The history of tools and features added to Capture One Pro

New features:

• New camera support
  
  

New features:

• Capture One Live add-on service

Improvements:

• The trial version no longer needs a trial license key
• New authentication and improved onboarding wizard when launching Capture One

Deprecations of services:

• Offline activation
• Hands-free activation on MacOS
  
  

New features:

• New camera support
  
  

New features:

• HDR Merging
• Panorama Stitching
• Wireless / LAN tethering
• New camera support
• New lens support

Improvements:

• Catalog Performance Improvements (Windows)
• Browsing and caching performance improvements
• General UX improvements

New features:

• New camera support
• New lens support

Improvements:

• Windows 11 support
• macOS 12 support
  
  

• Sigma tethering
• Password protected sessions for Capture One Live

Improvements and changes:

• Additional Exporter options
• Catalog performance improvements
• Easy Magic Brush adjusting
• Fujifilm tethering improvements
  
  

New features:

• Capture One Live Beta
• New camera support
• New lens support
  
  

21 (14.3.0)

New features:

Improvements:

• Show images in Subfolders (Catalogs)
• Synchronize new Subfolders 
• Overwrite existing files on export
• Various tethering improvements  

21 (14.2.0)

New features:

• New camera support
• New lens support

Improvements:

• Apple Silicon (M1) and Metal support
• JPEG2000 & JPEG XR support removed
• FireWire support removed
  
  

New features:

New features:

• Speed Edit

• Dehaze

• HEIF support

• ProStandard camera profiles

• Leica tethering

Improvements:

• Improved Importer

• Easy brush adjusting

• Improved performance

• Enhanced tooltips

• Easy access to tutorials
  
  

New product variants:

• Capture One for Nikon;
• Capture One Express for Nikon

New features (Capture One Pro, Fujifilm, Nikon, Sony & Enterprise):

• Heal and Clone (new Heal and Clone brushes + new approach to healing and cloning)
• Before/After feature
• New activation and onboarding flow
• Nikon ICC profiles

Improvements:

• Improved Lightroom importer
• Re-designed brush cursors
• Improved default workspace (the default workspace now has more tools collapsed to give a better overview. The Batch Tool has been moved to the bottom of the Output Tab, and the Batch Tab has been removed)
• The three ‘Simplified’ workspaces have been merged into one
• The Black & White editing workspace has been removed

New general features (Capture One Pro, Fujifilm, Sony & Enterprise):

• Scrolling Tools
• New Basic Color Editor
• Improved Crop Tool
• Improved Noise Reduction Tool
• Improved High Dynamic Range Tool
• Improved Copy/Apply for Layers
• Improved DNG support
• Select Next When
• User experience changes

New Capture One Cultural Heritage (CH) Features for Windows:

• Focus Assist for iXG
• Copy Stand Inspector Tool
  
  
  

There are several important user experience changes coming in Capture One 20:

• Adjustments Clipboard improvements
• Text added under the icons in the toolbar
• Masking cursor tools arrangement
• Background color can be now changed directly in the Viewer
• White Balance Picker re-engineered
• Browser thumbnail resolution increased
• Process button moved
• Changes to default shortcuts
• Licenses required for all variants

New general features (Capture One Pro, Fujifilm, Sony & Studio):

• New Grids Tool
• Improved X-Trans rendering (Pro, Pro Fujifilm, Express Fujifilm)
• Improved Fujifilm tethering (Pro, Pro Fujifilm)
• Extended AppleScript functionality (Some functionality exclusively featured in Capture One Studio)
• Improved Overlay controls

New Capture One Studio Exclusive Features:

• Barcode Scanner Tool
• Next Capture Backup
• Next Capture Metadata
• Next Capture Keywords
• New Guides Tool
• New Grids Tool
• Improved Overlay functionality
• Tool Locks
• Dedicated Capture One Studio Workspaces
• Canon and Nikon repro profiles
• Capture Pilot now supports guides and overlays from Capture One. Requires update of Capture Pilot, release TBC

Cultural Heritage (CH) Features for Windows:

• Auto crop tool (added to Windows application)
• Multi crop (added to Windows application)
• Base Characteristics Tool for CH modes and profiles (added to Windows application)
• Capture resolution ruler (added to Windows application)
• Film Scanning Styles (added to Windows application)
• Cultural Heritage Workspaces (added to Windows application)
• Improved Composition Mode behavior (Windows application)
  
  

New features:

• New interface
• New Menu system
• New Keyboard Shortcut Manager
• Luma Range Masking
• Linear Gradient Mask tool
• Radial Gradient Mask tool
• Plug-ins - Export and publish
• Extended AppleScript support
• Fujifilm Film Simulations

