My e-commerce provider has rug-pulled support with no warning and left me with no choice but to close the store until I can find time to find a new supplier. Apologies for any disruption or confusion as its left a… Read more: Store down

On a hot streak since I can’t remember when, Capture One 16.5.9 was just released last week and again contains new script properties. Keystone You can now change the Keystone values using scripts! EX 1. A script that mimics the… Read more: New scripting stuff in 16.5.9+

Capture One 16.5.6 was just released last week and for the second time in as many months, again contains new script properties (woo) – this time a theme around cropping. User crop ratios This class refers to the user generated… Read more: New scripting stuff in 16.5.6+

16.5.2 (or .3 depending how you are counting) released last week. Odd for a dot dot release were a number of new features. Look past the AI fanfare, and there were actually several additions and changes to the scripting capability,… Read more: New scripting stuff in 16.5.2

Make your own features series Every now and again I see feature requests that are very obvious but will probably never be implemented due to the fact the perceived commercial impact doesnt interest the bean counters. This was partly the… Read more: Make your own features series: Ep2. Flip crop

This week (though it’s taken nearly a year on and off) I finalised another Capture One app – CheckOut – based on the Output events feature. You can find the app in the store here. Scripting Output events Output events… Read more: Output events

Check Out This version of the application is for all versions (12+) of Capture One. Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for all versions (12+) of Capture One (tested on 22 and 23)… Read more: Check Out

Make your own features series Every now and again I see feature requests that are very obvious but will probably never be implemented due to the fact the perceived commercial impact doesnt interest the bean counters. This was partly the… Read more: Make your own features series: Ep1. Reset Crop

Updated: 30 June 2022 Since this post, 15.3.0 was released and introduced a bug that can hang even crash when using this app. 15.3.1 was just released today which seems to be more stable, but there is a huge performance… Read more: Match Total Exposures

Match Total Exposures (for Capture One 22) Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for Capture One 22 only Tested on Monterey. Mac only. Sessions and Catalogs supported. What is it? This app is… Read more: Match Total Exposures

Style Pack Maker (for Capture One) Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for Capture One 20, and Capture One 21 Tested on Catalina and Mojave. Mac only. Sessions and Catalogs supported. The purchase… Read more: Style Pack Maker

This week I was working on a commission for a client. In the solution I needed to include a “technical” Style (a Style with certain parameters (meta data, flags) that aren’t necessarily typical of the generic Styles use-case). Then I… Read more: Chicken Nuggets

Events are the coolest way to utlize automation scripting, however the infrastructure for it is complex and pretty impenetrable for the uninitiated, so I wrote this article. The idea of events is that Capture One will initiate scripts automatically and… Read more: Event Scripting

Process On Capture (for Capture One ’21) A version of the application for Capture One 21. Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for Capture One 21 (all versions but tested on 14.1). Tested… Read more: Process On Capture

Make Folders (for Capture One 20) A version of the application for Capture One 20. Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for Capture One 20 (13.1.0) -> (13.1.4). Tested on Catalina and Mojave.… Read more: Make Folders

Clipboard To Capture (for Capture One 20) A version of the application for Capture One 20. Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for Capture One 20 (13.1.0) -> (13.1.4.) only. Tested on Catalina… Read more: Clipboard To Capture

Auto Reset Batch Counter (for Capture One ’20) A version of the application for Capture One 20. Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for Capture One 20 (13.1.0) -> (13.1.4.). Tested on Catalina… Read more: Auto Reset Batch Counter

Over the last few weeks I have been burning hours on fine tuning, code signing, stapling and testing a bunch of apps and widgets for the DIT community using Capture One – and – with the help of some awesome… Read more: Store coming!

Folders From Text List (for Capture One ’20) A version of the application for Capture One 20. Application delivered as .dmg file.  Buy Now View Cart Support notes This version is for Capture One 20 (13.1.0) -> (13.1.4.) only. Tested on… Read more: Folders From Text List

The following was done with Monogram Creator (beta) and a set of the new Monogram Creative Console Studio tiles, in C1 v20. This week I was lucky to enough to get hold of the new Monogram kit for evaluation. We… Read more: Automation workflows with Monogram

The following project/idea I originally produced for the Project Lemonade series for Digital Transitions webinars. The following is a short version of it, if you want to see the full webinar visit and sign up to the DT archive here.… Read more: Get Started With AppleScript – Conditional Processing pt1

An intro series to scripting Capture One, with Ben Liddle Splitting hairs: Variants v. Images The thumbnails in Capture One’s browser pane are technically variants. A variant is a unique set of rendering instructions for a given source raw (or… Read more: Get Started With AppleScript – Scripting Selections

An intro series to scripting Capture One, with Ben Liddle Preamble Years ago, in a warehouse in deep industrial Brooklyn, I was a digital technician on an e-commerce photo shoot struggling to stay awake. It was 3:30 in the afternoon… Read more: Get Started With AppleScript – Basics

To close the year out we thought we would end with an “off-topic” post on something close to every digi’s heart: beer! Inspiration for the is post comes via an annual TV show we get in Denmark (which is very,… Read more: Wrap beers

We have arrived at the final part of this series: the script! This is a simplified extract of the full installer application I made, as it is simply far too big to break down into a single tutorial. Instead, I… Read more: Capture One shortcuts for the terminally curious: part 3 (Final)

Making a script applet is not much harder than actually making a script – from the outside the extension changes to .app, and the app when clicked will “run” rather than open in script editor. Mostly useful. I use Script… Read more: How to make a script applet

I was just about to conclude the the shortcuts series and getting to the point, when I realised I may have approached the flow of this project ass-backwards, as there are a lot of other moving parts that make this… Read more: Capture One shortcuts for the terminally curious: part 2.5ish

There are a few ways to have a script execute and “do its thing” with Capture One. From easiest to hardest: Simple: Copy the script to the CO scripts folder. Simple scripts can be run straight from Capture One’s application… Read more: How to install and use scripts with Capture One

In part 1 I ended with the idea of using this in to some AppleScript routines but hit a number of design issues with the syntax: Writing everything as a single list is not ideal for scalable or re-useable code.… Read more: Capture One shortcuts for the terminally curious: part 2

I’ve had this idea for ages to remote control more of Capture One from the iPhone/iPad – more specifically have my scripting run when I call it from the phone. With COVID in full force, more remoting options are good… Read more: Remote controlling Capture One – Automation routines from a distance

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The motivation for this post was last years announcement from Instagram that they were adding payments to it’s platform. Between the announcement and drafting this for posting, I got sidetracked with other work. This is not “that” post about social… Read more: Instagram

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