**Capturing One: A Raw File Editing Software**

The first step in using Capture One is understanding its raw file editing capabilities. When shooting with a camera, the files are essentially raw data, requiring software interpretation to bring out their full potential. This is where Capture One comes into play, offering a suite of tools and features specifically designed for editing raw files.

In particular, when shooting in RAW format, the colors kind of "baked in" for interpretation into a color space. This means that the colors are not fixed, but rather can be adjusted to bring out the best in the image. Capture One takes this concept seriously, with a focus on developing custom profiles for each camera model. This ensures that the colors and tones captured by the camera are accurately represented in the edited image.

However, this process is not universal, as every camera manufacturer has its own unique color system. As a result, Capture One has developed profiles for various camera models to facilitate consistent color representation across different bodies. While Capture One was initially developed with Phase One cameras in mind, it has since expanded to support other manufacturers such as Sony, Nikon, Canon, and Leica.

In recent updates to the software, Capture One 1.21 has introduced new features to address these varying camera profiles. For instance, for certain camera models, a new profile has been developed to ensure color consistency. Additionally, a second profile, "Pro Standard," has been introduced for specific camera models, offering subtle yet noticeable enhancements to the colors in the image.

One notable issue with some Sony cameras is their tendency to exhibit too much magenta in the colors, particularly in the shadows. Capture One has taken steps to address this by developing a new profile that subtly lifts out this magenta, resulting in a more balanced and accurate color representation.

**Tethering and Camera Support**

In addition to its raw file editing capabilities, Capture One also offers advanced tethering support for cameras. This allows photographers to transfer images directly from their camera to the computer, eliminating the need for physical media. The software also supports various camera manufacturers, including Phase One, Sony, Nikon, Canon, Leica, and others.

For example, the new Leica SL2 has received enhanced tethering support in Capture One 1.21, allowing photographers to transfer images directly from their camera to the computer with minimal latency. This is a significant improvement over previous versions of the software and reflects the growing importance of tethered shooting for professional photographers.

**Color Interpretation**

Capture One's color interpretation system is one of its strongest features. The software takes into account the nuances of each camera model, ensuring that colors are accurately represented in the edited image. By developing custom profiles for each camera, Capture One can address the unique characteristics of each body, resulting in a more consistent and accurate color representation across different cameras.

This attention to detail is particularly evident when working with RAW files, which require software interpretation to bring out their full potential. Capture One's color interpretation system is well-suited to this task, providing photographers with a wide range of tools and features to adjust and refine the colors in their images.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, Capture One is a powerful raw file editing software that offers advanced features and capabilities for photographers working with RAW files. Its ability to develop custom profiles for each camera model ensures consistent color representation across different bodies, making it an essential tool for professional photographers. With its focus on tethered shooting and advanced color interpretation, Capture One is well-suited to the needs of photographers who require precision control over their images.

