Photographer from Australia trying to build his first app

Hey everyone,

My name is Nathan and I am a professional photographer from Australia. After trying multiple photo culling apps, I realised I wanted something better. I'm currently on the 93rd iteration of the build for my app.

I wanted the advanced features of expensive apps that are on the market, but also one that felt native to use on my MacBook. My goal is to be able to offer an app like this to the photography community at around 50% of the cost of the competitors, with no upsell on new features or "pro" packaged features.

Features implemented so far:

• Auto face detection

• Close up panel that shows a zoomed in view of all faces in the image so that you can see which is sharp/facial expressions etc

• Sharpness scorings

• Coloured indicators for if the image has a person looking at the camera + is in focus (green, orange, red colour indicators)

• Icons to show if a person’s eyes are open or closed

• Quick compare tool with zoom and panning function

• Star ratings

• Filter by file type and date image was captured

• Similarity slider that groups photos that look the same

• Automatic smart tagging of images based on elements seen in the image (tags added as filter options)

• Shot List feature that allows you to set your own parameters regarding what types of shots you needed to deliver, as well as how many of each type. This helps you keep track of what images you are keeping so you don't accidentally forget to give specific shots to clients. Part of this also allows for the automatic renaming of these specific files relating to the type of shot you categorised them as.

• Omni-Channel Preview - easily toggle overlays to show you what various crops would look like on your images (Instagram, TikTok, Youtube dimensions) plus the ability to create your own custom crop presets.

Here is a sneak peek of what the home page looks like:

I would absolutely love to hear what features all of you look for/want in a culling software to see if I can get it to work in my current build. All going well it would be awesome to try and release this as a beta in the near future to get some feedback! If anyone is interested in trying it before I start to plan the launch on Product Hunt please get in touch!

If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading!