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Culling & Flagging

Pellicle supports a pick/reject workflow for culling your photos. Flags are written to sidecar files so they carry across to your editing tools.

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • P — Pick (flag as a keeper)
  • X — Reject
  • U — Unflag (clear pick/reject)

These work in both the grid view and the detail view. In the grid, they apply to all selected photos.

Sidecar Files

When you flag a photo, Pellicle writes the flag to a sidecar file alongside the original image. The sidecar format is configurable in Settings:

  • XMP — Standard sidecar format, compatible with Lightroom, Capture One, and most other tools. Uses the xmpDM:pick and xmpDM:good fields.
  • DOP — DxO PhotoLab sidecar format. Pellicle writes the minimum required fields so DxO fills in the rest.
  • Both — Writes both XMP and DOP sidecars simultaneously.

For JPEG files, flags are also written directly into the file's EXIF metadata.

Deleting Photos

Press ⌫ (Backspace) in the grid to move selected photos to the bin. In the bin view, pressing ⌫ permanently deletes them from disk.

Rotation

Press [ to rotate counterclockwise and ] to rotate clockwise. Rotation is written to the sidecar file and applied non-destructively — the original image data is never modified.