AlohaBob Loc: Los Angeles, CA

I've gotten fairly good at LightRoom 5, but I found that CaptureOne does a much nicer job of the Raw conversion and seems to have more powerful tools.

I would like to learn more about CaptureOne, and have looked at a number of video tutorials that for the most part are sketchy or primarily ads. Does anyone know of a good overall tutorial that takes you through all the features and workflow in a coherent logical progression?

I've also tried (very briefly) DxO Optics 10 which also seems to do a better job than LightRoom at raw conversion. I would also like to find a good overall tutorial on it as mentioned above for CaptureOne.

Any experience or insight into the relative advantages/disadvantages of these products as to their ability to process raw files would be very welcome. LightRoom seems to be the clear winner in organizing images.

Thanks in advance. You guys are a great group.

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

This may be of some interest to you:

http://www.phaseone.com/Imaging-Software/Capture-One/Tutorials.aspx

Peter from NH Loc: Dublin NH

I use them both. I started with DXO and Aperture. DXO is fabulous for bringing out detail and especially for dealing with noise. Its noise algorithms are the best. Where it is lacking is in not having any local adjustments.

With the release of the Aperture replacement beta, its obvious that Photos is not going to do it for me. So I recently bought CaptureOne. It is really good once you spend the time training yourself. It will be my go to solution for cataloguing and processing except where special noise reduction is needed (I shoot a fair amount of basketball in some very old gyms).

In any case, I have found that while the CaptureOne tutorials are OK (they are each pretty short), there is a subset on their Youtube page of hour long webinars that are really good in developing a deep understanding of how to take full advantage of the software. They are here> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDMRz3ssFQH5bVekS7WX6rW9pZu_X_vLJ I find them much better than the tutorials in getting at what the software is capable of.

bweber Loc: Newton, MA

I purchased Capture One two weeks ago and I have found that many of the tutorials listed on the Phase One web page are very helpful. They will also direct you to a number of their on webinars that are really helpful. I am waiting for one to begin at 11:00. However, they save all of the webinars and you can watch them at your own pace. In addition there a number of very good and well produced you tube tutorials. Google Capture One on you tube.
Good luck. I am finding that I really like the program as a replacement for Aperture.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

I can't help with your question, but I am intrigued by your statement that "I found that CaptureOne does a much nicer job of the Raw conversion". Would you mind expanding on that? Not setting you up in any way. I'm just curious.

AlohaBob Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Nothing scientific and keep in mind that I'm a novice at this. I took several images and imported them into both LR and C1 with no adjustments other than the out-of-the-box defaults; in all cases, the C1 images had better color, brighter, and looked more like the real thing looked . The LR images looked flat and a bit lifeless. My wife did the same thing with the same results. I shoot Sony A77 and C1 has a "deal" going for Sony shooters ($29.00 for pro edition Sony Only). I've wondered if C1's not just doing a better job with Sony ARW files. I don't have any other types of RAW files to check. Hope this helps.

Peter from NH Loc: Dublin NH

This is worth watching. Most people that have tried CaptureOne and compared it think it produces a better image. Sharper and more realistic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3yJa2P0Aus

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Raw files, by their nature, have no edits to exposure, contrast, color saturation, gamma, etc., and when rendered to a viewing format "as is", will appear "flat". Some programs add standard tweaks at time of conversion, so that the JPG or TIFF is more realistic looking. But remember, this is someone else's preformed idea as to what the subject should look like.

My PP program is Fast Stone Image Viewer, which provides a "flat" JPG conversion from raw, so I can tweak to my own preferences. There is a setting which will allow the program to add average tweaks, but I find not all of my images need the same adjustments, so I prefer to edit from a "flat" JPG rendering of my raw files.

AlohaBob Loc: Los Angeles, CA

I've used FastStone Capture for years (my favorite Screen Shot capture); I had no idea you could process raw files with the viewer product. Thanks for the data.