WINDER

Your First Roll

Import

  1. Tap the orange key in the middle of the dock and choose your scan files. Batch as many as you like.
  2. Review each cut. Winder finds the black divider bar automatically. If a cut needs adjusting, drag the bar. Rotate either half, keep both or just one, or discard a scan entirely.
  3. Choose where they go. The roll picker lists the rolls you already have, plus one explicit New roll action. Leave it unset and the frames are filed loose at the top of your library — that's a real destination, not an error, and you can drag them onto a roll later.
  4. Tap DONE. Winder re-reads each scan at full resolution, cuts, rotates, trims and encodes, then files the frames.

Your shots are now single, upright, organized frames.

Name the roll, or don't

A roll is a folder, and the folder's name is the roll's name. Naming it is optional: a box of film on a shelf with nothing written on it is a perfectly ordinary object, and the shelf shows it as one. Leave the name blank and Winder files the roll under a dated folder — Roll 260806 — and the shelf simply shows the film box with no sticky note on it.

Tell it what shot the roll

Open the roll and edit its details. One body and one film shoot 36 exposures, so the gear lives on the roll and every frame inherits it:

  • Film — pick the box off the shelf, or type any brand and model under Other.
  • Camera — pick the body, and the lens fills itself in.
  • Scanner and scan date — what turned the negatives into files, and when.

Every frame on the roll now reports that camera, that lens and that film — and carries them in its own EXIF, so the story travels with the photograph even when it leaves Winder.

Defaults worth knowing

  • Scan size defaults to 3130 × 2075 px, the common lab output for 135 film. Change it in Settings → Film & scanning if your scanner differs.
  • Rebate trimming — shaving the dark border off each frame — is on.
  • Output is JPEG at the High quality preset.

These describe your photographs rather than the app, so they are stored in the library folder itself. See settings.json.

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Updated 2026-08-06