Photoculling

Fast image viewer, which uses aggressive prefetching and caching to very quickly move between photos. Minimal interface to select photos to keep and copy to output directory.

Installation

Installation is easiest using the uv package manager.

Install uv, which exists for linux, macOS, windows, e.g. via

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Install photo-culling

uv tool install photo-culling

This installs a compatible python environment, the photoculling package and all its dependencies (mainly Qt).

Start culling!

cull path/to/directory/with/jpgs

Controls

• Left/right arrow keys or A/D: move 1 image
• Shift + left/right or Shift + A/D: move 10 images
• W/S: Select/unselect current image
• T: Toggle between going through all images or only selected images
• F11: toggle fullscreen
• ESC: select target directory for selected images and quit

In the top left corner the current position within the photo stack is displayed and in parenthesis the number of selected images. For photos which have been selected this textbox is green. When quitting, all selected photos (and all other files which share the selected filenames but with different extensions, e.g. RAW files) are copied to the selected target directory.