Release highlights

Capture One Pro (16.3) is a feature release containing new features and functionality, UX and performance improvements, along with multiple bug fixes and additional camera & lens support.

New features and functionality

AI Masking
ReTether
Snap-to-eye in Focus Tool
Capture One Live: Share multiple collections (Sessions only)
Capture One Live: In-app comments
Publish to Glass (Mac)

User experience and performance improvements

Improved browse, zoom, and pan performance
Improved Previews
Smoother brushing (Mac)
More reset options (including Speed Edit)
New shortcuts
Duplicate Layer
Brush-erase toggle
Luma Range dialog behavior change (Windows)
Capture One Live: System notifications (Mac)
Feedback notifications
My Capture One panel

Feature walkthrough

AI Masking

Easily mask your images with three different methods of AI Masking:

Subject and Background Masking

Capture One can automatically detect and mask the subject or background in your images, creating a new Layer with a mask with high-quality edge refinement.

Subject and Background Masking can be included in Styles, allowing an easy way of masking and applying adjustments in one go, and can be applied to multiple images at once.

Expect a performance of 5-10 seconds per image for this method of masking.

AI Select – click

The new AI Select cursor tool has been added to allow easy masking of specific objects or areas in your images. When hovering with AI Select, a preview of the expected masking area will show. This makes it easy to click on the right objects. AI Select automatically adds to the selected Layer or creates a new Layer if no Layers are present. AI Select is additive, so each new click will add to the existing Layer.

To ensure a smooth performance, Capture One needs to prepare the AI model for each image which takes a few seconds. To ensure high-quality masks of smaller objects, the preparation will run again when zooming in.

Expect an AI Mask preparation time of 3-6 seconds for the first use and when zooming in.

AI Select – rectangle

To easily mask complex objects in one go with the AI Select cursor, drag a rectangle covering the object you want to mask. A preview will show while dragging, providing visual feedback of what the expected mask will look like.

Just like clicking, masking with a rectangle is additive and masks can easily be built up by combining clicking and dragging rectangles.

AI Eraser

Easily remove masks from objects using the AI Eraser. The AI Eraser supports both click and rectangle, making it easy to remove masks from any objects you need. The preview of the mask to be erased is the complimentary color to the mask overlay.

Holding down Alt/Option will temporarily toggle between AI Select and AI Eraser.

ReTether

The new ReTether feature enables a flexible way of getting many of the tethered advantages such as hands-free import and Next Capture Naming, but without being plugged-in to Capture One at the time of capture.

The feature is on by default but can be disabled from the preferences if needed.

ReTether currently works for Canon and Nikon over USB.

Snap-to-eye in Focus Tool

The Focus tool is now powered by AI, enabling automatic detection of faces to focus on, The automatic positioning has three modes:

Center to Eye: centers on the closest eye
Center to Face: centers on the middle of the face
None: persists the position from the previous image

Zoom level is per default set to 100%, but can manually be changed and will be persisted, even after a restart of Capture One.

Works with both tethering and manually browsing/culling in the Browser.

If Capture One detects more than one face in the image, it will select the largest face, under the assumption that it is then closer.

Capture One Live: Share multiple collections (Sessions only)

It is now possible to share multiple Collections at the same time, allowing your collaborators and reviewers to navigate through folders with a single link.

You can share:

All Session Favorites at once
All Session Albums at once

From the collaborators’ perspective, a new navigation system has been added to the left side of the web page. This can be expanded or collapsed by clicking on the button at the top of this panel.

Capture One Live: In-app comments

A new tool can be added to your workspace: Comments.

This tool will reflect the comments left on each image by yourself and/or your collaborators. With this tool, you can (finally) read, write and delete your comments directly from within Capture One Pro.

Publish to Glass (Mac)

You can now directly publish your images to Glass, by right-clicking and selecting the “Publish” option, or by clicking the small arrow next to the export button in your main toolbar.

