People usually say if things are working then just leave them be, but here at Creative Force, we innovate them to make them even better! Kelvin v5 is the definition of ‘we don’t take creativity lightly’.

This big upgrade of Kelvin v5 will bring you incredible new features that can improve your ways of working from scanning barcodes, searching images, easy ingesting images to displaying the product images and more.

In this article, we will go through all the upgrades in Kelvin v5 in detail:

- Kelvin’s new UI

- Kelvin shot list panel

- Kelvin connection with Capture One

First thing first, Kelvin’s new look! Kelvin’s view is separated into three sections. On the left, you will see the Shot List panel. In the middle, you will see the Watch folder’s view, and on the right is the Selection panel.

On the Watch folder’s view, you will see two new settings, Set Watch Folder and Search Image by filename.

There’s more! You can now drag images from your local drive to Kelvin’s watch folder.

Within this panel, there are three menus. Clicking the three-dot menu, you can select ‘clear the shot list’. Next to this menu, you will see different settings you can select to start working on your shoot of the day.

There are three different shot list views: single scan, paste a list, and planned session (coming soon).

To setup the display setting for Shot list view, go to Kelvin settings -> General -> Shot lIst display options. Here, you can define what to show in the Shot list. By default, the ‘Barcode’ token is selected. You can setup different naming here by selecting different tokens or use hard coded texts.

By default, the view will be a single scan view. Scan a barcode to load the Style Guide requirements and start shooting. The Shot list will build up with every scan you make. Kelvin will automatically confirm the product unless your product is on multiple jobs and/or has multiple samples, Kelvin will wait for your confirmation. Once you confirm the product, you will be able to drag and drop the images to the selection area and transfer them.

If you don’t want to produce the current product, click ‘Rescan’ and scan a new product. The scanned barcodes will be available under ‘Scope history’. You can select between these barcodes and start dragging in images and transferring them manually. Access the three-dot menu to clear the history if you want.

If there is an image mapped to a position, you will immediately see a thumbnail next to the product in the list view.

Click the ‘plus’ icon, and select ‘Paste a list’, you can also use Cmd/ Ctrl + L as a shortcut to this setting.

You can manually define a shot list by pasting a list of barcodes. Each line should only contain a single barcode.

This is connected to our Planning & Resources module. You can read more about it here. If you don't have Planning & Resources enabled in your studio, this option will be hidden in Kelvin.

The integration can never be easier, click the Capture One icon and then ‘Connect’.

After allowing the connection to be integrated, you will see the following settings:

Note: Kelvin V5 supports Capture One 20+ and only works on Mac.

Learn more about our integration between Kelvin and Capture One below: