

Note that this post also applies to Capture One 9 and 1. You can download updates and upgrades, and deactivate your key. However if you have customized the location of that Tool or Tab, the Loupedeck will take you to the wrong location and you will not be able to see the changes you’re making to that tool.Or you run a trial for a limited time, before you buy. For example, if you change the exposure using the Loupedeck’s dial, the software will automatically take you to the default Tool Tab and show you the change you’re making. Since Capture One’s interface can be customized so much by moving tools around and placing them in different tool tabs, the developers face an interesting issue when showing you the tool you’re currently working with.

Displaying Current Adjustments In terms of the exposure, color, sharpness, and other image adjustment tools, the handling of these by Loupedeck is still somewhat clumsy. Functionality to allow the creation of a new layer with a button press and also cycling through layers (perhaps with one of the unused color dials) would make tool and layer use more efficient, I believe.

So if you’re working with the brush and then change to the graduated filter, you will simply overwrite your brushwork on the current layer. Fstoppers co-founder Lee Morris took a good look at the Loupedeck+ and its use in Lightroom earlier this week, and let’s be honest, I don’t think Lee has been this excited about a piece of gear in a while (seriously, check out the video in his )! It’s a great addition to the Lightroom user’s arsenal, but how well does it play with Capture One Pro? Since Capture One takes a different approach to image editing and interface customization, there are certainly areas of the Loupedeck’s operation that are less than smooth at the moment. It, for most purposes, replaces your keyboard and mouse and can speed up the basic changes we make in raw conversion exponentially as you get used to it.

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, the (and now Loupedeck+) is a panel of dials and buttons that is designed to make your time in post-production focused on the image rather than the software. Today we’ll take a look at what you can expect and what we think could be improved. Loupedeck have released a version of their software that plays (somewhat) nicely with Capture One Pro.
