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Capture One Pro 20 user documentation?

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  • Ian Wilson
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    Help menu > Online User Guide?

    Ian

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  • jdmuys

    Well that doesn't work. That menu item simply opens the web page at:

    https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/categories/360000279017-Capture-One-User-Guide

    ...which only has old user guides :-(

    At least on my Mac.

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  • jdmuys

    to be clear, I am looking for a PDF version of the user guide

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  • Ian Wilson
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    This is what I see if I go to Online User Guide.

    The thing is though, that with Version 20, they changed the style of the online user guide. The PDF versions of the old guide reflect the style in which they presented the guidance prior to Version 20. The new presentation (which I realise you may or may not prefer) is not so suited to formatting as a PDF, I suppose.

    Ian

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  • Robert Farhi

    As far as I know, there is no PDF version of the v20 user's manual. It's only on line, as told Ian.

    Robert

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  • Marco Hyman

    A paid (about $20) alternative can be found at https://rawcaptureguide.com/ebook/ 

    I have it.  It is OK, but a bit repetitious.

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  • SFA

    marchyman,

    How much to keep it up to date as changes and enhancements are applied?

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  • Marco Hyman

    I take it you didn't click on the link.  Bottom of that page:

     

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    Photographer’s Guide to Capture One 20 will be updated if any features are added or changed to Capture One 20. Any updates to this guide for Capture One 20 will be free.

    If a new eBook in this series is published to cover a new major release of Capture One in the future, it will be regarded as a separate product. As an owner of Photographer’s Guide to Capture One 20, you will be entitled to buy the new version at a discounted price.

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    I don't remember getting any updates so far, but I also don't remember looking for any.

     

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  • Ian Wilson
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    He first produced it for version 12, and brought out a revised version for version 20. If you had bought the previous version you could get the new one at a discount, though I can't now recall how much that was.

    Ian

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  • jdmuys

    Yes, I have this book and I use it. It's useful, even though the layout is not perfect (fonts are too big, text is too packed together). The content is OK to good. Not enough "how do I do this"…

     

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  • SFA

    No I did not click the link.

    It was new versions I was mainly thinking about.

    To be honest unless something very different is offered in mid-version (not unknown but rarely VERY different in a way that a few minutes looking at the application would not explain) I would doubt there is much change required over and above the release notes.

    Anything really significant is usually accompanied by video Tutorials and the introductory Webinars as well as FAQ pages.

    It seems that the FAQ pages are being updated quite frequently as need arises and it is worth noting that is is possible to add comments to the articles  - perhaps to ask a question or maybe, as a user in the community, to add some information based on one's own experiences.

    There are also several good quality independent sources that one might follow.

    With a decent internet connection all of this information is very readily available and much more useful, IMO, than an electronic file - unless one is on the road and stuck somewhere with no connection. But then I would imagine the urgency of the need to get an answer might be somewhat less in that situation.

    I write this as someone who many years ago wrote software user guides and initiate a move to fully searchable PDF based versions before gratefully passing the task to a small team of experienced documentation producers as the product developed.

    At that time there was no such thing as the Internet - at least not in the public domain.

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  • Paul Steunebrink

    I also recommend the Photographer’s Guide to Capture One 20. It is one of the best resources available and is frequently updated, even for point updates. I have a review named Your Guide to Capture One if you like to read more about it.

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