User guide

Getting Started

• Capture One System Requirements and OS Support
• Capture One - Quick Guide
• About Capture One Studio
• Download, install, and update Capture One
• About Live for Studio
• Accessing tutorials with the Learn feature

User Interface

• User interface overview
• The Viewer overview
• The Browser overview
• Workspace layouts
• Client Viewers (Studio)
• My Capture One

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Workflow Basics

• The way Capture One works with RAW files
• The concept of variants in Capture One
• Compare Variant (Pro, Studio)
• Colors in Capture One
• Color spaces
• Monitor calibration

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Catalogs

• CATALOGS
• An overview of Catalogs
• Catalog organization
• Creating a new Catalog
• Opening a Catalog
• Importing images into a Catalog

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Sessions

• The Complete Guide to Sessions in Capture One
• Importing images into a Session
• Accessing images stored on a network drive (Sessions)

Library

• The Library tool
• Folders in Catalogs
• Folders in Sessions
• Album folders
• Selects Folder and Selects Collection
• Smart Albums

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Preferences/Settings

• Preferences/Settings overview
• Capture One Preferences/Settings: The General tab
• Capture One Preferences/Settings: The Appearance tab
• Capture One Preferences/Settings: Image tab
• Capture One Preferences/Settings: The Capture tab
• Capture One Preferences/Settings: The Color tab

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Lens Correction

• The Lens Correction tool
• Applying a specific lens profile
• Applying a generic lens profile
• Chromatic aberration and purple fringing
• Removing chromatic aberration
• Removing purple fringing

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Composition

• AI Crop (Pro, Studio)
• The Crop Tool
• Cropping images
• Displaying Grid while cropping
• Adding a custom aspect ratio
• Copying and applying a crop to images

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Working with Colors

• DJI Mavic Air 2 color correction workaround
• The Base Characteristics panel overview
• Selecting an alternative ICC profile
• Selecting an alternative tone curve
• Fujifilm Film Simulations
• Nikon ICC profiles

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Exposure and Contrast

• Auto adjustments
• Exposure
• Adjusting exposure in the Exposure tool
• Adjusting brightness in the Exposure tool
• Adjusting contrast in the Exposure tool
• Adjusting saturation in the Exposure tool

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Details

• Overview of sharpening workflow
• Checking focus and sharpness
• Adjusting sharpening in the Sharpening tool
• Saving settings as new defaults in the Sharpening tool
• Saving settings as user presets in the Sharpening tool
• Sharpening an image using predefined settings

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Layer Adjustments

• AI Masking
• Magic Eraser
• Overview of Layers and Masks
• Selecting Layer types
• Creating a new filled Layer
• Deleting a Layer

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Smart Adjustments

• Match Look Tool
• Smart Adjustments
• Smart Styles

Histograms

• About histograms
• The Exposure Evaluation panel
• About the exposure meter in Exposure Evaluation
• Determining optimal exposure with RAW and RGB files

Styles and Presets

• Change of built-in Styles in Capture One 23 (16.2.0)
• Advanced Styles
• Styles in Layers
• An overview of Styles
• Applying a Style
• Applying Styles and Presets to Layers

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HDR Merging

• HDR merging overview
• HDR Merging Best Practice

Panorama Stitching

• Panorama Stitching overview
• Panorama Stitching Best Practice

Customization

• Cloud Settings (All in One, Studio)
• Customizing toolbar
• Customizing user interface
• Saving a personal workspace
• Modifying the window size of tools
• Changing default settings in tools

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File Naming

• Adopting tokens in naming dialogs
• Naming folders and files dynamically
• Name files when capturing
• Name files when importing images
• Change naming settings
• Create custom naming presets

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Creating Image Copies

• Splitting Variants in Albums
• Creating copies of variants
• Creating a copy of the original image (New Variant)
• Creating a copy of the selected image (Clone Variant)
• Variant groups overview
• Opening and closing variant groups

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Exporting Images

• Content Credentials (All in One, Studio)
• Export overview
• Export Recipes
• Cross Recipe Tokens tool
• Location tool
• Naming tool

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Sequences

• An overview of sequences
• Tokens and dynamic locations
• Sequence ID and Sequence Info in Metadata
• Creating sequence sub-folders on import
• Naming a sequence on import
• Naming a sequence when tethered

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Keywords and Metadata

• Change capture time – modifying EXIF data
• GPS location data
• How to delete Metadata saved suggestions
• Keywords overview
• Creating and applying keywords to images
• Removing keywords from images

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Deleting Images

• Deleting images and variants in general
• Deleting images and their variants from Collections
• Deleting images and variants from the Session Trash
• Deleting images and variants from the Catalog Trash
• Deleting images and variants immediately
• Deleting offline images and variants

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Capture One Live

• Capture One Live overview
• Capture One Live FAQ
• Capture One Live Troubleshooting
• Quick Start Guide for Capture One Live
• How do I share a selection of photos?

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Adding Custom Shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcut sets
• Creating a custom shortcut set
• Editing keyboard shortcuts
• Assigning shortcuts to Cursor Tools
• Copying a shortcut set

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Capture Pilot

• Capture Pilot overview
• Connecting an iOS device to Capture One
• Alternative connection of an iOS device to Capture One
• Creating a computer-to-computer Wi-Fi network in macOS
• Browsing images on iOS device
• Add Color tag and Star rating (iOS device)

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Annotating Images

• Annotating images
• Sketching on images
• Adjusting the cursor size when annotating images
• Copying annotations between images
• Displaying and hiding annotations
• Searching for annotated images

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External Editing

• How to access your Catalog images outside of Capture One
• About external editing
• Using plugins for external editing
• Making image adjustments with an external editor
• Opening images in an external editor

Processing Variants

• Proofing profiles
• Process Recipes and Export Recipes
• Processing image variants using recipes
• Processing multiple file formats simultaneously
• Verifying recipe settings
• Proofing recipes

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Plugins

• Edit Background with Photoroom API (All in One and Studio in Sessions)
• Glass Integration (macOS)
• Frame.io v3 Integration (Mac only)
• Publishing images
• Plugins for publishing images
• Installing a plugin for publishing images

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Web Gallery

• The Web Contact Sheet
• Creating a Web Contact Sheet
• Adding an image caption

Printing Images

• Printing images
• Templates for printing images
• Managing custom print templates
• Units and Guides in the Print dialog box
• Adjusting the layout in the Print dialog box
• Adjusting image settings in the Print dialog box

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LAB Readouts

• The capture process overview
• Lab and CIE XYZ color spaces
• Standard observer
• Light source
• Metamerism
• Lab coordinates in a processed image

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Capture One Cultural Heritage (CH)

• About Capture One Cultural Heritage
• Cultural Heritage workspaces
• Auto Crop tool in Capture One CH
• Applying Auto Crop to a single image
• Applying Auto Crop to multiple images
• Auto Crop confidence feedback for Roll Film

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Capture One Enterprise

• Deploying company.config Using Jamf Pro
• About Capture One Enterprise
• Managing Users and Multi User Access Management (Studio for Teams and Studio for Enterprise)
• Barcode Scanner Tool (Enterprise)
• Configuring the Barcode scanner
• Using the Barcode scanner tool

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Fujifilm RAW Converter

• Fujifilm RAW Converter

Exporting Images in version up to Capture One 21 (14.2)

• Overview of exporting images
• File formats for processing and export
• Exporting originals
• Exporting DNG files
• Name output files when processing images
• Exporting RAW files, settings, and metadata in self-contained EIP files

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User Guides in PDF

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• Capture One 10 User Guide

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