Culling
What's new
Rawnd is worked on in the open. Every release is listed here, newest first, with the date it went out.
v0.15.0
Rawnd opens your JPEG, PNG and WebP photos, not only your RAWs.
- Rawnd opens JPEG, PNG and WebP (and HEIC in Safari), alone or beside RAWs: a JPEG with the name of a RAW in the folder is not shown twice.
- Looks apply as they do on a RAW, and the export keeps the photo's EXIF.
- Two limits: a JPEG does not have a RAW's reserve in the highlights, and an HDR phone photo comes out in SDR, which the export panel tells you.
- The HSL panel no longer stains white walls and grey skies: it leaves greys alone.
- The neutral curve really is neutral now: it slightly darkened the shadows and brightened the highlights of every photo.
- A photo that cannot be opened says why and keeps saying it, instead of leaving a black screen once the message has gone.
v0.14.1
Signing out now leaves nothing behind on a borrowed computer.
- Signing out takes Pro off the computer and frees its place among your three; it comes back as soon as you sign in again, and so does a trial still running.
- Settings → Account can sign you out on all your devices at once.
- A sign-in link that was not asked for from this browser now asks you to confirm the address before signing you in.
- When email sign-in is full for the day, Rawnd says so and points you to Google, instead of a message that never arrives.
- Your initials in the top bar take a quieter night violet, so Export stays the one bright button.
v0.14.0
Rawnd has a free account: Pro now follows you from one computer to the next.
Why
Until now, Rawnd had no way to write to the people who use it: not to say a new version was out, not to ask what was missing, not even to warn of a problem. The free account fixes that, and it is the reason it exists.
It asks for as little as it can: an email address, confirmed by a link we send or by Google, and nothing else: no password, no name, no picture. Signing in subscribes you to nothing; news is a separate box, unticked until you tick it.
What does not change is the reason Rawnd exists: your photographs are read on your computer, never uploaded, and the account never sees them. Opening a single file from the format pages, and the ChatGPT plugin, still work without signing in.
- Rawnd asks for a free account before your first folder: continue with Google, or get a link and a code by email. The sample photo stays open to anyone.
- Pro follows your account: bought on one computer, it turns on on the next as soon as you sign in, with no code to type.
- Once you are signed in, the Pro trial starts in one click, and freeing your other devices needs no code if you have just signed in.
- Your initials replace the settings gear, and Settings → Account gathers Pro, your devices, news by email and signing out.
v0.13.0
Rawnd is in ChatGPT: a RAW file opens inside the conversation.
- The Rawnd plugin is in ChatGPT's directory: drop a RAW file into its panel to get the camera's JPEG and the shooting data, read on your device and never uploaded.
- Ask it for a look, such as dark film or golden hour, and it opens in Rawnd's editor. Claude takes the same plugin as a custom connector until its own listing is out.
v0.12.5
A memory card opens even when you pick it at its root.
- Picking a folder whose photos sit in a folder inside it, such as a card's root or its DCIM folder, opens that folder, or asks which one when there are several.
- The welcome screen no longer offers to reopen a folder with no RAW file in it.
v0.12.4
The pricing page's headline shows again.
- The headline at the top of the pricing page shows again: it stayed hidden behind its opening animation.
v0.12.3
Undoing a brush stroke works on the first press.
- Undoing straight after a brush stroke takes it back on the first press.
v0.12.2
Your photo comes back by itself after a graphics card reset, and leaving the tab right after an edit no longer loses it.
- If the graphics card is reset, the photo comes back by itself instead of staying black, and an export caught in it fails cleanly instead of writing a black image.
- Closing or leaving the tab right after an edit no longer loses it, on mobile too.
v0.12.1
Your edits are no longer lost when the browser refuses to save them.
- If the browser refuses to save your edits, on a full disk for instance, Rawnd tries again and then tells you, with a button to retry, instead of losing them without a word.
- A Rawnd tab left open on an older version no longer stops a newer one from starting: the old tab asks to be reloaded, and the new one says what it is waiting for.
- When you export a folder one photo at a time, the offer to export it all at once now shows only now and then, and offers the 14-day trial rather than the price.
- The activation code we email can no longer be guessed by sending many tries at once, and a purchase confirmed during a brief outage on our side now reaches your licence instead of being dropped.
v0.12.0
Camera look: your camera's own colours, read from the JPEG inside each RAW.
- A new Camera look slider, in Color, takes on the colours your camera gave its own JPEG - a film simulation or picture style included - measured on each photo. It starts at 0, so nothing changes until you move it; pasted onto a selection, each photo takes its own camera's colours.
