For photographers
AI Cull — the first pass, done for you
It makes the mechanical calls — soft focus, blown exposure, the fourth frame of a burst — and leaves every judgement call to you.
Culling is the least creative and most time-consuming part of the job. Four thousand frames, most of them near-duplicates, and the decision on nine out of ten is obvious within a second.
AI Cull scores the set on sharpness, exposure and similarity to its neighbours, groups bursts, and nominates a keeper from each. You get a review grid with those suggestions already applied — and every one of them is a suggestion. Nothing leaves the gallery until you apply the cull, and what does leave is a soft delete you can undo.
It is explicitly not judging composition, expression or moment. It is clearing the frames that were never in contention.
Operate it
The product’s own keep/reject rule, on real scored frames. Drag the threshold and watch the rule, not an animation of it.
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Two thousand frames arrive on their own, and thin themselves out.
Cameras send into the event over FTPS or SFTP as you shoot. Every frame is scored and near-identical bursts thin to their best member. Drag the threshold — that is the real rule, on real frames.
Anything the scorer cannot read is kept, never quietly dropped.
How it works
- 01Run the passThe set is scored for sharpness, exposure and near-duplication, and bursts are grouped.
- 02Review the suggestionsA keeper is nominated per burst. Move the threshold to cull harder or keep more.
- 03Overrule anythingOne tap flips a suggested reject back to a keep. Nothing has changed yet.
- 04ApplyRejects are removed from the gallery as a restorable soft delete.
At a glance
- Scores
- Sharpness · exposure · near-duplicates
- Does not score
- Composition, expression, eyes
- Default keep threshold
- Adjustable before you apply
- Applying
- Soft delete — restorable, not erased
- Who
- The event's owner
Availability
Rolling out behind a feature flag. Event owner only.
Questions
- Does it detect closed eyes?
- No. It is worth saying plainly, because it is the thing people assume. The score is built from sharpness, exposure and how similar a frame is to its neighbours — a perfectly sharp, perfectly exposed blink scores well and will be kept. Eyes are still your pass.
- Can it delete something I wanted?
- Not without you applying it, and not permanently. Suggestions are shown before anything happens, and applying performs a restorable soft delete rather than an erase.
- How long does a big shoot take?
- Applying a large cull is paced deliberately in batches rather than fired all at once, so it takes a few minutes on a set of thousands. Scoring happens ahead of that, as the photos are processed.
- Why did nothing get scored?
- Photos processed before scoring existed have no score, and a frame whose decode failed has none either. Unscored frames are never auto-rejected — the pass simply has no opinion on them.
For photographers — more
Join as a photographer- Publish from LightroomA publish service inside Lightroom Classic: drag photos in, hit publish, and they land in the event.
- Studio teamGive crew their own logins with scoped access — while earnings, KYC and billing stay yours alone.
- Delivery galleriesA cinematic cover, a justified grid and a lightbox — designed per event, ready to hand over.
- Your own branded galleryDeliver from a domain of your own, with your studio's mark and none of ours.