The sky section and subject selection is really useful too. In particular, not having to rasterise gradients to add or subtract from them is a big plus. In my opinion, Lightroom 11 has closed the gap significantly, and while it doesn’t offer all the functions of Capture One’s layers, the way it’s masks can interact, is better. So as you can see, both have their pros and cons. Can’t do the equivalent of a filled mask.No overall opacity control for masked adjustments.You can’t use curves or colour grading with a mask. Limited number of adjustments can be applied to a mask compared to Capture One.You can save masks as part of a preset.

Luminance and colour keys are treated like gradient or brush masks and can intersect, add or subtract from any of the other mask types.

In other words, you don’t have to rasterise the gradients to remove parts with a brush.

You can subtract masks of different types, and keep the parameters non-destructive.

You can intersect one mask with another.

You can store AI masks as part of a preset.

AI masks can be copied and pasted to other images and dynamically updated.

Sky and Subject selection AI masks are fast and mostly accurate.

You can’t save layers as part of a style.

Creating a colour range mask requires the use of the colour tool, and the result is destructive (i.e., you can’t edit it after the fact).

Magic brush is not as good as Lightroom’s ai-based masks.

To add or subtract from a gradient, you have to rasterise the gradient.

Filters to overall masks, including softening of the masks.

Style brushes for quick layer-based adjustments.

You can have a layer with a filled mask, so adjustments will apply to the entire layer.

Can add almost all adjustments to a layer, including curves and colour grading.

So, here are some quick pros and cons of each: Capture One Layers Pros While Capture One’s layers still offer a lot more functionality, Lightroom’s masking has some unique features of its own. In some respects, this brings it closer to Capture One’s layers functions. Called “masking” it offers a new way of managing and interacting with Lightroom’s masking tools to perform adjustments on parts of an image. Lightroom 11 brought a whole new interface for selective editing in Lightroom.

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