**Additional Resources**

For more information on Capture One and its features, a link to additional resources can be found below. These include tutorials, user guides, and technical documentation for photographers looking to get the most out of this powerful software.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back everyone in this video we are going to be taking a look at the all-new capture 121 this is the brand new version of one of my favorite photo editing applications ever made i've been working with the beta for a while now so i'm super excited to share this with you guys today this video is brought to you by the awesome folks over at capture one and pretty much we're gonna go through every new feature in the brand new version so let's jump right in so if you are new to capture one you've never used this before sometimes it can be a little overwhelming there's a lot of tools a lot of panels that do different things well in the new version of capture one we now have enhanced tool tips so if i hover over any tool let's say for instance the brush tool i'm going to get a little image and a description of what that is it's also going to link me to a tutorial so for instance keystoning this is something you might not be familiar with if you want to learn how to straighten up your images and correct perspective you can go to the learn more link get some best practices and this goes for everything it also goes for tools over here on various panels so basic characteristics i get an enhanced pop-up giving me a description to get to these what you do is just hold the mouse over any one of these and you're going to get a pop-up window that contextualizes it the other thing that's very cool is you're going to see in the interface at the top right hand side of the screen we now have this learn button with the little play button so i'm gonna go ahead and click that and what that's going to do is going to bring up a pop-up window that gives us some tutorials that i can basically link right from the app to so this is a really great way to be able to learn the software right from within the application so if there's a specific tool or something that you don't understand the concept behind you get to that information really easily so now i want to talk about probably my favorite new feature in capture 121 this is a concept called speed edit so for instance there are things that you do quite frequently like adjusting exposure adjusting contrast maybe your white point your black points so and so forth a lot of times you have to go in and you're using sliders to do these you have to change panels so and so forth but speed edit allows you to be able to use keyboard modifiers and just click and drag across the image to get to these things really quickly bear with me this is a huge time saver so let me give an example here so i've got an image here this was taken out in the desert near las vegas a while back and i've got a white balance problem the image is too cool it's a little dark i want to change my exposure adjust my contrast and so i kind of know what i want to do with this image and it's pretty basic stuff in the beginning because we're going to do white balance we're going to do exposure and probably just contrast so those three things well what i'm going to do is i'm going to use keys on the keyboard and what we're going to do is use them as modifiers so if i hold down a key it's going to essentially turn into that slider and just click and drag across the screen so let me give you an example if i use the number 1 on the keyboard i'm going to hold the number 1 down now watch what happens at the bottom of the image right here we have the name of the image or the name of this file when i hold down the letter one i'm not going to release it i'm just holding it down we now get the kelvin slider so i could actually click and drag it from here or i could just click and drag anywhere in the image so if i want to warm this up i'm going to just click and drag move it to the right and it gets warm real quick and so i can do the same number two is going to be tent so for instance if i have a little color cast on here i want to bring out either magenta or green that's actually pretty good where it is this is how this works you're going to hold down the key and then just click and drag across the screen so the next one we'll show you is exposure it's the letter q so it's right under that so we have q i'm going to hold that down you're going to see it turn into exposure at the bottom it's going to click and drag across the screen to bring up that exposure a little bit i can quickly bounce back and forth i'm gonna go back to the number one i'm gonna make that a little warmer again looking good and then let's do contrast this is the letter w so i'm gonna hold down the letter w i'm gonna bring up the contrast now notice my exposure gets a little warm so i'm going to bring back the exposure so this is a really cool way to speed up your editing once you get the hang of where these are on the keyboard now these are also editable so for some reason you don't want the number one to be kelvin you want that to be exposure you can edit these and i'll show you how to do that what we're going to do is on the top of the screen i'm going to go under edit and i'm going to say edit keyboard shortcuts and you're going to see that not only can we modify the shortcut keys like we could before but now we can modify the speed edit keys so you can change these up if they're not in a natural order for you this is one of my favorite things and the reason why is because we've constantly had kind of these accessories that are available for photo editors i use some of them i use the loop deck ct when i'm working in lightroom for instance and these are cool but it's an accessory so if you travel it's one more thing to remember to bring and we use these because we've got knobs and buttons that just enable us to just move around and edit much quicker this kind of does it from a keyboard so if you've got capture one on a laptop it's always with you and that's one of the things i really love about this next up we have a new tool for capture one and this is a dehaze slider and there's some advanced options that it's got in here it's very cool so to get to the dehaze tool you're going to go over make sure you're under the exposure tab here on your tool panels here it's the fifth from the left by default and if you look down on that panel you're going to see dehaze it's right under clarity and what i'm going to do is i'm going to pull this off and just let it float over the screen here so we can focus on that what's really cool is you can do this with any of these panels and if i want to put it back you just simply drag and put it back you can reorder these but we're going to pull this off here so you can see how this works so dehaze is going to add some localized contrast it's literally going to dehaze the image you can also add haze if