Raya Pro is a HDR blending software that I bought for approximately $40. before you click “Edit” to open all of the files in Photoshop. ![]() A new dialog box should appear and you can select your preferences. In Capture One, once you have finished your edits, select all the files you’d like to take into Photoshop, then right click and then select “Edit With”. This is what I’m lead to believe the primary reason so many architectural photographers haven’t switched to Capture One.Īll the files appear as individual projects in Photoshop My solution Whatever time you may have saved from using Capture One is quick eradicated because you’re having to manually stack all of the files from Capture One into Photoshop. What you end up with is having all of your files opened as individual projects in Photoshop which really frustrates the workflow. ![]() The second issue is that once you have completed your preliminary edits in Capture One (as you would in Lightroom) there’s no way to open all of the files in Photoshop, in a single project, as layers. I understand that this is not necessarily a fair comparison, however, it needs to be mentioned that as of right now, Capture One simply cannot replace Photoshop. Although Capture One does offer a layered system of editing, it’s not quite as good. The first being that Capture One isn’t anywhere near as effective as Photoshop. There are however, two main problems with Capture One. Large files don’t seem to be a problem and it makes sense because Phase One are high resolution cameras. With Capture One, you’re able to process files at a much faster rate because it seems to be better optimized. This is where all the individual files are merged to create one finalĪt this point the photographer has the choice of either adding a few finishing touches in Lightroom or Photoshop, because the file is accessible in both. Really straight forward to open all of the files in one project in Photoshop. Lightroom where one can perform the initial edits. A composition of images can be imported into Is the better choice for many photographers in this case because of how well it This is where having an effective workflow is a more important factor than having one piece of software that’s faster. On any given shoot a photographer may take up to twenty different compositions, which equates to a great number of raw images, in my case as many as fifteen or more per composition. This method also offers a great deal of control over aspects like lighting and cloning. For example, if you have people in the frame, taking a large number of images can help you manage precisely how those people appear in your final image. Many photographers that shoot architecture tend to take more than a few images per composition whether they are using extra images to widen dynamic range of the final photograph or composite objects in and out of the final photograph. I completely appreciate and understand that, however, Capture One still doesn’t quite fit many architectural photographers’ workflow. I’m sure there are many photographers for whom the speed benefits, would be enough for them to make the switch. To use Lightroom because it fit my workflow far better than Capture One did. Even when editing huge scans from 8×10 large format film, Capture Files from my Canon 5DSR can completely choke Lightroom and they’re not even the highest resolution files that I work with.Ĭontrast, Capture One tends to handle high resolutions files far moreĮffectively. It’s even worse when you’re working with high resolution files like I have been in more recent times. The problem was that it can be quite awkward to use and can be tricky to fit into an established workflow, which is a common complaint among photographers. ![]() In my experience, Lightroom has been incredibly useful for going through a large batch of images, but it doesn’t quite keep up with Capture One’s refined controls, so I started looking at Capture One as an alternative. ![]() For the first few years of my career as an architectural photographer, I swore by Adobe Lightroom.
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