A FastRawViewer alternative with a photographic gesture.
FastRawViewer is the technician's loupe: histograms, focus maps, true-RAW inspection. Cull Me uP answers the same need for speed with a Light Table built around seeing, deciding and moving on.
Two cultures of the first pass
Inspection or selection?
FastRawViewer excels at answering « is this file technically good? ». Culling asks a different question: « which of these 1,800 images is the shoot? »
Photographers who love FastRawViewer love it for the right reasons: it reads the actual RAW data, exposes histograms and focus information, and costs little. It is an inspection instrument.
Cull Me uP is a selection instrument. The screen belongs to the photograph, decisions are one gesture each, and series read as series — bursts grouped, near-duplicates stacked, the rhythm of the shoot preserved. Technical confidence comes from measured decoding speed rather than from reading instruments: open a 1,000+ RAW folder and the grid is simply there.
Why photographers switch
Speed you feel, decisions you keep.
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Built for flow, not analysis.
One image, one decision, next image. Pick / Reject / Maybe with undo always one gesture away.
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Series-aware by design.
A 40-frame burst is one decision moment, not 40 files. Heavy shoots collapse into readable structure.
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iPhone and iPad, not only the desk.
FastRawViewer lives on Windows and Mac. Cull Me uP starts in your pocket, right after the shoot, where the fresh eye lives.
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Same respect for your files.
No catalog, no lock-in, decisions as portable XMP — principles both cultures share. We kept them.
Honest fit
Keep the loupe if you love the loupe.
If your first pass is a technical audit — exposure forensics, per-channel histograms — FastRawViewer remains a fine instrument. If your first pass is choosing the shoot while it's fresh, that's the moment Cull Me uP owns.
Speed claims are published, not promised: the Performance Lab shows grid-opening benchmarks on real folders, and How to cull photos faster covers the method — and the 20–30 % of selection time it gives back.
From full card to chosen shoot, faster.
Cull Me uP is the missing step between the card and the edit — visual, fluid and under your control.