Glass is a global, paid photography community and photo-sharing platform that helps photographers experiment, get inspired, and grow. With no ads or algorithms, your photos look their best. Membership required.

UX and performance improvements

Improved browse, zoom, and pan performance

Optimizing the experience by utilizing more hardware, it now feels faster to browse between images, zoom in and out repeatedly, and pan around on an image when zoomed in.

Improved Previews

When importing images and tethering, Previews are now faster to generate and will appear sharper in the Viewer. Additionally, they take up less space, greatly reducing the disk space usage of Catalogs and Sessions. Expect a file size reduction of around 1MB per image with the Preview size set to 3840 px. Update existing previews by right clicking on your images and select “Regenerate Previews”.

Up to 45% faster preview generation
Up to 41% decrease in file size

Smoother brushing (Mac)

Brushing masks using the regular Brush is now much smoother on Mac.

More reset options (including Speed Edit)

Two new reset options have been added to the global Reset button:

Reset Crop
Reset Except Composition (resets everything except Crop, Rotation, Keystone, Distortion Correction)

Additionally, it’s now possible to reset sliders using Speed Edit by holding the Speed Edit key and pressing Spacebar.

New Shortcuts

It’s now possible to create custom shortcuts for:

Toggle Black & White on/off
Apply Crop Aspect Ratio
Reset Crop
Reset Except Composition

Duplicate Layer

Right-click any Layer to duplicate the mask, adjustments, and other properties to a new Layer.

Brush-erase toggle

Hold down Alt/Option to toggle between brush and eraser (Brush, Magic Brush, AI Select).

Luma Range dialog behavior change (Windows)

The Luma Range dialog no longer blocks the interface, letting you zoom and pan the Viewer while the dialog is open. This is currently Windows only but will come to Mac in a later release.

Capture One Live: System notifications (Mac)

You will now get a system notification when new activity is happening in your online collections. New ratings, color tags or comments are considered activity.

We’ve hopefully made the frequency of those notifications acceptable, but should you wish to completely turn them off, you can do that in your settings.

Feedback notifications

Some actions will now show a feedback notification in the bottom of the window. If the action has a shortcut key assigned, it will show as well.

My Capture One

There is a new icon added to the right most corner of the toolbar in all default workspaces that provides centralized and easy access to your account management, shop, and learning materials such as videos and in-app walk-throughs.

You can also add this icon to your existing workspaces by customizing the toolbar (right click).

New camera support

File support for Apple iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max

New lens support

Panasonic DC Vario-Elmarit 1:2.8-4.0/9.1-146 ASPH. (DC-FZ1000M2)

Canon RF10-20 L IS STM

Bug fixes (macOS)

Fixed an issue where DNGs created by 3rd party software may have a green colour cast.

Fixed an issue where the selected Style would not persist in the Import Dialog

Fixed an issue where White Balance Tint may be set incorrectly on a merged HDR image.

Fixed an issue where scrolling through Styles and Presets might cause some text to become invisible

Bug fixes (Windows)

Fixed an issue where DNGs created by 3rd party software may have a green colour cast.

Fixed an issue where DNGs created by 3rd party software may appear over-exposed.

System requirements

Microsoft® Windows® minimum requirements
·         Intel® Core™ i3 (1st generation) / AMD Jaguar family
·         8 GB of RAM
·         10 GB of free hard disk space
·         Calibrated monitor with 1280x800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
·         Windows 10® 64-bit* or Windows 11®
·         Internet connection for license activation and to run Capture One Live

* Windows 10 is supported for versions from 21H2 through to 22H2

Apple® Macintosh® minimum requirements
·         Intel® Core™ i3 (1st generation)
·         8 GB of RAM
·         10 GB of free hard disk space
·         Calibrated monitor with 1280x800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
· macOS 12*, macOS13*, macOS14
·         Internet connection for license activation and to run Capture One Live

* macOS is supported for versions up to 12.6, 13.5 and 14.0.

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