Note that this is not to be confused with Capture One being able to find missing files. The next time you connect one of these hard drives, Capture One will complete the transfer process and build the image previews. If a Lightroom catalog is spread across several external hard drives that are not connected to the computer, Capture One will now acknowledge the file locations and import these proxy destinations as well. Improvements have been made to Capture One’s importer tool for Lightroom catalogs. Users can edit photos while the split view is active, and even select multiple photos at a time to see and collectively manipulate the split view divider on them all at once. The function has two modes, either working as a basic “full view” toggle between states or as a “split view” with a movable divider showing the before on one side and the after on the other.
The ability can be accessed from the View menu, from a button that can be added to the top toolbar, or to speed things up, the keyboard shortcut “Y” will turn before/after on and off. The updated Capture One 20 finally has a before/after function to quickly check on the progress of your edits from its original pre-edit state. Lastly, the cloning brush has been improved in its ability to match textures automatically. With the healing brush, it will now create more than one source point automatically if more data is needed to sample from. We can now also use the arrow keys to move the sample source areas for greater precision. For the cloning and healing brushes, a new “disappear arrows” options allows users to hide the sample area indicators.
The brush tool cursor design has been modified and also no longer disappears when the brush size gets small. In addition, a number of other small but important changes to the brush tools were also made. With this new update, the limitation is greatly diminished as one layer can now house an unlimited number of healing or cloning brush edits. For most photographers, this was simply far too limiting and instead would outsource the work to an application like Adobe Photoshop. In previous versions of Capture One we were limited to only one healing or cloning sample per layer, further being backed up against a wall by having a limit of just 15 layers to work with. These changes make the icon a little less sterile and more dynamic and colorful, quite fitting for an application dedicated to artists.
#CAPTURE ONE PRO 20 UPDATE#
Capture One is rolling out a noteworthy free update today that greatly improves the photo editing software’s healing and cloning brush tools, plus adds another long-requested feature.īefore diving into the major new improvements of Capture One 20, on the face of this update is a new app icon as well as an overall change to the look of Capture One’s branding.