1 has pre figured profiles, but they are not my camera and lens combos.
I recently got the datacolor eqivalent, but do not understand how they are supposed to work yet. It creates XMP files which would seem to me to not be the same. There does appear to be some trade-offs in doing so, but not always in Adobe's favor.
On the whole, manufacturer's software is pretty darned good, especially for free. This isn't "mfr" software though. It's just an alternative to the other paid options. However, if you work with other people collaborate Adobe might be a better choice as it's more widely used. It's "manufacturer offered software" and it's free for use with specific cameras. It, along the others software tested so far, is a viable option for many people.
It won't be viable for ALL however. Here, we have worms capturing the buildings and almost every flat surface on them I feel like in my tests worms went away awith simple adjustment to sharpening. I use Phocus for conversion for prints C1 Express is free basic RAW editor. And also has some features better than paid LR. For example you have Levels and much more usable curves! HSL is also much better, you can edit color range. Histogram is more usable also. WB is usual better as noted in the review more natural and selectable auto adjustments.
Sharpening is good and you have few algorithms for clarity. And basically you get much better starting point for Sony or Fuji!
And this is almost for free. This is much better solution for hobby or low budged PRO usage. Compared to any kind of subscription products even own C1 PRO. You can chain C1 Express to some free pixel editors like gimp also. I really love Capture One the Pro version for editing my Fuji files.
But I don't understand why they don't give us a panorama feature like lightroom does. That's so important! The Nikon RAW files look so oversaturated and colors are just completely off.
That means I have to either try a new editing software or switch back to Lightroom. Or did they improve that in version 21? Even after it was requested by many people since around 9 years. And last year like real joke they dropped some kind of advanced color replacement as revolutionary local HSL tool Also Adobe AI adjustments and selection tools are poorest in the industry.
And this is after many topics in the news for their big advancements and achievements in the filed of image editing and AI. Also could not understand praise about LR Classic interface.
This is the most obsolete and not ergonomic interface for work with mouse in any image editing product. If you want to make precise adjustments with mouse you can go crazy chasing after this small tinny sliders. Not to mention PS interface and all over the place effects, filters and adjustments Only really good thing with Adobe is documentation to say something good Also no focus stacking.
So they have just panorama and HDR stacking which is far away from ultimate stacking features. For all else you will need PS. Video-vs-photo which software do you use for stacking or panorama? I agree with you when it comes to LR interface. The sliders are just too small, it's so much more comfortable in Capture One Layers are also great there.
Still evaluating, do not have favorite for now. There might still be the spot removal, but local tonal corrections and local sharpening are very important too. If you need all features you can get PRO which has muuuuch better local adjustments compared to the very basic one in LR! Or you can just chain it with other pixel editor for local adjustments.
Video-vs-Photo Agreed! This software allows for good raw development and OK basic photo-management. It is not designed to stop you from buying CaptureOne, proper. It works fine as a raw developer with output exported to a bit mapped editor of your choice!
Capture One Express Fujifilm". All of them add and remove some features. And there is no free version either. Are you afraid to say Lightroom is not quite there when it comes to professional editing? I use the full Capture One.
The huge advantage for Fuji is the presence of the camera profiles. All the film simulations etc seem to be copied to Capture One. If the free version has these profiles that may be beneficial. New versions of Capture One added Pro profiles for cameras. Those seem to render skies much better. Timely article, thank you.
I'm about to get a X-E4 and have LR6. I've tried the demo of Iridient, seems ok not great. My question is, on Capture One express, can you save yr edits a Tiff files so I can edit in other software without losing data?
Cheers if u can help. Now it is a little bit of an over exaggeration, but Capture One Express is like a demo of what you can do with Capture One. It definitely does not give you a full experience of what you can do with it and most of the useful functions have been taken out of this basic 'free' version. Capture One Expres is a good way to see if it fits your way of working and to see if you like its color rendering, but don't expect too much of it.
It definitely is not a replacement for your Lightroom, nor is it actually a reference to what you can truly achieve with Capture One. I would say both apps have their own pros and cons and don't forget you get Photoshop for free with you Adobe subscription.
That said I do like Capture One Pro better. I use the pro version and suppose the free one is similar in this regard. You can select to edit in external program and it exports the file with all edits to TIFF that is then opened by Photoshop.
