Capture One is a professional RAW converter and image editing software developed by Phase One. This software is designed for professional photographers who need to process large volumes of high quality images in a fast and efficient workflow. Capture One allows adjustment of many RAW file formats for native cameras as well as TIFF and JPEG image files. Every tool in Capture One is designed to give you complete control over all aspects of the editing process – preserving, retrieving and optimizing all the information from RAW files. The range of tools offers a wide range of possibilities for ever.

Features and Features of Capture One Software:
Performance & Performance : Adjustable gadgets and keyboard shortcuts to graphics acceleration and instant recording over the Internet . Capture One is designed to minimize your workload and optimize your performance.
Asset Management: Important to any photographer is managing the image of individual chores or large collections with thousands of images. This software offers tools and solutions for every type of photographer, simple, fast and effective asset management.
Full Mastery: Capture One is designed with image quality and ease of use in mind. Each tool is designed to give you complete control over all aspects of the editing process – preserving, retrieving and optimizing all data from RAW files.
Lens Details and Specifications : Capture One provides the highest level of detail possible for compressing any RAW file as high as image quality as the driving factor. Each supported lens applies a custom lens profile.
System Requirements
Minimum system requirements

Microsoft® Windows® minimum requirements
·         Intel® Core™ i3 (1st generation) / AMD Jaguar family
·         8 GB of RAM
·         10 GB of free hard disk space
·         Calibrated monitor with 1280×800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
·         Windows 10® 64-bit* or Windows 11® 
·         Internet connection to run Capture One Live

* Windows 10 is supported for versions from 20H2 through to 22H2.

Apple® Macintosh® minimum requirements
·         Intel® Core™ i3 (1st generation)
·         8 GB of RAM
·         10 GB of free hard disk space
·         Calibrated monitor with 1280×800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
·         macOS 11*, macOS 12*, macOS13*
·         Internet connection to run Capture One Live

* macOS is supported for versions up to 11.7, 12.6 and 13.4.

Note: SSE4.2 CPU instruction set is required. Read more about this on Intel’s website.

Apple Silicon
All releases from Capture One 21 (14.2.0) onwards provide native support for Apple Silicon Macs. Additionally, Hardware Acceleration on Apple Silicon (M1/M2) machines is achieved using Metal – this is now also the case on Intel based Macs, if you are using Capture One 22 (15.3.0) or newer.

Previous versions of Capture One, that have not been designed with silicon based Macs in mind, will still run on Mac computers using the Rosetta 2 emulation platform. This is run by default and there is no need to change any preferences in order for Capture One to run.

The only known limitation when using Rosetta, is when it comes to tethering with Canon cameras. Download and install the latest firmware from https://www.canon-europe.com/support/ to try remedying this issue.

For users on macOS 13 – USB tethering connection sometimes may not be established on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Ventura. If this occurs, unplug and replug the cable until the connection is successfully established. 

Recommended system requirements

If working with high-resolution images and doing calculation-heavy adjustments,
we recommend the following:

Intel CPU with 4+ cores
16+ GB of RAM
Solid State Disk (SSD)
NVIDIA or AMD GPU with 8 GB+ RAM
Calibrated monitor with at least 1920×1200, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
For users with 4K monitors

Due to the significant additional calculation overhead, systems using 4K monitors will require additional resources in addition to the above-recommended specification, both in GPU and CPU power.

For professional experience, we recommend at least doubling the specification above for these configurations.

Recommended hardware

We often get asked which GPU or CPU we recommend, and the truth is, we cannot recommend specific components as these are consistently being updated and replaced with newer models.

In general, the faster the system, the better.

The more RAM available to the graphics card, the more CUDA cores for Nvidia GPUs and Stream Processors for AMD GPUs, the higher the performance gain.

Running two (or more) GPUs with AMD CrossFire or Nvidia SLI can also improve performance