I'll preface this by saying I do as much as possible to get the shot right in camera. I use Lightroom primarily for its catalog feature. Other Lightroom tools I use are exposure, color, perspective, and cropping. Usually, adjustments are minimal. I rarely go into Photoshop for those type of corrections; usually only for working with layers and compositing.

Getting Started

I received notice this week that my subscription to Lightroom and Photoshop will go up almost 35%. In that I already have Capture One for tethering, I decided to see how much of the work I do in Lightroom could be done in Capture One.

With help from Capture One tutorials and ChatGPT, my first attempt seemed to go pretty well. Creating the file structure for the Capture One Catalog and Sessions was straight-forward. Next came tweaking the image. It was simply a matter of fixing some alignment and removing a hotspot. I was happy with the results. The learning curve was easy.

So far so good. I've been told Affinity Pro might work as an alternative to Photoshop. But for now, I'm going to invest the time to see how far I can go with Capture One.