You can select 16 bit color, AdobeRGB color space etc. You can export in whatever format you like. And yes this is free basic RAW editor. Thanks guys. Think i was hoping for a tiny bit more. I am trying out Capture One Express Fujifilm again. My last time was in , and I immediately deleted it because I am allergic to library and catalog stuff. Surprise, the new install opens up with OK, just found out how to get rid of it.
And, by the way it is tuning hardware acceleration with an estimated time of 60 minutes Me too, I just hate this "library and catalog stuff", I much prefer to arrange my files by myself. The full version has session option that does not import photos into database and uses sidecar files instead. The article mentions that sidecars are available. So you should be able to work without Catalogue.
Kiril - I have not found a Session option in Express so far. I only see "Import Session I just found this on CaptureOne site. You may give it a try. It uses XMP files. So may be quite useful. About Capture One's con's You're kidding right? There's good reason you won't find any Digital Tech's with any experience using Lightroom:.
You can move the browser to any side, top or bottom, re arrange the toolbar and even what's in it, change every single keystroke, or have the entire interface in floating windows This is one of the main reasons to use C1! I run up to 5 monitors at a time on set. Again, I don't know what this guy was doing wrong. CO Express versions are feature limited.
However, the interesting thing is that all of the images in the gallery use ACR - not one of them show CO Express output. I can never export my files to any other format none in Capture One. It's useless. I have a Fujifilm express license and subscription. Any help would be appreciated. Have you looked at process recipes? You sound as if you are in "Adobe mode" - you need to break out from expecting everything to operate like Adobe. Thank heavens. Can't imagine how you would navigate different video editing programs if simple photo editing ones give you trouble.
This is well documented, but it's evidently not even on the radar for rectification at C1. It's amazingly easy to corrupt a catalog, and then you better hope you have a recent backup that didn't have issues. The plus of the full version is you can work in Sessions, which is better behaved.
When doing so, the sidecar text files are automatically created and can be archived. C1 does not write development settings to xmp files. C1 writes nothing to xmp files. It will read ratings and colors from them but not write them. Nor will it write anything directly to jpg files. You can export jpg files with metadata, but not save metadata to the original jpg's. Saying all that, C1 Express is an excellent tool for raw development particularly of Fuji raw files.
So much so, that I bought the full blown version. Development settings can be exported as text sidecar files for arrival purposes. This is not the same as a direct save. Love the imagery, catalogs, not so much. On a Windows box, keep your image count in your catalogs below 30k. If not, things get really weird and slow. CO explicitly states that all adjustments are held in the catalogue or session folders. I have had a catalogue get corrupted a few times, but then I have backups written to off device storage media.
At least I can get back to where I was before the system ate it self. Not all that difficult to recover from if you practice safe computing processes. In the unthinkable event one would want to move from C1 to another app, how does one migrate metadata? In the open source software options I found RawTherapee easier to use than Darktable. Though I am sure Darktable works well if you can fathom the workflows available, but I spent equal time with each.
With Capture One Express existing for Nikon and Sony as well its a pretty good program to standardize on without having a constant tax on your hobby, you don't really have to relearn anything. Though of course express versions could go away at some point. Forgot to mention that Capture One has adjustment layers and Quick Edit keys.
The objective here isn't to run down every feature available in both programs, which would lead to an extremely long article for a program as in-depth as Capture One.
It's to show the basics and give a sense of which program makes it easier to get the results you're after from those basics. Adjustment layers aren't available in the version he is describing, it is available in the paid version.
Isn't that's a Photoshop bug? They could easily parse the XMP and open into ACR only those that have Adobe's namespace edits included, with the rest going into main PS interface - controllable in preferences I presume C1 writes its edits under its own namespace. You should really brush up on XMP :. Though the bug can be useful at times, as I could easily soft-crop hundreds of photos in Photomechanic before opening them in ACR with the crop preserved in the same amount of time I might crop ten at most in ACR itself.
Cropping in ACR is the last step in the rendering pipeline, so it was extremely slow if you had vignetting and distortion and local corrections on another long known bug or "feature" , since it was rendering all of these as you were adjusting the crop.
