A Client Gallery That Works With Hasselblad Phocus

Hasselblad describes Phocus as "Our powerful, free RAW file image processing software" that works "seamlessly with all Hasselblad cameras". That word free is the only price language Hasselblad publishes for it, so it is the only one worth repeating.

One detail catches people out on download day. Mac and Windows are not on the same version right now, so there is no single current Phocus version to quote.

The published feature list is a processing feature list. Adjustment layers, the Hasselblad Natural Colour Solution, keystone correction, moire removal, highlight recovery, digital lens correction, defringe, a Luma mode on curves, focus bracketing, film grain and adaptive chromatic aberration. The single occurrence of the word proof on that page is a viewer display setting for soft proofing, which is a monitor and output question, not client proofing.

Two honesty notes, because they change how much weight the above can carry. First, the Phocus v26 manual could not be read on the day this page was written, so nothing inside it is cited here and nothing here should be read as a statement about what is in it. Second, absence from a product page supports only the weaker claim: no such feature is documented. It is not a claim that the software cannot do it. If you find a documented gallery or filename search feature in the manual, trust the manual over this page.

One more trap worth flagging, since it sends a lot of readers to the wrong page. The URL hasselblad.com/phocus/ is now the Phocus Mobile page. Ratings and filtering are documented there, for the mobile app, on a device library. They are not documented for the desktop application, and this page does not assume desktop Phocus has ratings, colour tags, browser filtering or filename search.

Strip a proofing round down and it has four moving parts. You export proofs. The client marks the ones they want. You learn which ones those are. You find those frames again among the originals.

Only the last two are integration. And the currency between them is the filename, because the filename is the one piece of information that survives an export, an upload, a browser, a client, a download and a search field. Ratings do not travel. Colour tags do not travel. Catalog identifiers certainly do not travel. Names do.

So a gallery that gives you the picked names as a plain text file is doing the integration. Whether it also ships a plugin for your particular processor is a convenience question, and for Phocus it is a question with no answer from anybody.

1. Export proofs from Phocus as JPEGs. This is the normal output step you already run. Nothing about the gallery changes how you process.
2. Upload them to a gallery. On clientgallery.io the photos are compressed in the browser on the way up. The code targets roughly 0.6 MB per proof, which is a target set in the software and not a measured result, so treat it as an intention rather than a benchmark. For a medium format shooter the point is simply that the client is never asked to load an original.
3. The client stars and loves. There are two levels, not one. A star is a like, a love is a favourite. In the gallery the client sees the instruction "Open a photo, star what you like, love your favorites, then send your picks". A single tap stars, a double tap loves. No client account is created: picking is authorised by the share link alone. Sending is stricter, because the send dialog requires a name and a validated email and the server rejects a submission without both.
4. You get told. Picks sent triggers an email to you with a subject in the form of the client name, sent their picks, and the gallery title, and the body says how many were loved and how many starred. Push on the iOS app fires on picks sent and on a full resolution ZIP download, each behind its own per-device toggle. There is no email on download.
5. Take the list. Once the client has sent, a completed gallery banner appears with a button labelled "Export picks (.txt)". It is not a button that sits on every gallery, only on one where picks have arrived. The download is named after the gallery, in the form gallery title, dash, picks, dot txt.

Be precise about this, because a two pass workflow depends on it and the file is deliberately dumb.

The consequence is worth stating plainly. If you want the loves separated from the stars, the count in the notification email is what tells you where the boundary falls, because the loves are the first block of lines. If you want a labelled file, this is not it, and no amount of squinting at the text will produce the labels.

This is the part most articles wave at. Here is what each application documents, and where the honest gaps are.

Capture One has the exact tool for this. Capture One states that it "can also search for multiple images using a list of file names". The command is Select, then Select By, then Filename List. You paste the names, choose the separator from the Delimiter fly-out menu, and there is an Ignore file extension option if your list and your files disagree about suffixes. Say what it is precisely: it selects the images, it does not filter the browser. Capture One's Advanced Search has no Filename criterion at all, so the selection command is the path.

Lightroom Classic does not have it. The Library Filter bar has a Text mode that can search the filename field, but with multiple terms under Contains "Lightroom Classic finds photos that contain any of the individual sequences". That is an OR match. Paste forty names into it and you pull in every near match as well, which is exactly what makes a pasted list noisy. There is no documented way to filter Lightroom Classic by a pasted list of filenames, and the two products should not be described as equivalent here.

