CoolCroco

CoolCroco decodes the whole folder and holds it in RAM. Once the first pass
is done you move through hundreds of RAW files instantly, forwards or backwards,
with no re-decoding and no cache thrashing. It is built for one job: getting
through a shoot without waiting for it.

Reads what your camera writes

Every major RAW format via LibRaw - Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Olympus,
Panasonic, Pentax, Leica and more - plus HEIC/HEIF from an iPhone, and JPEG,
PNG, TIFF and WebP.

Culling

* Keep or reject with one key. A files a photo into Approved/, X into Rejected/, and Ctrl+Z puts it back. Nothing is deleted: your photographs are only ever moved beside the originals.
* Rate 1 to 5, written where Lightroom, Bridge and Capture One read them.
* Cull as a contact sheet. Press G for a grid of the whole folder and use the same keys on it.
* Thumbnail filmstrip, with the divider draggable to whatever size suits.

Finding what is in the shoot

* Search by picture content. Type motorcycle, or stars over a lake, and the frames that match come to the front. It runs entirely on your own computer and needs a one-off model download the first time. No face recognition, and there never will be.
* Near-duplicates, found rather than hunted for.
* Bursts and timelapses, picked out of the folder on their own.
* Focus and camera-shake detection, with a soft-frame triage window.

Looking closely

* Sticky zoom across frames - set it once and compare the same corner of every shot in the run.
* Full-resolution decode on zoom, for true 1:1 pixel peeping.

Metadata

* EXIF in properties, and selective EXIF removal with a restorable backup.
* IPTC writing, embedded or as a sidecar.

A note on permissions

Photographs on an SD card or an external drive need the removable-media
permission, which is not granted automatically. Turn it on under this app's
Permissions in App Center, or run:

  snap connect coolcroco:removable-media

Deleting a photograph sends it to the desktop's Trash, from where your file
manager can restore it. Undo inside CoolCroco covers everything else, including
every cull and rating.

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