Three thousand shots. The first cull in minutes.
The one part of RegiaPro that does not run on the website but on your own Mac, because it has to read thousands of RAW files off the disk and nobody wants to upload them somewhere first. It exists to kill off the most tedious part of the job.
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17 MB
That is all it weighs. Your photos stay on your disk, they go nowhere.
macOS 11 or newer
Big Sur and up, Intel and Apple Silicon.
RAW and JPEG
Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Hasselblad and drone DNGs.
The images on this page are real screenshots of the software, taken one by one while it was running. The photos inside them are test images: a client's work does not end up on a sales page.
The evening that does not count as work
You come back from a wedding with three thousand shots. Before you can start working for real you have to throw away two thirds of them: the bursts where you only need one, the blurred ones, the closed eyes, the duplicates of the family group. It is work that takes no taste and cannot even be handed off, because nobody else knows which frame you had in mind. And you do it in the evening, after a day on your feet.
The reason developing software takes so long is simple: to show you a photo it develops the RAW, redoing all the work the camera had already done. Multiply that by three thousand files and you get hours.
What is inside a RAW file
Along with the sensor data, the camera tucks in a ready-made preview: it is the one you see on the screen on the back of the camera when you review your shots. It exists in every file, it is already developed, and to decide "this one yes, this one no" it is more than enough.
17 to 58 times faster
That is the difference between reading that preview and developing the RAW, measured on real files, Sony and drone. It is not a marketing estimate: it is the number that came out of the test, and it is the only reason a 3,000-shot wedding gets analyzed in minutes instead of over an afternoon.
It groups bursts and suggests the best one
Shots taken in a burst — the bouquet toss, the laugh, the kiss — get put together in a single group. Inside each group RegiaPro Photo suggests the sharpest frame, already selected. You scroll through with the keyboard and correct it where you disagree, which is minutes of work instead of hours.
- It asks you first what kind of job it is — wedding, real estate and drone, portraits, event, sport, graduation — so it knows what to expect instead of guessing. And if you do not know, there is "not sure": it groups and flags, without suggesting you discard anything.
- It flags blur, missed focus and wrong exposure, writing down why and not just a score.
- When it does not understand, it suggests nothing and says so. That is the most important rule of all: software that guesses makes you recheck everything, and then you may as well do it by hand.
Real screenshot from the software. The whole burst is at the bottom: the suggested one is marked best, and under the photo it says why.
It recognizes HDR bracketing and leaves it alone
This is the point where a badly made culling tool ruins your work, and it is worth explaining in full because it is the reason many photographers do not trust these tools.
- Five identical shots, one after another
- Same framing, same second
- "It is a burst: I keep the best one"
- It discards four of them
- And it has thrown away your HDR
- Five shots at stepped exposures
- Evenly spaced: −2, −1, 0, +1, +2
- "These are not five attempts
- they are five pieces of one photo"
- It keeps all five
Why this matters so much in real estate and with a drone
People shooting interiors and people flying drones work in brackets almost all the time: blown windows and washed-out skies get solved that way. On that kind of job, software that keeps one shot per group does not save you time: it forces you to reshoot.
It never deletes anything. Ever.
This is the promise everything else rests on: if a program can delete your RAWs, you will not let it work on its own — and then it is no use to you.
- 1
The whole time, it works on a list
Not on the files. The RAWs stay where they are, untouched, while you decide. You can close it and reopen it: nothing has happened.
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It tells you first what it is about to do
When you press "Apply to files" it shows you exactly how many files it touches and in which folder, before it moves anything.
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It copies the keepers, moves the rejects
The rejects end up in a subfolder right next to them. No trash, no deletion. If you want the space back, you delete them yourself, by hand.
For every reject it says how much and why. Under each one there is "Bring it back".
The tally before touching any files, saying where everything ends up.
The same comparison, cropped to what matters: under every reject it says why, and there is the button to put it back in. That is the difference between software that decides for you and software that helps you decide fast.
Which plans include it
RegiaPro Photo is not sold separately and has no price of its own: it is included in Pro and above and in the Full Trial, which switches on the whole Pro plan for fourteen days. And if you are on Start you can still try it, without changing plan.
Full Trial
Included, because the Trial switches on the whole Pro plan. 14 days, no card.
Start
You can try it. It is not included in the plan, but the trial is activated from your account: the license expires and stays tied to your account — it does not get passed to a colleague. Long enough to work out whether you need it.
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Included.
Studio
Included.
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Questions about culling
Can I use it now?
Yes. You download it from your account, it weighs 17 MB and runs on any Mac with macOS 11 (Big Sur) or newer. It is included in Pro, Full and Studio and in the 14 days of Full Trial; on Start it is not included, but you can try it with a license that expires and stays tied to your account.
The first time it needs the internet, to activate: a couple of minutes, and until you have done that it will not cull. From then on it renews by itself, in the background, every time the Mac is online: it asks you nothing and you never notice. And if you are on location where there is no signal, you keep working for up to thirty days — it was built that way on purpose, because software that shuts down halfway through culling a wedding would do more harm than it prevents.
Why does it run on the Mac and not on the website like the rest?
Because it has to read thousands of RAW files off the disk, and a wedding is tens of gigabytes. Uploading them to a server to be analyzed would mean hours of waiting before you even start. The software goes to where the files are, instead of the other way round.
Does it delete my photos?
Never. The whole time it works on a list, not on the files: the RAWs stay where they are. Only when you press "Apply to files", and after showing you how many files it touches and where, are the keepers copied and the rejects moved to a subfolder right next to them. No trash, no deletion.
How is it so much faster than the others?
It does not develop the RAWs. Inside every file the camera has already put a preview — the one you see on the screen on the back of the camera — and it is more than enough to decide "this one yes, this one no". Reading that instead of developing the shot came out 17 to 58 times faster, measured on real files, Sony and drone.
What if I shoot brackets for HDR?
It recognizes them and leaves them alone. Three or five shots at different exposures look exactly like a burst, but they are not five attempts: they are five pieces of one photo. Software that keeps one and discards the rest ruins your work, and in real estate or with a drone it makes you shoot it again.
Which cameras does it recognize?
Canon (CR2, CR3, CRW), Nikon (NEF, NRW), Sony (ARW, SR2, SRF), Fujifilm (RAF), Olympus (ORF), Panasonic (RW2), Pentax (PEF), Hasselblad (3FR) and DNG — which is what DJI drones write. It reads JPEGs too, if that is how you deliver. The speed tests were run on Sony files and on drone files; burst grouping on Nikon files as well.
Does it replace Lightroom or Capture One?
No, and it does not try to. It only does the first cull — the one that decides what survives — and then leaves you a clean folder to open in the software you already use. Developing, masks, color: all of that stays where it has always been.
The other four modules
They are one piece of software: you write the client down once, and they pass them between themselves.
You deliver with a link of your own, with a password and an expiry date. Your client marks the photos they want and you find the list already made.
Go to the pageA chat on your site that answers visitors and fills in the enquiry for you.
Go to the pageEvery morning it tells you who to follow up, with the message already written. Quote, contract and invoice from the same record.
Go to the pageIt builds the month's posting plan from the photos you have already delivered.
Go to the pageDownload it from your account
RegiaPro Photo is included in the Pro, Full and Studio plans, and in the 14 days of Full Trial — which switch on the whole Pro plan. On Start it is not included, but you can try it: the trial license expires and stays tied to your account. Try it on the shoot you did yesterday: in a few minutes you will know whether you need it.