Initial impressions of C!
I have recently purchased C1 after using LR from it’s first release and latterly Aperture for a couple of years.
With the demise of Aperture and the uncertainty of LR remaining available as a perpetual licence I decided to take a look at C1 and I must say I like it very much.
C1 seems to blend many of the features I like in both the other applications and in a way I find very intuitive. I am not a person who wants everything in a new piece of software to work as it did in the old one. I am quite happy to change my ways, however there are features in both LR and Aperture which I would like to see implemented in future releases of C1:
1. The ability to have the panels locked in position in full screen mode with the image resized to fit the remaining workspace with a simple keyboard shortcut to hide/resize the image to full screen as is possible in Aperture.
2. I have found the “feather†brush in Aperture to be extremely useful for blending the edges of brushed masks and would appreciate something similar in C1
3. The spot removal tool in C1 I find pretty limited and would like to see it’s functionality extended to that of the tool in LR
4. As yet I have not found a red-eye reduction tool (I don’t think there is one?) and would welcome it's inclusion. Is there another method available in C1 of dealing with red-eye?
The aspects of C1 which I particularly like are, firstly, the fact that it is not cluttered with sophisticated controls for slideshows, web creation, book creation and maps. For me these things would be best left to Media-Pro.
There are many users who bemoan the cataloging in C1 but I must say that as it is at present is more than sufficient for my needs though I will admit as a hobbyist photographer I can well understand that my requirements in this area are not very great compared to other people’s.
I love the implementation of layers for local adjustments as opposed to the approaches adopted by Aperture and LR. The ability to copy and invert the masks is brilliant.
The UI in C1 is very reminiscent of Aperture, which I prefer to that of LR.
I am sure as time progresses I shall switch whole-heartedly to C1 as I have no wish to enter into a monthly subscription plan and not least because I much prefer the IQ from C1, it’s colour rendition and it’s sharpness and noise levels.
As a newcomer to C1 these are only my initial thoughts and I would appreciate anyone else’s responses to them or advice in getting the best from C1.
regards
Ian
With the demise of Aperture and the uncertainty of LR remaining available as a perpetual licence I decided to take a look at C1 and I must say I like it very much.
C1 seems to blend many of the features I like in both the other applications and in a way I find very intuitive. I am not a person who wants everything in a new piece of software to work as it did in the old one. I am quite happy to change my ways, however there are features in both LR and Aperture which I would like to see implemented in future releases of C1:
1. The ability to have the panels locked in position in full screen mode with the image resized to fit the remaining workspace with a simple keyboard shortcut to hide/resize the image to full screen as is possible in Aperture.
2. I have found the “feather†brush in Aperture to be extremely useful for blending the edges of brushed masks and would appreciate something similar in C1
3. The spot removal tool in C1 I find pretty limited and would like to see it’s functionality extended to that of the tool in LR
4. As yet I have not found a red-eye reduction tool (I don’t think there is one?) and would welcome it's inclusion. Is there another method available in C1 of dealing with red-eye?
The aspects of C1 which I particularly like are, firstly, the fact that it is not cluttered with sophisticated controls for slideshows, web creation, book creation and maps. For me these things would be best left to Media-Pro.
There are many users who bemoan the cataloging in C1 but I must say that as it is at present is more than sufficient for my needs though I will admit as a hobbyist photographer I can well understand that my requirements in this area are not very great compared to other people’s.
I love the implementation of layers for local adjustments as opposed to the approaches adopted by Aperture and LR. The ability to copy and invert the masks is brilliant.
The UI in C1 is very reminiscent of Aperture, which I prefer to that of LR.
I am sure as time progresses I shall switch whole-heartedly to C1 as I have no wish to enter into a monthly subscription plan and not least because I much prefer the IQ from C1, it’s colour rendition and it’s sharpness and noise levels.
As a newcomer to C1 these are only my initial thoughts and I would appreciate anyone else’s responses to them or advice in getting the best from C1.
regards
Ian
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I have recently purchased C1 after using LR from it’s first release and latterly Aperture for a couple of years.
With the demise of Aperture and the uncertainty of LR remaining available as a perpetual licence I decided to take a look at C1 and I must say I like it very much.
C1 seems to blend many of the features I like in both the other applications and in a way I find very intuitive. I am not a person who wants everything in a new piece of software to work as it did in the old one. I am quite happy to change my ways, however there are features in both LR and Aperture which I would like to see implemented in future releases of C1:
1. The ability to have the panels locked in position in full screen mode with the image resized to fit the remaining workspace with a simple keyboard shortcut to hide/resize the image to full screen as is possible in Aperture.
2. I have found the “feather†brush in Aperture to be extremely useful for blending the edges of brushed masks and would appreciate something similar in C1
3. The spot removal tool in C1 I find pretty limited and would like to see it’s functionality extended to that of the tool in LR
4. As yet I have not found a red-eye reduction tool (I don’t think there is one?) and would welcome it's inclusion. Is there another method available in C1 of dealing with red-eye?
The aspects of C1 which I particularly like are, firstly, the fact that it is not cluttered with sophisticated controls for slideshows, web creation, book creation and maps. For me these things would be best left to Media-Pro.
There are many users who bemoan the cataloging in C1 but I must say that as it is at present is more than sufficient for my needs though I will admit as a hobbyist photographer I can well understand that my requirements in this area are not very great compared to other people’s.
I love the implementation of layers for local adjustments as opposed to the approaches adopted by Aperture and LR. The ability to copy and invert the masks is brilliant.
The UI in C1 is very reminiscent of Aperture, which I prefer to that of LR.
I am sure as time progresses I shall switch whole-heartedly to C1 as I have no wish to enter into a monthly subscription plan and not least because I much prefer the IQ from C1, it’s colour rendition and it’s sharpness and noise levels.
As a newcomer to C1 these are only my initial thoughts and I would appreciate anyone else’s responses to them or advice in getting the best from C1.
regards
Ian
Just some comments by another new user of CO Pro 7.
Like you I gave up on LR some time ago. I am an Adobe CC user (although that will stop when my contract period is over) and use PS but did not even install LR, which is part of the same package, on my system. Instead I used Dxo Optics Pro for my processing and was well satisfied with it until I tried CO. What I found was that CO seemed to do a much better job on my (Canon) raw images and, after testing it for a while, I bought Pro 7 to replace OP. As you I used to use Aperture but gave up on it some time ago also.
I also like the layout of CO but feel that some things are missing. There are not very many lens correction modules for lenses that I use. In particular there are none for any Canon 70-300 lens and, considering that that particular tele lens is popular, I found that surprising. I think that the spot removal functionality is limited and I would like to see something like the content-sensitive move functionality (or, at least, cloning) that is available in PS, better noise reduction and better sharpening.
But I am torn between thinking that CO should include stuff like more extensive layers functionality and thinking that I should just use external editors for that sort of thing. The problem is that, on the Mac, there do not seem to be a lot of high quality pixel editors to choose from. Photoshop, Elements, Acorn and Pixelmator seem to be about it and I am not sure that Acorn and Pixelmator fall into the "high quality" category. Or even Elements since it only does 8 bit layers.0 -
It would also be useful if pressing a keyboard shortcut for a tool a second time would revert to the previous tool. e.g. Press 'o' for spot removal, then press o again to revert to the previous tool - a sort of tool on/off toggle. In other photo editing apps I've used, there's usually functionality like this. 0
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