How to use CullTone, step by step
From the first card to the client's approval: what to press, what you will see, and what costs money. Every page has screenshots from a computer and a phone.
Start here
Getting started
Sign up, set up the studio workspace, invite the team, learn the command box.
Install CullTone Desktop
Put the desktop app on your Mac, connect it, and keep it working for the team.
Install the app on iPhone or Android
Add CullTone to the Home screen of an iPhone, iPad or Android phone.
Create a project and import photos
One project per shoot; import cards, folders and cameras on its main computer.
Cull and edit
Events in one project
One project for the whole job, its photos sorted by event.
Culling: Keep, Review, Archive
Read the reasons, check the Review pile, pick from bursts, use keys or swipes.
People: names, key people, merge
Name people, set key people with a minimum, merge, split and hide.
Looks and your own style
Choose a look per project or photo, save your own, or learn your style.
Editing in the studio
Sliders, curve, grading, masks, face retouch, crop, copy and paste, render.
Creative retouch
Free clean up and removal; prompt edits and templates with the price first.
Extend a photo
A bigger frame where only the new border is drawn by the AI.
Bring in edited photos
Files you finished in another app, back in the project as versions you can deliver.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every key for culling, Review, the studio, retouch and zoom, per system.
Check and deliver
Review: check edits before delivery
Automatic checks, 100% crops, approve or send back, swipe on a phone.
Deliver a client gallery
Proofing or final gallery, PIN, downloads, expiry, feedback, files for Lightroom.
Album cover, text and approval
Cover, text pages, captions, page colours, and the client's approval round by round.
What your client sees
The gallery from the client's side: PIN, favourites, approve, comment, download.
Settings and fixes
Settings, billing and storage
Workspace settings, plans and seats, storage, and freeing space.
Export a project, credit in your files
One ZIP per project to keep, and your credit and copyright in the files.
Troubleshooting
Missing originals, Locate originals, offline computers, waiting jobs, updates.
These pages describe CullTone as it is today, in a private beta. Where something needs CullTone Desktop, costs money or is not switched on yet, the page says so. For the thinking behind a cull or a gallery, see the guides. Can't find it? Ask us.