Phase One has officially launched Capture One 11, the latest version of their RAW conversion and image editing software. It builds on the previous version, but it’s packed with new and improved features. It seems that the main focus was making the workflow faster and more efficient for the users, and from the preview, the updates sound really useful. The company says they have responded to customer’s needs with the latest version of the software. So, let’s see what’s new in Capture One 11.
One of the improvements in Capture One 11 includes masking tools. They have been developed and the overall performance is more advanced compared to the previous versions. You can refine and feather the mask after drawing or adjust the opacity of a layer to control the impact of local adjustments. All this should provide you with faster, more precise and more efficient masking.
Annotations and graphics as Overlays in Capture One 11 can be added to the photos and exported as separate layers in PSD files. You can add handwritten notes and drawings directly onto the photos, and they’ll be exported as separate layers. This allows you add a reminder for later, or have a better and faster communication with the retoucher.
You can also add the crop as Path when exporting files, or add a watermark as an individual layer in a PSD file.
The performance in Catalogs has also been improved. There’s also the Duplicate Checker, which makes sure that you don’t import duplicate files. The overall performance has been increased, making Capture One 11 faster than its previous versions. All these improvements should give you faster and smoother editing.
All adjustment tools are now compatible with Layers. You can now adjust the opacity of a layer to control the impact of local adjustments. As Phase One describes, this makes Capture One 11 a really “layer centric” application.
Also, they promise the optimal layered color adjustments: Capture One 11 features re-engineered color tools such as The Color Balance, Color Editor, White Balance and others. LAB color readout is also available in the latest version of the software.
Supported on more than 400 cameras and you can see the full list here. If you’d like to download a free 30-day trial, you can get it on this link. As for the purchase, the prices range between 69 USD/EUR and 299 USD / 279 EUR, depending on the purchase plan and whether or not you own Capture One Pro 9 and 10.You can see all the prices and payment options here.
Capture One gets better and better, adding more useful and power features for amateur and pro photographers. In contrast, Adobe wants Lightroom to be for casual photographers so makes it simpler. Even the now called ‘Classic’ edition is stuck and lacks of real improvements.
Hopefully the layer support for export extends to TIF as well. I haven’t used PSD for several years.
Just read their upgrade policy. Free upgrade if you bought within last 30 days. I bough barely over that so my upgrade costs the same as somebody who bought ver. 9 years ago. That is some serious BS IMO.
NOT ! Try contacting Phase One directly…
I did and they really could not have cared less. Now I know but going forward I would have likely just stayed with Capture One, now since I know how they work I will re-evaluate much more often. It’s like a situation with my auto insurer. Somebody decided it was a great idea to raise my rates by a huge percentage even though I had been with them for prob. 20 years and had no accidents or tickets. I shopped them now they’re far in the rear view mirror.
Fiiiinnnnaaallllyyy they added “Do not import Duplicate”. This always annoyed me about C1.