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Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.

Status Awaiting review
Workspace Feature requests
Categories Capture One Pro
Created by Den Denyer
Created on Nov 10, 2023

Two Column / Extra Column for tools

What problem do you see this solving?

Our monitors are wider than they are tall, which means one ends up doing an awful lot of scrolling when editing due to there being too many tools in the current context to fit in view. It is more to have them in view than to scroll/switch tabs.

It would be nice to have two columns to dock tools in, either side by side on opposite sides of the screen.

Moving all the tools to the pinned area causes them to auto-collapse, but then the layers and brush panels also auto collapse, which makes working very clumsy. Moving the brushes and layers to the pinned area then stops the auto-collapse behaviour, which then results in an awful lot of scrolling.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

Every day.

Current workaround

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

Painstakingly arranging floating tool panels, which is a bit rubbish as they then obscure parts of the grid view.

  • Den Denyer
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    Nov 13, 2023

    Ahh, I missed that you'd resized C1 to stop them covering up the preview!!

  • BeO O
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    Nov 12, 2023

    Hi Den, 

    This is on one monitor.

  • Den Denyer
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    Nov 11, 2023

    I tried, but as I work with a pen mapped to monitor 1, placing tools on monitor 2 meant some Wacom shenanigans that I found more cumbersome than scrolling the tool palettes.

  • BeO O
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    Nov 11, 2023

    I upvoted this request. 

    Meanwhile, as we are waiting for an implementation, did you try to place your most commonly used tools as  floating tools outside the C1 window? You cannot switch them (no tabs) and you cannot hide them to give your image nearly full screen, but you have even more vertical space availabe outside the C1 window.

     

     

  • Den Denyer
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    Nov 11, 2023

    I tried it, but mapping my graphics tablet to toggle from one screen to dual and back again was unpleasant, especially given the aching expanse of grey that typically flanks the images in the centre view that could be filled with another column of docked tools ;)

  • Grant Perkins
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    Nov 10, 2023

    Floating tools (and indeed all tool positions) would probably work best with multiple screens.

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