Introduced in Capture One 16.4.0, Client Viewers lets you can create up to three additional independent Viewer windows in Capture One Studio for your collaborators without affecting your workflow.
Each Client Viewer features a Viewer, where you can pan and zoom, and a Viewer Label with some image info. There are three Client Viewer modes: pinning an image variant, displaying the primary variant currently selected in Capture One Studio, or displaying the last image variant captured during tethering. Regardless of the mode, the Client Viewers show a fully rendered image, including all edits, but they do not show Guides, Grids, Overlays, or Annotations.
This feature is available in Capture One Studio.
Client Viewers supports Keyboard Shortcuts (Pin to Client Viewer A/B/C, Follow Selected A/B/C, Follow Capture A/B/C), and, since Capture One 16.5.0, it supports AppleScript.
Be sure to check the Client Viewers video tutorial!
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How to Use Client Viewers
Go to the Window menu, Client Viewers, and select Client Viewer (A, B, or C). Choose one of the available modes: Pin Selected, Follow Selected, or Follow Capture.
Alternatively, right-click on an image variant in the Browser or the main Viewer, go to Pin to Client Viewer and choose the Client Viewer to pin the selected image variant. This changes its mode to Pin Selected if it was configured otherwise. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to this action.
You can also see which image variant is currently displayed on each Client Viewer from a Browser icon, indicating the letter of the Viewer (A, B, C).
Note that Client Viewer windows don't remember their position or size after a restart.
Client Viewer Modes
Pin Selected
The Client Viewer window displays the currently selected image variant and maintains this view until you choose to pin another image variant. It operates independently from your own display.
You can assign Keyboard Shortcuts to this action (Pin to Client Viewer A, Pin to Client Viewer B, Pin to Client Viewer C).
With the release of Capture One 16.5.0, selecting multiple images in the main Viewer and choosing the Pin Selected mode will pin multiple images to the Client Viewer.
Follow Selected
The Client Viewer window always mirrors the primary variant you have selected in Capture One. It behaves as a reflection of your selection.
With the release of Capture One 16.5.0, selecting multiple images in the main Viewer will display them in the Client Viewers in the Follow Selected mode. If you have set any variants as the Compare Variant, it will be displayed in your Client Viewer in this mode.
Follow Capture
When tethering, the Client Viewer continuously displays the most recently captured image variant. Like the Pin Selected mode, it remains independent from your own display.
Client Viewer Overlays
With the release of Capture One 16.5.0, all Client Viewers can now display the following overlays:
- Grids
- Guides
- Overlay tool
- Crop overlays
- AI crop rules
- Before/after
Using any of these features in the main Viewer will also show them on all Client Viewers at the same time. If you do not wish to display any of the overlays in the Client Viewers, you can disable them in Settings > Appearance.
AppleScript
With the release of Capture One 16.5.0, you can now start, stop, and change Client Viewer mode through AppleScript on macOS. Refer to the in-app scripting dictionary for more information.
Example script:
tell application id "com.captureone.captureone16"
tell current document
set mode of client viewer named "A" to pin
set mode of client viewer named "B" to selection
set mode of client viewer named "C" to last capture
return mode of client viewers
end tell