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Capture One Pro 23
With its powerful image organising and editing tools, Capture One 23 is a true rival to Lightroom.
Rod Lawton puts its features and functionality to the test
Website:
www.captureone.com
Price: £299/$179
Capture One Pro is a high-end image organising and editing tool that works on the same principle as Adobe’s Lightroom Classic, offering seamless non-destructive editing of raw files, TIFFs and JPEGs with the ability to create multiple ‘virtual’ copies of images (‘Variants’) to experiment with different looks. Capture One Pro’s particular strengths are tethered camera operation and professional photographic workflows, but the steady addition of extra organising and editing features has made it a direct rival to Adobe Lightroom.
Unlike Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, Capture One is available both on subscription and with a perpetual license, though Capture One is shifting towards subscriptions and will no longer be offering mid-version updates for perpetual licenses. Its processing and editing tools alone guarantee it a place amongst the best photo editing software tools you can currently buy. Capture One 23 can view and edit raw files ‘live’ without any processing phase in the same way as Lightroom. All the editing adjustments are non-destructive and stored either in the catalogue file or as ‘sidecar’ files if used in ‘session’ mode.