If the raw images are accessible I can display incomparably better results out of C1. It is all about experience and habit. As a long-term C1 user is see lots of space for improvement in the versions posted in this article. As noted early on, the goal for the samples isn't to get the best-processed image, per se, as that's more subjective and doesn't tell me as much comparitively. The objective was to get as close as I could to the same finishing point with both applications, with that finishing point being an already-extant processed image from our galleries, and without any prior knowledge as to the recipe used to create that image.
Here we go with the "incomparable, Earth shattering, mind blowing epoch making superiority" of Capture One. Mike that objective is quite unclear and far from a good starting point.
You should compare the best that the two products offer, rarely one tries to get something else but the best out of his images. Fuji is my primary camera system, and I must admit I went looking for a different processor than ACR at first Iridient did a better job, after playing with the adjustments.
However, one can't send the processed image as anything other than a jpg, and I've heard that the catalog isn't good enough to be a DAM, especially when compared to LR Classic. With the resent changes in ACR, I now use that program almost exclusively. Until you fully understand it though, the search tab will greatly help you. All your keyboard shortcuts are still the same though, so no worries there. The Luminosity Range mask is an interesting one that I think will only really help with landscape photographers and, in some situations, natural light portrait photographers.
After that I recommend editing the background image not the masked layer to balance out the shadows and color overall. Then you can export your beautiful photo.
Linear Gradient Masking can be used for a number of things. To do this, you create a Linear Gradient mask as you can see above. Then you carefully place it afterwards. From there, it works like any other mask. As long as the layer is selected you can manipulate what happens in just that area.
But you can do the same thing as you would with a linear gradient, except that this one is radial. In this image, I changed the white balance of the affected area and then manipulated the white balance of the overall image to get the separation in the subject and the scene. This then makes editing the specific color channels much easier. I genuinely wish this had an ability to be more specific about the feathering process.
Simply adjusting it is nice, but extra fine tuning would be a feature that puts it over the top. The algorithms and the way colors are rendered seem to be almost night and day. Where Lightroom I feel is taking the edge is with noise editing in regards to luminance. I tried this with Fujifilm films and Canon files. The Canon files I felt rendered more details in Capture One though with a bit more noise.
In Lightroom, the noise looked more film-like. And to that end, I genuinely think it could potentially take even more work to get the results to be what you want in Lightroom.
The results? Capture One 12 was minutely cleaner; but you only see this detail when going right up to the print. If color and color accuracy really mattered to me, then Capture One 12 would be the software to work with. If I were really big on deadlines, then perhaps it would make more sense for me to work with Lightroom due to how the cloud atmosphere can work.
Capture One 12 freezes less than Lightroom, is a faster RAW processor and editor, can do things quicker overall, and can now do most of what Lightroom said that it could over Capture One. Despite this, we wish that it would continue to make the RAW processing even better, perhaps add a Dehaze tool, and make watermarking even simpler. This is the reason why professional photographers worldwide are choosing Capture One Pro. Download Capture One Pro Fujifilm. Pro Fujifilm allows you to locally edit your image in layers, easily even out a skin tone and perform a professional color correction in a few clicks.
Even if photography is only your hobby, Pro version will provide you with completely new tools for your creativity. First of all, Layers. The feature of Layers in Capture One is that you can create complicated masks in just a few clicks. Draw a rough mask, select Refine mask and that is it:. Plus, you can copy and invert layers in Capture One. For example, here I have created a mask from skin color yes, you can create masks from color in Capture One to have a layer with a skin mask only.
Then I have copied the skin mask to a new layer and inverted it to have a layer with a masked environment. Luminosity masks in Capture One Pro Fujifilm 12 allow you to quickly select only bright or dark areas and edit them with all the RAW editing tools. Also, you can apply presets with saved adjustments to layers and easily change layer opacity. Like here; I have applied a style to a layer and changed its opacity to find the look that fits this image best.
This tool allows you to remove a color cast and get the true and realistic color. BTW, you can use Levels in layers for portraits as well. For example, in this image, I have drawn a gradient mask on the left side of the picture and adjusted the white point:. Another great tool — Color Balance which allows you to separately color tone shadows, midtones and highlights.
For professional photographers, Capture One Pro Fujifilm offers a variety of tools to develop your photography business:. Perpetual license means that you pay for a specific version of Capture One and you can use it as long as you want.
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