Improve Capture One
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.
Add a toggle in the Browser (and in Preferences > Crop) that switches thumbnails between two modes:
Current behavior: full frame with the cropped area masked.
New: only the cropped area, scaled up to fill the thumbnail cell, exactly as the image will export.
The existing workaround gets partway there. Setting Crop Opacity to 255 and matching Brightness to the interface background hides the discarded area. But the thumbnail does not rescale, so a heavily cropped frame renders as a small image surrounded by dead space, and the amount of dead space varies image to image. The result is an uneven grid that is harder to read than the masked version. The rendering already exists. What is missing is scaling the crop to the cell.
Why this matters: anyone building a body of work needs to see final images next to each other. Sequencing a portfolio, a book edit, an exhibition, a client gallery, or a social set is a judgment about how finished frames sit together in rhythm and scale. A grid of uncropped frames with masks over them does not show that. Verticals read as horizontals, tight crops read as loose ones, and it is impossible to assess the edit at a glance.
Keep the current view as the default so nothing changes for users who rely on the mask while cropping. This is purely an option.
Lightroom's grid displays cropped images this way, and it is one of the few remaining reasons photographers keep it installed alongside Capture One.
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Current workaround
Current workaround and what it costs: I export selects as JPEGs and arrange them in Adobe Bridge to see the actual edit. That means leaving Capture One entirely for the single most important step in building a body of work, and re-exporting every time a crop changes. Capture One is where the crops live. It should be where I can see them. |
