Lightroom vs ON1 vs Capture One vs LightroomCC | Which is best?

hello there in today's video we're going to do a bit of a shootout between some of the most popular photo editors that are out there now whilst light room classic is brilliant and is used by millions including me it's not without its problems and there are now some cheaper and potentially better options out there that deserve some consideration so I'm going to take four programs today compare them and see how each of them match up and potentially find out which is best so let's go before we get into that though this video is sponsored by Squarespace if you need to domain name a website or an online store then make your next move with Squarespace so we're going to compare four programs today that will post-process our raw files from our photographs and landscape photography and we're going to be looking at white rim classic that's the one I'm pretty much most familiar with I use it all the time and I know it very well we're also going to look at capture one which I've compared to Lightroom in the past we're going to look on one as well and then I'm going to take a look at Lightroom cc as well to see how that fits in to the whole workflow as well we're going to compare a few images let's get into the computer though not waste any more time because it could get fairly long this video if we're not careful and have a look at what these programs can do okay so we're going to start in Adobe Lightroom and I'm not going to do any editing in my room because I've talked about that a lot before and I probably will do again in the future but I wanted to show you the images these are my images that I've edited in Lightroom in the past and I've selected four images from different cameras from different manufacturers as well to try and sort of put to the test and compare the quality of these raw editors so this first one here it's of mom tall it's the view from mum tall in the big district and it's shot on a Sony rx100 mark 5 so that's a soft high-end compact camera made by Sony this one is of the drinking dinosaur in Flamborough Head it is with the Fujifilm xt3 and that has that extra sensor that a lot of people rave about and that people say Lightroom has a really hard time processing that hasn't been my experience up to now but let's see how the others deal with that this one is with a Fuji film GFX 50 R which is a medium format large censored camera and this one is with my Canon 5d Mark for my everyday workhorse as well see how the full-frame sensor is is handled by the different raw editors right let's slide over and I'm going to start in on one this is probably the one I've pretty much enjoyed using the most because it's by far the cheapest it's a standalone product that you buy once you can you can pay a little bit extra to get future updates as well but it's it they sell it they're selling it based on the fact that it's somewhere it's designed to replace Lightroom and Photoshop so they're saying it it does a lot of what Photoshop does as well certainly I don't think there's any chance of it replacing Photoshop Photoshop is by far the sort of product for what it does it does phone to anything it does graphics it does all sorts it does type as well and I can't see that happening in on one I just can't see replacing that but it is still a raw processor so could it replace Lightroom we'll have a look I'm going to start if you using this this program and you've used Lightroom before the transition will be very comfortable because they've emulated a lot of the keyboard shortcuts and things and it handles the files really nicely in the organization as well you just sort of load monte computer then point on one to them on your computer and it just pulls them into the window here and it's really really nice so let's start with this Sony file and I have already done this before I've done some research so I'm just going to point out the bits that I think are relevant in these different programs and to give you an overall feel of how they perform so like Lightroom we're just gonna hit D and it will take us in to the développé area on this so this is the original raw file from that Sony rx100 mark 5 so first thing I'm just going to darken the sky a little bit so to bring in a filter I just need to go over to the mask here and it will it will it will do a local adjustment so we can just click over to here as well and then I'm just gonna draw the mask in as we would with any gradient in lightroom just drag that down a bit I'm not it is a bit confusing with this line in the middle with the two lines but there we go now just as we would in Lightroom's drag that down to darken that sky off there like the so the local adjustments come into the little local tab here I've got full control over this I can change the white balance a little bit like that a little bit of tint there now this is one of the areas where I found that on one isn't handling these RAW files from Sony very well so if I just start to add a bit more tint in it's not handling the overexposed areas very well so this area is slightly overexposed by with the Sun being there but just look at that transition it's it's pretty ugly isn't it look how harsh it is because it's not adding any tint at all to the overexposed area so it's really struggling with that file everything else is fine when we go back to the develop module here to drag the shadows up it's doing not fine add some saturation vibrance and some contrast it's looking okay on there but look at that it's not good is it so let's have a look at the next image just spin over that was actually the only problem I found with unworn in terms of its handling of RAW files it does a much better job with this fuji file so let's just go ahead and start our develop on this hog there's some really interesting things that you can do with on one even lightroom doesn't do so let's just start with leveling that off and I need to crop it a little bit so come up to the crop tool it's a 16 by 