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Capture One 20 is finally here and it’s one of the most balanced releases of Capture One ever. Despite the provocative naming, Capture One 20 is an evolutionary-style upgrade with a mass of long-awaited features:

• New HDR tool with White and Black sliders
• Improved Noise Reduction
• Reworked Crop tool
• Improved copy/apply of Layers

Nevertheless, Capture One 20 experiments with novel approaches to image editing as well. For instance, you can now adjust color simply by moving cursor over image.
For new users, Capture One 20 delivers a new scrollable interface and improved image culling to make switching to Capture One even easier. Plus, in Capture One 20 developers enhanced processing for DNG files from your phones, drones, and non-supported cameras!

Download Capture One 20 (as always, it has a 30-day free trial), and let’s find out how all the new features work!

First things first: Capture One 20 has now a scrollable interface!

Part of Capture One users have been asking for tool scrolling for years. However, some photographers were always against any changes in Capture One UI.
In Capture One 20, developers somehow managed to please both sides!

So, here is how it works now. You have two sections in each tool tab:

1) Pinned Area

There is no scroll bar in the Pinned area. All the tools located there work just as they did before.

2) Scrollable Area

You can place any tools here and quickly scroll through this section using a scroll wheel.

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Capture One 20 is finally here and it’s one of the most balanced releases of Capture One ever. Despite the provocative naming, Capture One 20 is an evolutionary-style upgrade with a mass of long-awaited features.

1. In Capture One 20, all sliders darken the image when moved to the left and brighten to the right. This behavior is similar to the Exposure and Brightness sliders of the Exposure tool. In earlier versions, the Highlight slider could only darken the highlights and brighten the shadows by moving the sliders to the right.
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Tools can be easily moved between areas by drag-n-dropping or by clicking “…” icon and choosing “Move Tool to Pinned/Scrollable Area”.

Thus you can have any tool tab setup you want:

• You can place all the tools in the Pinned Area and have a classical Capture One interface.
• Similarly, you can move all the tools in the Scrollable Area and have a Lightroom-style interface.

However, I would suggest having the best of both worlds. For instance, you can place all the primary tools in the Pinned Area and have secondary tools in the Scrollable Area. In my case, I have set color channel curves in a scrollable section below the pinned RGB Curve.

By default, the scroll wheel is now used for tool tab scrolling, and thus you can’t adjust sliders with it anymore.

There are two solutions to this:

• You can use Alt-scroll to adjust sliders.
• Or you can set Alt-scrolling for tool tab in Capture One preferences and have a classical setup.

I think the new scrollable tool tabs fit perfectly into Capture One’s approach to the customizable interface.
Also, you can now quickly switch the viewer background color by right-clicking the background itself or by using shortcuts.

So, it’s time to discuss new editing features!

HDR tool in Capture One 20 has been entirely rebuilt.
Firstly, all sliders now have positive and negative values. Thus, you can easily make highlights brighter and shadows darker. It gives you additional control over image contrast.

Secondly, in Capture One 20 you’ll find new White and Black sliders to adjust the darkest shadows and brightest highlights precisely.
For example, you can easily recover the darkest parts of your image without affecting regular dark areas:

It works the same way for the brightest highlights.

At first, you might think that new HDR sliders work similarly to Lightroom sliders, but they are quite different.

Whites and Blacks sliders in LR basically adjust white and black points on your image. Capture One has a separate and much more powerful tool for this – Levels.

Here is a simple example of how Whites/Blacks in LR work comparing to White/Black in Capture One.

As you can see, White and Black sliders in Capture One are not repeating Levels. If you have no dark or bright information on an image, you need to work with Levels first.

Another interesting feature: the new HDR sliders work excellently while being mixed. For instance, you can darken highlights and brighten white areas to make an image look deeper.

Likewise, you can dim shadows, but recover black parts and get more details out of them.

HDR tool in Capture One 20 clearly deserves a separate article!

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Another significant change in Capture One 20 is the new Basic Color Editor.
Basic Color Editor always felt a bit redundant in Capture One workflow. It had a lack of color control and no support for layers.
In Capture One 20 developers entirely rethought how basic color correction should work.

The new Basic Color Editor has no color wheel and thus takes much less space in a tool tab. Instead of the color wheel, Basic mode now contains eight prepared color segments with standard sliders: Hue, Saturation, and Lightness.

Plus, you can easily customize color ranges by clicking here:

If you miss View Selected Color Range tool, don’t forget that you can set it to a shortcut:

Also, Basic Color Editor now fully supports layers!

Apart from visual changes, Basic Color Editor now offers an entirely new way of color correction – Direct Color Editor.
Direct Color Editor is a new cursor tool that gives you full control over color editing.

You can select Direct Color Editor in Basic Color Editor window, in Toolbar menu, or simply by using a shortcut D.

When Direct Color Editor is active, click any color on an image, hold down the left mouse button and move your cursor:

• Vertical movements adjust Saturation of selected color
• Horizontal movements change Hue
• Alt + Horizontal movements adjust Lightness

In Direct Color Editor settings (right-click with an active tool), you can adjust sensitivity and customize controls.

