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Capture One 20 is here. Dive into the new tools, learn how to use them and discover how the most powerful photo editing system just got better.
Capture One 20 is hereand we’re excited to share it with you!
When developing the next version of our powerful photo editing software, we set out to make photo editing as smooth as possible – while still giving you total creative control. That’s why we listened closely to feedback fromour community and redesigned our tools to be more precise and easier to use than ever. Plus, we added a ton of small updates that will make a big difference to your workflow.
Ready for a new kind of editing experience? Dive into thelatest tools and features below.
Workspace – Scrolling tools
We’ve taken the customizable workspace one step further in Capture One 20. Now, you can smoothly scroll through all your tools for a smoother editing experience.
Each Tool Tab now contains two sections: a pinned section and a scrollable section. Simply pin your favorites to the top of the tool tab and scroll through the rest of the tools below.
Basic Color Editor
The new Basic Color Editor has been redesigned to be more compact – and yet, more powerful. You now get eight color ranges instead of six – and flexible ways to adjust them.
You can edit colors with simple sliders or click anywhere on your image and drag to adjust any color. Using the new cursor tool, Direct Color Editor, you can drag across your images in different directions to change the sliders.
If you need to change the ranges, the spectrum is available from the (…) button. Any changes made to the spectrum will reflect in the color patches and the gradients on the sliders.
The new Basic Color Editor also works on Layers, making your layer editing simpler.
Improved Noise Reduction
Do you shoot high ISO? With the industry’s best performing noise reduction, you’ll now be able to preserve details and colors like never before when shooting in low light. That means you can start your editing with the cleanest possible images.
High Dynamic Range
Our High Dynamic Range tool is much loved for its ability to recover highlights and shadows – and now we’ve taken it one step further, so you get total control of your contrast.
With the redesigned High Dynamic Range Tool, the sliders now start in the middle, doubling the functionality of Highlight and Shadow Recovery to provide more contrast, not just recovery. Plus, a Black and White slider have been added, giving you control of the darkest shadows and brightest highlights.
By enabling fine-tuning of contrast in a fast and easy way, this redesigned tool is ideal for high-speed workflows and supplements the more advanced control you can achieve with Levels and Curves.
New Crop Tool
Cropping is now more precise and easier with the visible handles in the new Crop tool, making it easier to grab and resize the crop.
New modifier keys also allow you to crop around the center [ALT] and lock the current aspect ratio [Shift]. Plus, freehand rotation can be accessed by either moving the cursor outside the corner of the crop, of by using the modifier key [CMD/CTRL]. Hitting return while using the Crop Tool will now switch to the Pan Cursor Tool and show the image in its cropped state.
More possibilities with Layers
Capture One 20 allows even more flexibility when working with Layers, so you get more control of your final image.
You can now select specific layers to copy to other images – without replacing the existing layers on the destination photo.
You can also copy and apply layers between images with different dimensions, making it easier to streamline a workflow where multiple cameras are used or Styles are applied to Layers.
Improved DNG support
Capture One Pro 20 now renders the highest-quality DNG files from your camera, smartphone and drone thanks to improved color profiling for DNG format. That means you can edit with the best possible images, no matter the device.
“Select Next When”
Do you shoot high-volume projects like weddings or events? Culling and sorting large sets of photos is now faster than ever in Capture One 20. Enable “select next when” and let Capture One automatically switch to the next image when you star or color tag an image – it saves up to 50% of your keystrokes so you can get to editing faster.
This feature also works with Sets. Simply select multiple images and disable “Edit All Selected Variants.” When you star or color tag, the selection will move through the Set and switch to the next Set of the same size once the last image is rated.
Find the new feature within ‘Select > Select Next When’.
Small updates make a big difference
Check out these interface and user improvements below – they’ll make a big difference to your editing experience.
Improved Adjustment Clipboard
Enjoy a simpler clipboard when copying adjustments. Enable “auto-select adjusted” to collapse any groups without adjustments and get a clear overview of what elements will be included when pasting to other variants.
Toolbar text and icons
Find tools more easily thanks to default text under the icons. You can toggle this option on and off by right-clicking the toolbar.
Masking Cursor tools
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The cursor tools for masking (brush, eraser, linear and radial gradient) can now be found in the Layers tool for easy access.
Viewer background color
Instantly change the background color of the viewer by right-clicking on the background. You can also make changes via the view-menu, with new shortcuts assigned –[Shift + 1, 2, 3… 6].
Browser thumbnails
See the big picture more clearly with a 50% increase in thumbnail resolution. Jpg to pdf for mac.
White Balance Picker
Get the best possible white balance consistency with the redesigned White Balance Picker tool.
Process button
Activate your selected Process Recipes more easily – the Process button has been moved to the Process Recipes tool.
Changes to default shortcuts
We’ve boosted our library of default shortcuts to give you even more possibilities for faster work:
Proof Margin: X
Direct Color Editor: D
Hide Viewer:G
Linear Gradient: L
Zoom to 100%: . (period)
Zoom to fit:, (comma)
Toggle Focus Mask: Q
Full Screen: F (On Windows F11 works as a secondary shortcut)
Viewer background color can be toggled using [Shift + 1, 2, 3… 6]
License keys for all variants
Make start-up simple. Now you get one license key for every variant of Capture One – whether Beta, Trial or Express.
Simply use the license key available from the BETA area of My Pages on captureone.com.
Want to try out the new features? Download a free 30-day trial of Capture One 20 and see all you can do with the latest photo editing tools.
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Jakob is a portrait and wedding photographer who also works as a Marketing Consultant with Capture One – his must-have tool for his professional work. Jakob is passionate about sharing his technical expertise and helping others discover the benefits of editing with Capture One.
