

Check out this article from Chris Anson, which will show you how. The great thing is, as you decide to personalize your workflow more, you can make your own custom tool tabs. If you find yourself not using some of the tools in the Exposure tool tab (like Levels), you can right-click and remove it.

You’ll find pretty much all the tools from Lightroom’s Develop module in the Exposure tool tab. While many tutorials will tell you to activate the Quick tool tab, I really don’t think it’s necessary. With this change alone, you should feel much more at home.įrom there, I dove into my tool tabs. One, it’ll add the Tools sidebar to the right (instead of the left), and it’ll put the filmstrip (known as the Browser) at the bottom. To do this, you can go to Window > Workspace > Migration. One of the first things I did was set up the interface so it looked similar to Lightroom Classic. I did a lot of reading and YouTube watching before I got started with Capture One Pro 20. But for me, it’s well-known throughout the world of Olympus that Capture One does the best job in terms of RAW processing its files. In my discussions with other pros, Capture One was known for speed and accuracy when it came to color performance. While I had tried Capture One before, I found it to be overkill for what I needed at the time.īut now, with time on my hands, I figured it was worth another look. I had heard a lot about Capture One in recent months, mainly surrounding their v.20 update. It was manageable, as long as you had a computer that was amped up enough to handle it. While Lightroom Classic had improved its performance due to things like GPU Acceleration, it is by no means fast. But if you rely on a local storage workflow, it’s not ideal.Īnd two, speed. And rightly so - Lightroom is a great program. It’s younger cousin, Lightroom (formerly CC) was getting most of the attention. While Lightroom Classic is an extremely robust program, it was starting to get long in the tooth, in terms of getting feature updates. And while I still have great memories using it, there were some things that were starting to bug me.įor one, the lack of updates. As far back as I can remember, I’ve been using one program to manage and process my images - Lightroom Classic.
