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Photo Triage – Windows 64-bit Portable Release - Summer's End Update

Summer is over, so it's time to push a new release.

Mad fast desktop app for triaging photos: keep / reject / undo, a slick keyboard-first workflow and RAW support.
This release ships as a portable zip: no installer, no admin, just extract and run.

🧰 Download

Asset: photo_triage_cpp-win64.zip
How to run (Windows 10/11, x64):

  1. Download the zip from the Assets section below.
  2. Right-click → Extract All…
  3. Open the extracted folder and double-click photo_triage_cpp.exe.
    • This is not signed, so SmartScreen is gonna blow this up.
  4. Optional: drop any extra RAW decoder DLLs you use next to the exe.

The zip includes all required Qt runtime files and image plugins. No separate install needed.

🚀 New Features

  • File Browser – A left-hand pane that lists the images in your selected folder. Click around and scrub between photos freely.
  • RAW Image Support – Triage RAW photos alongside JPG/PNG without losing the app’s speed. (Decoding availability depends on codecs on your system / bundled plugins.)

🎨 UI/UX Enhancements

  • UI Colours – Theme tuned to be easier on the eyes with coloured accents on keep / reject / undo.
  • Arrow-Key Navigation – ← / → to fly through the folder. You’re no longer stuck deciding on just the current shot.

⚡️ Performance & Stability

  • Asynchronous Thumbnail Loading – File list appears instantly with lightweight placeholders; thumbnails load off the UI thread.
  • Optimized Image Pipeline – Symmetric sliding-window cache around the current index keeps navigation snappy.
  • Thumbnail Queue – Path-based queue with a small concurrency gap prioritizes what you’re about to look at and avoids I/O stalls.
  • Better Thread Management – Background tasks use queued connections and clean up after themselves for rock-solid stability.

✨ Basics

  • Launch, pick a source folder, and start skating around your shots.

  • Shortcuts

    Key Action
    Z Keep (moves to keep/)
    X Reject (moves to discard/)
    U / Ctrl+Z Undo last move
    ← / → Previous / Next image
    O Open a different folder

  • Supported formats: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, WEBP, AVIF, plus common RAW files (codec-dependent).

⚠️ Notes & Known Limitations

  • RAW coverage varies by camera model/codec and the plugins available on your system.
  • Animated images (e.g., GIF) are treated as single frames during triage.
  • If you see a missing DLL/plugin error, please report it with a screenshot; it usually means an extra decoder is needed.

What’s inside the zip

  • photo_triage_cpp.exe
  • Qt runtime DLLs and plugins (e.g., platforms\qwindows.dll, imageformats\qjpeg.dll, qwebp.dll, qtiff.dll, qico.dll, qgif.dll, qavif.dll, etc.)
  • Graphics/runtime bits required by Qt on Windows (already included)
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