OpenCull 0.2.4

What's new

• Ship takes the JPEG too. If you shoot RAW and JPEG together, Ship used to copy or move only the RAW and leave its JPEG behind. Now the pair travels together and keeps one name, the same as Move and Copy from the right-click menu. If either name is already taken where they are going, the photo is treated as a duplicate, so a RAW never lands beside a different photo's JPEG.
• Your JPEG files are left alone unless you say otherwise. Writing stars and colour labels into the JPEG file itself is now off by default. Ratings are still saved beside every photo as before.
• The Keyboard Shortcuts window opens with nothing highlighted. The first shortcut in the list used to look selected for no reason.

Worth knowing:

• If you want your JPEG ratings to show up in Lightroom, Bridge and similar programs, turn on Write ratings into JPEGs in Settings. If you had already changed that setting, it stays as you left it; if you never touched it, it is now off.

Download

System	File
macOS, Apple silicon (M1 and later)	OpenCull_0.2.4_aarch64.dmg
Windows 10 and 11	OpenCull_0.2.4_x64-setup.exe (or the .msi)
Linux (Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, Debian 13 or newer)	.AppImage, .deb or .rpm

The installers are not signed with a paid developer certificate, so each system asks before running them the first time:

• macOS — open the .dmg and drag OpenCull to Applications. The first time you open it macOS will refuse. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and choose Open Anyway.
• Windows — SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info, then Run anyway.
• Linux — for the AppImage, make it executable (chmod +x) and run it.

Please know

This is an early release. It is used daily on a Mac, and has been tested and confirmed working on Windows and Linux. If something goes wrong on your system, please open an issue and say what happened.

Not here yet: an Intel Mac build, HEIC files, and RAW rendering for cameras that embed only a small preview.