- A look received by link, from ChatGPT, Claude or a friend, now asks before landing: open a photo, apply it to the one on screen, or try it on the sample. Saving it as a preset is part of Pro.
v0.11.0
Develop the shoot: from a whole folder to an adjusted album, ready to export.
- Develop the shoot proposes an album (one frame per burst, no soft frames or closed eyes), shows you what it left out and why, adjusts each photo from its RAW as Auto enhance would, then lets you compare before and after and export it all at once.
- The Balanced and Wide groupings now recognise the same scene shot a step closer, from its colours; assisted culling measures each folder once more to use it.
v0.10.0
Your camera's own tone curve, the next photo ready before you get there, and batch changes you can undo.
- Rawnd now learns your camera's tone curve from the JPEG it stores inside each RAW, and uses it from the second photo of that body: contrast and brightness open closer to what the camera's screen showed. Colours are rendered as before. The top bar says which rendering is in use.
- Moving to the next photo is near-instant: it is prepared while you look at the current one, and the one you just left stays ready if you go back.
- Pasting settings, evening out a series or resetting several photos can now be undone, from the message that confirms it or with Ctrl+Z.
- Opening a folder brings in the ratings and rejects you made in Lightroom, Bridge or Photo Mechanic, from the .xmp files beside your RAWs.
- Colour labels on keys 6 to 9, a filter for them in the filmstrip, and carried both ways with Lightroom and Bridge through .xmp files.
- The filmstrip can be sorted by capture time, so two camera bodies interleave in the order you shot.
- Export remembers your format, quality and size, scales to the long edge you pick, and names files from a template: {name}, {date}, {time}, {n}.
- Exported JPEGs keep their capture date, camera, lens and exposure, and can carry your name and copyright: Settings → Export author.
- Your work can be backed up to a file and restored in another browser, from Settings → Storage. A photo copied with a new date is found again by its name and size.
- IIQ files from Phase One and Leaf backs open.
- Exporting XMP no longer replaces the .xmp that Lightroom, Bridge or Photo Mechanic left beside your RAWs: your rating is added to it, and a photo already developed in Lightroom keeps its settings.
- Exporting a batch into a folder no longer overwrites a file with the same name, such as the camera's own JPEG: yours arrives beside it as DSC_0420-2.jpg.
- A radial mask now turns: drag its outline, as in Lightroom. The handles still resize it, along its turned axes.
- Settings are split into tabs.
- At the limit of three devices, you can free the others from Settings → Licence, with a code sent to your email.
- Activating your licence again on a computer where it was already active no longer fails, and neither does switching from Pro to Founder on the same computer.
v0.9.0
Try Pro free for fourteen days, and a RAW-to-JPEG converter that works on your phone.
- Try Pro for fourteen days: batch export, assisted culling, presets and evening out a series. Give an email address, type the code it receives, and it starts: no card. One trial per address, and one reminder three days before the end.
- The trial is offered from any padlock and from Settings → Licence, which also shows how many days are left. After it, Rawnd goes back to free on its own and your edits stay put.
- The RAW page now converts in place: drop a CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF or any other RAW, see the JPEG your camera stored inside it, and download it full size. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing needs installing.
- It works on a phone. The editor still needs a computer, but viewing and converting a RAW no longer does, and every open button on the site points phones there.
- Portrait photos come out upright, at full resolution, without being re-compressed.
- The brush buttons in the mask panel wrap onto a second line instead of pushing the panel sideways.
- Rawnd now also counts how far a folder got before it was closed (looked at, culled, developed or exported) and for how many seconds. No file names, no photographs, nothing that identifies you; the privacy page lists it.
v0.8.0
Masks you can paint, and a mask that cuts out your subject on its own.
- Paint a mask with a brush: size, hardness and flow, Alt to erase. The stroke itself is what gets saved, so it comes back the same on a screen or on a 24-megapixel export.
- Turn on Follow edges and the brush only paints what looks like the colour under the cursor when you pressed. Drag across a tree and the branches take the mask, not the sky between them.
- Click a subject and the mask follows its edges: a bird, a person, a beak. A threshold decides how much of what the model was unsure about to keep, and the brush corrects the rest by hand.
- A range mask selects by what the pixels are rather than where they are: a band of brightness for the shadows of a whole session, or a band of hue for a sky or for skin.
- Three controls on any mask that was painted or cut out: soften the edge, move it in or out, and let the picture pull it onto hair, branches and grass.
- Crop after masking and the mask stays on what it was covering. Straightening and quarter-turns take it along too.
- A selected mask is deleted with the Delete key, and O holds the red overlay on instead of letting it fade.
- The tint slider now turns the way it reads: green on one side, magenta on the other. Photographs edited before this render exactly as they did.
