Capture One 5 PRO

Capture One PRO lets you shoot tethered with your Phase One digital back, selected Leaf and Mamiya digital backs, and with Canon or Nikon DSLRs, which means that you are capturing images directly into your computer without any interim storage. Tethered Capture allows you to check the exposure using the exposure evaluation histogram and meter and to use composition mode to prepare for a tethered session without using up space on your hard drive.

Speed up image composition, lighting, and focusing with Live Preview. Makes it possible for the photographer, art director, client, and others to easily view an image on a computer screen at the same time, in real-time. Especially useful with technical cameras. Live Preview is now available for both Mac and Windows and comes with improved performance.

Accelerate your image selection by using the Focus Mask for fast verification of image sharpness and focus. The Focus Mask is applied both to the image(s) in the viewer and to the thumbnails in the image browser. The Focus Mask is perfectly suited for portrait, wedding and fashion shoots.

Get an instant, true view of image sharpness with the Focus tool. Use it as part of your fixed tool tab or drag it out as a floating tool.

Handle large volume shoots even faster with new and enhanced workflow accelerators. New functionality includes: new preference to disable JPEG/TIFF editing, aspect ratios available directly from the crop cursor tool, Auto icon and Style Selector items for the toolbar, as well as “Edit All Selected” feature which makes it possible to instantly perform adjustments on multiple images.

Capture One supports image files from the most popular DSLRs from Canon, Epson, Fuji, Konica Minolta, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax and Sony, as well as Phase One digital backs and selected Leaf and Mamiya digital backs.

Customize your Workspace, Tools and Tool Tabs to make your personal workflow more efficient. Included in Capture One is a selection of best practice default workspaces.

Improve evaluation of image composition and colors by setting a viewer margin (and proof margin).

The Library tool allows access to the images within the Albums you have created as well as to any image collections you have stored in folders on a computer or networked resource. You can easily browse through the image collections thanks to the hierarchical tree structure of the library, and it is possible to start work on images in your folders without importing them first.

The Import window offers a range of options to make importing a quick and straightforward task.

Use Sessions to organize your captures. When working on client projects, as many professional photographers do, it is natural to store the files you are creating as a complete project, instead of storing as separate files -- especially when your work will often consist of RAW files, setting files, library files and output files. When saving a session you will also automatically create a session file. This file will re-open the session and provides you with an easy way to access your projects.

Use the Adjustments Clipboard to copy setting from one image and apply them to a group of images. The clipboard enables you to apply either all adjustments to a selected group of images or only to apply a subset of the changes.

Easily copy and apply individual image tool adjustments to other images and save time. Completely integrated with the Adjustments Clipboard for a seamless experience and improved efficiency.

Rating your images offers a way to quickly find just the photo you want. Rating is available from 1 to 5. Use color tags to add another dimension or as an alternative. Ratings may be applied fast via keyboard shortcuts.

Album folders are virtual collections that offer an easy way to compare images from different folders, without having to place the images in the same folder. Albums take up little space as they reference only images from folders, they do not copy them.

Add your regularly used folders under favorites to gain quick access. Favorite folders are cached, which means that it is faster to access images stored in Favorites.

Quickly rename groups of images and easily apply naming rules to individual photos or groups with Batch Rename.

Support for multiple monitors enables you to configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently. The new Preview Image Size Preference allows a better and faster workflow when using large screens.

Variants enable you to create virtual copies of your original image without taking up more than a few kilobytes of hard-drive space. Experiment with different settings or modify the work you have done on an image without risk.

Use grids and guides for instant alignment check in your image composition.

Achieve perfect, smooth and soft appearing skin tones with the Skin Tone Enhancer.

Easily remove spots and dust spots with a single click. Spot Removal is the fastest and most efficient way to remove imperfections in images. Dust spot removal allows you to select a group of images and remove dust spots from all images with just one click.

RGB Levels and Curves provide a tool, which enables you to adjust individual color channels easily and to be creative with colors.

Use the exposure tool to adjust exposure, contrast, brightness and saturation in your image.

Achieve your desired white balance with Capture One’s advanced white balance tools. With the built-in auto white balance feature, the image will automatically be corrected by the software. With the white balance picker you are able to select an area of the image that looks neutral (a grey or dark white area if possible) and use this information to map all other colors. Use the Skin Tone white balance tool to achieve exact skin tone colors.

