Capture One Pro 6 (30 Seats, Software Download) from Phase One is professional image-editing software that works with all popular DSLR cameras and many digital camera backs to support RAW image capture & conversion and editing, organization, and delivery of large volumes of professional images, whether they originate as RAW, TIFF, or JPEG files. With advanced features such as local adjustments, support for 64-bit processing, and keystone correction, you can take control of your digital images like never before – prior to showing them to clients.
Capture One Pro supports DSLR camera models as well as digital backs, and with its monitoring functions, you can also use your computer monitor as a sort of digital back. Live View lets you see the camera's preview image on a computer screen in real time, to aid in composition, lighting, and focus adjustments. With tethered capture, you can import and view images as you shoot them. And using the Capture Pilot function, you can use an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch to view, zoom, and pan within images wirelessly, while you shoot.
Tasks that were once relegated to post-production can now be executed during the shoot, speeding up your project turnaround time and allowing you to respond instantly to client requests. Featuring a long list of organizational tools, the software also helps you manage the almost countless shots you take during the average project – and keeps sessions separate. The result is a streamlined workflow that helps you serve your clients better.
New in Capture One Pro 6
Profoto Studio
Profoto Studio is a powerful plug-in that allows the photographer to control Profoto lighting equipment directly from the desktop of a computer. In addition to the D1 Air and the Pro-8a Air, the new D4 Air, together with Profoto's new line of continuous light products, including ProTungsten Air and ProDaylight Air, can be controlled with this software
Local Adjustments
Non-destructive local adjustments let you edit selective parts of an image for unlimited creative control and results. Handle the most common retouch jobs in a few simple strokes to control colors, exposure, contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpening, and moiré in targeted areas of your image. Deepen the colors of the sky, for instance, while leaving the ocean untouched
Keystone Correction
Reduce or eliminate perspective distortion. This powerful Keystone Correction tool can transform warped captures into natural-looking images quickly and easily. This tool is particularly useful for correcting the verticals of a building that have been captured at a low angle
Capture Pilot
Use your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch to wirelessly view, zoom, and pan high-resolution DSLR and medium format RAW, JPEG and TIFF images while you shoot and get instant feedback from clients and colleagues
Black & White Conversion
Convert your images to black-and-white with powerful sliders that let you precisely adjust the color channels and create split-toning effects when you convert to grayscale
Print
Showcase your work in creative formats using customized print layouts. Customize the margins, crop to match the aspect ratio of your paper, and add borders in custom widths and sizes. Take advantage of the color-managed print engine for reliable color rendition. Include watermarks and add metadata to prints. Capture One provides you with a wealth of printing options
Accelerated Editing & Processing
Get your work done fast with high performance RAW, JPEG, and TIFF image file editing and processing through cross-platform 64-bit support. The 64-bit support takes full advantage of the advanced memory handling capabilities of the latest Mac and Windows operating systems – faster performance that does not compromise image quality
Slide Show
Create a slideshow and showcase your images in a single keystroke. This feature can integrate both still images and video files and it incorporates a selection of slick fades and transitions
Metadata Editing
Capture One offers powerful support for metadata that can streamline workflow throughout the complete post-production process. The Metadata tool enables you to read, update, and modify valuable information at any point within the production process. The latest version adds XMP sync and Auto Load as well as a GPS link to Google Maps. Capture One provides wide support for exchange of metadata between applications
Loupe Tool
Capture One's Loupe Tool is a powerful magnifier that lets you zoom into an image from 25% to 200%. It can be used to quickly check focus or view close-up details of a selected image or even of any thumbnail in the image browser
Smart Albums
Album folders are virtual collections that offer an easy way to organize images from different folders, without having to create duplicate images in the same folder. Smart Albums are populated automatically by images that match the album's criteria. Capture One comes with a selection of Smart Albums that are already set up in the library. You can also create your own Smart Albums
Search & Filter
Search and Filter makes it easy to find, sort, and organize images from a selected collection in a folder, session folders, album, or smart album. Resulting images are displayed as thumbnails in the image browser
Integrated Movie Import
Import, browse and play back video clips, including HD video, from DSLR cameras
Full-Screen Viewing
Take advantage of your display to get a big, unobstructed full-screen view of your work. Make adjustments and compare them side-by-side
Advanced File Naming
Capture One provides a powerful renaming tool that enables you to create customized, token-based naming systems with ease. Choose your own combination of text and tokens to create your own bespoke naming system and apply it to an individual photograph or a group of images. Save your naming selection as a preset for future use to ensure image naming consistency
Interactive Speed via OpenCL Support
Tap into the vast computing power in your graphics processor and CPU and use it to accelerate your editing tasks. The new OpenCL support will let you experience incredible interactive editing speed.
