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Capture One adds Style Brushes, updated import experience

Today, Capture One released its latest update of Capture One 21, version 14.1.0. This release brings a few new features, along with bug fixes and new camera support to the program. Here’s what to expect. Style Brushes With Style Brushes, you can apply local adjustments directly on the image without

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Getting your images into Capture One Pro 20

In this video article, we’re going to take a look at how to get your images into Capture One Pro 20. When you first open Capture One Pro 20, it will open with the default workspace and you will see something like this. So, what do you do next? The

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Adobe previews seamless iOS import into Lightroom

This morning, Adobe announced an upgrade coming to its Lightroom cloud ecosystem, specifically for iPad devices. By the end of the year, Lightroom users will be able to directly import using any card reader, straight into Lightroom on their iOS devices that support it. Upon import, those photos automatically become

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Understanding Lightroom catalogs

Remember back in our school days, when we had to look up something in our school’s library? We relied on the Dewey Decimal System, basically a reference that told us where in the library to find a specific book we were looking for. We knew that all our favorite photography

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Understanding Lightroom Classic’s import dialog

A couple years ago, Adobe made headlines by completely revamping the import dialog in Lightroom Classic. Since then, they’ve restored the classic look and feel that much of us are used to. But there are still several options here that most of us don’t utilize, and we’re really missing out!

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Quick Tip: Share your Perfectly Clear presets to a new machine

Have a new machine, or want to share your Perfectly Clear presets with an editor or another photographer? Perfectly Clear 3.5 makes it really easy. To get started, click the gear icon next to the Presets heading, and then click Export Presets. It’ll prompt you to select where you want to save

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Cheap gear doesn’t always mean good gear

There’s an old saying — you get what you pay for. And the same rings true when it comes to camera gear. While the big industry leaders like B&H, Hunt’s, Adorama and others are authorized dealers. Their gear comes from distributors who get the goods directly from the manufacturer overseas.

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Photofocus Quick Tip Lightroom

Quick Tip: Import to this Folder

When it comes to keeping your Lightroom catalog tidy and organized, the import stage of your workflow is critically important. In this quick tip, you’ll learn a great shortcut for importing new photos into an existing folder, enabling you to avoid confusion when importing multiple batches of photos. Want more

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Why is Lightroom Importing my Images out of Order?

Every once in a while, Lightroom gives me an issue importing images from my Nikon cameras. It’ll import the images out of “filename” order and out of “capture time” order. As frustrating as it is, I’ve yet to find out why it’s doing it. It seems as if the sorting

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Leveraging Lightroom Templates

One of the main reasons we use Lightroom is that it makes our entire digital workflow so much more efficient than using a combination of other tools. A key to getting the most out of Lightroom is to gain mastery over all of the various types of templates that you

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Speed Up your Import Workflow with a New Card Reader

With new cameras being released every month and new developments in memory card technology, many readers have struggled to find a memory card reader that works well for them. My friend Michael Tapes, designer of LensAlign, was having an issue finding a card reader that could grow with him and

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Building Standard Previews in Lightroom

It’s no secret that Lightroom can run a bit sluggish at times, especially when trying to render previews of high-megapixel files from cameras like the Nikon D810, Canon 5DS R, or the Sony A7r II. I hate staring at the dreaded “loading” icon as I move from image to image.

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