Lightroom looks, at home in Capture One

Drop in .xmp or .lrtemplate presets, or a whole zipped pack, and get Capture One styles tuned for how Capture One actually renders. Everything runs in your browser.

Converter

Drop your presets here

or click to choose files. Convert one preset or a hundred at once.

.xmp.lrtemplate.zip packs

Camera for the profile

Your camera

Uses open camera color data. Close, but for the best match upload Capture One’s own profile for your camera below.

Use my Capture One profile

Each download holds an .icc with the preset’s color, plus a tone-only style to apply on top.

Conversion settings

Contrast softening15%

OffGentleStrong

Capture One’s base curve renders harder than Lightroom’s. This eases contrast and curves a little so the look matches a bit closer to your LR preset.

Shadow protection20%

OffOpenAiry

Stops Capture One from crushing blacks, which often happens with conversions from LR to CO. Opens up deep shadows while keeping true black and any fade the preset already had.

HSL colorsLightroom’s 8 HSL channels go to Capture One’s Color Editor. White balance tintCarries warm or cool shifts as a color balance tint that works well on most files from most cameras. Film grainPicks the Capture One grain type closest to Lightroom’s roughness. Sharpening & noiseOff keeps Capture One’s per-camera defaults, which are usually better.

Lightroom Mobile DNG

Each preset is packed into a small DNG image with its settings embedded untouched, so nothing is approximated. Open it in Lightroom Mobile and save it as a preset. Steps are in the install guide below.

Converted presets will appear here with a full report of what moved across.

How each setting moves across

Lightroom and Capture One don’t share a processing pipeline, so every setting gets its own treatment. Each converted style comes with a report showing exactly what happened to it.

Lightroom	Capture One	How
Exposure	Exposure	One to one. A stop is a stop in both.
Contrast	Contrast	Scaled to Capture One’s ±50 range, then eased by the softening setting.
Highlights, Shadows	HDR Highlight, Shadow	Scaled to 80%.
Whites, Blacks	RGB curve	Baked into the curve toe and shoulder, which reproduces them more faithfully than Capture One’s HDR sliders.
Tone curve + parametric	RGB curve	Rendered through the same order Lightroom uses and sampled to a 17-point curve.
Red, Green, Blue curves	Channel curves	Exact point copies. These carry color, so softening does not affect them.
HSL	Color Editor	lined up with Lightroom’s eight channels.
Calibration	Color Editor	Each primary spread across its neighboring slices.
Color grading, split toning	Color Balance	Shadows, midtones, highlights and global become luminance-neutral RGB balances.
White balance	Color Balance master	A relative warm, cool or tint shift, so it behaves the same on every camera.
Clarity, Texture, Dehaze	Clarity, Structure	Scaled for Capture One’s stronger clarity. Dehaze is split across contrast, clarity and saturation.
Vibrance	Saturation	Half its strength is folded into saturation.
B&W mix, toning	Black & White	Eight channels merged into six, with split tones carried over.
Grain	Film Grain	Amount scaled, size mapped to granularity, roughness picks the grain type.
Vignette, profiles, masks	Listed in the report	These can’t be stored reliably in a style, so the report tells you the value to dial in.

Install your converted styles

Single presets download ready to import. “Download all” gives you one .zip, so unzip that first. TIP: It's good to also grab the ICC profile, apply that, and then the style on top of that. That seems to work well for getting close to a 1:1 between the two softwres. If using a Fuji camera, you'll need to also change the curve from auto to one of the film curves or camera-specific curves.

Capture One

Open the Styles and Presets tool on the Adjustments tab.
Click the tool’s ⋯ menu and choose Import.
Select your .costyle files. They appear under User Styles.
Apply a style, then fine-tune the Base Characteristics curve if you want it flatter.
TIP: It's good to also grab the ICC profile, apply that, and then the style on top of that. That seems to work well for getting close to a 1:1 between the two softwres.
If using a Fuji camera, you'll need to also change the curve from auto to one of the film curves or camera-specific curves.
Have fun. Experiment.

ICC profile

Unzip the download. On Mac, copy the .icc into ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles. On Windows, right-click it and choose Install Profile.
Restart Capture One.
In the Color tab, open Base Characteristics → ICC Profile, choose Show All if needed, and pick the profile.
Apply the included tone style from Styles and Presets.

Lightroom Mobile

Send the .dng files to your phone.
In Lightroom Mobile, add them as photos.
Open one, tap ⋯ and choose Create Preset.
Name it and save. The preset is now on every device you sync.

Questions

Why do converted styles often look too contrasty?

Capture One’s default Film Standard base curve is punchier than Lightroom’s Adobe rendering, and its Contrast slider is stronger per step. Contrast softening compensates by easing contrast and the tone curve slightly. Around 10% suits most presets; if a style still looks hard, try 15–20% or switch the image’s base curve to Linear Response.

Are my presets uploaded anywhere?

No. Files are read and converted entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.

Can I convert a whole preset pack at once?

Yes. Drop many files at once, or drop the pack’s .zip directly. Every .xmp and .lrtemplate inside is found and converted, and Download all gives you one zip of styles.

What can’t be converted?

Adobe look profiles store a color table Capture One can’t read, masks and local adjustments don’t exist in styles, and vignetting isn’t stored reliably. When a preset uses any of these, its report lists them with the value to set by hand.

How is white balance handled?

A Lightroom preset’s Kelvin value only means something for the camera it was made on. The converter measures how far it sits from daylight and carries that as a gentle warm, cool or tint shift, so the style looks consistent on any camera. You can turn this off in settings.

Style or ICC profile, which should I use?

Styles work on any camera and are quickest. ICC profiles hold the preset’s color in a full 3D lookup table, so HSL, calibration, B&W mixing and toning come across more precisely, but each profile is made for one camera. For the closest match, give the converter Capture One’s own profile for your camera. Search the Capture One application folder for your camera model’s name; its profiles end in .icm.

Does the Lightroom Mobile option change my preset?

No. The DNG carries the original settings exactly as they were, so the mobile preset matches the desktop one.