“Finish Photos Faster”
Welcome to PhotoCull!
PhotoCull is a program designed to help you complete your photograph tasks faster.
PhotoCull speeds up the the process of selecting which photographs to keep and which to cull.
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Features
- Culling – Remove unwanted images
- Cropping – Crop to the size you need
- Aligning – For easy image comparison
- Loupe – Quickly toggle to see close up and back
- Zoom – Zoom in on the point under the mouse
- Rotate Image – Correct tilted photos
- Thumbnail Strip view – Group photos into working set
- Saving – Save the results of your changes non-descructive
- Undo/Redo – Many commands are undoable
- Fit-To-Window – Photographs are sized to fit the view
- Minor photograph editing
- Constrained Crop Rectangles – Crop rectangles can be constrained to specific aspect ratio
- Requence – Renumber your files sequentually
- Rate Photos – Photos can be rated 0 – 5. 0 is unrated
- Filter by Rating – Select which files to display based on rating
Introduction
PhotoCull is designed to accelerate the process of deciding which photographs to keep and which ones to discard (cull).
PhotoCull organizes photographs into views. Each view has a specific purpose to facilitate.
PhotoCull has simple editing command target at final corrections. Cropping, rotating and saving the result to JPG.
PhotoCull is non-destructive, meaning it will not overwrite your photographs, but it will move the photographs to a subdirectory.
Most commands can be undone and redone. When a photograph is moved from view to another, edited or culled, it can be undone. You can undo an undo command with ‘redo’.
Edit commands are persistent. When you make edits to a photograph, the edits are saved in a separate file that record the history of edits to a file. If you make edits to a file, then save the file then exit PhotoCull. The next time you run PhotoCull you can undo the edits from the previous run. You can always undo to the original state at anytime.
PhotoCull processes photographs in a single directory at a time. You select the directory where your photographs are located.
Every aspect of PhotoCull is to facilitate keeping and culling your photographs, so you “finish photos faster”.
Terminology
Italicized Words
Keywords, specific to PhotoCull will be italicized.
LMB
Left mouse button click
RMB
Right mouse button click
^ (carat)
Control Key. Example: ^Z means the control key and the ‘Z’ pressed at the same time.
SHFT
Shift Key
Ctrl
Control Key
Culling
Removing the photographs you don’t want.
Ratings
PhotoCull uses ratings to organize and view photographs.
Filtering
Filters are used to decide what to see and what not to see. On a shopping, site for example, you can decide to see only items that are within a specific price range, or have a specific feature, etc.
PhotoCull uses filters for photograph ratings. You can select the ratings of the photographs you wish to see and hide the rest.
Keeping
Saving the photographs you want.
Stamps
A photograph thumbnail, filename and its rating are referred to as Stamp. Stamps can have a rating or no rating.
Operation
An operation is any interaction with PhotoCull that changes a stamp or its location.
Undo/Redo
When you undo an operation, you revert the operation back to its previous state.
After you undo an operations. you may redo it to put it to the same state before the undo (i.e. back to the operation being perforned)
Commands
Certain operations in PhotoCull, are called a commands. Commands are undoable and re-doable.
Non-Destructive
PhotoCull is non-destructive to the original photographs. It does not modify the original photograph, but it may move it to a subfolder.
Modifications to a photograph are saved in a side car and not the original photograph.
Point of Focus
Specific area within a scene that is rendered sharpest by the camera’s lens
Depth of Field
Depth of field (DoF) is the portion of a photograph that appears acceptably sharp and in focus, encompassing the area both in front of and behind the point of focus