The “Photoshop way” of adjust the Brushes: now in Capture One Pro 21 you can adjust the size and the hardness of the brush in the same way and with the same shortcut as Photoshop.

Now, even more and more camera start to support HEIF, the latest Canon R5 and R6 is an example, so it will be interesting to see how it perform this editing compared to the jpg version. It means you can import photos you have shot with iPhone and edit inside Capture One without having to convert in JPG.

Heif Support: Capture One Pro 21 now support HEIF 8bit file.

I haven’t tested the performance on Windows (even if I have a quite capable workstation for 3d works) ’cause isn’t my favourite work’s environment. My biggest wish is a deep commitment from Phase One to port Capture One to the new Apple Silicon architecture and a full embrace of the Apple Metal Graphic API that would boost the performance from night to day! I think that the program is however still far from the performance from the new Lightroom CC (that was written from stracht in 2017) but Capture One Pro is for sure a more complex software compared to the new Lightroom CC.

I’ve notice a massive improvement in the importing speed on Mac Os and a general performance boost.

Improved performance: this is maybe the first and main reason that I’ve decided to pay for the update.

The other features I would call “minor” but they are still welcome: I am a bit surprised that in this moment there’s no support for the recent Canon Eos R and Canon Eos Rp: I had some files ready to be tested with the extraordinary Canon RF50 mm f/1.2, but I will have to wait a bit more… So I could test it using back my “retired” Canon 5D Mk2 that is one of the camera supported with this new ProStandard camera profiles. There’s a note to point: at the moment only few camera are supported for this ProStandard camera profiles! For example, all my Fujifilm camera are out from the selection! Phase One states that these profiles are suited more for portrait photography and product photography.

More standardized colors across different camera models.Better retention of colors when applying image adjustments.Better transition between colors of different hues.

Better preservation of color across contrast gradients, resulting in more natural colors from shadows to highlights.

As Phase One states, this ProStandard camera profiles render the colors more naturally. This is a new addition from the already amazing color profiles that ship with Capture One Pro 21.

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