However, we always like to point out that ‘perpetual’ licenses don’t include version updates. Alternatively, you can buy a perpetual license for $299/£299. Lightroom is subscription-only, of course, but you can get a subscription to Capture One 21 too, and its twice the price of the Adobe Photography Plan at $19 per month. If you go for the Pro version reviewed here, it works out at about twice the price of Lightroom. Other new features in Capture One 21 include support for 8-bit Apple HEIC image files, and new ProStandard Profiles for selected cameras, to give more accurate and consistent colors during adjustments. You can even name them to remind yourself what you’ve done. Lightroom’s local adjustment tools are a subset of the full range, but Capture One lets you use all adjustments on any adjustment layer. Where Lightroom uses ‘pins’ to position adjustments directly on the image, Capture One uses adjustment layers with powerful masking options.

The local adjustments are especially interesting. (Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World) Capture One says that searching and browsing is faster than ever in this latest version.Ĭapture One 21 can ‘reference’ your images in their existing locations, but Mac users may be interested to learn that it can also import them into the catalog itself, so that you get a single big catalog file rather than having your photos spread across your computer – just like Apple’s long-lamented Aperture.Ĭapture One 21 does not support Photoshop plug-ins, but it does support 'round tripping' to external editors, so if anything the choice of external apps is even greater. Sessions are ideal when you need to shoot, select and edit images for a client on a job by job basis.Ĭapture One can also work as a Lightroom-style cataloguing tool, storing all our images in a centralized catalog with tools for sorting, filtering and rating your images, and the ability to store them in collections and smart collections. (Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World)Ĭapture One offers both a ‘sessions’ based workflow for studio photography, and tethered shooting is its speciality – Capture One has just announced a partnership with Leica to allow tethered shooting with Leica cameras for the first time ever. Capture One 21 now has a Dehaze tool, though the effect is unlike Lightroom's, with a more traditional looking contrast boost rather than Lightroom's psuedo-HDR look (if you push it to extremes).

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