Keep your edit.
Lose the delivery marathon.
You didn't spend years building a color workflow to ship camera JPEGs. Export from Capture One or Lightroom like you always do — and your edited, branded photos reach guests in seconds instead of Tuesday.
Where this works
Corporate headshot days
Tether, shoot, quick color pass, export. The employee has their finished headshot before the next person sits down.
Your editing workflow, untouched
This is the whole point: you don’t change anything. Tether into Capture One or Lightroom, edit like you always do, export to a folder. BrandStudio watches the folder and handles branding, upload, and delivery.
- Works with any app that exports to a folder
- Free Auto Export companion app removes the manual export step in Capture One
- Originals preserved untouched in a Processed subfolder
Edits go out. Re-edits go out too.
Every export is branded within seconds and lands in the gallery, the slideshow, and the guest’s personal gallery. Re-export a file after a better edit and the gallery updates — no doubles, no stale versions.
- Branding applied automatically within seconds of export
- Re-exports replace; byte-identical duplicates are skipped
- JPEG, RAW, HEIC, TIFF, PNG, and short video all picked up
Delivery happens while you keep shooting
Exports land in the active session, and with Face Match on they route to each person in the frame. Guests get a branded text with their personal gallery — your finished work, not a camera JPEG.
- Exports tagged to the active session automatically
- Face Match routes each photo to the people in it
- Guests get their edited photos by text, full resolution
Your workflow
Point your export at a folder
- Set your Capture One or Lightroom export recipe to a local folder
- Point Watch Folder at it — or install the Auto Export app
- Set the event branding that every export will carry
- Decide per-folder: overlay on or off, resize or full-res
Shoot, edit, export — that’s it
- Tethered captures flow through your normal edit pass
- Every export is branded and uploaded in seconds
- Sessions and Face Match route photos to the right guests
- Gallery, slideshow, and texts update as you work
Nothing left to deliver
- Guests already have their edited photos
- Originals sit untouched in the Processed folder
- The branded event gallery is the client deliverable
- Re-edit and re-export any photo — the gallery updates
Common questions
Does this change how I shoot in Capture One?
No. Shoot tethered exactly like you always do — same session, same tool overlays, same color workflow. Your export recipe points at a folder; BrandStudio takes it from there. Our free Auto Export app can even remove the manual export step for Capture One users.
What about Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, or another editor?
Anything that can write a file to a folder works. Watch Folder is deliberately editor-agnostic — Lightroom tether exports, Photo Mechanic ingest folders, even a shared drop folder from a second workstation all feed the same pipeline.
I re-edited a photo after it went out. What happens if I export it again?
Re-export the same filename with a new edit and the gallery updates — the new version replaces the old one for guests. Byte-identical duplicates are detected and skipped, so a re-fired export doesn’t create doubles.
Does it only take JPEGs?
JPEG exports are the common workflow, but the folder also picks up RAW (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, and more), HEIC, TIFF, PNG, and short video files. Your originals are preserved — after upload, source files are moved to a Processed subfolder, untouched.
How do the photos reach each guest?
Exports land in the active session and, with Face Match on, route to each person in the shot. Guests get a branded text with their personal gallery — usually within seconds of your export landing in the folder.
Your edit, delivered tonight
The gap between “shot on a pro camera” and “delivered like a pro” is one watched folder.
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