9 that I've got to just select your you know aspect ratio here and then I'm just gonna crop it down a touch as well to roughly about there and then move it up so the line the horizon is on the rule of thirds and then I'm gonna straighten that up as well so just pick the level here and then draw in just like you would their levels off and then we have our crop one thing I do like though with on one that light green doesn't do is once you've you've corrected your rotation you got it level you can still drag the whole image up and down and it will adjust just the picture there Lightroom doesn't do that it just sort of stops and doesn't move if the if the but if you're trying to drag the crop off the edge of the image whereas this just shifts the whole image and it's a really really nice touch that just makes cropping and straightening much much easier so I'm just gonna hit return so come over to my local adjustments and add in a gradient at the top like that and then just drag that down a bit to darken the sky off I'm gonna add such of contrast in there and drag the highlights down as well and add a bit of blue to that sky and a bit of tint as well so you add in the tint this time is fine I don't want that though so let's just take that off and then go back to the develop module I'm going to reduce that overall temperature just adding a touch of tint there saturation vibrance contrast is very quick to give you an idea that bring those whites up as well using the histogram at the top I've got a bit too much I'm a saturation though so let's drag that back down a touch that's looking nice now this is the Fujifilm Eckstrom sensor that's taken this and people say that you've got to use capture one if you're going to use that camera that has not been my experience I've compared it before in my previous Lightroom versus capture one video this seems to handle those files absolutely fine as well once you have some sharpening to match what capture one is doing so if I just go up on the sharpening here to about 20 five that now looks really good and I will have a look we'll have a little compare in a little while once once win to capture one but that's still looking very sharp very nice really really good now one of the things I really really like about on one is the ability to control color in local areas and have total HSL control over those colors Lightroom doesn't do that capture wanders in on one it is exceptionally easy so we go into effects here and this is where it becomes a little bit more like Lightroom likes Photoshop sorry so just adding a filter there and then you've got all these different filters that you can add into the image and have total control over over any aspect of the image so I'm going to go for color adjustment here because I want to just just to show you I want to change the slight tone of this red area here we're going to do that with this hey Giselle control here let's just go up to mask and it will add a mask onto this layer so I'm going to use actually going to use the brush tool this brush here that's the one and then I'm just gonna draw her in at my mask over that area there which is the area I want to affect and just change this color of that rock on the drinking dinosaur so you can see the the mask here I've drawn in that little bit of area there it affects the white area just like it does in Photoshop so I need to invert that Musk so I'm going to come up to here to mask invert mask now it darkens the rest of it off the white area will be affected by these color changes so let's bring its down to this area here I think it's gonna be sort of the orange hue is now I'm gonna change the hue see that's see this it's gone bright red they'll just go extreme so you can see it that's the area that I painted in with that mask and I've got full control over that color now so I can just increase make it a little bit more red increase the saturation a touch and I increase the brightness a bit so I'm just gonna do it very subtly to there so now that red rock is a little bit of a different color how it was before now you can all so now like you can in Photoshop you can hide this layer so just click on the little blue dot there and it goes back to normal because it's hidden that layer bring that layer back up again and it has that slight color change effect again I can't stress enough how powerful that could be for you and it's just so easy it's fast as well I wanted probably not quite as fast as capture one but it's still pretty good and it seems to be improving all the time with each update but I really really like that function there's a lot of other filters as well that you can add you can do your black and white that way add in blur specifically curves as well let's add in some curves so we'll just add in some contrast with a nice little contrast curve like that probably too much you can adjust the opacity like you can in Photoshop as well or we can just make that change and hide it have a look what it looks without it bring it back again and again very very powerful easy to use and just have to have the ability to affect any area of the image with these masks I just think it's really powerful and a really really nice feature of on one so overall though through through my experience if we just hit G to go back to the grid view it it works really really well it's it's it's developed this medium for my image really well and with with those local adjustments you see they're of adjusted this area here to add in some extra sharpening and things to make these trees pop out just some really nice features I've added blur in the top there just to smooth out that water and that fog a little bit use some dynamic contrast as you can see here which is just it's just a really nice thing to play with with specific control and it's handling all the raw files from the different files or from the different cameras very very well this is the image I took on the Canon 5d Mark 4 it's just perfect the way it handled that for you just spin back