Then I needed to process some difficult images taken from a Canon 5DIII with a 400mm lens in low light and at high ISO. I tried this and thought it was satisfactory so I bought it. On1 2021 £79 (discount vouchers reduce this by about 15%) It’s far better integrated but is not twice as good and currently does not offer the sky replacement module that Photoshop has.

On a monthly subscription it’s twice the price of the Adobe photography package. It’s annoying that they penalise Canon users with significantly higher prices than the other major brands. I’m not a professional and I felt I might have buyer’s remorse due to the price. Why didn’t I buy? A lot of moans on the internet, mostly about high cost and too short upgrade cycle stopped me just before I pressed the buy button. But only 2 “seats” which is a bit of an issue. Best library, best training tips and instruction videos, best user interface. Overall it’s the best piece of software I tried. But…when I compared it with “difficult” images processed in Photolab DxO 4 Elite or Adobe Lightroom Classic no one could tell the difference except that DxO was better at noise reduction with deep Prime on relevant images. I really like the usability, and some elements of cataloguing, layout tethering and quality of images. This will be an occasional user, not an everyday tool.Ĭapture One 21 £20 a month subscription. It’s handy as my wife takes a lot of horticultural shots with a 100mm L macro lens and later we often struggle with what she meant to focus on. But I bought it partly because it shows camera focus points which I used to like in Aperture and as far as I found nothing else does this. Layers for doing things like skin healing is very usable, though I needed to watch a tutorial first. There is nothing that we use in Photoshop that this can’t do.

RAW processor and library tools - DecidersĪffinity £24 Bought it for my son, and back up for me for a few tasks.

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