you go the other way so for instance if i drag this to the right you're going to see the image kind of tighten up and darken a bit and then if i move it the other way it's going to wash out somewhat so let's go ahead and darken this up the other cool thing about this is we now have an option for our shadow tone so by default this is set to auto which means capture one is going to automatically decide that shadow tone the other thing i can do is set this to manual and this allows me to grab the eyedropper and i can click on any color in this image let's crank it up so we can really see that and you're going to see how that affects the image so if i do one of these leaves here for instance or if i do a grass blade it's going to slightly change the the shadow tone that's being applied with the dehaze so you can dial that in exactly how you want it so this is very cool we've seen dehaze in other applications but i think the capture one not surprisingly because they always do give us unique options with this another new addition to capture one is we now have a redesigned import dialogue so there's been some issues with this in the past for instance if you're trying to import images that might have folders nested within folders you kind of have to go through each folder and do those separately we now have that completely redesigned there's a lot of cool options so to get to it's like you've done before what we're going to do is go to the top left hand side of the screen you're going to see the import button and here on the top left we can include subfolders we can also exclude duplicates there is now a method of backing everything up so if you want to do that from capture one that's a nice option to have we also have heic support in capture 121 so if you shoot a lot of images on your phone and you bring them over to the computer unless you tell it to shoot in jpeg a lot of phones for instance the iphone will shoot in what they call an heic format which is a high efficiency format it's like a jpeg but smaller and so now capture 121 supports heic files and i also want to talk about some new color profile support so we now have what we're calling pro standard support for select profiles so let's back up a second before we get into this and i want to talk a little bit about color in capture one so we're going to go over to the color tab this is the fourth from the left and when you are on the color tab we're going to go down to the base characteristics palette if this is closed just look at the little triangle next to it and you can tick that and open it up you're going to see a couple things in here the first is the icc profile now this is going to refer to shooting raw files so this concept does not apply to jpegs when you have a jpeg the colors kind of baked in for interpretation into a color space raw format files are literally that it is raw data i've done a lot of videos on this before specifically to capture one but capture one has a process of developing custom profiles for each camera that that coincide with your sensor so this is why every camera in the world isn't supported this is why if you buy a new camera in particular and you try to bring raw files into capture one it won't read them until it has a profile developed for it so capture one who make phase one cameras that's a very um intensive color system that they have for those cameras that has to be on a very high standard level and so when capture one versions ago opened up to other cameras they started developing profiles so that they would match and so the idea is that you're shooting on multiple different types of bodies maybe from different manufacturers even that you do have color consistency as it goes across the board so one thing they've introduced in capture 121 is now for certain camera miles we do have a new profile so right now it's set to sony a7r mark for generic which is what it's going to select by default you don't have to do that it knows that when you bring the images in if i click on that drop-down box you're going to see that we now have a second profile in here called pro standard and if i just hover over each one of them and back out so you can see this image you can see some slight changes and you're going to notice it in this image mostly with the blues down in the shadows so down here in this lower part of the image when i move to pro standard you're going to see that those just become a little more rich i wouldn't say saturated but you can see that they do enhance so these are really subtle changes and i'll give you another image where you can see a big shift here so one of the problems with sony cameras that people complain about a lot is they tend to have a little bit too much magenta in the color so for instance if i'm going to use this is with an a7 mark iii i'm going to click the drop down box you're going to see generic if i go to pro standard if you look at the sand it's very subtle so here's generic here's pro standard you're going to see that it really lifts that magenta out and it's just a slightly improved profile so you can see that capture one is clearly thinking about this with various camera models you can go in you have to actually select the pro standard it by default is still going to go to the generic because of legacy reasons but anyway if you want a list i will put a link below this video um it's also on their website that's what i'll link to it's not a whole lot of cameras at this point but it's some of the more popular ones from sony nikon canon phase one and also leica and speaking of leica i don't have one of these cameras to show you this with but uh they have increased tethering support to the leica sl2 as well as the s3 this is an image shot on a z6 and it is supported with this camera as well so i can go in here and it also has camera profiles so if i want to go in and use the landscape monochrome any of these for example but i can go down you'll see at the bottom it says pro standard and i think this is one of the strong suits of capture one i've talked a lot about this in the past i think color interpretation is very important i think that's one of the advantages to using capture one and i also think capture one absolutely excels with raw file interpretation remember raw files on your camera is just raw data so you have to have the software interpret that that's why it's gonna look different bringing a raw file into capture one versus another application because they don't all do it the same way adobe definitely has their system of doing it which works for them but i think capture one because they have this system and they develop these profiles for each camera model i think this is really one of the reasons to be using capture one i would love to know what you guys think i'm going to do another video on capture 121 and it's going to be a little more laid back it's just kind of how i edit with this because it is one of my favorite editors so if you have any questions for that