to Lightroom and compare it to that I mean slight difference in exposure possibly but yeah I mean it looks just great very very similar to to what Lightroom has done so really really happy with on one so let's go and have a quick look at capture one now capture one is all powerful pretty much and it does everything very very well so I'll just we'll just go through one image quickly because when I compared it to Lightroom a little while ago I went through capture one in a bit more detail so this is the sony image here so I'm just gonna again dry out drag in a gradient just to start with with the gradient tool selected up here drag that down there and you can see the area that's going to be affected by the gradient and then we can reduce the exposure down like that and you can see it's just affecting this layer here not the main background image so I'm gonna reduce the brightness a touch there as well and the white balance just a touch like that and you can see I'm adding tinting on capture one and it's handling this transition area from highlights or overexposed to normally exposed much much better than unwanted let's just reduce that back down touch and then come back to the background layer and it just contrasts bring those shadows up quite a bit and then the brightness a touch saturation up a touch very easy very fast capture one has recently been updated to version twelve I've got to say it's much much faster or it certainly is from my experience on my computer it's working so much faster than it was before before it felt very similar to Lightroom and now it is faster basically very simply what I also like about capture one from my personal point of view is I do all my editing now on the loupe deck is this keyboard light device here that has knobs on to control saturation brightness all the different things which was which we can control in in our photo editing this device will do that works in capture one and in Lightroom under our HDR but not in on one unfortunately all Lightroom cc but it does work in capture one so that's very very nice but you have the speed the extra speed the capture one now provides is really really good it is the most expensive though that is one of the problems well we'll conclude everything once we've had a look at all the programs right let's now spin over to Lightroom cc now this is the sort of essentially the the the lighter version of Lightroom Lightroom classic is what we're normally using Lightroom cc is part of the CC package of the Creative Cloud package it's more of a kind of version that fits in with your entire editing process across all devices so what I do in Lightroom cc can be picked up and in Lightroom classic but I can also switch over to my iPad or to my phone and continue the edits on this now I haven't you know I haven't used Lightroom cc much prior to this test and I've got to say I've thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it it's simple it's fast and powerful and kind of has that almost Apple like feel to it of of simplicity and power and creativeness which I've really enjoyed let's just give you a quick example so with this wallet I'll let me just show you the gradient first of all just to show you how it handles this Sony file so let's bring that exposure down add some tint in like we did in the first instance bring the highlights down as well and you can see that that transition area the on one struggled with is absolutely fine in in Lightroom let's just go to here add in the shadows again it's very very fast it's built from the ground up much more recently than Lightroom classics it doesn't suffer the same sort of speed speed problems that Lightroom classic does it's fast it feels fun to use and the ability to switch over to your iPad an iPhone to continue these edits is really really nice it's all it's got all the same functions a lot of the same functions as lightning classic and it seems to be adding more and more all the time you can stitch photos together you can do HDR's all that kind of thing and it seems to handle the files from the Fujifilm xt3 very very well as well so this is the this is the file from the Canon 5d Mark 4 I'll just show you how easy it is to clone this rock out for example so I'm into the healing brush here make my brush bigger with the bracket keys and then just hover over this rock here give it a click and that disappears bring that down for this one draw that out and draw these ones out here and you can see the speed that's very very quick you don't have that kind it takes longer than that in on one it takes longer than that in Lightroom cc as well and it's even easier I think than then capture one so just very quickly on these edits here bring those whites up bring the blacks down add in a little gradient at the top like that bring that exposure down or back up a little bit don't any of that all of that bring the highlights down yeah and that's looking pretty similar to to Lightroom see classic now it's just so fast so easy and I love the fact that you can flick over to you phone and continue these edits it's really attractive to me the idea have been a bit more independent of your computer to be able to shoot edit publish and even print in a more mobile fashion is definitely appealing to me I think the less time we spend in the office in front of a computer and the more time out in the field making images the better in Lightroom cc seems to be making that kind of progress forward it's getting more powerful it's doing more things as time goes by yet retains that sort of simplicity that I really really like so let's have a look in capture one other quality of this Fujifilm xt3 file it's handled all the other ones absolutely fine as you would expect from capture one let's just zoom in a touch 200% on that one there and you can see it's nice and sharp it looks really good now let's spin back to on one and let's go to GE there to go to the grid view and bring that file up as well he's edited slightly different so it's not the perfect