CardFlow: Photo Workflow

CardFlow is a fast, focused photo workflow for assignment photographers working on deadline.

Move photographs safely from a camera card, external drive, or folder. Review a clean contact sheet, identify the strongest frames, apply professional IPTC metadata, rename complete RAW+JPG sets, make essential adjustments, and deliver the finished work—all without dragging a full digital asset management system into the assignment.

BUILT FOR DEADLINE WORK

• Ingest from camera cards, external drives, and folders

• Verify copied files and avoid overwriting unrelated photographs

• Preserve camera folders or combine matching assignment folders

• Ingest everything, JPG only, RAW only, tagged photographs, or a hand-picked selection

• Rename during ingest or later from the contact sheet

FAST CONTACT SHEETS

• Browse responsive thumbnails with filenames always visible

• Keep RAW+JPG pairs together

• Tag, protect, rate, and apply color classes

• Filter and sort the assignment quickly

• Rotate photographs individually or in batches

• Open a large preview, zoom, pan, and move through photographs

• Run a clean full-screen slideshow of selected work on Mac

PROFESSIONAL CAPTIONING

• Edit IPTC captions, headlines, keywords, credits, rights, locations, and assignment fields

• Load and save reusable XMP templates

• Apply metadata to one photograph or an entire selection

• Move through photographs while refining individual captions

• Embed IPTC in JPG files and preserve standards-compatible XMP sidecars for RAW files

RENAME WITH CONFIDENCE

• Build filenames from capture date or today’s date

• Add agency, photographer, assignment, or client codes

• Continue numbered sequences across multiple cards

• Rename associated RAW, JPG, XMP, video, and audio files together

• Find and replace filename text when an assignment code changes

EDIT AND DELIVER

• Make quick exposure, color, crop, and straighten adjustments on iPad

• Open selected photographs in a chosen Mac editor

• Copy or move selected files while retaining sidecars and voice notes

• Send through FTP with saved destinations and resumable transfers

• Export smaller captioned JPG copies

• Share through Mail, Messages, AirDrop, Files, and installed iPad apps

• Keep a transfer log for the assignment

ONE PURCHASE. TWO WORKFLOWS.

Use CardFlow on a Mac for the complete desktop workflow or travel lighter with the focused iPad experience. One purchase includes both versions.

CardFlow is designed for working photographers who value speed, clarity, and control over unnecessary complexity. It works with your folders and your files. No CardFlow account or cloud library is required.