Importer
Import Window
The Import Window allows you to immediately import images and videos. This task is made even easier as you can apply multiple styles to image files during import
Integrated Movie Import
Import, browse and play back video clips, including HD video, from DSLR cameras
Live View
The Live View can help speed up image composition, lighting, and focusing adjustments. This digital back function makes it possible for the photographer to easily view an image on a computer screen, in real time
Sessions
Use the Sessions function to organize all your work and any client project. Sessions enables you to store all files as a complete project that includes RAW files, setting files, library files, and output files
Tethered Capture
Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with this advanced tethered capture solution. Operate remotely and take advantage of the possibility to apply multiple styles during capture. Simply connect your digital back or supported Canon or Nikon DSLR to a computer to view and examine your images on screen, in close-up detail, to help make any adjustment choice easy to see. Using the Live Preview function can further speed up image composition, lighting, or focus adjustments
Camera Support
Capture One's tailor-made camera profiles are renowned for providing ultimate image quality for leading DSLRs. Each camera is tested and fine-tuned extensively by Phase One's image quality team to create a "bespoke" profile that brings out the very best in your camera. Capture One supports image files from the most popular DSLRs – Canon, Epson, Fuji, Konica Minolta, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, and Sony – as well as Phase One digital backs and selected Leaf and Mamiya digital backs
Organize & Select
Browser Filmstrip
Capture One allows you to work with images in filmstrip view. You can use filmstrip view in combination with the viewer to quickly scroll from image to image, making changes and comparing images
Focus Mask
Accelerate your image editing selection with the Focus Mask for fast verification of image sharpness and focus. The Focus Mask is applied to all images in the thumbnail browser so it becomes easy to identify the images that have the desired focus. The Focus Mask is perfectly suited for portrait, wedding, and fashion shoots where, for example, the eyes of a model need to be in focus
Library
The Library tool allows access to the images within Albums, Smart Albums, and Favorites and to any image collections stored in folders on a computer or networked resource. It is easy to browse through the image collections thanks to the hierarchical tree structure of the library. It is even possible to work on images in folders without importing them (e.g. on a server or hard disk) to free up memory on your computer
Variants
Variants permit 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
Rating and Color Tagging
It is quick and easy to rate and color tag images to help assist your selection and editing process. Ratings can be applied instantly (on screen or via keyboard shortcuts) from 1 to 5 stars. Color tags can add another dimension and can be used together with a rating, or as an alternative on its own
Adjust & Optimize
Skin Tone Enhancer
Achieve perfect, smooth, and soft skin tones with the Skin Tone Color tool. Precision sliders make it easy to attain consistent and immaculate-looking skin tones for portraiture and people photography
Levels & Curves
The Levels and Curves tool enables you to adjust individual color channels easily and to be creative with colors. Curve adjustments can be applied to luminance, RGB, or individual color channels. You can set the black, white, and mid-tone points, as well as place custom points along the curve
Color Editor
Apply subtle color adjustments with the Color Editor. Colors can be altered in either a large area using the basic tool, or selected in a narrow color space with the Advanced Color Editor tool. The Local Adjustments feature enables you to perform powerful, selective color adjustments to specific parts of your image with the reassurance that image tones will appear natural, thanks to a built-in Smart Saturation function that works intuitively behind the scenes
Spot Removal
Remove unwanted spots and marks instantly. Spot Removal is a fast and efficient way to remove imperfections in images. Dust-spot removal can be used to eliminate spots from a group of images in a single click
Vignetting
Vignetting is perfect for those times when you deliberately wish to lighten or darken the edges of an image. The vignette slider makes it easy to apply a vignette relative to any cropped image area
White Balance
Capture One makes it simple to achieve your desired white balance setting. An image can be quickly corrected with a built-in auto white balance feature. Alternatively, use the white balance picker to select a neutral area of an image (or a grey or dark white area if possible) that will be used as a reference point to map all other colors. The Skin Tone white balance tool achieves exact skin tone colors without using a grey reference
Clarity Tool
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 smooth out local contrast in portrait images
Sharpening
With Capture One you get a range of sharpening presets, formulated to provide a good starting point for sharpening images for most purposes. By default, the sharpening settings have been configured to provide a good-looking image on a screen and are an excellent basis for your own sharpening adjustments
Overlay
The Overlay tool provides advanced composition assistance. This function is often used to shoot an image that will match a specific layout. For example, an image could be captured for a magazine cover where space needs to be left for a masthead and headline copy. Simply drop an image file (with the magazine headlines and copy) into the Overlay function and alter the opacity, scale, and placement as needed
High Dynamic Range
Use the High Dynamic Range tool to recover shadow or highlight detail. The tool helps you to perfect high-contrast scenes by eliminating blown-out highlights and flat shadows
Presentations & Delivery
Enhanced Image Package
Enhanced Image Package (EIP) is a convenient way of packing your master file with its adjustments for smooth communication 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
Web Contact Sheet
Creating a web gallery is quick and easy. The Web Contact Sheet feature in Capture One has a new selection of flexible templates for impressive web-based image presentations
Output Images
Deliver image files to your clients and colleagues in whatever format, size, or resolution they ask for, while preserving the originals. You can process several formats at once and manage exactly what goes on using the batch queue. Use recipes to automate and produce consistent results
CMYK Support
Capture One makes it possible to output to any RGB and CMYK color space. With a selection of the most common CMYK color spaces, you are able to ensure the quality of the image by performing the conversion yourself and not leaving it to post-production
Workflow & Performance
Multi-Monitor
Support for multiple monitors enables you to configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently
Workspaces, Tools & Tool Tabs
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