#Capture one pro vs lightroom full

Its is no secret that I really don't like plug-ins. Any additional tonal corrections and adjustments are then made in Photoshop, where adjustment layers and masks make this process easier/faster/more intuitive. I prefer to use these tools to get the general lightness and darkness and contrast balanced, or local clarity increases in the this stage. Lightroom does the same, but with adjustment brushes, that are not as easy to control (or figure out how much of an adjustment you are making). It uses what are effectively adjustment layers and the ability to paint in the amount of adjustment. Local AdjustmentsĬapture One and Lightroom both have the ability to make local adjustments to the raw files before exporting, and I think capture one does it slightly better.

#Capture one pro vs lightroom full

None of that was as good as the B&W conversion done with Lightroom or exporting a full color tiff to convert Photoshop. I tried making multiple cloned variants with different B&W conversion settings to later mask out and blend in photoshop. When I compared exported tiffs processed in Lightroom to those processed in Capture 1, the later were all sharper, with less apparent sharpening artifacts, along with better contrast and mid-tone separation.Īfter lots of testing, I found that while the initial de-mosaic processing of Capture 1 is actually better, but the black and white conversion isn't as good as what I am able to achieve in either Lightroom or Photoshop. At first I was simply converting the NEF to DNG with Capture 1, and then imported and developed as normal in Lightroom. I think Capture 1 is a little clunky and the 'development' stage can be unintuitive. Capture One Pro vs Lightroomįortunately Capture One 7 can run on Snow Leopard. Now I needed an updated RAW converter that supported the new camera and was still able to support OS 10.6.8 (long story). I then got the new Nikon and have been relying on that more than shooting MF film/drum scanning. I had been using Lightroom 3 for developing of raw files since 2010, and was fine for my mirrorless Sony Nex camera.