Guides
How to cull a shoot with Cullant, one task at a time.
Getting started
Getting started
Open your first project, make one pass through it, and put the rejects in the bin.
Projects and your files
What a project is, what Cullant writes beside your photos, and how to undo all of it.
The four views
Grid, loupe, compare and survey. What each one is for, and when to switch.
Cullant on Android
Open an SD card or a connected camera straight from the phone, and cull the shoot before you are home.
Culling
RAW+JPEG pairing
How Cullant treats a RAW and its JPEG as one photo, and how to split them when you want to.
Ratings, flags and labels
Three independent marks, what each is good at, and why a reject is special.
Task tags
Your own labels for what a photo still needs, on their own shortcuts.
Filters, sorting and bursts
Turn three thousand frames into the twenty you need to look at right now.
Acting on your choices
The actions queue
Why nothing happens until you commit, what the review shows you, and how to undo a commit.
Deleting safely
Three ways to delete, which one is the default, and what happens to the other half of a pair.
Moving and copying
Send the keepers to a folder of their own, in the same reviewable step as everything else.
XMP and Lightroom
How your ratings reach Lightroom Classic and Capture One, and the one rule about pairs to know.
Formats
Reference
Settings worth knowing
The handful of settings that change how Cullant behaves, and what each costs.
Custom keybindings
Remap any shortcut, and the one rule about Shift that explains the odd cases.
Build from source
Everything you need to compile Cullant yourself, on the desktop and for Android.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers, including the ones where the answer is no.
Troubleshooting
What to do when a photo is blank, a folder will not open, or a commit reports a conflict.