- The cut-out model is downloaded once, from this site, and then works offline. Nothing about your photographs leaves your machine.
v0.7.0
Assisted culling now looks at faces, and a whole series can be evened out on one photo.
- Sharpness is judged on the subject's eyes when there is a face in the frame. A portrait shot wide open is no longer called soft because its background is.
- A new filter finds the frames where somebody has both eyes shut. A wink, a glance to the side and a profile are not blinks, and are left alone.
- The best frame of a burst is now the one where the eyes are open, then the one where they are sharpest.
- Even out a series: select a run of photos, correct one of them, and the rest take the exposure and white balance that make them render like it. Each gets its own correction, computed from what the camera recorded.
- The face model is downloaded once, from this site, and then works offline. It recognises nobody and nothing about your photographs leaves your machine. It can be turned off in the culling panel.
v0.6.0
Crop and straighten in one gesture, with eight composition overlays.
- The straightening angle can be changed while you are cropping, which is when you want it. The frame follows the angle instead of waiting for you to leave the tool.
- A level tool: draw a line along a horizon, the edge of a building, anything that should be straight, and the photograph turns until it is.
- Eight composition overlays instead of one: a grid, the thirds, the golden ratio, diagonals, triangles, the golden spiral, a centre cross, or none at all. Press O while cropping to move through them, Shift+O to turn the two that have a handedness.
- Turning a photograph 90 degrees keeps your crop, which used to be thrown away, and the button works during a crop as well as outside one. Turning a locked ratio on its side keeps its size too: two presses of that button used to cost most of the frame.
- Drag on the darkened area to draw a new frame from scratch, and the arrow keys nudge the one you already have. The panel reads out the shape as a ratio beside the megapixels.
- Erasing all edits from the settings panel now clears the crop as well, instead of leaving the photograph on screen still framed.
v0.5.0
Rawnd opens fourteen more cameras, including the Sony A7 V.
- Newly opening: the Sony A7 V, A7R VI, RX1R III and RX10 V, the Nikon ZR, the Canon EOS R50 V, EOS C50 and PowerShot V1, the Fujifilm X-T30 III, the Panasonic S1 II, the OM-5 Mark II, the Olympus E-P7 and the Leica SL3-P. The Nikon D5 now opens its 12-bit files as well as its 14-bit ones.
- One exception worth knowing about on recent Sony bodies: files written with their newest lossless compression still do not open, here or in any other open converter. Uncompressed files and the older lossless ones do.
- When a file will not open, Rawnd now names the camera and says which of the two it is: a body it does not know yet, or a way of writing the file it cannot read.
v0.4.0
Rawnd now opens Fujifilm X-Trans files.
- RAF files from X-Trans bodies (the X-Pro, X-T, X-H, X-E and X-S lines) open like any other RAW. The GFX and X-A series, which use ordinary Bayer sensors, opened already.
- Fine detail against a bright sky keeps its colour, on every format. A branch or a wire crossing a blown sky no longer picks up a green or magenta edge.
v0.3.0
Rawnd can now measure a whole shoot and shortlist what to cut.
- Assisted culling groups a shoot by the moment each frame was taken - the burst, but also the second attempt eight seconds later from another angle. It names the sharpest frame of each group and lists the ones that came out soft, blown or too dark. Everything is measured on your own machine: nothing is uploaded and there is no model to download.
- Every result is a filter over the filmstrip, never a verdict. Nothing is rated or rejected for you: you walk the shortlist with the arrows and decide with P and X, as you always have.
- Three grouping settings, from cautious to wide, so a wedding and a studio session are not held to the same idea of what counts as one moment. Switching between them re-groups instantly and measures nothing again.
- The pass steps aside the instant you move to another photo, so culling stays exactly as fast as it was. A folder you have already measured comes back with its results in place, at no cost.
- Save a preset from a whole selection and it is the average of what you did to each frame, rather than a copy of whichever one happened to be open.
- Assisted culling and presets from a selection are Pro. Opening, culling, comparing, developing and exporting one photo at a time are free and unlimited, as before.
v0.2.0
The tone controls now act only where their names say.
- Blacks, Shadows, Highlights and Whites each act on their own part of the tonal range. Lifting the blacks no longer flattens the whole picture.
- Blown highlights can be brought back again, and no combination of the tone sliders can invert the contrast any more.
- Exposure is much finer through the middle of its travel, where most corrections happen, and its range is now ±4 EV.
- Double-click any slider to reset it.
v0.1.0
The first public release.
- Open, cull and develop RAW files from fifteen camera makers, in the browser. Nothing is uploaded: the decoder runs inside the page.
- Install it and it works offline, opens .NEF and the rest from your desktop, and exports JPEG, WebP, PNG and XMP sidecars.