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krites

Krites is ancient Greek for 'the judge', and judging photographs is the whole job. I built it for an audience of one, my wife: a simple, UI-driven tool (not a command line in sight) that helps her rip through culling 4,000-plus wedding images to her own standards. It leans on local ML rather than a cloud-AI subscription, so it works wherever she is, signal or not. It's since grown an optional AI critic as well, expert feedback on composition, colour and technique, there to help her learn rather than to do the judging for her.

Why my photo app won't build for Windows

I was wiring up the release build for krites, the wedding-photo culler I’ve been building for my wife, and I went to add Windows to the list of targets. It felt like the responsible thing. You write software, you ship it …

You can't reshoot a wedding

A wedding happens once. The first kiss, the confetti, the father of the bride going to pieces halfway through his speech, all of it unrepeatable. If the photographer loses the RAW files from the day, there is no second …

There's no AI in my photo culler

Before a wedding photographer can edit a single frame, there’s the cull: sitting down with three or four thousand photos from the day and deciding which are even worth keeping. The blurry ones, the ones where the flash …

I built my wife a judge

The morning after Hailey shot a wedding, we were both wrecked, lying in bed and not really moving, and she said she might just pay for Aftershoot to get through the cull. And my ears pricked up. She’d been on her feet …