Import and cull

Import from a card

Copy photos from your camera card into a dated shoot folder, renamed and backed up in one go.

1. Insert the card and choose File › Import Photos.
2. Pick the main folder and type a shoot name, like “Santos Wedding”. Photos go into Year › Date + shoot name.
3. Choose a naming pattern, a backup copy on another drive, a develop preset and your copyright.
4. Click Import. Photos you already imported are skipped.

Photos already on a drive? File › Add Folder Without Copying leaves them where they are.

Rate, flag and label

Mark the best shots without touching the mouse, then filter down to just those.

• Stars from 1 to 5, Pick and Reject flags, and colour labels.
• Works on one photo or a whole selection at once.
• The filter bar above the grid shows only picks, a star rating, a label or one person.

Compare and Survey

Choose the best frame of a burst by looking at the shots side by side.

• Survey shows every selected photo at once. Rate the active one, drop the rest.
• Compare puts your current favourite next to each candidate in turn.

Focus Check

See what is actually sharp before you pick. In-focus edges light up red, and one key jumps to 100% on the sharpest part of the frame.

• Focus peaking in Loupe, Compare and Survey, with adjustable sensitivity.
• Zoomed in, the check uses the full-size file, not the preview.

AI Cull

Let your Mac look for soft focus, closed eyes and runs of near-identical shots, then flag the best of each run. It all runs on-device with Apple’s Vision framework; nothing is uploaded.

• Choose what to flag: best of each burst, blurry shots, closed eyes.
• Every flag stays editable by hand.

People

Find the faces in a shoot, name them once, and show every photo of a person in one click. Useful for family portraits and for finding the couple in a wedding.

• Similar faces are grouped for you to confirm.
• Filter the grid by person.

Collections, virtual copies and auto-rotate

Group photos from different folders, and keep several edits of the same photo without copying the file.

• Virtual copies have their own edits; the original file is untouched.
• Portraits shot with the camera’s auto-rotate off are turned upright when you import them.