Introduction
Image Toolkit is a desktop app for culling a photo shoot quickly. Open a folder, flick through the thumbnails, look at any photo fitted to the window, and move on. RAW files are first-class: they are shown from the JPEG preview the camera embedded in them, so a folder of CR3 or NEF files browses about as fast as a folder of JPEGs.
It works directly on your folders. There is no import step, no catalog and no database, and version 0.1.0 never modifies your files.
What 0.1.0 does
- Opens a folder, optionally with all its subfolders, and lists every supported image in a thumbnail grid that stays smooth with thousands of photos.
- Decodes the thumbnails in the background, in parallel on all CPU cores but one, visible ones first.
- Shows any photo fitted to the window, with the previous and next ones loaded ahead of time.
- Is driven from the keyboard as much as with the mouse (see Keyboard shortcuts).
- Speaks French (the default) and English, and remembers your preferences between sessions.
What comes next
Version 0.1.0 is the first step of a roadmap towards a complete culling tool: tags stored in XMP sidecars (0.2.0), built-in blur detection (0.3.0), deletion of the rejects (0.4.0), then zoom, comparison, lens corrections and export.
The blur detection comes from the author’s command-line tool blurdetector. Its scoring is being moved into Image Toolkit’s own code as a native feature, and further work on it happens here. The project also builds on rawcleaner, a command-line tool that deletes the RAW files left without an exported counterpart after culling.
Where to start
- Installation: download a release or build from source.
- Getting started: a tour of the window.
- Building from source and Architecture if you want to work on the code.
The source code is on GitLab, licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.