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 during the event instead of on 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
You don’t change anything. Tether into Capture One or Lightroom, edit like you always do, export to a folder. The BrandStudio Mac app watches the folder and handles branding, upload, and delivery.
- Works with any app that exports to a folder
- No plugin: an export recipe is the whole connection
- Source files move untouched to a Processed subfolder
Edits go out. Re-edits go out too.
Every export is branded as it uploads 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, with no doubles and no stale versions.
- Your overlay applied automatically on upload
- 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 the Watch Folder in the BrandStudio Mac app at it
- Upload the event overlay that every export will carry
- Decide per folder: resize, or full resolution
Shoot, edit, export — that’s it
- Tethered captures flow through your normal edit pass
- Every export is branded and uploaded as it lands
- 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 Styles, same color workflow. Your export recipe points at a folder the BrandStudio Mac app watches, and BrandStudio takes it from there.
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 new version replaces the old one in the gallery, keeping its session and guest links. 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, RAF, DNG and more), HEIC, TIFF, PNG, and short video (MP4, MOV). After upload, source files move to a Processed subfolder, untouched.
How do the photos reach each guest?
Exports land in the active session and, with Face Match on, go to each guest in the shot who took a selfie. They get a text with their personal gallery, and later photos arrive as a short batched update rather than a text per photo.
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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