Keep
Advance a frame with confidence and keep the pass moving.
Intended to advanceLocal-first RAW decision workspace / macOS + Windows
LumaCullDecision Pass → Relay → Edit Return
Cull the shoot. Keep the story moving.
A keyboard-driven workspace for making fast, reversible RAW decisions without building another catalog—then carrying those decisions into Lightroom Classic with a versioned, inspectable handoff.
195Searchable, remappable actions
5K+Frame virtualization proof
K / H / XKeep, Hold, Pass—never a file move
0 cloudNo account, upload, or telemetry
The workspace
Everything the decision needs. Nothing the edit does not.
Start on the camera preview, inspect the neutral Sensor rendition when exposure matters, compare near-duplicates, and keep the entire pass visible in one focused workspace.
A safer first pass
Decisions are not deletions.
Keep, Hold, and Pass are reversible intent stored in XMP and Relay. Passing a frame never moves the original, and physical file operations stay behind explicit, exact-scope confirmation.
Hold
Set aside a near-miss or neighbor that deserves another look.
Return with contextPass
Mark it out of the advancing set without moving the original file.
Non-destructive intentSignature workflow
One shoot. A verifiable round trip.
LumaCull does not try to replace the editor. It makes the handoff between culling and editing explicit, portable, and visible when the work comes back.
Decision Pass
Cull in place with Camera, Sensor, and Companion renditions. Use the Contact Sheet, Loupe, Compare Bench, and Tray without importing into a catalog.
Keep / Hold / Pass / XMPRelay
Prepare a versioned receipt, decision lists, and standard XMP. Originals remain in place while the editor gets an inspectable record of exactly what advances.
Lightroom Classic / portable contractEdit Return
Bring imported, edited, cropped, delivered, missing, and conflict status back into the shoot ledger—without reading or writing Lightroom’s catalog database directly.
Progress returns to the shootBuilt for real shoots
Inspection speed with operational discipline.
The beta is designed around large folders, keyboard flow, honest preview provenance, and conservative file safety—not cloud processing or novelty scoring.
Camera. Sensor. Companion.
Representation-locked sources never silently swap underneath the decision. Camera is immediate; Sensor is a neutral LibRaw rendering; Companion uses the matching JPEG when available.
Near-duplicates, side by side.
Use two-up and four-up Compare Bench layouts to resolve the frames that need context.
Large shoots stay bounded.
Virtualized Contact Sheet and Sequence views mount only the frames that matter now.
The dangerous commands look dangerous.
Physical copy, move, rename, and _Rejected operations expand only a
conservative companion allowlist, preflight conflicts, and confirm the exact scope
before changing the filesystem.
Pixels with context.
Histograms, clipping overlays, focus tools, channels, 1:1 zoom, pan, and metadata stay close.
Your keys, your muscle memory.
Every cataloged action is searchable, platform-labeled, and remappable.
Privacy by architecture
Your photographs stay on your computer.
The LumaCull beta has no accounts, advertising, behavioral analytics, telemetry, or cloud photo upload. Photos, previews, histograms, metadata, and the bounded preview cache remain on the machine. When enabled, update notifications retrieve only a small public release manifest from Laird Labs. Writes happen only when you request or enable them.
- No account required
- No cloud photo upload
- No behavioral analytics
- No automatic log transmission
0.9 public beta / available now