Capture One Pro 9

Preface and Introduction

Preface

The title of this book says it all. Capture One Pro 9: Mastering Raw Development, Image Processing, and Asset Management is based on my many years of practical experience as a photographer and imaging specialist and, most important, on five years of hands-on experience earning a living with Capture One.

Don’t worry—I’m not going to list the program’s features and explain them to death, and my book is neither an alternative to the user manual and online help provided by Phase One nor simply a collection of tutorials. And why is this so? Because Capture One is an evolving digital product with tools and functions that are constantly being refined, reevaluated and replaced.

With the release of version 8, Phase One ...