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Capture One's new releases are often a disappointment in terms of new features, because they add new features throughout the life of a release, and don't store them up for an annual upgrade.
However, the recent release (8th November ) has some new features that are more interesting than they first appear. It's the first time since release 7 that I made up my mind not to upgrade, but I now feel it’s a more interesting upgrade than I thought. Whether it's worth the upgrade price has to be an individual decision !
Group overview, which is part of the new culling tools that generally speeds up culling large numbers of images. includes a new AI based subject recognition group selection tool. This analyses all the selected images and then groups them by subject similarity. And, you can adjust the sensitivity of the selection to fine tune what is included in each group. The example shown in the (long) video below allowed mammal pictures to be grouped by species, and by increasing the sensitivity break those mammal sub groups down to smaller groups based on animal posture.
You can run this, and the other new culling tools, on the memory card before importing files, or after import. If this works as well as suggested it seems like a useful tool to help sort through large numbers of wildlife or sports pictures, as well events, portraits and portraits of course.
Smart adjustment looks like the existing normalise tool, where you could select a point on a reference image to select white balance and exposure, and then copy that across to a batch of other images so they all 'matched" in colour and exposure. Smart adjustment, which currently only works with people pictures, uses face recognition and AI to copy (and match) the white balance and exposure from an adjusted reference image and intelligently apply it to selected pictures. It means that rather than just copying the settings across to every image, each image gets customised settings needed to match the original exposure and white balance. You can also make other adjustments to the reference photo and save them along with the smart adjustments as a style and batch apply the style.
Although, it uses face recognition, people have tried it on picture without faces, objects and landscape, and still feel it speeds up making these settings on images without faces, and C1 have said the reliance of face recognition is "for now". But the face recognition based method should still work for sports photographers who may well come back with large numbers of pictures taken across very varied lighting conditions.
Layers in styles Only a small thing, but if you add a dodge layer and a burn layer and an output adjustment layer to virtually every image, being able to save these layers as a style so they are created all at one go, removes an irritating bit of tedium to editing, as well as adding versatility to how you can create more complex styles.
There is also a free, but limited, version of Capture One Live (online photo sharing tool) included, and improved variant management.
What I find interesting, is that a few year ago in an interview the chief developer at C1 commented on how much work they were doing with AI, but that they intended to only apply it where they felt it offered real benefits. They first used it mid-release last year when they introduced a new keystoning tool with AI. And in this version release they seem to have carefully applied it to circumstances where it should save time, but not remove any important control from the user. Excited is a gross overstatement, but I am intrigued to see where they take AI over the next year. They have a habit of introducing new features and then letting them languish.
There is a 10 minute overview of the new features here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhc87u9iBCo
And the official release video (1h 20mins hours) is here
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awUld2JHaiA
Written notes on the release are here:
learn.captureone.com
However, the recent release (8th November ) has some new features that are more interesting than they first appear. It's the first time since release 7 that I made up my mind not to upgrade, but I now feel it’s a more interesting upgrade than I thought. Whether it's worth the upgrade price has to be an individual decision !
Group overview, which is part of the new culling tools that generally speeds up culling large numbers of images. includes a new AI based subject recognition group selection tool. This analyses all the selected images and then groups them by subject similarity. And, you can adjust the sensitivity of the selection to fine tune what is included in each group. The example shown in the (long) video below allowed mammal pictures to be grouped by species, and by increasing the sensitivity break those mammal sub groups down to smaller groups based on animal posture.
You can run this, and the other new culling tools, on the memory card before importing files, or after import. If this works as well as suggested it seems like a useful tool to help sort through large numbers of wildlife or sports pictures, as well events, portraits and portraits of course.
Smart adjustment looks like the existing normalise tool, where you could select a point on a reference image to select white balance and exposure, and then copy that across to a batch of other images so they all 'matched" in colour and exposure. Smart adjustment, which currently only works with people pictures, uses face recognition and AI to copy (and match) the white balance and exposure from an adjusted reference image and intelligently apply it to selected pictures. It means that rather than just copying the settings across to every image, each image gets customised settings needed to match the original exposure and white balance. You can also make other adjustments to the reference photo and save them along with the smart adjustments as a style and batch apply the style.
Although, it uses face recognition, people have tried it on picture without faces, objects and landscape, and still feel it speeds up making these settings on images without faces, and C1 have said the reliance of face recognition is "for now". But the face recognition based method should still work for sports photographers who may well come back with large numbers of pictures taken across very varied lighting conditions.
Layers in styles Only a small thing, but if you add a dodge layer and a burn layer and an output adjustment layer to virtually every image, being able to save these layers as a style so they are created all at one go, removes an irritating bit of tedium to editing, as well as adding versatility to how you can create more complex styles.
There is also a free, but limited, version of Capture One Live (online photo sharing tool) included, and improved variant management.
What I find interesting, is that a few year ago in an interview the chief developer at C1 commented on how much work they were doing with AI, but that they intended to only apply it where they felt it offered real benefits. They first used it mid-release last year when they introduced a new keystoning tool with AI. And in this version release they seem to have carefully applied it to circumstances where it should save time, but not remove any important control from the user. Excited is a gross overstatement, but I am intrigued to see where they take AI over the next year. They have a habit of introducing new features and then letting them languish.
There is a 10 minute overview of the new features here:
And the official release video (1h 20mins hours) is here
Written notes on the release are here:
6 new features in Capture One Pro 23 to get excited about - Capture One
Capture One Pro 23 offers many new features to make your workflow more efficient and flexible. Here's a rundown to get you excited to try them.
learn.captureone.com
and so ON1 suits my work better.