Explore an easy way to fix classic optical issues like distortion, light falloff, vignetting and purple fringing. The Lens Correction tool corrects optical artifacts like: Chromatic Aberration, Purple Fringing, Geometric Distortion, Sharpness- & Light Falloff and vignetting. If your lens is already known by Capture One, a default lens profile is chosen.

With LCC based Light Falloff you are able to even out color and intensity differences in the light and compensate for lens fall off.

Add vignettes to the edges of your images for artistic effect (follows crop).

Adjust colors in a smooth way with the Color Editor – and keep changes all natural with Smart Saturation. You have the opportunity to adjust colors either in larger areas using the basic tool, or select a narrow color space in the advanced color editor tool. The Color Editor can also be used to tweak ICC color profiles. The new Inverted Color Editor Selection is perfect to create an image which is almost monochromatic but emphasizes one or more colors.

The Color Balance tool allows you to fine tune hue and saturation in your image.

Apply creative styles to your images and experience an easy way to be consistently creative with RAW images. Styles can be used as a unique way to apply black and white as well as blue tone and sepia effects for images. The consistency of the effect is predictable and easy to reproduce in future images. You are able to adjust all Styles after they have been applied to the individual image. Styles can be combined and with Styles you are able to imitate the effects of classical chemical film and processing methods.

Use the High Dynamic Range tool to recover shadow or highlight detail.

Effectively remove Moiré from your images with the Moiré Suppression Tool. Moiré removal is performed directly on the raw data. Image quality is kept intact and you save hours of post-production work.

Cropping an image can be done freehand or with the constraints of specific ratios. Several grid and guides options are provided to make it easy to get the composition right.  A number of options to display labels with dimensions related to the selected output destination keep you informed about the size of the final output.

The Rotation tool enables you to rotate an image by using advanced precision tools.

The overlay tool provides advanced composition assistance allowing you to place any image as an overlay in the viewer, making it easy to match a certain layout. The opacity, scale and placement can be updated live.

With Capture One you get a range of sharpening presets, formulated to provide a good starting point for sharpening images for the most general purposes. By default, the sharpening settings have been configured to provide a good looking image on a screen.

You are able to remove luminance and color noise from images using the color and luminance noise reduction sliders.

Surface Smoothness helps you to gently smooth surfaces of similar color. E.g. car paint can be made to appear smooth while preserving the edge sharpness in the rest of the image. Fine Grain assists you to make high ISO images that appear too “processed” look more natural through introducing a small amount of fine grain into the processing. Used in combination with Surface Smoothness, this may significantly increase the quality of high ISO images.

Use the Clarity Tool to improve hazy images by adjusting local contrast and a small amount of sharpness. The tool now allows negative clarity values, which helps you to smooth out local contrast in portrait images.

Continue to work while you process high-volume shoots in the background to several output formats using unique recipes for each format. A process recipe consists of a selection of options to create and output images as required. Images can be processed from Capture One as TIFF or JPEG files, with options for file compression, bit depth and color space, in addition to the normal options for resolution and size. It is possible to output images using different recipes simultaneously.

With the Batch Queue you are able to see which images are in queue for processing and which images have been processed previously within the Batch tool tab. You can change the order of processing by drag-and-drop.

In Capture One, metadata refers to data that describes your image and how it was taken. The metadata tool adds multiline fields, GPS information, control of what metadata are included in processed files and a new preference which determines how to handle conflicting metadata during load.

Enhance image rights protection and watermark your images. You are able to add a watermark with your logo or other information to every photo you output.

Enhanced Image Package is a convenient way of packing your master file for smooth cooperation with your customers. When the .EIP file is opened by Capture One on your client’s computer, the image file will be seen exactly as you created it. The original untouched RAW file will be packed with your setting file and LCC profile. You also have the option to include ICC camera profiles in the .EIP package. EIP support now includes all RAW file types that are supported by Capture One. This includes DSLR and Leaf image files.

Share your images easily. With the Web Contact Sheet you are able to generate all the thumbnails, full sized previews and HTML code required for the finished contact sheet. All the elements are stored on the desktop in a single folder for uploading to a website or sending to clients. The Web Contact Sheet now supports larger image sizes.

Capture One Pro can output to any RGB and CMYK color space. With a selection of the most common CMYK color spaces you are able to secure the quality of the image by performing the conversion yourself and not leave it to post production.

Soft proof your colors against a specific output device by selecting the appropriate ICC profile as Proof Profile. Proof Profile is integrated with the process recipes in order for you to easily proof each different type of output.