Difference between Lightroom VS Capture One. Which one should you choose in 2024?

Lightroom vs Capture One? Which is the Best in 2024?

There was a time when people moved to Capture One leaving every other editing app, because people found it the amazing editing app at that time. But the time has changed now, people are migrating to Lightroom but still so many people are sticking to Capture One because of some of its amazing features that still make it unique and worth using. Other than that you can also find out the comparison of Lightroom with Photoshop and Lightroom with Snapseed in order to find out which is best for you. However, if you really want to enjoy Lightroom app with free premium features, you can download the modified version of Lightroom for that.

Let’s Explore Them

Lightroom

All roads lead you to the world of Lightroom; Seamless workflow transition from desktop to mobile, AI Integrated Features; Automation rather than Manual, Edits Synchronization and what not. Exploration begins:

Masking Capabilities

The AI automatic system of detecting the object is the most liked feature of Lightroom. Because it gives you more than what you expect. You can select the object with brush tool and add more than one mask in a picture which actually is a pro feature.

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There is also a feature of an intersection mask as mentioned in the below image. This is beyond appreciation that the AI auto-identifying objects or subjects are so fast that it covers almost all the objects in the picture. You have options like Select Subject, Select Sky, Select Background, Select People or Objects. All the basic and important things that users are most likely to use are covered.

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Masking feature in Lightroom is so advanced and user-friendly that it lifts up the weight of manual functions and gives you the automated system of features. In the mentioned below image every feature of the man is detected and Lightroom Masking lets you edit any of the feature without manually selecting or drawing and spending hours just to select one object in the picture. Smoothen the skin, give exposure to the picture, lighten up the tone of the skin or change the color of the eyes and what not can be done in a few minutes.

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Edits Synchronization

Another Lightroom trait; you can copy your edits or adjustment and paste them onto other pictures and it will automatically recalculate the mask and the edits.

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AI De-Noise Reduction

Another AI venture in Editing! Noise Reduction feature of Lightroom is known for its high quality image by reducing the noise and gives more clarity to the image.

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This feature enhances the quality and the prominence of the image. It enables you to not use the third party plugins. The benefit you get is that you can denoise in the beginning as well as halfway through your edits. Adding to that, you picture is created in a DNG file which keeps all the editing abilities of the original which allows to you make a little adjustments to the picture after denoising.

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Capture One

Capture One scintillating the world of editing with its amazing features stands as a competitor of Lightroom Apk. With its advanced features, it’s quite confusing to compare because I feel Lr and C1 are similar on so many levels. 

There are some features that have different name but almost same functions. For example, in Lightroom there is Develop Module in which there is a function of “Texture”, likewise Capture One has “Structure”. Both works the same but are assigned different names. The other one is Library in Lr and Sessions in C1. Styles in Capture One and Presets in Lightroom.

Layers

In Capture One, Layers work as a safest way of editing which we lack in Lightroom. Although in Lr, Masking has the feature of Layers but with some limitation. But in C1, there is a reliability exactly like Adobe Photoshop.

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Capture One tries its best to extract the most information from the RAW file image and present as clear and detailed as possible comparatively.

Sessions in Capture One

This is a feature that keeps a confusion away. What I mean to say is that you have portraits of more than one person and you want them to not mingle with each other. In order to do that, you make sessions of each person. Apart from this example, you can organize your photos captured in difference places of the world and then separate them by adding the photos into their relevant sessions.

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Tethering

A way towards flexibility in photography and editing. This feature is available in both editors but in Capture One, it is more reliable and offers more advanced feature in comparison to LrC. it offers more stability, fast transferring and support a good compatibility with different types of Cameras such as Sony, Canon, FUJIFILM and many more. But my experience has been good with FUJIFILM. It provides fast and precise real time view of the images.

Color Collection

Colors are available in a wide range of collection in both lightroom and capture one. But as per my experience Capture One offers a large range of color collection in comparison to Lightroom.

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Pros & Cons of Lightroom

Pros

Non destructive images

Myriads of Presets

User friendly

Cloud storage

Large library

High quality image

Economical comparatively

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Cons

Complex in the beginning

Less color collection comparatively

Less features in Tethered shooting

Pros & Cons of Capture One

Pros

Wide range of color collection

Tethered shooting good precision comparatively

Customizable interface

Layers editing

High quality image

Non-destructive image editing

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Cons

No doubt Capture One gives so much perfection but at  the cost of time which is quite a thumbs-down for so many people.

Masking features are not reliable comparatively.

Less presets/styles comparatively

Quite expensive

Conclusion

There is not much differentiation between Capture One and Lightroom. So many people may say that there is a huge difference between them but there isn’t much. Editing features, like color grading and the availability of the collection of colors are almost same. The masking feature, the tethered shooting, quality pictures, and AI integration are almost there in both editing software. But yes, this could be a debate which offers the better features. As far as interface is concerned, both editors may sound complex in the beginning but when one gets used to using, nothing remains complex anymore.

Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs)

It depends on the mental compatibility of user. Some may find both of them easy and some complex. But both are for everyone. A beginner can also work on both of them.

Absolutely yes, they are mostly same with same tools. Maybe with different names but work the best way possible in editing pictures.

Certainly, it is. If someone is serious about photography and editing, Lightroom is best option to take it.

yes , Capture One is too costly in comparison to Lr. Capture One Pro costs $12 per month whereas Lightroom costs $9.99 per month.

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