QUESTIONS
1. Is it possible to join two or more RAW photos together to create a panorama in Capture One?
2. Is there an option for focus stacking in Capture One?
3. How can I make HDR photo stacking in Capture One?
ANSWERS
1. Is it possible to join two or more RAW photos together to create a panorama in Capture One?
Currently, you can't stitch pictures together to create a panorama out of multiple shots directly in Capture One.
Instead, after making the necessary adjustments in Capture One, you can continue working with images, i.e. stitching photos to make a panorama, in the external editor.
To open the previously processed images in an external application, just select Image -> Open With -> third-party application.
Opening images in an external editor
In case you would like to import panorama to Capture One, see which file formats you can import and whether those images could be further edited in Capture One.
2. Is there an option for focus stacking in Capture One?
When capturing image sequences destined for focus stacking, you can use Capture One to select the appropriate sequence and then export the images to the dedicated focus stacking application Helicon Focus.
The Helicon Focus plugin for Capture One provides a fully automated roundtrip workflow.
Exporting sequences to Helicon Focus for focus stacking
Processing RAW files and exporting them to Helicon Focus
Using Helicon Focus® with processed variants
Exporting JPEG/TIFF files to Helicon Focus
3. How can I make HDR photo stacking in Capture One?
For HDR photo stacking, select the photos for further editing, then navigate to Image -> Open With -> third-party application and choose the external editor that supports HDR stacking.
Comments
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When will these functions be available in C1 too? This is something which even beginners as me (have my camera only 3 month) would like to use.
Thanks for putting it to the to do list for the next patch. :-)
Hi Claudia,
Thank you for the comment.
Those features are not available in Capture One, but I will also forward you request to the Product Management team for consideration.
Hopefully, your feedback contributes towards a future version of Capture One.
What C1’s preferred 3rd party programs for 1-panorama stitching, 2-HDR merging and 3-focus stacking.
TIA
This is probably the biggest surprise about Capture One 20 as far as I'm concerned. Photo stitching seems to be a prerequisite for many photographers and for C1 not to offer this in Q4 2020 is puzzling.
Having to purchase another application for these purposes is not ideal especially when you are already paying a premium for Capture One.
I too would like to see this being rolled out to all existing Capture One users and not just available in future upgrades.
I hope this feature is added to current users not as a paid update specifically that the 21 version didn't include it
C1 is really weird. I still don't understand the need to exclude such a widely used feature? There's a lot of people on Reddit saying just get Affinity or other 3rd party software. What's the point in spending more money when Lightroom does it for free? The only reason I'm using C1 is to avoid the worms on Fuji files.
I agree with the comments above, I find it quite astonishing that this functionality is not available in C1 and when it was not included in C1 21 I decided not to upgrade.
I can only imagine it is a matter of priorities as I would have thought the C1 developers have all the capabilities necessary to add these features.
I note it is a year since Lily responded on behalf of C1 above, is there any update yet please?
Panorama Photo stitching was one of the features I so badly wanted prior to the C1 Pro 21 release and of course I was disappointed that it wasn't a feature they decided to implement. However in the meantime I got hold of Affinity Photo, which does have this capability, and to be honest I found Affinity Photo to the perfect companion to C1 in so many ways and it also provides me with another missing feature which is to add a cool border effects as well as all the photo editing functionality you might need. Similarly the Noise Reduction capabilities of C1 are poor by comparison to Lightroom and this is another thing they could improve upon which currently requires the occasional use of Topaz Labs NR.
The only issue with all these other additional tools is the round trip and time taken.
So even though I don't necessarily need C1 to do all these other things Lightroom can do, it is a shame they are not available. If C1 really wants to challenge Adobe for the top spot it's not good enough being better at some things, they need to match all the other capabilities as well!
So lets hope 2021/2022 will not only bring support for tablets but also real improvements across the board, especially functionality that is lacking, and address the gap i.e. all the missing bits like photo stitching etc.
Perhaps we can dream on, but I have my fingers 🤞🏼🤞🏼just the same.
Hi, I just want to add to the clamour above. If Capo Uno can't currently (even the new version) cope with focus or exposure stacking, can you give us a clear recommendation where we should go to be able to do so i.e. which plug-in does most and is easy to use? Thanks.
I'm not even going to bother, I'll be cancelling C1 when I can, and just pay for Iridient X which is only $40 instead of a monthly subscription for more money. In 2021, some things should be a given. Especially when Adobe has had it for eons.
The problem with using Affinity Photo or a other 3 party software to do this, is that you have to leave the RAW format and cant import the changes back in to C1 in the RAW.
I've upgraded twice with CO (12 -> 20 -> 21) and like others here have not been satisfied with the "round tripping" nature of CO Pro. It is basically none existent, or to give some credit, difficult at best. Yes, you can "Edit with" but the plug-in nature and communication is missing. You need to save a new images (usually .tiff) and re-import to the catalog or session. In 2021, this just feels sloppy given that Aperture had this 10 years ago and (no excuses for Apple's killing it in 2014) it was flawless from the start.
Capture 22 is announced to have support for panoramas and HDR. Might be useful to mention that here.
The announcement does not mention focus stacking, which I find surprising. That would seem not that hard to support in addition. Any comment?
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