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Working With Capture One and Affinity Photo

Working With Capture One and Affinity Photo

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One, Software, Video

One of the questions that I get asked a lot is about using Affinity Photo with Capture One. For those who want to cut the Adobe chord, Affinity Photo is the most popular alternative to Photoshop, and it makes a good companion to Capture One. Even if you still use Lightroom and Photoshop, many still like Affinity Photo for its modern user interface and speed. Round tripping between the applications is fairly straight forward, but there are still a few things to be aware of, which I will cover in this post.

Video: Customising the Capture One Interface

Video: Customising the Capture One Interface

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One, Video

One of the really useful features of Capture One is that you can completely customise the interface. This ranges from simple things like changing the toolbar, and re-ordering tools, to creating your own tool tabs and workspaces. In this video, we look at the many ways you can customise the Capture One interface, and create a custom tool tab to make it easier for someone switching from Lightroom.

Video: Photographing Autumn in Dublin City

Video: Photographing Autumn in Dublin City

Thomas Fitzgerald
Autumn, Video

In this video I went for a wander with my camera around Dublin City to show that you don’t need to go to the countryside to photograph the wonders of Autumn. If you live in a city there’s plenty of Autumn colours and scenes all around you. If you liked my “Street Photo Diary” series, this is basically the same formulae only without the street photography!

Video: How to import into Lightroom directly from a Memory Card on iPAD OS

Video: How to import into Lightroom directly from a Memory Card on iPAD OS

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Software, Video, Tips, Lightroom

One of the new features of iPadOS that was announced was the ability to import images directly into apps from attached storage, without having to go through the camera roll. Unfortunately not many apps have been updated to take advantage of this yet, including Lightroom. However, there is a pretty simple work around and in this video I show you what to do.

Reduce Shadow Noise in Lightroom

Reduce Shadow Noise in Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Video

Sometimes you can come across an image where the shadows are quite noisy, but there are still details in the mid tones or highlights that you don’t want to soften by applying too much overall noise reduction. You can actually just apply noise reduction to the shadows of an image in Lightroom by using a luminance mask. In this video I show you how to do this.

A Simplified Approach to Sharpening in Fuji Files in Capture One

A Simplified Approach to Sharpening in Fuji Files in Capture One

Thomas Fitzgerald
Fuji X-Series, Capture One, Video

I’ve written a lot about sharpening Fuji files in various pieces of software, and in fact, I have a whole guide for Capture One with details and corresponding presets. However, for some, this may be still a little too complicated, so I wanted to give you just the absolute basics. This is particularly suitable for those who may be using Capture One Express but the advice works for both express and pro versions. I fact, this advice will really work with any file.

Three Thousand and Counting. Growing my YouTube channel

Three Thousand and Counting. Growing my YouTube channel

Thomas Fitzgerald
Editorial, Video

After a few months of slowly ramping up the effort I put into it, my YouTube channel seems to be starting to gain some traction, especially with my Street Photo Diary series. I’ve just published the tenth episode on YouTube, and my channel has just crossed the 3000 mark. These two albeit minor milestones have caused me to reflect and look back on how I got to this point, and where I want to go next.

Video: Street Photo Diary Episode 10: X-Pro 2 and Winter Light

Video: Street Photo Diary Episode 10: X-Pro 2 and Winter Light

Thomas Fitzgerald
Video, Street

As a companion to the recently published Issue 36 of Street Photo Diary, I also shot another episode of the companion video series of the same name. It’s hard to believe that I’ve done ten of these now, and when I look back, they’ve really come a long way since my first attempts. In this episode I go searching for the winter light in Dublin city with my Fuji X-Pro 2 as my main camera.

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