test but let's just zoom in on that as well and compare it it's edited slightly different but it's still sharp there's no I can't see any benefit of using capture one of on one in terms of its ability to process the raw files let's have a look at lightroom as well and compare it to that and just zoom in it's such on there I mean in terms of ability to handle these RAW files there used to be a difference I think that did with capture all you to do it better than Lightroom but now with these three raw processes I'm not seeing any difference in terms of what it's doing to individual files enough I've tested that across all of the images as well previously and apart from that one from the Sony camera in the highlights area in the highlighted area on on one I haven't seen any difference in terms of RAW processing so with that in mind there are still some differences between these programs them some things I like some things I don't and I think we should have a look and try and draw some conclusions to give you an idea of a which is best and also which one might work best for you I'm going to start with capture one because the upgrade from 11 to 12 has been significant I think in terms of of performance and it's working really well on my computer at least the thing with capture one is it is fantastic it does everything very very well and I think that's its biggest positive interestingly though from my own personal point of view that's also the biggest negative because it's so technical it's such a technically perfect piece of software I think it's just almost too complex when I'm trying to create some artwork from my landscape photography if I was doing a portrait shoe in a studio for example almost certainly use capture one the tethering is better than library and it just does everything really really well it's fast and it's perfect for that in that kind of very commercial sort of scenario where you need everything just to be perfect capture one is ideal for that for what I do though is a landscape photographer where I'm trying to in my post-processing much what I saw at the time with my feelings and just be very creative it's just almost like there's too much there or it feels very technical the sliders are all square it's neat it's tidy and it just doesn't feel quite as creative to me it's a little bit like the PC versus Apple thing I'm an Apple user that kind of going down that kind of creative path whereas capture one is more like a PC is very technically you can change things you can customize things you can do exactly what you want it to do and you've got total control and I know that's going to peel appeal to a lot of people and it does to me in certain circumstances just just not for my landscape photography and I think for new users as well if you take the time to learn it it will be powerful but it's not the easiest to pick up from the ground up especially if you've got a little bit of experience with one of the Adobe platforms the other thing about capture one is it just by far the most expensive they do a standalone version which is still very expensive the subscription model is almost double at the moment what Adobe charge and you get Photoshop with that as well but the cheapest version by far is on one and that is one of its biggest assets and its pros really it's a standalone product do you buy it once and that's it very very good now on one like we saw just have one or two processing issues but it works really well it's got some really nice features those layers are great I really really like it one thing are a couple of other things that struggled with with on one is just a double clicking of the sliders doesn't reset it which I get very used to doing that and also the history isn't great the the history is it seems to have a limited history before you lose all of the changes whereas with capture while in Lightroom you can go much further back in your history go backwards in that in that way which is sometimes very very useful the print module is also not very good in in on one hopefully it will continue to improve and if that cost stays the same it's definitely something worth looking at as well now Lightroom cc very very impressed with this I haven't used it much up until now but it's fast it links with Lightroom classic very very nicely and it's a good price it's fast it's got that simplicity that I I kind of want to feel like I can be a bit more creative because I'm not so stifled by that overly technical interface I really like that I'm probably gonna try and force myself to start editing a bit more on an iPad or on a phone and do it a bit more mobile so I can be out more often and I like the sort of line that Adobe are going down with that my concern with Adobe is what they're going to do with classic because it's not fast but it is still great a great piece of software and they the the masking the range mask that I talked about on the last video is a winner for that big letdown with Lightroom though is the fact that you don't have full HSL color control with the adjustments capture one has that on one has that the Lightroom package doesn't so I'd like to see that introduced into library I'd like to see the speed increased in Lightroom as well I'm probably going to continue to use Lightroom they're all great that's that's the conclusion they're all great they've all got that kind of killer feature capture one does it all on what is cheap and does a lot Lightroom can does it all but doesn't always work quite as well but has that more so artistic creator like feel to it which I enjoy and others a couple of other really good editors out there but I've tested the ones that people mentioned to me the most otherwise this video would have been about six days long thanks to Squarespace though for sponsoring this video if you go to Squarespace com to start your free trial today and 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Length: 26min 48sec (1608 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 07 2019