One unique thing about Aftershoot is that it lets you tweak and control almost all the aspects of the AI culling.

For example, you can choose how many or how few images you want, whether you would like the AI to detect duplicates, closed eyes, blur; the AI's sensitivity to detecting blur, duplicates, and much more!

In this article, we go through these options and how you can customise them.

Note: This blog covers the options available in AI Automated culling. For AI-assisted culling, please head here.

When you begin a Cull, you will be greeted with this screen:
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AI Automated culling is when you let Aftershoot make the initial selections and then you will go in and make tweaks to its selections.

AI Assisted culling is where Aftershoot will group your duplicate images and create clusters and give you smart tools to make the selections yourself - more on AI-Assisted culling here.

For this article, we will be going through options available in AI Automated Culling

In the AI-Automated Cull, the first option on the screen is to choose the type of shoot you're culling. It's important to choose the option which represents your style of shoot most closely because the AI will work differently based on the option you select here.

The normal / default setting is quite straightforward! You can choose how many or how few images you'd like the AI to select for you.

Alongwith this, the AI will also pick 15% of the Selected images as Highlights which you could use to deliver sneak peeks!

This is the suggested option for newcomers who want to just get started with Aftershoot and not fiddle around with the settings too much!

The customized section lets you be really specific on how you want Aftershoot's Ai to work! The changes you make here will have an impact on how many/few images are selected by the AI.

TL;DR - As a rule of thumb, keeping every slider on the RIGHT will give you the LEAST amount of images, while keeping every slider on the LEFT will give you the MOST.

Highlight Photos

These are the top showcase images picked throughout the entire shoot. Highlights are good for same day sneak peeks or to quickly show something to your clients while you're at the session. You can enable/disable these based on your need / type of shoot.

Duplicate Photos

Aftershoot is designed to select one image from every duplicate group so having Aftershoot create Large Groups means you will get fewer selected images while having Small Groups means there will be more images selected - since Aftershoot will select one image from each group.

Blurry Photos

As the Labels in the sliders suggest, this lets you change Aftershoot's sensitivity to Blurred images. Keeping it towards the right means you have little to no sensitivity to blurred/soft images; while keeping it at left means you're comfortable with letting slightly soft images into your Selections.

Hit the “start culling” button, and Aftershoot will start to work its magic. You can walk away, and we’ll send you an email when the cull is done.

If you look through the images and the final cull isn’t what you would like, you can restart the cull.

This barely takes a few seconds and presents you with a tweaked cull based on your updated settings.