Setting your AI Automated Culling preferences in Aftershoot

Every photographer's culling preferences are as unique as their workflow. Aftershoot Culling was designed to be flexible and customizable, so it can be easily included in any workflow.
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In this article, we'll go over how you can customize your AI Automated Culling session.
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After you create a new album and click on the Start Culling button, you will be able to choose between AI Automated Culling and AI Assisted Culling.

When you choose AI Automated Culling, Aftershoot makes all the initial selections for you, and then you can review and tweak them to your liking.

When you choose AI Assisted Culling, Aftershoot will group your duplicate images and let you make the selections yourself, while putting AI-powered tools at your disposal to speed up the process.

From this point, we will be covering AI Automated Culling, its default settings, and how you can change them to your liking.
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The first thing you must choose is what type of photoshoot you will be culling. It's important to choose the culling genre that represents the type of photoshoot you want to cull since the AI will take that into account when selecting images.
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Find out more about the specifics of each culling genre in this article.

Once you’ve selected your genre, you need to choose between Auto Target and Cull to Target.

In Auto Target, you just select how many Duplicates Groups you want, and how large they should be, and then click on Start Cull.

In Cull to Target, you decide the exact number of images the AI should select from your album. To do that, interact with the percentage slider in the middle of the screen. Note that the minimum you can set is 10% and the maximum is 60%.

Find out more about Cull to Target in this article.

In here, you can dive into the specifics and customize the cull exactly the way you want it. All the changes you make here will impact how many or few the AI will select.

When the AI looks through images, it places them into 5 filter groups - Selected, Highlights, Duplicates, Blurry, and Closed Eyes.

Each filter group can be enabled or disabled by clicking on the toggle next to its name. Note that if you disable a filter group, Aftershoot won’t place any images in it. You can customize roughly how many images will be placed in a group by adjusting their sliders. Find out more about each one of them by reading the description below.

Note: When you cull with Cull to Target, Aftershoot won’t select any Highlights. Instead, there will be a Maybes filter group under For Review. Also, Duplicate Detection cannot be disabled.

Highlight Photos

These are the images that the AI considered the best out of the whole shoot. You can use them to deliver same-day sneak peeks to your customers or share them on your social media accounts. Click on the toggle to enable or disable this depending on your needs or type of shoot.

Duplicate Photos

If you select Few, Aftershoot will create more groups with fewer images in each of them, and put more images in Selected as a result. If you select More, Aftershoot will create fewer groups with more images in each one of them, and put fewer images in Selected as a result.

Blurry Photos

This slider lets you control the sensitivity of how Aftershoot marks photos as Blurry. Keeping it to the left will lead to the AI keeping slightly soft images in Selected. Keeping it to the right will lead to the AI having little to no sensitivity to out-of-focus images.

Closed Eyes

The AI will analyze the images with subjects with closed eyes and place them here. If you don't want that, simply click on the toggle to disable this.

Maybe Photos

Images that the AI didn’t deem good enough to be placed in Selected, but were the best available choices out of their respective duplicate sets. This group will only appear when you run an Automated AI Cull with Auto Target set to an Extreme level of culling. Or an Automated AI Cull with Cull to Raget. In both scenarios, Maybes replaces the Highlight filter group.
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Once you're done customizing your cull, simply click on the Start Cull button, sit back, and relax.
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After Aftershoot is done culling and you've reviewed its selections, you can change the settings and run the cull again if you need to. Simply click on the Restart button and change the settings to suit your needs.

If you have any questions or issues, don't hesitate to get in touch with us or write a post on our Facebook Community - it's always our pleasure to assist you!