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Interface
I liked Capture One Interface for its uniformity and logic. Even the abundance of pictograms and buttons could not spoil the impression.
Opening the converter you see three sections in the window – file/image browser, the thumbnails panel and the preview of the selected image with editing tools.
File browser and thumbnails can be removed once you don’t need them to free space for a larger preview. The editing preview and tools also can be minimized to the left to free space for the image browser. It’s a good strategy, as you can take away from view the element you don’t need but it is still in its place and can be accessed immediately.
In the editing space itself (after the browsing windows are moved aside) you have a number of buttons working with all editing tools in the upper panel.
Rotation, WB picker, Zoom, Crop, Exposure Warning, Gray Scale view, Color Management, Sharpening simulation, Compare, Composition mode, Rapid Capture, Zoom-to-fit |
These include the usual white balance picker, zoom, crop and exposure warning. But there are also color management on/off and simulate sharpening settings buttons. As Capture One is targeted at batch processing mostly, these options unused should provide better speed.
One of the Zoom modes – Fit to Screen - has a separate button. There are a couple of options accessible with tethered shooting, and a function of comparing two images helps in the sorting procedure.
All the other tools are arranged on the right in 5 tabs, where only 3 are truly editing tools.
Most tool controls have gliders. Some of them will also allow inserting numbers instead of moving the glider. Some just show numbers not allowing their manual change. And a few have no number slots at all. In most cases such approach is justified to my mind, at least I did not feel any discomfort in the workflow.
Apart from the upper panel buttons there are buttons on each of the tabs, some of them unique, some are the same for all tabs, such as Apply to the current selection button allowing the application of the current tab settings to the batch of images. Here again the batch oriented nature of Capture One is clearly visible.
What I found quite useful and convenient, is a separate button for auto settings in each tab. The return to original settings is also assigned to a button.
Another very useful feature of Capture One interface are the two small previews reflecting the current state of the image and the “would be” view with applied settings you are choosing at the very moment. These evaluating previews are found in the White Balance tab, where they are used for finding a good white spot, and in an Exposure tab under Curves/Levels.
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