Hi everyone,

I’ve recently joined Waterpixels and I’m curious to learn how underwater photographers manage species identification after a dive trip.

When you come back with hundreds or thousands of images — fish, nudibranchs, crustaceans, corals, marine mammals — how do you identify everything and keep your archive searchable?

I’m part of a small team working on an offline desktop tool that helps recognize species in wildlife and underwater photos, then lets the photographer review the results before adding common names, scientific names and taxonomy as keywords.

The goal is not to replace expert knowledge, but to make large image archives easier to explore, organize and potentially reuse for education, research or conservation.

We’re looking for a few underwater photographers willing to share their workflow and possibly test the beta on their own images.

Would this be useful to you, or do you prefer keeping identification and keywording fully manual?

If you’re interested here is a form to answer questions about it : https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/U3CA15?Source=Forum&[email protected]

Thanks ! Feel free to reply here or message me.

Easy enough to just take a snip and copy into Google Image search. Generally, it's pretty successful and very easy workflow. I just add a key word in Lightroom and tag as needed.

Someone here started a group/app called Critter Dive which is helpful along with a bunch of books.

Inaturalist does a pretty decent job and even is it doesn't get it right it points you in the right direction I have found. I recall another forum member was developing an application for marine creature ID, a while back setup to work with a lightroom catalogue. this is the post:

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On 7/25/2026 at 2:46 AM, Chris Ross said:

Inaturalist does a pretty decent job and even is it doesn't get it right it points you in the right direction I have found. I recall another forum member was developing an application for marine creature ID, a while back setup to work with a lightroom catalogue. this is the post:

Thanks a lot for your answer ! I'll have a look at this post, if you personally want a software to try now or just help me to get your workflow, you can apply here to try it : https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/U3CA15?Source=Forum&[email protected]

9 hours ago, HugzzPictures said:

Thanks a lot for your answer ! I'll have a look at this post, if you personally want a software to try now or just help me to get your workflow, you can apply here to try it : https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/U3CA15?Source=Forum&[email protected]

Thanks, but I'm not a lightroom user.

7 hours ago, Chris Ross said:

Thanks, but I'm not a lightroom user.

Hi, what do you use ?

I like to keep things simple...

- Nemo
- Not Nemo

On 7/29/2026 at 8:16 AM, HugzzPictures said:

Hi, what do you use ?

Capture One and Photoshop

On 8/2/2026 at 3:02 AM, Chris Ross said:

Capture One and Photoshop

You can register too, we're developing, photoshop compatibility !

12 hours ago, HugzzPictures said:

You can register too, we're developing, photoshop compatibility !

Hi,

any compatibility with DXo PhotoLab?

Br Markus

22 hours ago, Muellema said:

Hi,

any compatibility with DXo PhotoLab?

Br Markus

Hi,

the goal is to be compatible with all the softwares, so you can apply and you'll get some infos when it's available ! (here is the link : https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/U3CA15?Source=Forum&[email protected])