video i'll have that in a couple days here but leave them below i would love to know what you guys think until the next video i'll catch you guys then laterwelcome back everyone in this video we are going to be taking a look at the all-new capture 121 this is the brand new version of one of my favorite photo editing applications ever made i've been working with the beta for a while now so i'm super excited to share this with you guys today this video is brought to you by the awesome folks over at capture one and pretty much we're gonna go through every new feature in the brand new version so let's jump right in so if you are new to capture one you've never used this before sometimes it can be a little overwhelming there's a lot of tools a lot of panels that do different things well in the new version of capture one we now have enhanced tool tips so if i hover over any tool let's say for instance the brush tool i'm going to get a little image and a description of what that is it's also going to link me to a tutorial so for instance keystoning this is something you might not be familiar with if you want to learn how to straighten up your images and correct perspective you can go to the learn more link get some best practices and this goes for everything it also goes for tools over here on various panels so basic characteristics i get an enhanced pop-up giving me a description to get to these what you do is just hold the mouse over any one of these and you're going to get a pop-up window that contextualizes it the other thing that's very cool is you're going to see in the interface at the top right hand side of the screen we now have this learn button with the little play button so i'm gonna go ahead and click that and what that's going to do is going to bring up a pop-up window that gives us some tutorials that i can basically link right from the app to so this is a really great way to be able to learn the software right from within the application so if there's a specific tool or something that you don't understand the concept behind you get to that information really easily so now i want to talk about probably my favorite new feature in capture 121 this is a concept called speed edit so for instance there are things that you do quite frequently like adjusting exposure adjusting contrast maybe your white point your black points so and so forth a lot of times you have to go in and you're using sliders to do these you have to change panels so and so forth but speed edit allows you to be able to use keyboard modifiers and just click and drag across the image to get to these things really quickly bear with me this is a huge time saver so let me give an example here so i've got an image here this was taken out in the desert near las vegas a while back and i've got a white balance problem the image is too cool it's a little dark i want to change my exposure adjust my contrast and so i kind of know what i want to do with this image and it's pretty basic stuff in the beginning because we're going to do white balance we're going to do exposure and probably just contrast so those three things well what i'm going to do is i'm going to use keys on the keyboard and what we're going to do is use them as modifiers so if i hold down a key it's going to essentially turn into that slider and just click and drag across the screen so let me give you an example if i use the number 1 on the keyboard i'm going to hold the number 1 down now watch what happens at the bottom of the image right here we have the name of the image or the name of this file when i hold down the letter one i'm not going to release it i'm just holding it down we now get the kelvin slider so i could actually click and drag it from here or i could just click and drag anywhere in the image so if i want to warm this up i'm going to just click and drag move it to the right and it gets warm real quick and so i can do the same number two is going to be tent so for instance if i have a little color cast on here i want to bring out either magenta or green that's actually pretty good where it is this is how this works you're going to hold down the key and then just click and drag across the screen so the next one we'll show you is exposure it's the letter q so it's right under that so we have q i'm going to hold that down you're going to see it turn into exposure at the bottom it's going to click and drag across the screen to bring up that exposure a little bit i can quickly bounce back and forth i'm gonna go back to the number one i'm gonna make that a little warmer again looking good and then let's do contrast this is the letter w so i'm gonna hold down the letter w i'm gonna bring up the contrast now notice my exposure gets a little warm so i'm going to bring back the exposure so this is a really cool way to speed up your editing once you get the hang of where these are on the keyboard now these are also editable so for some reason you don't want the number one to be kelvin you want that to be exposure you can edit these and i'll show you how to do that what we're going to do is on the top of the screen i'm going to go under edit and i'm going to say edit keyboard shortcuts and you're going to see that not only can we modify the shortcut keys like we could before but now we can modify the speed edit keys so you can change these up if they're not in a natural order for you this is one of my favorite things and the reason why is because we've constantly had kind of these accessories that are available for photo editors i use some of them i use the loop deck ct when i'm working in lightroom for instance and these are cool but it's an accessory so if you travel it's one more thing to remember to bring and we use these because we've got knobs and buttons that just enable us to just move around and edit much quicker this kind of does it from a keyboard so if you've got capture one on a laptop it's always with you and that's one of the things i really love about this next up we have a new tool for capture one and this is a dehaze slider and there's some advanced options that it's got in here it's very cool so to get to the dehaze tool you're going to go over make sure you're under the exposure tab here on your tool panels here it's the fifth from the left by default and if you look down on that panel you're going to see dehaze it's right under clarity and what i'm going to do is i'm going to pull this off and just let it float over the screen here so we can focus on that what's really cool is you can do this with any of these panels and if i want to put it back you just simply drag and put it back you can reorder these but we're going to pull this off here so you can see how this works so dehaze is going to add some localized contrast it's literally going to dehaze the image you can also add haze if you go the other way so for instance if i drag this to the right you're going to see the image kind of tighten up and darken a bit and then if i move it the