Capture One Pro comes with a very smart user interface (which improved a lot over the last few years), it offers many features that were only available in Photoshop not long ago. This makes the latest Version 9 even useable as a "stand alone PostProduction" solution. Most of all, the image quality you get out of the RAW files is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The implementation of new camera models could come a little bit quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Layer mask adjustment is nice. Especially now that it has shift/click to make a line. It's not Photoshop but there are benefits to being able to burn and dodge a RAW. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a buggy program, always has been. It has gotten better through the years but the running joke is to act surprised when "Capture One has unexpectedly quit". Also that the layer masks have to be manually deleted in following exposures. Not convenient and can cause issues. Also I am not in love with the color management tab. It's not intuitive and not easy to navigate. Not that I use it a lot anyway, mostly I just click on a color checker card to set my color balance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Incredibly powerful and versatile. Great colour fidelity. Fast and intuitive. Stable and reliable. Great default folder set up for creating sessions. They have thought of everything with this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much really. The default layout with a filmstrip of thumbnails running along the bottom of the work space is horrible and too much like Lightroom, but this is easily reconfigured. I keep all my tool palettes left of screen with the large central area devoted to my image and all my thumbnails arranged on the tight of screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capture One Pro is an All-in-One tool when it comes to image acquisition, color-rendition, post-processing, and export. PhaseOne has done a phenomenal job in creating a tool that lets you virtually forgo a post-processing tool such as Adobe Photoshop. Capture One Pro is a tailor-made product for high-end photography outfits such as PhaseOne and Mamiya - and many others. PhaseOne has included everything that's needed for those cameras and lenses, including ICC and Lens Profiles for each back and most all available lenses for those two products. Capture One Pro also has a plethora of supported DSLR camera ICC Profiles and an equally extensible library of Lens Profiles to virtually use this tool for any type of camera / lens combination. Every now-and-then there are complaints about camera's not being supported or lenses not being in the supported list but what people forget is that a lot of these complaints are from people that actually do not use Capture One Pro for tethered shooting (in which case the body/back/lens marriage has to be supported). When a user shoots via an unsupported body / lens to a memory card, those "shortcomings" can be circumvented by simply shooting a high-quality White-Balance target and creating a custom lens profile via a generic pre-existing profile.

Capture One Pro renders colors amazingly well and - even though some would like to disagree - will blow amateur tools such as Lightroom right out of the water. C1 Pro does have a steep learning curve which most Lightroom users do not like - they are used to a one-screen setup with very few (and basic) adjustment panes and become easily overwhelmed with the amount of adjustment-possibilities through C1 Pro. Capture One Pro is a tool geared towards the professional with high-end results and productivity in mind - however, do not expect to master it in one day (sorry Lightroom).

Capture One Pro has two ways of purchasing their license, either via a subscription or out-right purchase or a full release - meaning Capture One Pro 6, 7, 8, 9 etc. Maintenance releases are always excluded from pay and are free - i.e. 9.0.1 .. 9.1 .. 9.3 etc. The release schedule has somewhat increased in pace and what used to be a fairly big span between full release has somewhat shrunk to a once a year (may be slightly longer) but its quality and production value outweighs the cost (which in the scheme of things isn't that much). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PhaseOne does an exceptional job hunting down bugs and fixing them, however - since their programmers aren't in the hundreds it has happened that a bug has leaped through one or two maintenance releases. It's not too big of an issue for a daily user who can find his way around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best feature in Capture one is the Color Accuracy. In the time of filters my packaging and E-Commerce clients still require color accuracy. Capture One is the best platform for these features while shooting tethered in a high volume work flow. The platform is stable with continual excellent connections to the camera when your moving and on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really do not have a dislike. My main point I would make for improvement is in the application of setting to another image could use some redesign. For the quick application of image settings Lightroom has the best set up with the pop up window asking what do you want to copy and apply. Cap one is clunky in this area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adjustments options, such as curves, color picker, and adjustments layer with mask which you can just paint in certain areas without affect the rest off the image. Especially if you work for phase one camera, this software is just perfect for file, color, and adjustments management. But also with other cameras as DSLR i would highly recommend it. Larger option choices than either Lightroom or CameraRaw Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When you work with variant, is not very clear the way do choose to process variant, original or both. Yes there is a button for it, which let you choose the processing options, but sometimes i still get confused about it. Maybe my fault :).

Also the choice to create session and/or catalog is not very useful for me since i always use sessions anyway, but that's a personal choice.

On Medium format images from phase one camera, when adjusting curves, the graphic board gets really affected and sometimes renders the image in blocks. I use a powerful Mac pro 2013 with 2gb graphic card, and still randomly i have this disfunction. Still it may be just my case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I quite enjoy the level of color control that comes with Capture One verses other RAW processing and file management soft-wares. I also feel that my tethering seems to be more stable than with other tether capture programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do feel like the RAW adjustments in Capture One can quickly push a photograph out of gamut, I also dislike that there is not a lot of "styles" available for Capture One like for example VSCO. I do wish that I could move files on my computer like in Lightroom, for example I can drag a folder in LR into another folder and LR will move the file on my hard drive for me.

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I like the various color correction tools Capture One offers. You can apply color adjustments locally by just selection a small rage of targeted colors.

I like the highlights and the shadows recovery tool, it does a really great job, smooth transitions and great detail.

I like the you don't have to Import the files into the Software as opposed to what you have to do in Lightroom when you are bringing new images in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes a while to load files. I shoot raw but my camera is only 23Mp. Sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes to load all the files in a chosen folder, until then the software doesn't let me work on the ones that have already been loaded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capture One is a great tool to work thethered in the studio. Everything is very intuitive and easy to use, and the connection is fast and very reliable.

Color rendition and processing detail are great and you get great technical features such as perspective corrections and lens cast calibration.

Color readout tools and generally all technical aspects of the software are designed with the photographer in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has very limited lens profiles for dslrs. If you own lenses from other than the main manufacturers brands you wont be able to get them corrected in raw.

Photoshop integration is limited, not as good as the biggest competitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capture One has the fastest tethering among its competitors. Great way to organize and set up a naming file structure for jobs and job numbers. With the new uptates you can make even more adjustments to the images while capturing or after so your RAW adjustments are already done before the final processing with photoshop or another image editing software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Capture One has had issues with disconnecting from the camera and having to restart the program but recently with new updates I have not had nearly as many issues as with earlier versions. It is a program with a lot of features and its very customizable which can make jumping into difficult and time consuming but its worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.