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Two Features Better on Lightroom

Steven Hansen

A new job I've taken requires me to use Lightroom.  I've used Capture One for years and was not excited about this.  Now, after a month of using Lightroom, there are two features I like better.

The first is really so much better it could be a deal killer.  That is the subject masking tool.  It is amazingly good and nails the mask even on complex subjects every time.  Can't say it strongly enough that Capture One needs this feature. What Capture One has right now is no where as good.

The second is the copy and paste adjustments feature.  In Lightroom when you select a copy adjustments, it opens a dialogue that allows you to selection exactly which items to copy.  You can include or ignore just about anything including masks, and crops.  In Capture One you don't get to select.  It copies all the adjustments.  I can live without this one but it does make life a lot easier. 

Other than these two things, Capture One is superior in enough ways to make it my first choice, but that subject mask would save me a lot of time editing photos and there's no getting around the fact that Lightroom has a home run with that tool.

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    Your second desired functionality already exists in C1.

    The "Adjustments Clipboard" allows one to select/deselect any individual adjustment before copying adjustments to a target image. This includes the ability to select/deselect individual layers.

    If you cannot find the "Adjustments Clipboard" in your workspace, you can add it as a tool yourself.

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  • Steven Hansen

    Got it, and thanks!

     

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    The new masking is Lightroom leapfrogged every other converter at least insofar as the ease of isolating Subject and/or Background, and intersecting masks. It is truly a remarkable feat they pulled off.

    C1 still does a better job of raw conversions (at least Fuji and EOS R5/6, which I have experience with), and I remain frustrated that LR *still* only offers a truncated tool set to apply to masks.

    Nonetheless, for portrait photography (and others who frequently use masks) the new LR functionality is extraordinarily powerful. And while I have not tried ON1's new masking, it seems clear that C1 is falling behind in this area.

    Here's to version 23 and the re-establishment of C1 as the premier converter!

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