Phocus has no documented filename search, so work beside it. Since no filename search, browser filter, rating or colour tag is documented for desktop Phocus, this page will not invent a procedure. The honest fallback is the one people actually use: keep the picks file open in a text window next to your Phocus window and locate the frames by name, in order, working down the list. The list is also a shopping list for the file manager. You can search the shoot folder for each name and copy those originals into a separate picks folder, then point Phocus at that folder and process only what the client asked for. That is an operating system trick, not a Phocus feature, and it is deliberately described that way.

A mixed studio has a fourth option worth naming. If Capture One is already in the building, run the selection there, since it has the command, and hand the resulting folder to whoever processes in Phocus. The filename list guide for Capture One covers that step on its own.

This deserves its own section for a medium format shooter, because the originals coming off a Hasselblad body are the largest files in the conversation.

clientgallery.io hosts JPEGs. It does not warehouse RAW files or master video. That is a deliberate limit and it is a large part of why the price stays flat. Your 3FR or FFF originals stay on your own drives and your own backup, which is where a medium format archive belongs anyway.

Full resolution delivery is a separate, explicit route rather than a hidden one. You upload one full resolution ZIP per gallery. It stays live for three days per handoff, and you can re-upload it any time the client comes back. Here are the numbers that govern it.

Hosted galleries and their proofs do not expire. The only thing that expires is a delivery: the full resolution ZIP and its three day window. So the sentence to hold in your head is that the proofs stay and the delivery is a handoff.

Say this to yourself before you subscribe, not after. If what you need is a platform that holds your RAW originals permanently, so that a client or an agency can pull a 3FR file off a link two years from now, this is the wrong product and no workflow described above fixes that. We do not store RAW. We will not start storing RAW to win the sale.

What we do instead is narrow on purpose. We host the JPEG proofs for as long as the account exists, we give the client two levels of picking rather than one heart, we notify you when the picks land, and we hand you the picked filenames as a plain text file you can carry into any application. Full resolution goes out as your own ZIP, on a three day window, as many times as you like.

There are two other cases where you should stay where you are. If your business runs through an integrated print store and its ordering and fulfilment, a proofing tool is not worth dismantling that for, and a studio that lives inside a print lab and a CRM should keep Pixieset or Pic-Time. And if you already cull inside Capture One Live, which lets reviewers rate and tag in a browser and syncs those marks back into Capture One, you already have a return path and your question is a different one. The Capture One proofing guide sets that comparison out properly.

Product behaviour on clientgallery.io was verified in the source on 5 September 2026. All external pages were fetched on 5 September 2026.

• clientgallery.io product source (two pick levels and their labels, the client instruction copy, tap and double tap, link only picking with a required name and validated email on send, the picks email and its body, iOS push on picks and on ZIP download, the "Export picks (.txt)" button in the completed gallery banner, the file contents and ordering, the download filename, browser compression with a 0.6 MB target, 1,000 photos per gallery, 250 GB of proofs per paid account, 5 GB and one gallery on free, the full resolution ZIP with its 3 day window and 100 GB of standing ZIPs, JPEG only hosting, 10 $ a month or 100 $ a year), verified 5 September 2026, https://clientgallery.io
• Hasselblad, Phocus for PC and Mac ("Our powerful, free RAW file image processing software", "seamlessly with all Hasselblad cameras", the published feature list, the soft proofing viewer setting, and the absence of any documented client gallery, web publishing or proofing feature), fetched 5 September 2026, https://www.hasselblad.com/phocus/phocus-for-pc-mac/
• Hasselblad, Downloads, Phocus filter ("PHOCUS FOR MAC 4.2.2" and "PHOCUS FOR PC 4.1.1"), fetched 5 September 2026, https://www.hasselblad.com/downloads/
• Hasselblad, Phocus Mobile (the page now served at this URL, where rating and filtering on a device library are documented, for the mobile app rather than the desktop application), fetched 5 September 2026, https://www.hasselblad.com/phocus/
• Capture One, Selecting images ("can also search for multiple images using a list of file names", Select, Select By, Filename List, the Delimiter fly-out menu, Ignore file extension), fetched 5 September 2026, https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002486138-Selecting-images
• Capture One, Advanced Search (the criteria list, which contains no Filename criterion), fetched 5 September 2026, https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010482817
• Capture One, Quick Start Guide for Capture One Live (browser sharing with reviewers who do not own Capture One, reviewer star ratings, colour tags and comments syncing back), fetched 5 September 2026, https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406763230481-Quick-Start-Guide-for-Capture-One-Live
• Adobe, Find photos in the Lightroom Classic catalog (the Text filter, the filename field, and "Lightroom Classic finds photos that contain any of the individual sequences"), fetched 5 September 2026, https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/finding-photos-catalog.html