Ingest 0.8.1

After the scan, at low priority, every photo gets a feature print, its faces, and a sharpness score, kept in a cache and never written to the files. Consecutive frames that look alike become a ≈N stack, the way bracket sets become ×N.
Frames with faces get a second look for closed eyes and Apple’s face quality. The ⌥F close-ups zoom to a face on a click, and a run of people leads with the frame where nobody blinked.
Soft marks frames noticeably less sharp than their stack or their neighbors, judged on the subject rather than the background. ⇧P says Not Soft, and ⌘Z takes it back. Tilted and Utility are filters too.
Nothing is ever tagged or rated for you. Settings → Browsing turns the pass off, and it pauses by itself while the Mac is hot or in Low Power Mode.

Real Estate, Events, or Family each hold their own Ingest, Organize, Browse, and Social Export settings on one page. A workspace can hide a tab and choose the one it opens in; Organize matches Ingest until you switch it off.
Video and the JPEG half of a pair can go to their own folders with their own names and metadata, and RAW and JPEG can land in different folders.

Compare shows every frame of a stack side by side, twelve to a page. The arrows stop at the edges, panes select like photos, and T tags only the frame shown. Zoomed in, drag the picture to move around it and the other panes follow.
The histogram is drawn the way Lightroom draws it and counted from the preview already on screen, so it follows each frame at once; corner marks light at 0.1 % clipping. Compare RAW & JPEG shows Apple’s neutral RAW rendering beside the camera JPEG, and Settings → Sidebar Information can switch RAW files to the sensor histogram.
The sources list is one list: Cards, Favorites, Recent, Saved Views, Folders, and Apple Photos, each collapsing in place. Camera Details reads top-down: the camera as its maker names it, the lens, an exposure strip, then date and file.
A 16 GB Mac is a first-class Mac: caches, prefetch, and the analysis pass scale to memory and cores, and memory pressure trims caches instead of emptying them.

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