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Capture One version 20 was released early in December 2019 and is touted as a major upgrade over Capture One 12. Now, you may well ask what happened to versions 13 through 19 and the short answer is they never existed. Version 20 is to bring the vesion number in line with the year, of course it now being 2020.
Whats New
- Greatly improved noise reduction algorithm
- New basic colour editor
- Improved High Dynamic Range Tool
- Improved Crop Tool
- ‘Switch to next’ speeds up image selection
- Select tools to have scrolling turned on and pin your favourites to non-scrolling mode (Very useful when working on smaller screens)
- Copy layers and masks between images
I have been using Capture One 20 since it’s release date (In fact before that as I was part of the Beta program). Below are the new and improved aspects.
Noise Reduction
The new noise reduction algorithm is a huge improvement over version 12. Much smoother reduction, less artifacts, improved colour accuracy and improved recognition of patterns and edges all contribute to a better image. The amount slider has a much stronger effect than previously and overall noise reduction is increased for higher ISO images. This improvement is so good that I have stopped using NIK Dfine completely, which previously was my go-to tool.
New Basic Colour Editor
To term this new tool ‘basic’ is to greatly undersell its potential. It is simplicity itself to grade a particular colour. Select the tool, move the cursor to the colour on the image you wish to work with, click and hold and simply move the cursor left and right or up and down. Horizontal movements control hue (add the ALT key] to control lightness), vertical movements control saturation.
Alternatively you can also use the dropper tool to select a colour and adjust with the sliders. All the old clour balance tools are still intact should you wish to use them instead.
High Dynamic Range
High dynamic range adjustments should not be confused with the creation of HDR imges, i.e. the blending of several image with different exposures to create one new HDR (and often garish!) image.
For my purposes, and the purposes of Capture One, HDR adjustments are designed to extract the full dynamic range possible from a raw capture. In previous versions the HDR tool was used to recover shadows and/or highlights. With version 20 the tool has been reworked to allow both recovery, or, to increase the shadows and highlights and now to also adjust the blacks and whites.
What this means is that, for example, in the highlights slider, move left to recover detail and right to increase highlight brightness.Shadows works the converse way. In effect you can now, for the first time brighten highlights and recover shadows.
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This tool now sports two additional controls, White and Black. These sliders affect only the blacks and whites in the image, in a similar way to setting the black point and white point in Lightroom.
This tool now gives ultimate control over the full dynamic range of the image whilst retaining a completely natural look.
Crop Tool
I could never understand why, when using previous versions of Capture One, I had to select another tool after making a crop for the crop to actually be applied to the image. Then, if I needed to tweak the crop, I had to go back and reselect the crop tool again. This was one of my biggest frustrations of the program. Finally this has been addressed in version 20, Make a crop and hit enter – hooray – immediately the crop is applied to the image. In addition the corner crop handles have been enlarged to make grabbing them with the cursor much easier.
In addition holding the shift key while making a crop retains the current aspect ratio and ALT will crop from the middle outwards
Scrollable tools
In previous versions if all the tools did not fit on your screen space you had to collapse some to make room for others. Now you can select some tools to permanently display i.e. ‘pinned’ and move others that, for example, you use only intermittently, to a new scrollable area. This is particularly valuable if working on a small screen or laptop.
For my main 27″ screen (a BenQ SW2700) on which I do most of my work, I have built a set of custom tools (Capture One has almost infinite ways of customizing just about everything to suit your own workflow) that suit my own particular way of working. Working from the top down I have in the pinned area:
- Layers
- Exposure
- White balance
- High dynamic range
- Clarity
- Levels
Below that in a scrollable area I have
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- Color Editor
- Noise reduction
- Sharpening
- Spot removal
- Base Characteristics (this is only there to allow me to upgrade the processing engine from previous versions of Capture One to version 20 if needed for images that were previously imported. of course all new imports will automatically use the Capture One 20 engine)
To move tool to or from the scrollable area click on the three small dots which open the tool preferences fly-out and select move to or remove from the scrollable area
Copy and apply layers
With the powerful layers built in to Capture One I find I am making less and less round trips to Photoshop. Often we find ourselves working on several very similar images and previously you could only copy the whole layer set from one image to another. This has now been improved so that you can select which layers to copy and additionally the layers will self adjust if the images are different dimensions. Copied layers will now add themselves to the new images existing layers instead of replacing them.
Version 20 also has a number of minor tweaks.
Preview quality is somewhat improved, support for DNG files is better (I never use them so can’t comment), and you can use switch to next when viewing previews i.e. add a star rating to an image and you will automatically proceed to the next thumbnail. Personally I leave this turned off.
Conclusion
So, this is a fairly big release. For my particular image workflow the improved dynamic range tool and noise reduction algorithm, particularly on high ISo images, along with the easier cropping would be worth the price of the upgrade.
Likes
- Improved crop tool
- High dynamic range tools beats every other program I have tried
- Better Noise reduction tool now means I don’t have to round trip to another software
- New basic color editor makes colour grading easy.
Dislikes
- Cataloging still needs improvement. Search function is still slow, especially if you have a large catalog which, of course I do.
- Importing is still a bit too slow and often the previews take an inordinately long time to generate which is frustrating if you import a large shoot are in a hurry to start work on the images.
- Price of upgrade from previous versions a little on the high side
A new license Capture One Pro 20 costs $299, with an upgrade $159. Sony and Fujifilm versions can be licensed for $129.
A monthly, subscription is $15 a month. The Sony and Fujifilm subscriptions are $8 per month.
If you want to give it a try there is a 30-day fully-featured free trial