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I need to be able to create a project from a folder in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-indigo-500 dark:text-indigo-300 cursor-pointer" href="http://Photos.app">Photos.app</a>. Or some similar way to better integrate with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-indigo-500 dark:text-indigo-300 cursor-pointer" href="http://Photos.app">Photos.app</a>. (See Darkroom app, they did a nice job)

Photos.app integration

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Sometimes, I have a photograph that should be in portrait orientation, but for some reason, the system doesn't recognize it and displays it in landscape orientation instead, and vice versa. When I encounter photos like that, it's difficult for me to tilt my head to the side to see them properly. It's challenging to get a good understanding of the photo when I can't look at it straight on like the others.

ability to rotate an image

Skye Henderson

Keyboard shortcuts for everything are great, but I don’t find the basic ones very intuitive - too much to do with the left hand. Make it so I can change the keyboard shortcuts.

Custom keyboard shortcuts

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Detect emotions like smiling, kissing etc and tag photos to filter photos with selected emotions. This can be used to add exceptions to blink detection also.

Emotion detection and tagging

Shailesh

Identify key individuals in a shoot based on their presence in number of photos. Also use this while selecting best photos from a scene to give preference to key individuals.

Important people detection

Detect people in a shoot and tag photos to filter photos with that person

Automatic people detection and tagging

It would be nice to have a slider to affect the size of the images in the grid view. I cannot seem to change that and there is a lot of extra white space on the right size of the grid view...seems wasteful. Thanks.

Grid sizing

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I run the magi-cull then in scenes view I flick through the images to confirm there are none that have been rejected that I want to keep. I have it set to rating based sort so I see the keepers first. If I then change a reject to a keeper it will push it up the list and put me back near the beginning of the list of images which is really confusing. Instead I suggest, don’t refresh the sort order of images until you change scene or click back on the same scene. Also, there is only a thin blue line around the image that is currently being viewed - I find it hard to see which one is selected. Make the selected highlight more prominent too.

Don't reorder the photos in a scene when changing the rating

Thanks for a great culling application. For my landscape photography I rely a lot on bracketed photos (HDR) where the camera takes a series of three or five photos in a burst with one underexposed, one "normal" exposure and one overexposed in order to capture highlights and shadows. I use Affinity Photo later to merge the photos into one HDR photo. However, culling these shoots is a real pain as there are always three (or five) identical photos in the grid, where only one of them are normally exposed and suitable for comparing with the next normally exposed photo in the next bracketed photo series. I would love to be able to filter these type of shoots in order to more quickly compare the normally exposed photos for each bracketed series, so I can choose which series to go forward with. Perhaps it is possible to filter based on image timestamp and exposure compensation together, or to analyze the scene so that OptiCull understands these are bracketed photos of the same scene and only show the normally exposed one? I am not sure, but this would be extremely useful. Thanks again!

Filter mode for bracketed photo series (HDR)?

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This could be controversial but here goes. Culling software (Aftershoot, OptiCull, etc.) all focus on AI models based on the only belief that culling is about faces...in focus, smiling, eyes open, etc. There are a lot of photographers who shoot other subjects like wildlife, landscapes, etc.Here's the ask...are there other AI models to allow culling of these different genre? Aftershoot offers about six or so but they are all people-focused events (wedding, etc.). Can't find anything but face stuff in Narrative Select. I've not found any other culling software that provides options for "what" to cull around (meaning type of photos in the session).So here's an opportunity to leap-frog the others with the ability to choose the type of culling the user wants to run (which of course uses the appropriate AI engine).Thanks for considering this.

So, besides faces...

As far as I can tell, I can ship files to a specific app list or export selected images to a new directory.Culling means removing or eliminating. It should be as simple to delete, or move to a trash bin, each photo as it is to classify it.

When culling, I want to be able to discard images, not just tag them

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Currently face detection is limited to faces large enough to take around 20% of the whole photo. Improve this to detect even faces at longer distances. Can be useful in sport shoots and even in wedding shoots for group photos.

Improve AI to reliably detect faces at longer distances

Info panel should show all essential metadata available in the photo.

Info Panel with essential metadata

The list of programs that I can send images to should not be a fixed list but customizable so I can use more than one program. This is a significant nuisance to me in my workflow. I don't use Adobe or Capture One. Apple Photos is for snapshots.

More options on where to send images

Please give us a drop-down option on the top task bar, to be able to select the zoom level (50%, 100%, 200%, 300% etc.) when the space bar is pressed. This way we will know at what zoom level we are seeing the face.

Zoom level

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In the 'Scene' view, can we have a keyboard shortcut to move between images only in that Scene (without going to the image in the next Scene, as is the case now by using the left/right cursor keys).)

Scene View

Could we get a One click button to easily remove a project without deleting it, please? I don't want the Home Screen to be full of projects, I just want to have current projects that I am working on visible. A one click button which would leave the ratings intact but remove the project would be great. This would mean that if I wanted to re-import the project that the ratings would still be intact.J

One click button to remove a project without deleting it

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You can also use scroll to zoom and drag to pan previews. Preference to zoom using scroll by default without the need to hold the CMD key while scrolling.

Non-Apple mouse zoom and pan gestures support

Also add "Show In Finder..." and "Open in Default App..." actions to Photo menu and Contextual menu.

Contextual menu for photos on Right-Click

It should be possible to easily pause or cancel the ingest/ analysis process.

Allow to pause and cancel the ingest/analysis

admo

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