Contact sheets ripped off – my answer to the product manager

My reply to the product manager who does not allow a reply to his comment:

Hi

Good to see/read that product managers care about the needs of their customers – and they also should allow comments to their questions!

If you are a product manager, you probably know that professional photographers make their living on selling their images. So, when you have taken your images and finished the final tuning, you would like to present the result to your client.

There is/was no easier way than exporting a web contact sheet out of Capture One and publishing on your website or sending the gallery to the client by email. We were able to choose a layout and optimise the images for different sizes and qualities – at no extra costs!

We have been doing this for years – and it was not only the professionals but also the amateurs who wanted to share their images. But this is no longer possible because the web contact sheet was removed and replaced by a completely basic tool producing JPEGs and PDFs of sheets you could do much better using the print tool and exporting it there.

So, long story short: just bring back what you robbed from your faithful customers. They have paid for such an option and do not want to pay more for some elaborated tools that may be helpful when working in large projects but are completely superfluous for one man/women business or amateurs.

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