User experience changes:

1. Cleaned up browser list mode
2. Ignore composition in copy/paste settings operations
3. Almost all cursors have been made bigger
4. All font sizes made bigger
5. Frameless viewer labels
6. Bigger thumbnails in the batch queue
7. Various UI alignment and padding fixes

New features:

• Added tethering support for Fujifilm cameras to Capture One Pro
• New Capture One Fujifilm Pro and Capture One Express run modes for Fujifilm cameras only
• Support for IQ4 styles
• CH profiles for IQ4 150MP

New features:

• Support for IQ4 150MP
• Support for IQ4 100MP Trichromatic
• IQ4 Wi-Fi tethering
• IQ4 Ethernet tethering
• IQ4 USB-C tethering
• Capture One Inside (The imaging core of Capture One now integrates directly into the IQ4 Product Range providing image quality control, color fidelity and expandable workflow options previously only available in Capture One within the IQ4 itself. At present ‘Capture One Inside’ provides the following options: “IQ Styles” (Stylized previews), Color managed previews (IQ4 Screen), Sharpened previews (IQ4 Screen), Preview Speed and Performance (IQ4 Screen), JPEG Processing (Within the IQ4)).

New features:

• New Normalize tool
• Create Style Layers from the Styles tool
• “Spring” Styles pack included
• New Shortcuts for “Layer On/Off” and “Go To Background” are added to shortcut manager for faster workflow when working with layers
• Enhanced LCC presets
• Expanded Apple Script (Mac only)

Performance:

• Faster importing for large collections on Mac
• Faster “locate” directories (in Catalogs) on Windows

Notable changes:

• Customize Toolbar now supports Icon & Text when selected (Mac)
• Floating tools persist when switching focus to another app (Mac)
• Improved Live View for D850
• Faster tethering performance on Windows

New features:

• Annotations
• Export/Process with Assets (Capture One 11 adds the ability to include elements of the Capture One workflow in the final file: Annotations, Overlay, Crop as Path (PSD only), Watermark as a Layer (PSD only)
• Duplicate Checker for the Importer
• LAB readouts
• Levels as a Layer Adjustment
• Color Balance as a Layer Adjustment
• Create New Filled Layer
• Presets for Layer capable tools
• Master Layer Opacity
• Feather Mask
• Refine Mask Edge
• Clear Mask
• Greyscale Mask preview mode
• Expanded AppleScript

Performance

• Improved “Back-up And Restore” mechanism for Catalogs
• Catalog load speed improved
• More responsive sliders for Mac
• Faster masking

Improvements:

• Redesigned Local adjustments concept (now Layers)
• A new default workspace is presented without the Local Adjustments tab, while the Layers tool appears in each tool tab
• New Custom tool tab icons
• Color editor logic for blending multiple Layer adjustments
• Layer creation options
• Toolbar Auto tool aligned with Tool Auto
• Added Brightness and Contrast parameter of the Exposure tool to Auto

New features:

• Fuji Compressed RAWFormat support
• PSD support
• Delete From Collection
• X-trans Support (re-design Fuji Cameras with X-trans type sensors can now leverage the LCC, Focus Mask, Chromatic Aberration Analysis and Purple Fringing suppression tools for your workflow. X-trans files are now also supported via OpenCL)
• Master Temporary Reset (hold the alt key and click/hold the master reset icon to see a quick before/after of the adjusted RAW file)
• Styles: UI Re-design
• Token Watermarking (the popular Token technology comes to the Watermarking tool)
• Improved Watermark Quality
• OpenCL: UX improvements
• Vectorscope Orientation Color-Wheels (colorists familiar with the “Vectorscope” layout orientation of the color-wheels can now change orientation in the preferences to match that of their other application workflows, leveraging muscle memory on the Tangent control surfaces)
• Automation with Apple Script (Mac only).

More functionality is added to the scripting dictionary, giving Capture One some serious automation functionality. The functions added or improved are listed below:

1. Import
2. Keywords
3. Batch Rename/Batch Counter
4. Current collection
5. Next Capture Adjustments (configuration)
6. Output counter
7. Selections (improved syntax)
8. Camera controls
9. Stop live view
10. Sync folder
11. Adjustments clipboard (copy/paste)
12. General logging/error message improvements

New features:

• Performance focused re-write for faster viewing experience
• 3-phase sharpening tools (Input (Deconvolution sharpening), Creative (from user input depending on content), and Output (based on the desired final medium/size/print media)
• Output Proofing
• Halo Suppression (in the Sharpening tool)
  
• Filter for orientation of images
• More Apple Script properties (Mac Only)
• Video panel Hardware support for Tangent systems (Requires the “Tangent Hub” application to be installed in order to use supported hardware. See http://www.tangentwave.co.uk/capture-one/ for supporting software)
• The camera Focus tool now includes a focus tool module for tethered cameras. Some functionality is only available for specific hardware. See the table below for supported functions.
  
