Using Capture One

How it fits together

Camera → Capture One tether (your style applied) → export with a recipe → JPEG in the watch folder → Quick Gallery uploads it → the guest’s gallery

Capture One doesn’t export on its own as frames arrive, so you export with one keystroke. Most photographers do it after each guest, or every few frames, which also gives you a quick look before anything is sent.

Folders

Use a Capture One Session for the event. You need two separate folders:

Folder	What goes in it
Capture folder	Capture One’s RAW files. Set it in the Capture tool tab under Next Capture Location.
Watch folder	Finished JPEGs only. You’ll pick it with Watch folder on Quick Gallery’s Live screen.

Keep the watch folder outside the Capture folder, so RAW files are never uploaded.

Your look on every frame

1. Edit one test frame the way you want guests to see it, and save it as a style (or pick a style you already use).
2. In the Capture tool tab, open Next Capture Adjustments and set it to apply that style to each new capture.

Every frame now arrives with your look already on it.

The export recipe

1. In the export recipes, add a new recipe named Quick Gallery.
2. Format: JPEG, quality about 85.
3. Size: long edge 4000 px is plenty for phones and keeps uploads fast.
4. Color: sRGB.
5. Location: choose the folder option and pick your watch folder.
6. Turn off any other recipes, so this is the only one used.

During the session

1. On Quick Gallery’s Live screen (Chrome or Edge), click Watch folder and pick the watch folder.
2. Start the guest, then shoot.
3. Select their frames (skip any you don’t want) and export with the Quick Gallery recipe. Capture One’s export shortcut makes this one keystroke.
4. Photos appear in their gallery within seconds. Press Complete session when you’re done, and start the next guest.

Export before you start the next guest: photos go to whoever is started when they arrive. Anything that lands with nobody started is held on the Live screen, never sent to the wrong person.

Tips

• Add a star or color tag to frames once they’re exported, so you always know what’s been sent.
• Light changed? Adjust one frame, update your style, and set it again in Next Capture Adjustments. Frames already exported keep their old look; re-export any you want to replace.
• No Wi-Fi? Keep exporting. Quick Gallery uploads the waiting photos as soon as the connection is back.

Editing after the event

Sorting a memory card into guests automatically needs the Lightroom Classic plugin. With Capture One, you can still edit first and send later:

1. Set the event to Photo delivery → After I edit them in Event setup, and press Start and Complete for each guest at the event. Guests hear their photos are being edited.
2. Edit in Capture One and export each guest’s JPEGs into their own folder.
3. In Event setup → Photo delivery, click Add photos next to each guest and pick their photos.
4. Check them, then press Send all galleries, or Send now for one guest. Gallery days count from when you send.

Questions about your setup? Email hello@quickgallery.app.