New features and improvements

• Apple M1 Support

• Speed Edit

• Dehaze

• Improved Importer

• ProStandard Camera Profiles

• Leica Tethering

General User Experience Improvements and tweaks

• HEIF Support

• Easy Brush Adjusting

• Improved Performance

• Coloured Gradients On White Balance Sliders

• Enhanced Tooltips

• Easy Access to Tutorials

The most recent Capture One 21 update (version 14.2.0) brings with it native support for the Apple M1! With industry-leading performance, powerful features and incredible efficiency, M1 is Apple’s first chip designed specifically for the Mac.

Many Professional Photographers know the pain of having a Mac book that has heated up to volcanic temperatures sitting on your lap, with battery life dwindling at a rapid rate as you cram to finish your edits, often with stuttering performance rates and lag on task such as masking.

Well, the M1 delivers up to 3.5x faster CPU performance, up to 6x faster GPU performance and up to 15x faster machine learning, all while enabling battery life up to 2x longer than previous-generation Macs. To top it all off, the heat management is vastly improved and the fans barley have to put any work in, keeping M1’s cool and quiet.

Speed Edit allows you to edit images without having to click the sliders in the interface. When using the Speed Edit, the available Speed Edit tools have assigned keyboard shortcuts.

This enables a workflow where sliders can be adjusted in a matter of seconds without having to locate them in the interface or taking the eyes away from the image.

Setup

Customize keyboard shortcuts to tools by navigating to the Edit Keyboard Shortcuts (Edit - > Edit Keyboard Shortcuts…) and selecting the new tab ‘Speed Edit Keys’.

You can also adjust the sensitivity when using the feature in the Preferences menu under the tab General, as shown in image below.

How to use

By holding down one of the assigned keys, the tool can be adjusted in three ways:

• By scrolling the mouse wheel or track pad

• By click-dragging anywhere in the viewer a. Increase: up/right, decrease: down/left

• By hitting the keyboard arrow keys a. Increase: up/right, decrease down/left

While working with Speed Edit, a temporary slider will appear under the
image in the viewer, indicating which tool is being adjusted as well as its value.

Eliminate haze and improve saturation in flat-contrast images. The new Dehaze tool will automatically analyze the image and detect where contrast and saturation are needed. Time that you would otherwise be using on manually masking the adjustments on a Layer and mixing multiple different adjustments will be cut down to allow a fast and easy workflow.

If the Dehaze tool does not show up in your workspace within the Exposure tab, you can either activate the default workspace (Window > Workspace > Default) or add it to your own workspace by right-clicking any existing tool and selecting ‘Add Tool’. 

How to use

When dragging the Amount slider in the Dehaze tool, a haze ambient color is automatically detected. If the result differs from your expectations, the picker can be used to determine another haze color which will yield a different result.

For optimal results, the haze color should be picked on a hazy area, preferably in the shade. To reset the haze color to an automatically calculated color, click the submenu of the Dehaze tool (…) and select ‘Recalculate Haze Color’.

The improved importer in Capture One 21 has several different improvements:

• Picker functionality to easily make the import selection

• Bigger import window with high-resolution thumbnails

• Improved terminology and descriptions of import destinations in Catalogs

• Option to select multiple folders to import from at the same time

• Option to select images directly in the Folder Browser

• First-time import requires fewer clicks

How to use

When selecting a source in the importer, it’s now possible to select a single folder, multiple folders, or the image files directly. The content of this selection shows in the importer dialog, where it’s now possible to easily pick and unpick images for import.

Click the little tick mark in the bottom right of each image, or use the following shortcuts when browsing through the images:

• P: Pick

• X: Unpick

• Spacebar: Toggle pick/unpick Only images with a tick mark will be imported, regardless of the active selection. If you plan on importing all images in the folder(s) you have selected, you can simply hit “Import All” immediately without waiting for the importer to populate.

Capture One 21 introduces a new type of camera profiles, ProStandard, that render colors more naturally. The profiles have multiple purposes:

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

• Better transition between colors of different hues.

• Better retention of colors when applying image adjustments.

• More standardized colors across different camera models.

The new profiles are particularly suitable for portrait photography and product photography of products with saturated or otherwise challenging colors, such as orange and neon colors.

To select the ProStandard camera profile, go the Base Characteristics tool and select the new profile from the ICC Profile drop down menu. If you prefer to use this new profile as default for your camera, click the tool submenu (…) and select ‘Save as defaults for…’.

The learning curve of Capture One has been flattened with enhanced, graphical tooltips. Hover cursor tools and tool names to see a description. If applicable to the tool, an image example, shortcut, and links to mini introduction videos and more educational material is shown in the tooltip as well.

For advanced users, these tooltips can be disabled in Preferences > General.

Note: Not all links are live and functioning.

It’s now easier to find the best tutorials for new users, as well as experienced users wanting to improve their knowledge and skills, directly in Capture One.

A new ‘Learn’ button has been added to the toolbar, opening a new section with curated tutorials for the best learning experience. If the button is missing, you can add it yourself by customizing the toolbar or reverting to the default workspace.