They only just added a proper plug-in API and so far the support for this has been limited. There are also less plug-ins available for Capture One. You can of course create multiple versions (called “Variants” in Capture One’s language”) You do have multiple undos, but you don’t get to see your complete history as you do in Lightroom. Some features are also limited by the camera too.Īnother feature lacking is any equivalent of the history palette. Capture One supports most lenses through its lens correction module, but there are some differences, and Lightroom probably has a larger database. It doesn’t currently support the HDR DNGs though. Incidentally, if you have a Panorama that you merged in Lightroom, the DNG will work fine in Capture One. For books, theres Blurb’s own book creation software. For panorama merging, there’s also the option to use Photoshop, and on the Mac version of Capture One, there is a script to merge images in Photoshop. There are workarounds for most of these though.įor HDR merging, I use Aurora HDR. If you rely on these core features as a vital part of your workflow, then Capture One won’t be for you. It is essentially a Raw developer and an asset management application without the bells and whistles. Top of this list is HDR merging, Panorama Merging, and any equivalent of the book and maps modules. There are a few key features that Lightroom has that Capture One doesn’t. There is a lot of functionality in these tools too, so if you’re used to just using sliders and buttons to work with your images, you may find this approach confusing at first, but it’s just a matter of getting used to it. Think of this as being like the way Photoshop has tools. Lightroom doesn’t really use a tool interface, but Capture One does. The second big difference is that Capture One uses tools. You could put everything into a single line of panels if you wanted to. The interface is also fully customisable, so you can actually rearrange it however you want. The interface is divided into tabs, but this is just a way to organise it so it’s not too cluttered. In Capture One, all parts of the software are active all the time. Each module is a separate sub section of the software, and loads one at a time. In Lightroom, you have different modules for different functions, and you switch between modules. The Big User Interface DifferencesĪpart from some of the features missing (more on that below), the big difference between the two applications is the fact that Capture One is modeless. There’s also often many ways to accomplish a task, and there are quite a few technical tools in it too. While it lacks some key features that Lightroom has, it has many more features that Lightroom doesn’t have. If you approach the software from scratch, you can get the basics of it pretty quickly, but if you try to use it the way you would use Lightroom, then yes, I can imagine it would be difficult. This has led to the infamous “steep learning curve” that people like to say about the software. If anything the software is more like Apple’s Aperture, so if you’re coming from that you may find it more familiar. Some people try the software, expecting it to behave the same way that Lightroom does, and are confused and disappointed. It’s interface and way of working is very different. Capture One is not attempting to be a Lightroom clone, like On1 Raw or Alien Skin Exposure is. It started off as a fairly specialised tool, but it’s now a very good general purpose editor.Īnd this is the thing that I think trips a lot of people up. The company has added more and more features. It’s also changed significantly in that time. In that time, I’ve gone from finding it interesting, but nothing special, to really appreciating the power under the hood of the software. I’ve been using Capture One since version 7. This is mostly about Capture One Pro, and not the Express version. So I thought I would try and do as comprehensive as possible, a comparison between Lightroom ad Capture one, listing the pros and cons of each, as well as why I like it so much. However, often when I do cover it, I get comments or mail from people who complain that it doesn’t have this feature or that feature, and some are upset with me for not pointing this out. I’ve been covering Capture One for a while here on the blog, and it seems that there is more and more interest of late.
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