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ability to rotate an image
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.
Photos.app integration
I need to be able to create a project from a folder in Photos.app. Or some similar way to better integrate with Photos.app. (See Darkroom app, they did a nice job)
Emotion detection and tagging
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.
Important people detection
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.
Automatic people detection and tagging
Detect people in a shoot and tag photos to filter photos with that person
Grid sizing
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.
Zoom mode
While the close up panel is open and we zoom by pressing the space bar, can the close up panel be hidden to give a bigger screen for the zoomed image. Then when the space bar is pressed again to resume Loupe view, the close up panel re-appears.
Basic Ingest flow
Add basic ingest options while creating a new project to copy files from memory card(s) to new project folder. Files can be renamed with a fixed pattern.
Filter mode for bracketed photo series (HDR)?
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!
So, besides faces...
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.
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Custom keyboard shortcuts
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.
When culling, I want to be able to discard images, not just tag them
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.
Improve AI to reliably detect faces at longer distances
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.
Info Panel with essential metadata
Info panel should show all essential metadata available in the photo.
Sort by filename.
Hi, I love Opticull for culling my wildlife photos. I do not use the ai features. I shoot a lot at 30 fps (frames per second) so many my photos have the same time. Optical does not present them in the correct order- even when I use sort by capture time. If I could sort by file name that would allow me to keep them in the correct order. Thanks.
Don't reorder the photos in a scene when changing the rating
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.
More options on where to send images
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.
Scene View
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).)
Support for Pixelmator Pro (Apple Creator Studio)
Allow option to double click image in the film strip so it opens Pixelmator Pro to edit the photo double clicked
Replace as Keeper in current scene - do it even when no actual keeper
Hi, when you cull, it would be great to make action “Replace as Keeper in current scene” working even when no keeper is actually selected. In this case you don’t need to think which shortcut to use when deciding which one to keep.