Sometimes you don't have enough photos to build a good Professional AI Profile. Other times, you simply want to experiment with an editing style that is different from your own. Regardless of your reasons, Aftershoot's Pre-built AI Styles and Creator Styles can get you to editing within literal minutes.
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In essence, AI Styles and Creator Styles are AI Presets, also called Smart Presets by some. Each AI Style comes with an individual set of pre-defined editing settings and values, which it applies to your images.

AI Styles use AI Masking to analyze your photos for light, skies, subjects, and background conditions, to dynamically adjust their editing values to the unique conditions of each image. They enhance and modify the look of your images, with all that's left for you to do is the finishing touches and details.

When it comes to a regular Preset, it's simply a set of editing values and adjustments imbued into it by the creator. Without AI capabilities, a Preset applies the same exact values to every image, without taking into account the unique characteristics of each one.
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Meanwhile, an AI Style will analyze your image as a whole and take a look at separate parts of it as well. It will dynamically adjust its set values, like color balance, contrast, and sharpness, to each image's unique scenario.

Essentially, the main difference is that AI Styles provide individual treatment to each and every image, whereas Presets simply slap the same fixed adjustments across all the images.

Now that we've established what AI Styles are and how they are different from regular Presets, let's see how you can download one and get to editing.
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Begin by going to Aftershoot's Home Screen, and click on Marketplace on its top left side.

The first thing you will see displayed are our Premium and Creator Styles. Note that these are free for Aftershoot Max Subscribers, but you can try them out and edit up to 500 images for free. In other regards, working with them is the same as working with other AI Styles.

Below that, you will see a carousel of the current Trending Styles. This is a feature made to help you easily navigate through the multitude of AI Styles that Aftershoot has to offer. Simply click on one of them, and the AI Styles displayed below will be filtered.

Finally, below you will see all the available AI Styles we have to offer at this time. You can arrange them in alphabetical or chronological order using the Sort By function. There is also a Filter carousel with Tags. These are attributed to every AI Style depending on its editing style. Simply click on one of them, and the shown AI Styles will be filtered.

There are two types of AI Styles - for editing JPEG Images and for RAW Images. Once you see a style that's up to your liking, simply click on the Download button.
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You can also double-click on an AI Style to inspect it more closely.

Here you can read the description, as well as some before-and-after examples of this AI Style's editing. Once you're done, click on the Try Profile button to download it.

There are two ways you can do that. The first one is to click on the Compare Profiles button on the main Marketplace screen.

You can also enter comparison mode by double-clicking on a Style you like and clicking on the Compare Profiles button inside it.

On this screen, you can compare up to 3 AI or Creator Styles at the same time. Simply scroll through the list in the right-hand drawer and click on the ones you like to select them. To deselect, simply click on them once more.

Note: You need an active internet connection to be able to compare all available Styles in the Marketplace. In case you’re not connected to the internet, you’ll only be able to compare Styles that are already downloaded onto your system.

Styles are separated into 3 categories – Recommended, Aftershoot, and Creators. You can close a certain category by clicking on its name and doing the same to open it back.

You can also change the default stock image by clicking on another one in the carousel below. Currently, when you enter comparison mode from the Aftershoot Marketplace, you can only choose from stock images.

But if you access AI Style comparison from the Edit tab in an album, the AI will select 10 random images from that album for you to test on.

Note: If you want to compare JPEG pre-built Styles, you will need to choose a JPEG stock image. The same applies to RAW pre-built Styles – you’ll have to choose a RAW stock image.

Once you’ve decided on a Style, simply click on the Download button, and when that’s done, click on the Start Editing button.
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Note: Some Creator Styles in the Marketplace aren’t covered under your subscription. To use them to edit, you’d have to make a purchase or limit yourself to the free image limit trial.
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On the next screen, you can choose between proceeding to edit one of your existing Aftershoot albums or uploading a new one.

You can also compare different AI & Creator Styles directly from the Edit tab of Aftershoot. Find out more about that and how to edit with pre-built AI Profiles in this article.