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Tools for photographers, creatives, and self-hosters - focused, elegant, and crafted with care.
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Whitespace is a small, independent software studio for clearly defined groups with clearly defined problems: photographers buried in archives of 100,000 images, photo enthusiasts who want stars and labels in their own self-hosted Nextcloud, Windows users tired of bloated viewers.
Every tool ships only what is needed. No telemetry. No upsells. No dark patterns. Just software that fits the way you actually work - and respects your time, your storage, and your privacy.
A solo studio based in Germany, building since 2009. Each product is shaped by direct conversations with the people who use it - built by someone who's a photographer himself and uses it every day.
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Focused tools that solve real problems.
StarRate
Photo Rating for Nextcloud
Rate, label and curate your photos directly in Nextcloud - with stars, color labels, and XMP metadata that Lightroom can read.
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FlashView
Fast Photo Viewer for Windows
Browse and cull archives of 100,000+ photos. Batch-rate with one keystroke, edit non-destructively, export. Standard XMP, readable by Lightroom, Bridge, Photo Mechanic and digiKam.
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Deep-dives on photo workflows and the tools behind them.
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Travel photography workflow: cull 5,000 frames fast
How 5,000 frames from a Southeast Asia trip become an archive you can actually search - card offload, culling without a catalog, EXIF analysis across it all.
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Concert photography: cull 2,000 frames fast
How 2,000 frames from three songs become a fast, categorized selection - concert culling in low light, from rough cull to band picks.
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People photography: cull 400 RAWs to the final set
How 400 RAW+JPEG pairs become a final set of 15 images - People culling in consensus of model, MUA and photographer.
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