Originally Posted by
Hamster
I bought and started using Capture One and pretty much had things under control after a few weeks of irregular use. All the same features as LR are there so there's a certain familiarity from the start. But you can customise shortcuts to be the same as LR for things that you regularly use such as G for grid/library view, R for resize etc. and really make it familiar/similar to LR.
The colour control is better and the ability to use layers/local adjustments is very good, as is the sharpening. If I was starting from scratch or not using photoshop much then I'd say C1 is the go. For me, I do my layer work in PS so the need to use the feature in C1 isn't there. Plus I have lot of processed images in LR and I didn't want to have the need to swap between the two for new and legacy images. It was just too open to stuff ups like forgetting to synchronise a folder, thinking it was empty and deleting it even though it contained images. C1 does seem to do a better job of the raw conversion.
Integration with other programs isn't as good as LR.
I can see me using it for the raw conversion where it's really important that this is as good as it can be, before transferring through to photoshop. e.g. a large print or a competition entry. I wish all my images were done in C1 but the years of LR use and the fact that I do serious layer work in Photoshop mean it's not as big an improvement as it needs to be for me to use it all the time.
Incidentally, converting my LR catalogue to a C1 catalogue worked fine, with no glitches.
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You sound like a good candidate for a switch to Capture one. The extra editing functionality over LR would mean you could avoid going to PS for longer