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thin white thumbnail outline in grid view is really bad

Edward Caruso
on set the other day the art director was editing on C1P for an hour or so - I was retouching on another computer - after she was done I noticed that every image was starred. somehow all the images were selected and if you star one - all will be starred. this was shooting on a white cyc so the image is all white and the outline of selected images is so thin - the main one is alittle thicker but the others are barely noticable. now a big part of this is user error but some help from a better UI would be great for alot of less experienced users (like art directors who use C1P intermittently). these types of UI quirks really put this software in a bad light as well as techs that have to deal with and apologize for it.
what i suggest:
1. bigger selected thumbnail outlines and allow a color like the system color (like version 3 and Bridge!)
2. a dialogue box that asks "do you really want to star 200 images in this folder?" like the other warning dialogues in C1P

I found 3 old posts on this topic going back a few versions of Capture One:
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=9884&p=46083&hilit=thumbnail+outline#p46083
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=12203&p=55235&hilit=thumbnail+outline#p55235
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=13086&p=59968&hilit=thumbnail+outline#p59968

and yes I am sending a support case as soon as i finsh typing.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Regarding the white outline I have seen a similar issue here recently of a photographer shooting on a white background. This made the outline invisible.

    A selectable outline colour would be highly desirable.
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  • Edward Caruso
    one workaround is to set the viewer to multi image display so that a less experienced user can see immediately in the image viewer that they selected more than one image but
    the should be a warning dialogue when rating multiple images - (that you can turn off)
    and selected thumbnails need to be more obvious. people work fast on set with high volumes and anything to make things easier to see is best.
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  • BLIDDLE
    one workaround is to set the viewer to multi image display so that a less experienced user can see immediately in the image viewer that they selected more than one image but
    the should be a warning dialogue when rating multiple images - (that you can turn off)
    and selected thumbnails need to be more obvious. people work fast on set with high volumes and anything to make things easier to see is best.


    This is what I do; it makes the editing of multiple variants much more apparent. Also, I will also disable the "edit multiple variants" (I believe the default hotkey is cmd+shift+e), such that there's no way of starring more than one.
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  • Edward Caruso
    when making clone variants - we get a nice thick blue thumbnail outline while the software is thinking about making these clones. I have a screenshot but don't know how to show one here. it is so much better than the thin white outline which is almost impossible to see when shooting a white silo background. I'd like the regular thumbnail outline to be like than and we could choose the color.
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