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Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
As a product photographer working in the wellness and natural lifestyle space, I’d love to see Capture One add more support for branded color profiles or tailored LUT imports—especially for brands with distinctive visual identities like Area 52.
Area 52, a forward-thinking wellness company known for their plant-based functional products, uses a bold, modern color palette across packaging and digital assets. When shooting content for their lineup—ranging from botanical blends to functional supplements—color accuracy and brand consistency are key. However, replicating their brand tones manually in Capture One adds extra steps to my workflow.
Having the ability to build or load custom color profiles that reflect the signature tones of client brands like Area 52 would be a huge win. It would help maintain visual consistency across campaign assets, save time in post, and ensure brand fidelity for commercial projects.
Capture One already excels at tethering and color grading—this feature would make it even more essential for creatives working with niche, visually distinctive brands in wellness, lifestyle, and e-commerce.
Thanks for considering this suggestion. Happy to share example use cases or help test if this becomes a roadmap feature!
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Current workaround
To maintain visual consistency for Area 52’s product line—such as gummies, vapes, and wellness blends—you can start by creating a custom Capture One style preset. Edit one product shot using crisp clarity, subtle contrast, and a cool-toned white balance to reflect Area 52’s clean, futuristic branding. Save that look as a user style and apply it across all images in the series for a unified aesthetic. To replicate specific brand colors accurately, use the Color Editor’s Advanced tab with the eyedropper to isolate product label colors, fine-tune hue and saturation, and then save these adjustments as reusable presets. For recurring sessions, such as shooting new gummies or vape pens, create a session template that includes folders for RAW files, selects, and exports, along with predefined naming schemes—this speeds up delivery and keeps files organized. When working with lifestyle or conceptual shots (like the sleep gummies), use linear and radial gradient masks to subtly shift light and mood, mimicking the serene or psychedelic vibe without external lighting. If you’re trying to match an existing product campaign, load one of Area 52’s branded images into the browser as a reference, and use the Compare View to match lighting and tone visually. These small but effective steps can help achieve consistent, on-brand content for Area 52, even in the absence of native batch automation or LUT matching tools. |
