hey guys harmeet here and today I want to talk to you about Capture One Express
particularly for Fujifilm cameras so that the x-series cameras and their GFX
line as well this free software essentially means
that you can catalog your photos using capture one express, you can edit your
photos now the editing is very basic editing which is what I'm gonna talk
about in a bit more detail and I'm gonna talk about the pros and cons of what's
available in this version versus what's available in Lightroom as a standard
software so I have loaded up a bunch of RAW files JPEG files from my Fujifilm
XT2 camera which are in the catalog of capture one the good thing now is
that I think earlier versions didn't support this but capture one 11 I'm not
sure from which version but I can certainly save for capture one 11 that it
does support photos sitting on network drives these photos here from this
Melbourne folder these are sitting on my Drobo 5n and they are unloaded straight
from the network and when I flick through you can see the image renders
fairly quickly so there's really no lag or any latency or any issues when using
capture one and network photos on a NAS for example like the Drobo we've also
got some other pictures here that I have loaded up and I have also experimented
by importing a Canon RAW file now I can preview this and I guess you have the
eye icon which means you can only see it however if I go to this quick panel I
think that's what that means Q for quick edit
I see all the sliders I grayed out because obviously this is not a Fuji
film file however if I switch to any of these I can modify any of those settings
so let's take a look around the interface you can add various different
folders and import photos from them so I have added folder 08 from
my 2017 photos this is sitting in my drove off and that's imported 36 photos
and also on an SSD that I have I have imported some random photos that I took
in Tasmania and I'll basically imported them on into this catalog you've also got
the functionality just like Lightroom to be able to rate your photos so here you
can see the various different rating options and you can search and filter by
them you can also see by keywords so I went ahead and keyworded some of these
photos and that's what these icons mean these are keyworded images so if I want to
look at as many photos those are the only ones from Tasmania if I want to
look at travel photos those are the six that I see they are the same because I'm
selected round here in this folder capture one which is only got seven
photos if I go up here then it starts to make a little bit more sense I can see
all of my photos that I have imported down here and if I want to see Melbourne
photos I click on that and it filters all the photos from Melbourne if I want
to see all my travel photos these are all my travel photos here okay so it is
very similar to Lightroom it has its pros and cons it is a free version so
there are some limitations in what you can or can't do in this particular
version so things like take this photo for example this one here I go into this
interface quick edit and I have done some adjustments here so let's reset
everything
and once I've reset that I can start editing this image so if I want to pull
up the exposure or open up the shadows I can only go from the zero to hundred as
in opening up the shadows I can't pull them down
I can't make them any darker for example if I go to this image which is a
brighter version of the same shot if I want to darken the shadows I can't pull
that any further which you can do in Lightroom
now highlights go from 0 to 100 but they only go in one direction as in recovery
of the highlights you can't add more highlights if you wanted to so that's
another variation from lecture on the other panels here obviously our exposure
contrast the brightness is kind of like the white slider in Lightroom but what
you have missing here is the black slider in Lightroom you don't have the
option to drag the blacks if you want to pull the blacks down a bit more then you
have to go to the curve section which is where here here and basically then you
can darken the blacks by pulling that or you can pull that point across and you
can darken again the blacks so that's I mean it's not bad you can still get away
with editing the photo like you want the one main thing which is why I will not
use this version even though this is free and Lightroom is a paid
subscription is that there are no brushes the brushes are only available
in their pro version so for example if you want to mask this certain area with
a brush tool or if you want to apply in this image a gradient graduated gradient
here to essentially darken the sky you cannot do that in this particular free
version so you can do very basic editing you have access to curves you can also
load up profiles and you can apply various different profiles now there's a
online article which has been shared and I'll put the link in the description
that allows you to download these various different profiles the
and apply them on your photos other than that basically you have the very basic
editing tools available clarity structure all of those options are there
curves are there you can adjust the levels the levels I guess to darken the
blacks as well which I was doing with the curves so overall as a free solution
I think it's a really good solution to get you started but soon you will find
that some of the functionality that you want or you need to edit some photos
particularly where you want to do selective adjustments for example here
if I just want to darken the sky and leave this area brighter I can't do that
I have to darken the whole image and therefore you know that will either
force you to purchase their pro version so this is as I mentioned this is the
Express version for Fuji film cameras you can get a pro version and that's a
paid one-time license and that will give you the added functionalities of
adjustment brushes and so on the other thing that's a little bit different and
it's not good or bad is that there is no before-and-after option for the entire
image if I have played around with various different settings here I can
only do before and after by holding the Alt key or option key on the Mac and
pressing this reset button and press and hold that button I can see the before
and after for the exposure panel I can do before and after I can't do the
entire image as such I have to use the individual panel option to see the
before and after so I can't do an entire combined before and after now if I just
don't know it but I have googled around and this doesn't seem to be a global
option I believe that is there in the pro version that you have an arrow like
this at the top so it does that for the entire image but in this free version
that option is not available all right so that's pretty much it on
capture one Express I wanted to just give you an introduction on what is
available what you can do with this software as a free software that you are
licensed to use it's not a trial so head over to their website I'll put a link in
the description down below and download this software if you don't want to use
Lightroom or you don't have Lightroom give this software try and see if you
like it and if you do you can pay for their licensed version which I think at
about three hundred seventy dollars after the exact price in the video but
at $370 always a perpetual license which means that you don't have to pay for
subscription again and again you own that software however I don't know how
many updates does that include is that just for one year is it just one more
update then you might have to pay again for the upgrade price now take this with
a grain of salt essentially and make your own decision for me definitely
capture one is worth a try I have tried it in the past not
something that I will use I just don't find myself excited about this software
as much as I am about Lightroom and I'm quite comfortable in using Lightroom a
lot of the basic editing all the way to pretty advanced editing in life so for
me like from is the only software I'll use to manage my catalog but just wanted
to show you guys what you can do with this software so hope you found this
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