NEWEST FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS
Capture One delivers better color, faster performance, and more creative control. New features includes advanced masking functionality, an even more efficient and intuitive user experience, plug-in compatibility, and much more.

• Luminosity Masking
• Linear Gradient
• Radial Gradient Masks
• Interface updates
• Intelligent adjustments copying
• Keyboard Shortcut Search
• Plug-ins
• Fujifilm Film Simulations

IMAGE EDITING
Capture One has been developed with image quality and ease of use in mind. Every tool is designed to give you full control of all aspects of the editing process - preserving, recovering and optimizing all information from your RAW files. The full range of tools offer extensive possibilities to always achieve perfect results.

• Exposure, contrast and saturation
• High Dynamic Range
• Curves and levels
• Clarity & Structure
• Film Curves
• Styles and Presets

LAYERS
For precise local adjustment, most tools in Capture One Pro can be applied on layers, improving the control of every image. Apply up to 16 layers and use different brush options for precise masking. Control the impact of your local adjustments by changing the opacity of each layer.

• Radial Gradient
• Linear Gradient
• Luminosity Masking
• Healing and Cloning
• Feather Mask & Refine Mask
• Grey Scale Mask

ORGANIZE YOUR IMAGES
Asset management is important for every photographer, be it management of images from individual day-to-day jobs or large collections with thousands of images. Capture One offers tools and solutions for every type of photographer, making asset management simple, fast and effective

• Catalogs & Sessions
• Process Recipes
• Selecting, rating, culling
• Filters & Smart Albums
• Keywords and Keyword Lists
• PSD round-trip support
• Switching to Capture One

WORKFLOW AND PERFORMANCE
From customizable tools and keyboard shortcuts to graphics acceleration and instant tethered capture; Capture One is built to minimize your workload and maximize your efficiency. Design your own workspace and find your way of working in Capture One.

• Tethered Capture
• Workspaces
• Tokens
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Annotations
• Copy Adjustments
• Graphics Acceleration

COLOR CONTROL
Capture One is known for its exceptional handling of color. Thanks to our custom camera profiling, every RAW file shines - straight from the camera. Whether you seek creative color grading tools or want to ensure natural colors in your images, Capture One delivers powerful and precise tools to achieve your vision.

• Straight from camera
• Color Balance Tool
• Color Editor
• Skin Tone Editing
• Black & White

DETAILS AND LENS PROFILES
With image quality as the driving factor, Capture One is developed to maximize the output of every RAW file, providing the highest level of details possible. Each supported lens applies a custom-made lens profile, providing precise tools for minimizing distortion and light fall-off.

• Sharpening
• Noise Reduction
• Output Proofing
• Simulated Film Grain
• Moiré
• Lens Corrections
• Keystone

Minimum system requirements

Microsoft Windows

• Intel® Core™ i3 (1st generation) / AMD Jaguar family
• 8 GB of RAM
• 10 GB of free hard disk space
• Calibrated monitor with 1280x800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
• Windows 10 64-bit (builds from 21H2 to 22H2) or Windows 11
• Internet connection to run Capture One Live 

macOS

• Intel® Core™ i3 (1st generation)
• 8 GB of RAM
• 10 GB of free hard disk space
• Calibrated monitor with 1280x800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
• macOS 12 (up to 12.6), macOS 13 (up to 13.5), macOS 14 (up to 14.0)
• Internet connection to run Capture One Live

Note: SSE4.2 CPU instruction set is required. Read more about this on Intel's website.

Apple Silicon
All releases from Capture One 21 (14.2.0) onwards provide native support for Apple Silicon Macs. Additionally, Hardware Acceleration on Apple Silicon (M1/M2) machines is achieved using Metal – this is now also the case on Intel based Macs, if you are using Capture One 22 (15.3.0) or newer.

Previous versions of Capture One, that have not been designed with silicon based Macs in mind, will still run on Mac computers using the Rosetta 2 emulation platform. This is run by default and there is no need to change any preferences in order for Capture One to run.

The only known limitation when using Rosetta, is when it comes to tethering with Canon cameras. Download and install the latest firmware from https://www.canon-europe.com/support/ to try remedying this issue.

For users on macOS 13 – USB tethering connection sometimes may not be established on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Ventura. If this occurs, unplug and replug the cable until the connection is successfully established. 

Recommended system requirements
If working with high-resolution images and doing calculation-heavy adjustments,
we recommend the following:

• Intel CPU with 4+ cores
• 16+ GB of RAM
• Solid State Disk (SSD)
• NVIDIA or AMD GPU with 8 GB+ RAM
• Calibrated monitor with at least 1920×1200, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi

For users with 4K monitors
Due to the significant additional calculation overhead, systems using 4K monitors will require additional resources in addition to the above-recommended specification, both in GPU and CPU power.

For professional experience, we recommend at least doubling the specification above for these configurations.

Recommended hardware
We often get asked which GPU or CPU we recommend, and the truth is, we cannot recommend specific components as these are consistently being updated and replaced with newer models.

In general, the faster the system, the better.

The more RAM available to the graphics card, the more CUDA cores for Nvidia GPUs and Stream Processors for AMD GPUs, the higher the performance gain.

Running two (or more) GPUs with AMD CrossFire or Nvidia SLI can also improve performance.