Culling Station

Culling Station

Drop a card's worth of photos here

Open a folder of RAW or JPEG files and start culling right away. Your photos stay on this computer.

Opened in Chrome or Edge, your stars, labels, and rejects save to XMP sidecars in the folder as you work, ready for Lightroom.

Send to Lightroom

Stars, labels, and rejects as XMP sidecars

A list of file names

  1. In Lightroom's Library, press \ to show the filter bar and choose Text.
  2. Set it to Filename and Contains, then paste. The names are separated by commas, so Lightroom shows every photo on the list.

Keyboard shortcuts

Left, Right
Previous or next photo (Up and Down move by rows in the grid)
Enter
Switch between the grid and one photo at a time
Space or Z
Zoom to 100% and back (click the photo to zoom where you click)
P
Pick
X
Reject
U
Clear the flag
1 to 5
Stars (0 clears them)
6, 7, 8, 9
Red, yellow, green, and blue labels (press again to clear)
Shift with any of these
Mark it and move to the next photo
A
Turn auto-advance on or off
Cmd or Ctrl Z
Undo (add Shift to redo)
Cmd or Ctrl A
Select every photo in the grid
F
Full screen
Esc
Leave zoom, then go back to the grid