Capture One Pro 11

Unimpressed by Lightroom? Capture One is out to grab you.

- Dave Stevenson

While it’s unlikely that Photoshop will ever stop being top of the photo-editing heap, things are a little less clear-cut for Lightroom. The recent change to Lightroom Classic was widely panned, and updates to the software were of the ‘less is more’ variety.

Such is the window of opportunity that Capture One 11 finds itself in, with this latest version incorporating various improvements in the hope of luring Lightroom fans. The list of things that it does that Lightroom can’t is compelling. You can add up to 16 layer masks, with variable opacity to allow an incredible amount of flexibility. Masks can be feathered and refined once they’ve been added, giving you the kind of per-pixel adjustments that Lightroom users can only dream of.