Bring back web contact sheets

For me, the Web Contact Sheet is essential. It was a core part of my workflow.

I work in a very focused and deliberate way and rely exclusively on my own servers, not on third-party platforms. The Web Contact Sheet allowed me to manage selections in a clean, controlled, and professional manner. Especially in professional client workflows, this feature was extremely helpful and efficient. Its removal feels like a clear step backwards.

I strongly hope this feature will return. It was well thought-out, practical, and a real reason to use Capture One for serious, professional work.

I rely on these web contact sheets. This is part of my business – and you just removed it!

This is a clear breach of your responsibility against your customer. You provide a functionality and it is widely used by many users including me – then you just remove it. What you provide now with the new "contact sheet" is a mess. I just see that you try to make money pushing your clients to Capture One Live. This is just unfair and I very much ask you to bring back the functionality of the old contact sheet. I will encourage our fineart community to let you know what they think!

Capture suggested:

"Hi Douglas, have you tried Capture One Live? It is a solution we have released a few years back that allows you to share an online gallery. You can read more about it here: https://www.captureone.com/en/products/capture-one-live and while the website emphasizes the collaborative aspect of the service, it can definitely be used just as a viewing gallery."

I looked at it but it is the opposite of what I want. I want to curate, organize, and process photos into a gallery before I post them. Also, some limited annotation if required. Then, I want to share them with the public in my website. I want to be able to reference the galleries from other narratives on the web. I am not dealing one-on-one with clients.

I do not want to share live shots.

Up to now, Capture as been a wonderful solution for my photographic needs, although I am starting to realize that I am an outlier in your customer base.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Hi, I think I started this. Good to know I am not the only one suffering, but you have my sympathy.

For the time being I went with MindGems Easy Web Gallery Builder. In the long run I may have to go back to Adobe.

Easy only works on Windows and Mac is my primary platform. I have to export groups of photos from Capture, keep them organized, and then load them into Easy. Easy processes pretty quickly on my iBuypower gaming machine. One way or the other I will survive.

I need to create self-contained, navigable, portable web galleries for my crude approach to journalistic documentation. I share the originals if requested.

Thank-you

Hi everyone,

It is extremely unlikely that we will bring back the web contact sheets, they needed to be retired for technical reasons.

However, we would like to support your workflows - could you please let us know which important functionality is not available in the software today (covered by the new contact sheets or other tools)?

Yes, I totally agree! I used "web contact" a lot! The "contact sheet" as today, are much too poor quality!!

For years back, Capture One / Phase One, had a philosophy that they never remove anything from the software, only adding!

Thats what I'm been told from the staff at Cologne messe years ago!

Could we please get it back in CO.......!

Regard

Gert Laursen

Agreed. Has been my go-to way to communicate with clients swiftly. And as the new Contact Sheet works extremely slow on even a small number of (adjusted) images it already seems futile. Having a hard time understanding why a Beta within non Beta is released and at least not keeping the feature until it is developed further?! (I can't imagine how this could even work on the minimum hardware requirements)