Five thousand frames.
One evening. Five keys.
CULL is photo culling for Windows and Mac, the step before Lightroom. Open the folder, judge each frame with one key, and the verdicts are already there when you import.
Enter keeps a frame. Backspace rejects it. F marks a favorite. The arrows move. That is the whole cull.
Frames of one scene are grouped before you reach them. Forty-eight frames of one tree in three sets, and the one to keep is obvious.
Hold Space. The frame is at 100 %, at the point the camera focused. Let go and you are back.
The verdict is a sidecar beside the file. Lightroom reads it on import. The image data is never rewritten.
Nine RAW formats, straight from the card. Each frame opens from the preview the camera already wrote, so a five-thousand-frame folder is on screen in seconds.
Questions. The short answers.
- What is culling?
- The first pass through a shoot: every frame gets a verdict, keep or reject, before anything is edited. How to cull photos before Lightroom.
- Does CULL change the RAW files?
- No. A verdict is an XMP sidecar beside the file, or a few bytes added inside a DNG. The image data is never rewritten.
- Does it work with Lightroom?
- Yes. A keep is Lightroom's pick flag, a reject its reject flag, a favorite a pick with a purple label. Import with Add and they are there. Culling in Lightroom vs CULL.
- Which cameras?
- Canon CR3 and CR2, Sony ARW, Nikon NEF, Fujifilm RAF, Olympus ORF, Panasonic RW2, Leica RWL and DNG. What each one gives.
- Is it free?
- Free culls up to 250 frames in one session, with every feature. CULL Pro culls shoots of any size: $7.99 a month, $49.99 a year or $129.99 once.
- Windows or Mac?
- Both, with the same keys. The app updates itself.
Cull shoots of any size. Every feature of Free with no limit on the shoot, and one key for two computers.
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