At first, such direct control over color feels offbeat, like you’re working blindfolded. It’s only a matter of confidence.
Give it some time, and you’ll notice that you’re making more and more corrections with Direct Color Editor. This simplicity and quickness suit basic color editing just naturally.

So, try it in your workflow and we’re moving to the next feature of Capture One 20 – new Crop tool.

Crop tool gained a significant redesign in Capture One 20.
Let’s see how it looks and works now:

• Crop area has got more noticeable, bold handles. Now it’s much easier to grab and resize the crop.
• Also, you can now hold down the Alt key while cropping to crop around the center.
• When you’re cropping with an unconstrained aspect ratio, hold down the Shift key to lock the current aspect ratio.
• Freehand rotation can now be activated by moving the cursor outside the corner of the crop or by using CMD/CTRL keys.
• Plus, you can now use Enter key to switch to the Pan Cursor Tool quickly. It allows you to see an image in its regular view, without crop tool borders.

Ok, what about better Noise Reduction, which I have mentioned at the beginning of the video?

Important!

Don’t forget to upgrade your file engine to see the new Capture One 20 processing on your images!

Improved Noise Reduction

When I have just tried Capture One 20, I’ve been a bit skeptical regarding the new noise reduction. At first glance, it works pretty similarly to Capture One 12 algorithms.
To change your mind, you need to look at how Capture One 20 deals with color rendering in shadows and highlights. Capture One 20 preserves many more details now!

Moreover, according to developers, Noise Reduction works intelligently in Capture One 20. The default noise reduction adjustments are now based on your ISO. Thus, you can get a correct result without manual tweaking of noise reduction.

Now it’s time to discuss a pretty minor update, but it has been anticipated by so many of my followers that I just can’t put it at the end of my list!

Capture One 20 brings a simple, but enormously useful tool for image culling – Select Next When.
It allows you to switch to the next image automatically once you set a rating or a color tag onto your image.

To enable auto-switching go to Select > Select Next When:

Ok, moving on to the next big update – improved DNG support.

Capture One 20 now offers better color profiling for DNG files from drones, smartphones, and cameras that use DNG format.
In Capture One 20 you’ll find a new base curve DGN Standart:

If you haven’t experienced any issues with color of your DNG files previously, you’ll see only the slightest changes in Capture One 20. For instance, DNG from iPhone X and the first DJI Mavic look pretty similar in Capture One 12 and Capture One 20.
However, if you weren’t satisfied with color of your DNG in Capture One 12, you might find color rendering significantly better with the new DNG Standart curve.

I’ve tested images from DJI MAVIC 2 PRO L1D-20C and the new curve delivers way more natural colors.

Now to another update from Capture One user’s wishlist: improved copying of Layers.

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There are three major improvements to the copying of layers in Capture One 20:

First of all, you can now select which layers to copy. Say, you have different layers for color editing, exposure correcting, and image retouching. In Capture One 20 you can easily copy color and exposure layers without copying of retouch layer.

Secondly, if you already have some layers on an image, new layers will be added on top of the existing layers.

The third improvement enhances coping for images from different cameras
Previously, you might have had issues of coping layers from a file taken with one camera to an image from another camera. In Capture One 20, developers have fixed this problem, and now you can easily copy layers to images with different dimensions.

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License keys for all running modes

Any version of Capture One (including Trial and Express versions) now requires activation with a license key. You can find your license key on CaptureOne.com.

Adjustment Clipboard Improvements

Adjustment Clipboard tool now automatically collapses groups without adjustments (if “Auto-select adjusted” mode is on). Thus it’s now easier to navigate in Adjustment Clipboard.

Toolbar text and icons

Icons in the Toolbar in Capture One 20 have descriptions under them. You can turn this text off by right-clicking the Toolbar.

Masking cursor tools arrangement

Masking tools (brush, eraser, linear and radial gradients) are now available right in Layers tool for quick access.

Browser thumbnail resolution

Browser thumbnail resolution has been increased by 50%.

White Balance Picker

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WB picker now provides much higher consistency and works better with noisy images.

Changes to default shortcuts

Some new shortcuts were added or changed in Capture One 20:
Proof Margin: X
Direct Color Editor: D
Hide Viewer: G
Linear Gradient: L
Zoom to 100%: . (period)
Zoom to fit: , (comma)
Toggle Focus Mask: Q
Full Screen: F (On Windows F11 works as a secondary shortcut)

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• Nikon Z 50
• Generic GoPro RAW support

Capture One version 20 was released early in December 2019 and is touted as a major upgrade over Capture One 12. Now, you may well ask what happened to versions 13 through 19 and the short answer is they never existed. Version 20 is to bring the vesion number in line with the year, of course it now being 2020.

Whats New

• Greatly improved noise reduction algorithm
• New basic colour editor
• Improved High Dynamic Range Tool
• Improved Crop Tool
• ‘Switch to next’ speeds up image selection
• Select tools to have scrolling turned on and pin your favourites to non-scrolling mode (Very useful when working on smaller screens)
• Copy layers and masks between images

I have been using Capture One 20 since it’s release date (In fact before that as I was part of the Beta program). Below are the new and improved aspects.

