working with
ments or extremely wide lenses. Local Adjustments, perhaps the most impressive functional update to Capture One, al- low layered adjustments to be applied and removed), giving absolute flexibility and con- sistency across images. Local Adjustments applied with a brush can be copied and applied to other images (rotated to suit orientation – adjustments designed vertically on a portrait image will be applied horizon- tally on a landscape one), and can encompass almost all of the adjustments normally applicable to the whole image.
Colour editor work can be applied locally, and reapplied – likewise exposure, dramatic effects, desaturation, sharpen- ing or moiré correction. If you like vignetting effects, you can paint your own, store them and reapply them later, though at present local adjustments aren’t saved as part of a style. If you want to “paint” adjust- ments directly to an image, it’s possible to do so by selecting the adjustments beforehand; likewise the mask can be left visible for careful editing. Perhaps as part of the overall improvements, or perhaps because Local Adjustments of- fers such a powerful new tool,
Capture One 6.1 introduced bet- ter tablet support, with pressure and eraser awareness. As it con- tinues to evolve, Capture One remains a versatile package for studio based photographers and operators; familiarity reveals the power it can offer in organisa- tion and tagging, editing is now comfortably at the stage where most editing, rather than ma- nipulation, can be accomplished entirely within the application, and speed on a 12 month old iMac i7 is more than adequate. Of more relevance is the speed on an older Macbook Pro, where it’s deployed for tethered shoots, where it will run comfortably on my couple of years old 2.8GHz model.
As with the previous version,
it’s worth looking at the Phase One Certified Professional pro- gramme if you’re planning on buying the full release; mean- while the DB version without DSLR support is free for users of Phase One, Leaf and Mamiya backs. Express costs €99, Pro is €299, and upgrades from previ- ous versions are €69 from Pro, and €229 from other versions. A trial version is available from Phase One. – RTK
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