Features
Everything Photography Workbench can do — grouped by module and tier. All of it runs locally on your machine.
What's included in each tier
| Module | Basic | Pro | Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sorter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CullMaster | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SemanticVault | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Watcher | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboard | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-Library | — | — | ✓ |
| Invoices, contracts, client galleries | — | — | ✓ |
Sorter Included in Basic
Bring order to chaos — automatic folder structure from EXIF data.
- Drag-and-drop import from any folder or SD card
- Automatic EXIF date extraction (DateTimeOriginal)
- Camera detection from Make and Model
- Lens detection from EXIF metadata
- Year → month/event → camera folder structure
- Smart folders via event clustering (2-hour gaps)
- RAW + JPEG pair detection
- Date inheritance from the JPEG partner for RAWs
- Duplicate detection (perceptual hash)
- Dry-run preview before any file is moved
- Undo the last sort in one click
- File type recognition (RAW, JPEG, PNG, other)
- "Unsorted" folder for photos without a date
- Custom sorting rules (condition → action)
- Import presets (Wedding, Sport, Portrait, Travel)
- Batch rename with {date}, {camera}, {event}, {counter}
- Merge multiple folders into one
- Move duplicates into a _duplicates folder
- Import and export rules as JSON or text
- Conflict strategy (rename, skip, overwrite)
- Cancel a running sort
- Import banner with thumbnail preview (first 20)
- Live progress with estimated time remaining
- Duplicate badge on affected files
CullMaster Included in Basic
Find the best shots in minutes, not hours.
- Two-stage analysis (thumbnail faces + full image)
- Face detection (OpenCV Haar cascade)
- Blink / eyes-open detection (OCEC)
- Emotion recognition (FER+, 8 classes)
- Object detection (YOLOv8n, 80 COCO classes)
- Sharpness scoring (Sobel Tenengrad + Laplacian)
- Motion-blur detection (FFT)
- Exposure analysis (histogram and clipping)
- Micro-contrast measurement
- Noise estimation
- Symmetry analysis
- Composition scoring (rule of thirds)
- Color-harmony detection
- Focus-stacking detection
- Style detection (10 photographic styles)
- Adaptive per-style weighting
- Feedback learning (adjusts weights over time)
- Analysis cache for instant re-runs
- Series grouping (2-hour tolerance)
- Auto-select the best in a series (median + 0.5σ)
- 1–5 star rating stored as XMP sidecars
- Color flags (Ctrl+1/2/3)
- Image notes (500 characters, searchable)
- Lightroom-compatible export (XMP)
- Batch export to JPEG
- ZIP export for clients
- HTML gallery creation
- Histogram comparison between two images
- Before/after view (B)
- Fullscreen preview with zoom and pan
- Focus peaking overlay (F)
- Rule-of-thirds overlay (T)
- Slideshow mode (D)
- Automatic cull rules (eyes closed, blurry, …)
- Quick export (E) to the last destination
SemanticVault Included in Pro
Find any image by describing it — even offline.
- Natural-language search (CLIP)
- 512-dimension semantic embeddings
- Boolean search (AND / OR / NOT)
- Filter chips (rating, type, year, camera, focal, aperture, ISO)
- Face-only filter
- Composition filter
- Image-to-image search
- Sketch search (draw to find)
- Color search with minimum color share
- Object counting (YOLO)
- Smart collections
- Saved searches
- Similar-image clusters
- Scene clustering (k-means)
- Sunrise / sunset search
- Weather and mood chips
- RAW overview grouped by camera
- GPS map of your photos
- Favorites
- Automatic tagging
- Search history (last 50)
- Filter within results
- Search diagnostics (index and model status)
- Resumable re-indexing
- Ensemble embedding for better matches
- Gibberish guard for meaningless queries
- Queries in 16 languages
- Text-search fallback (level 2)
- Model status badge
- Scope toggle (imported or entire library)
- Collapsible advanced search
Watcher Included in Pro
Your photos sort themselves — automatically.
- Multiple watch folders at once
- Automatic sorting of new photos
- Conflict strategies (rename, skip, overwrite)
- 2-second debounce for partially-copied files
- Custom sort rules
- Live statistics (seen, sorted, errors)
- Removable-drive detection
- Desktop notifications
- Start and stop with one click
- Remove folders at any time
- Supported-file-type filter
- Activity log
- Persistent conflict and rule settings
- Only files directly in the watch root are sorted
Dashboard Included in Ultra
Understand your photography — with real data.
- KPI tiles (images, storage, average size, cameras, month comparison)
- Monthly shots chart
- Camera distribution chart
- Rating distribution chart
- 24-month trend line
- Work-session history
- Camera usage report (active days, images per day)
- Camera and lens statistics
- GPS heatmap of shoot locations
- Upcoming appointments
- CSV export
- JSON export
- Six-page PDF review
- Month-over-month comparison
- Invoice creation with § 14 UStG fields
- Session recording
- One-click refresh
- Responsive two-column chart grid
- Muted chart palette (blue, pink, green, orange pairs)
- Local-only analytics
Multi-Library Included in Ultra
Separate archives for every client.
- Multiple libraries with separate databases
- Create a library
- Switch between libraries
- Delete a library (active and default are protected)
- Export a library (.flib)
- Import a library
- Library templates
- Per-library statistics
- Merge two libraries
- Image count per library
- Protected default library
- Automatic name sanitization