Still, Capture One offers a full-featured alternative to Lightroom for people who are turned off by Adobe's subscription-only pricing or its decision to split the software into two quasi-compatible versions, Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC. Edits made in one program don't carry over to the other, so people with lots of photos will end up with library complications. But converting Lightroom users is a hard sell. Phase One thinks it's got a better tool for both photo enthusiasts and pros. The software costs $299 for a version supporting more than 500 mainstream cameras, or $180 per year through a subscription plan. It can also handle the proprietary raw-format images of camera models made by Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Leica and Pentax. But the new Capture One also has revamped menus, controls and icons designed to make it easier on newcomers and ordinary photographers.Ĭapture One is tightly integrated with the company's super high-end cameras that cost tens of thousands of dollars.
That's a key part of the detailed editing the Danish company's power users need. Some of the big changes come to the critical task of masking - selecting particular elements of a photo that you might want to change, for example, to increase exposure or reduce noise. Phase One has released a new version of its Capture One software with some features aimed at matching and beating Adobe Systems' Lightroom, its dominant rival for photo editing and cataloging. Phase One's Capture One 12 now can isolate edits to an area selected with an elliptical gradient.