Just one example I’ve been working on a few minutes ago – the panorama making function in Lightroom. Improvements come not only as new features, but also performance improvements under the hood – processing efficiency and speed, and more capability from existing tools. The reverse has proved to be the case we see this over and over again from one release to the next. At first people thought subscription services would be the end of product innovation and improvement. It actually works out to be less costly than were their periodic perpetual upgrades if you upgraded with every opportunity. For ten bucks a month (really two take-out coffees these days) the sheer amount of image editing power we get, and it keeps improving all the time, is truly good value for money – at least in my books. Like so many others, I bought into the Adobe photography bundle long ago. I think we should now simply learn to live with the fact that this is the future.
More and more software providers are going this route.
Michael, the arguments about subscription services are pretty much over with.
Huh.Īs good as C1 is, if they go subscription only, with no print module, and no update to a decent database for keyword meta data, it will be Hello Adobe nice to be home.
From what I understand the direction will be to go head to head with Lighroom, but not going full monty on a print module. Well it looks like maybe another fork in the road is up ahead. I still use CS6 because C1 does not have a workable print module, and I find the LR6 print module clunky. Which now for some reason keeps breaking with the Type Tool Error.
Not wanting to go along with Adobe’s subscription service, my last Adobe SW was Lightroom 6 perpetual and PS CS6 perpetual. At that time it was a a raw file convertor that would handle many different color profiles and I was using a color profile made by California photographer Joseph Holmes. I have been a long time user of Phase One SW products, I believe it was called Media Pro at the time. Sad to see that they are inching closer to subscription services. I visited the C1 site and it does indeed seem separate from Phase One. I also heard that it is possible that Hasselblad may be the new owner. I am sure that I heard that C1 is no longer owned or is at least a separate company from Phase One.
– Extended AppleScript support for advanced workflow customization.įor photographers who prefer to own rather than rent their software, Capture One Pro 12 is an alternative to Adobe software with support for over 500 cameras.Because I do not see anything here on the forum, I may have heard wrong. – New plug-in ecosystem to open Capture One to round-trip workflows with third party software (currently HeliconFocus is our favorite plugin in the new ecosystem). – Redesigned keyboard shortcut manager allows you to completely customize shortcuts that work for you. – Next level gradient masks now with asymmetrical gradations. – All new luminosity masking with the Luma Range mask tool in adjustment layers. The offer ends December 21.Ĭapture One Pro 12 has a redesigned interface for ease of use and a revamped menu system. Specular is offering a 15 percent discount for customers who purchased their previous version through the distributor. Pricing by Specular, Phase One’s Australian distributor, has a full license at $429 inc GST and 9/10/11 upgrades for $220 inc GST. Phase One has released Capture One Pro 12, a faster and more advanced version of its raw processing software.