other way it's going to wash out somewhat so let's go ahead and darken this up the other cool thing about this is we now have an option for our shadow tone so by default this is set to auto which means capture one is going to automatically decide that shadow tone the other thing i can do is set this to manual and this allows me to grab the eyedropper and i can click on any color in this image let's crank it up so we can really see that and you're going to see how that affects the image so if i do one of these leaves here for instance or if i do a grass blade it's going to slightly change the the shadow tone that's being applied with the dehaze so you can dial that in exactly how you want it so this is very cool we've seen dehaze in other applications but i think the capture one not surprisingly because they always do give us unique options with this another new addition to capture one is we now have a redesigned import dialogue so there's been some issues with this in the past for instance if you're trying to import images that might have folders nested within folders you kind of have to go through each folder and do those separately we now have that completely redesigned there's a lot of cool options so to get to it's like you've done before what we're going to do is go to the top left hand side of the screen you're going to see the import button and here on the top left we can include subfolders we can also exclude duplicates there is now a method of backing everything up so if you want to do that from capture one that's a nice option to have we also have heic support in capture 121 so if you shoot a lot of images on your phone and you bring them over to the computer unless you tell it to shoot in jpeg a lot of phones for instance the iphone will shoot in what they call an heic format which is a high efficiency format it's like a jpeg but smaller and so now capture 121 supports heic files and i also want to talk about some new color profile support so we now have what we're calling pro standard support for select profiles so let's back up a second before we get into this and i want to talk a little bit about color in capture one so we're going to go over to the color tab this is the fourth from the left and when you are on the color tab we're going to go down to the base characteristics palette if this is closed just look at the little triangle next to it and you can tick that and open it up you're going to see a couple things in here the first is the icc profile now this is going to refer to shooting raw files so this concept does not apply to jpegs when you have a jpeg the colors kind of baked in for interpretation into a color space raw format files are literally that it is raw data i've done a lot of videos on this before specifically to capture one but capture one has a process of developing custom profiles for each camera that that coincide with your sensor so this is why every camera in the world isn't supported this is why if you buy a new camera in particular and you try to bring raw files into capture one it won't read them until it has a profile developed for it so capture one who make phase one cameras that's a very um intensive color system that they have for those cameras that has to be on a very high standard level and so when capture one versions ago opened up to other cameras they started developing profiles so that they would match and so the idea is that you're shooting on multiple different types of bodies maybe from different manufacturers even that you do have color consistency as it goes across the board so one thing they've introduced in capture 121 is now for certain camera miles we do have a new profile so right now it's set to sony a7r mark for generic which is what it's going to select by default you don't have to do that it knows that when you bring the images in if i click on that drop-down box you're going to see that we now have a second profile in here called pro standard and if i just hover over each one of them and back out so you can see this image you can see some slight changes and you're going to notice it in this image mostly with the blues down in the shadows so down here in this lower part of the image when i move to pro standard you're going to see that those just become a little more rich i wouldn't say saturated but you can see that they do enhance so these are really subtle changes and i'll give you another image where you can see a big shift here so one of the problems with sony cameras that people complain about a lot is they tend to have a little bit too much magenta in the color so for instance if i'm going to use this is with an a7 mark iii i'm going to click the drop down box you're going to see generic if i go to pro standard if you look at the sand it's very subtle so here's generic here's pro standard you're going to see that it really lifts that magenta out and it's just a slightly improved profile so you can see that capture one is clearly thinking about this with various camera models you can go in you have to actually select the pro standard it by default is still going to go to the generic because of legacy reasons but anyway if you want a list i will put a link below this video um it's also on their website that's what i'll link to it's not a whole lot of cameras at this point but it's some of the more popular ones from sony nikon canon phase one and also leica and speaking of leica i don't have one of these cameras to show you this with but uh they have increased tethering support to the leica sl2 as well as the s3 this is an image shot on a z6 and it is supported with this camera as well so i can go in here and it also has camera profiles so if i want to go in and use the landscape monochrome any of these for example but i can go down you'll see at the bottom it says pro standard and i think this is one of the strong suits of capture one i've talked a lot about this in the past i think color interpretation is very important i think that's one of the advantages to using capture one and i also think capture one absolutely excels with raw file interpretation remember raw files on your camera is just raw data so you have to have the software interpret that that's why it's gonna look different bringing a raw file into capture one versus another application because they don't all do it the same way adobe definitely has their system of doing it which works for them but i think capture one because they have this system and they develop these profiles for each camera model i think this is really one of the reasons to be using capture one i would love to know what you guys think i'm going to do another video on capture 121 and it's going to be a little more laid back it's just kind of how i edit with this because it is one of my favorite editors so if you have any questions for that video i'll have that in a couple days here but leave them below i would love to know what you guys think until the next video i'll catch you guys then later\n"