The folks behind it describe it as the most precise tool you’ll find but this won’t really mean much unless you’ve had your screen and output devices properly calibrated. However, if your image isn’t perfectly exposed, or features chromatic aberration (distortions created by the lens), or has some other annoying fault unavoidable when the image was captured, then Capture One Pro can help. It expects you, as a professional photographer, to be importing images that you’re already broadly happy with. For that kind of thing you’ll need a tool like Adobe Photoshop. When it comes to image editing, Capture One Pro is about polishing the diamond. In other words, you won’t find in Capture One Pro tools like clone or heal brushes because the app isn’t interested in helping you turn a mundane image into something interesting, or creating an entirely new image via compositing several imaged together or applying a filter. It expects you, as a professional photographer, to be importing images that you’re already broadly happy with because you spent time thinking about the likes of composition, focusing and lighting out in the real word. When it comes to image editing, Capture One Pro is about polishing the diamond. This is intended to be a more permanent home for your images, although you can still do things like edit images if you wish – and indeed, you can entirely ignore the session function if you wish and import straight from the camera into a catalogue. Once you’ve settled on the images you want to keep, you can move them into Capture One Pro’s second type of image library, which is referred to as a catalogue.

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