Capture One Pro continues to define the standard for high-end digital photography workflows, offering an unmatched combination of raw processing power and precise color control. The latest 2025 updates introduce intelligent automation that significantly speeds up complex editing tasks without sacrificing the manual control professionals demand. By integrating advanced AI masking directly into the core toolkit, the software allows photographers to isolate specific subject elements like skin, eyes, and lips instantly, bypassing hours of manual brushing.
Key Features
- AI People Masking: Automatically generates precise masks for distinct human features such as facial skin, body skin, eyebrows, and lips, allowing for targeted retouching adjustments across multiple images in seconds.
- Match Look: utilizes AI to analyze a reference image and instantly apply its color grading and contrast characteristics to your own photos, streamlining the process of achieving specific aesthetic tones.
- Industry-Leading Tethering: Delivers the fastest and most stable wired connection for studio environments, with features like "Snap to Eye" that verify critical focus immediately during the shoot.
- Session Builder: Automates file organization by creating custom folder hierarchies and naming conventions before you even start shooting, ensuring consistent asset management for large projects.
- Smart Adjustments: Intelligent exposure and white balance tools that automatically normalize a batch of images shot under changing lighting conditions to look consistent with a single reference shot.
Use Cases
This software is the primary choice for studio professionals and wedding photographers who require bulletproof tethering reliability and the ability to batch-edit thousands of high-resolution raw files with identical color precision. It is also essential for commercial retouchers who need to separate skin tones from environmental colors without creating complex layer stacks in external pixel editors.
Capture One Pro remains the superior option for Windows 10 and Windows 11 users who prioritize color accuracy and workflow speed over simple filter application.
Version 16.7.2 — December 2025
- Added new ability to export layer masks directly as alpha channels when saving to PSD and PSB formats, streamlining compositing workflows.
- Introduced visual thumbnails for masks within the Layers and Masks Tool to easily identify specific masked areas at a glance.
- Enhanced Combine Masks functionality, now allowing the use of the Magic Brush on submasks and the ability to rename submasks for better organization.
- Improved performance of AI-powered tools (including AI Crop, Culling, and Face Skin Retouching) on Windows devices via Snapdragon NPU acceleration.
- Extended Capture One Live capabilities to retain Star Ratings and Color Tags for a longer duration after sessions expire.
- Added native support for new camera models, including the Canon EOS R6 Mark III, Leica Q3 Monochrom, and Sony FX2.
- Fixed issue where specific tethering configurations could cause instability with certain Sony camera models.
