Subscribers get free updates, and outright purchasers can get updates at special prices. You can either pay for a subscription or purchase the software outright. The platform used to be quite expensive because of that focus, but the price has come down to be similar to that of Lightroom. When organizing images, users can group them by sessions, not just catalogs, and you can even add annotations directly onto photos.īecause Phase One’s history has been with high-end cameras, the software has benefitted from having a similar emphasis on high-end rendering quality. As such, it is aimed at professional and studio photographers and has several advanced tools.Ĭapture One Pro is similar to Lightroom in its feature set but includes some of the functionality found in Photoshop, like being able to use layers.
Steep learning curve -More expensive than Lightroom -No HDR or panorama mergingĬapture One Pro a photo editing program developed by Phase One, makers of high-end medium-format cameras.