  
  
  1 - Canon and Nikon only support focus controls when Live View is active
  2 - Nikon continues to show the last AF status when the AF button is not pressed
  3 - Requires Feature Update 3
  
  
• Default workspace.

The default space has been simplified for a cleaner first time experience. The “classic” 9 workspace can be found in the Window>workspace menu if needed. Changes from 9 default are listed below:

1. The Lens tool now is immediately after capture to reflect lens corrections are done (in some cases automatically) after the image is created. It is also where the first of the 3-phases of sharpening is applied (Diffraction Correction (if required)).
2. Composition tab is removed and crop tools moved to the lens tab (it is still available as an option and can be added if required)
3. The new focus tool is inserted in the Camera tab and Live view window
4. Toolbar has been cleaned up to remove some clutter and re-ordered slightly
5. New proof mode is inserted on the tool-bar (Pro/Pro (for Sony) Only)
6. Browser is set to the right
7. Uncollapsing of some tools to aid discovery 

Improvements:

• Jpeg Output for Size/Quality
• LCC for 100MP - Stripe reduction
• LCC generation
• Move folders in Catalogs
• Compressed RAW Support (Capture One’s full feature set for Lens Correction, Chromatic Aberration Analysis and LCC generation is now available for Canon mRAW / sRAW and Nikon RAW M (and RAW S for D5 and D500)
• Auto masking
• Activation management (after activation, the computer’s ID will now appear in the license window. This can be used for identifying the machine against the Computer ID in the License Manager in your phaseone.com profile - useful if you need to remove an activation from a specific machine in a work group)
• Hardware Acceleration (OpenCL is now enabled by default)

New features:

• Eizo monitor calibration (supported models: CG245W, CG275W, CG246, CG276, CG247, CG277, CG247X, CG248 (UHD 4K), CG318 (DCI 4K))
• Metadata handling (some under the hood changes have been made to how metadata is handled by the app and exchange with XMP sidecars)
• Recipes enhancement

New features:

• Select and deselect primary variant
• Select previous and next "page"
• Select by same variant position
• Select from filename list
• Make an album from any selection
• Batch "Create Masked Layer from Selection"
• Multi-image editing roundtrip for Helicon Focus

Improvements:

• Keyboard shortcuts for all cursor tools
• Minor improvements in Keyboard shortcut editor
• Preferences for disabling Phase One tethered support (like for other cameras)
• Better TIFF color consistency in round trip editing (what you see in Capture One looks like what you see e.g. in Photoshop)
• Improved performance of 4K/5K displays and in general when hardware acceleration is enabled
• Select usability improvements

New features:

• Rotatable live view (as a part of Orientation refactor)
• Color Editor tools: Saturation, Hue, and Lightness uniformity for Color Editor
• Export/Output Keyword List restrictions
• Shortcuts for Reset Counters
• Shortcuts for Fill/Invert mask and Change/Cycle Layers
• Shortcuts for "Select by..."
• Shortcuts for "Create album by..."
• Shortcuts for "Select by same..."

XF compatible features:

• Sequence workflow tools
• Create albums for Sequence ID
• Filters for sequence types, counts, ID
• Name tokens for sequence types, counts, ID
• Dynamic locations for sequence types, counts, ID

Improvements:

• Under the hood Library refactor (Mac)
• Canon PTP tethering engine
• Re-factored Next Capture Adjustments for Orientation
• Re-factored Next Capture Adjustments to allow Metadata in adjustments
• Improved handling of Tiff assets that include Alpha channels or Layers (view only)

New features:

• New Keyword Tool 
• New Keyword Library Tool 
• Additive Keywords and Lists 
• Sortable Keywords 
• Flow and Airbrush Masking 
• Mask From Color Editor (beta) 
• New Color Editor Interface (Scalable) 
• Straight Line Brushing 
• Link Brushes 
• New Contrast Engine 
• New Re-Scaling Engine 
• New Local Adjustment Curves 
• New Luma Curves Tool (Scalable) 
• XMB Battery Status 
• Export Originals as EIP (Catalog) 
• Capture One Colors for DNG*

New features and improvements:

• New high-performance tethering engine (Mac)
• Modernized Capture tool
• Camera settings tool*
• IQ style grid modes

*Functionality is defined by back firmware, or the DSLR camera attached