Doing a large outdoor shoot across 2 days with 180+ deliverable shots to a client. I've been using a mix of Adobe and other tools but it is time consuming matching batches manually.

I saw that Capture One has both smart colour grading for outdoor weddings/editorials and also slider based retouching for detected faces now. It's $333 a year subscription. I want to know if it actually works well, or is just a gimmick. Is that actually worth it for anyone who uses C1Pro here?

>>4432531 (OP)
Just do an economic calculation

>>4432533
Would pay $1k no problem if it actually works. I want to know if it does.

>>4432531 (OP)
just pirate it

>>4432531 (OP)
C1 is industry standard and works well but not sure why yous switch for 1 gig. Why is it time consuming for you to match batches? LR would be just as quick in that regard.

>>4432580
It still takes a lot of time. Check C1Pro's new claims on its smart colour grading. I just want to know if it actually works that good. It's literally a click and the entire batch gets balanced. At least the marketing says so and a few video examples. I want to know has anyone actually used it and seen it work.

>>4432589
It works okay, I certainly wouldn't rely on it for pro work, but if you're asking here for help, it's probably good enough for you.

Batch editing is already very easy and this is more useful for matching completely different shoots in different environments with different lighting and possibly different gear.

If you are in control of the shoot, it's pretty unnecessary and you shouldn't even have to be balancing your shots after. You just shoot consistently, apply preset settings of your choice, and adjust as needed.

I use a pirate from rutracker. i think the color editor is good. Of cause it's not photoshop but still basic editing can be done on it.

Recently C1 integrated AI things(AI crop and AI cull something) in their new version and i tried it. it was too big software for my old computer. so i'm using older verison C1 right now.

If you're interested in it just try it via pirate or free trial whatever. just don't use pirate version for your commercial contract for just in case.

>>4432531 (OP)
Yes, it's worth it. The perpetual license is more economical than adobe if you don't upgrade your gear more often than once every 5 years.

It's a full adobe suite replacement for everything except making shit up now.

The ONLY downside is that lens support, specifically for old low end DSLR and micro four thirds shit, is often missing, and AI noise reduction likely never. This is because capture one is SO professional they forgot shitty and unpopular lenses existed and can't imagine your camera being such a bad fit for the job that you need AI noise reduction.
>huh, lens profile for the 12-40 f4? why? none of our users touch thank junk - capture one on lens profiles

>>4432580
>Why switch for one gig?
It does have much better rendering

>>4432566
this
I wouldn't pay a cent to fucking Danes

I'll probably Switch to Capture 1, I can't stand Lightroom's slow ass performance. It has been abysmal since V13.
Dumb question, where is the equivalent of this shit in Capture One? I want to hide m edits on the fly in one click so I can compare before/after a particular edit. Holding the click on this little eye in LR allows to do that without losing anything. There's a little arrow in Capture One, but it reverts the settings, and then I have to CTRL+Z to get them back. I assume there's a keyboard combination to do this also, but I'd rather avoid that and have a button.

>>4432746
per slider, click and hold the slider name. per tool, revert that tool with the backwards arrow button and then undo to go back to your edit.
for viewing the original, press y

>>4432747
Thanks, so not quite equivalent to lightroom. Also I'm a dumbfuck, maybe I should read the useful tooltips for once. If I do ALT+Click on the little arrow, it works like on LR. Having to use ALT+Click is not as practical, but it's not like it's unusable, I can live with it.

>>4432748
You can edit all of the shortcute tho no? I mean sounds like a PITA but still

>>4432643
I retouch with Affinity yea. I just want a quick way to colour balance outdoor editorial batches, because it is really time consuming doing that especially if cloud covers changes the lighting throughout the day.

>>4432593
I am not sure you understand the use case if you think that balancing can be done in a batch for outdoor editorials. I WISH that were the case.

>>4432816
What is the actual matching you are trying to accomplish?
It's mainly a tool to get a starting point to match an already processed JPG, that you then would still have to fine tune as needed.
It's not a tool for ensuring continuity over a single shoot day or two, you shouldn't need anything beyond what LR already has for that.

>>4432751
It's less a shortcut thing. If you click the reset button on setting it will of course reset, but if you hold alt while clicking, it just shows you as reset and when you let go, keeps the adjustments.
You can preview everything before and after too, but beyond that the best option is doing edits on layers and then just toggling layer visibility.

>>4432531 (OP)
Found out you could pirate the Enterprise version earlier this month; it's fucking great

I loved using C1 when it was free, its especially good if you're working with fuji files and colours

>>4432857
though, must say, it doesnt fully replace Photoshop CS6 for me.
It's like Lightroom but not Adobe.

>>4432531 (OP)
niggas always forget about Adobe Bridge, it's great for preselection and selection, building contact sheets and opens stuff directly in camera raw on photoshop - so everything that Lightroom has without having to fuck around with libraries

I tried Capture One and the hype for it (how skintones eg. are better from the getgo) is not worth using a third party shit in your workflow if your end goal is to open things in photoshop anyway

>>4432531 (OP)
What's the advantage of capture one over LRc? Personally LRc has worked great for me, but maybe I should pirate capture one?

>>4437738
Capture one has more film like rendering and works like photoshop and lightroom rolled into one, with less lag because it's not cataloging your photos for the US government and training AI

>>4437735
i was never inducted into the adobe products cult and more and more startup business operate without it. adobe is "standard" but not good, that company bought their way into education programs and businesses to try and pull a microsoft. if you aren't baby ducked into using adobe there's no reason to use photoshop, when the color channel and masking stuff you need is already in capture one, and for everything else, there's gimp.

>>4437740
>less lag
bery good
>film like
bery bad

>>4432566
Where is the best place to do that and not rape my computer with malware

>>4437741
Gimp is even more of a clunky piece of shit than Ps. I've been using pirated Ps for 10+ years and never paid a penny for it. When I finally had a salary to be able to actually afford it, they switched to a subscription model, which I refuse to buy into.

>>4437740
>it's not cataloging your photos for the US government
it runs on windows so i have bad news for you goy