Noise Reduction

The new noise reduction algorithm is a huge improvement over version 12. Much smoother reduction, less artifacts, improved colour accuracy and improved recognition of patterns and edges all contribute to a better image. The amount slider has a much stronger effect than previously and overall noise reduction is increased for higher ISO images. This improvement is so good that I have stopped using NIK Dfine completely, which previously was my go-to tool.

New Basic Colour Editor

To term this new tool ‘basic’ is to greatly undersell its potential. It is simplicity itself to grade a particular colour. Select the tool, move the cursor to the colour on the image you wish to work with, click and hold and simply move the cursor left and right or up and down. Horizontal movements control hue (add the ALT key] to control lightness), vertical movements control saturation.

Alternatively you can also use the dropper tool to select a colour and adjust with the sliders. All the old clour balance tools are still intact should you wish to use them instead.

High Dynamic Range

High dynamic range adjustments should not be confused with the creation of HDR imges, i.e. the blending of several image with different exposures to create one new HDR (and often garish!) image.

For my purposes, and the purposes of Capture One, HDR adjustments are designed to extract the full dynamic range possible from a raw capture. In previous versions the HDR tool was used to recover shadows and/or highlights. With version 20 the tool has been reworked to allow both recovery, or, to increase the shadows and highlights and now to also adjust the blacks and whites.

What this means is that, for example, in the highlights slider, move left to recover detail and right to increase highlight brightness.Shadows works the converse way. In effect you can now, for the first time brighten highlights and recover shadows.

This tool now sports two additional controls, White and Black. These sliders affect only the blacks and whites in the image, in a similar way to setting the black point and white point in Lightroom.

This tool now gives ultimate control over the full dynamic range of the image whilst retaining a completely natural look.

Crop Tool

I could never understand why, when using previous versions of Capture One, I had to select another tool after making a crop for the crop to actually be applied to the image. Then, if I needed to tweak the crop, I had to go back and reselect the crop tool again. This was one of my biggest frustrations of the program. Finally this has been addressed in version 20, Make a crop and hit enter – hooray – immediately the crop is applied to the image. In addition the corner crop handles have been enlarged to make grabbing them with the cursor much easier.

In addition holding the shift key while making a crop retains the current aspect ratio and ALT will crop from the middle outwards

Scrollable tools

In previous versions if all the tools did not fit on your screen space you had to collapse some to make room for others. Now you can select some tools to permanently display i.e. ‘pinned’ and move others that, for example, you use only intermittently, to a new scrollable area. This is particularly valuable if working on a small screen or laptop.

For my main 27″ screen (a BenQ SW2700) on which I do most of my work, I have built a set of custom tools (Capture One has almost infinite ways of customizing just about everything to suit your own workflow) that suit my own particular way of working. Working from the top down I have in the pinned area:

• Layers
• Exposure
• White balance
• High dynamic range
• Clarity
• Levels

Below that in a scrollable area I have

• Color Editor
• Noise reduction
• Sharpening
• Spot removal
• Base Characteristics (this is only there to allow me to upgrade the processing engine from previous versions of Capture One to version 20 if needed for images that were previously imported. of course all new imports will automatically use the Capture One 20 engine)

To move tool to or from the scrollable area click on the three small dots which open the tool preferences fly-out and select move to or remove from the scrollable area

Copy and apply layers

With the powerful layers built in to Capture One I find I am making less and less round trips to Photoshop. Often we find ourselves working on several very similar images and previously you could only copy the whole layer set from one image to another. This has now been improved so that you can select which layers to copy and additionally the layers will self adjust if the images are different dimensions. Copied layers will now add themselves to the new images existing layers instead of replacing them.

Version 20 also has a number of minor tweaks.

Preview quality is somewhat improved, support for DNG files is better (I never use them so can’t comment), and you can use switch to next when viewing previews i.e. add a star rating to an image and you will automatically proceed to the next thumbnail. Personally I leave this turned off.

Conclusion

So, this is a fairly big release. For my particular image workflow the improved dynamic range tool and noise reduction algorithm, particularly on high ISo images, along with the easier cropping would be worth the price of the upgrade.

Likes

• Improved crop tool
• High dynamic range tools beats every other program I have tried
• Better Noise reduction tool now means I don’t have to round trip to another software
• New basic color editor makes colour grading easy.

Dislikes

• Cataloging still needs improvement. Search function is still slow, especially if you have a large catalog which, of course I do.
• Importing is still a bit too slow and often the previews take an inordinately long time to generate which is frustrating if you import a large shoot are in a hurry to start work on the images.
• Price of upgrade from previous versions a little on the high side

A new license Capture One Pro 20 costs $299, with an upgrade $159. Sony and Fujifilm versions can be licensed for $129.

A monthly, subscription is $15 a month. The Sony and Fujifilm subscriptions are $8 per month.

If you want to give it a try there is a 30-day fully-featured free trial