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Use Views, Duplicates, and Key Faces to speed up your cull
Use Views, Duplicates, and Key Faces to speed up your cull
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Written by Harshit Dwivedi
Updated over a week ago

Once Aftershoot is done with the culling, you can either directly export the culled photos into Lightroom Classic or Capture One, however, we suggest that you review the selections made by Aftershoot before you export for the best results.

Reviewing your results is super easy with Aftershoot, this means you can select final images quickly before you export them to Lightroom or Capture one.

Grid and Loupe View

There are two screens that let you make changes to your results. Let’s have a look at both of them.

Grid View

The first screen is the Grid View that opens after your album is done culling. This lets you view multiple photos quickly and make changes to the selections made by Aftershoot.

In this screen, apart from viewing all of your photos, you also have options to choose quick filters to view photos that are associated with a particular keyword like “Blurred”, “Selected”, “Closed Eyes”, etc.

For advanced filtering of photos, you can specify a star rating and/or color label to view the photos.

For example, in the screenshot below, removing the image JB2_4870.jpg from the selected can be done as follows:

First, you click on the image once to highlight it. Once it’s highlighted, you can either click on the Star/Color below the image to change the star rating or color labels of the image.

Loupe View

The second screen that lets you change your selections is the Loupe View. As opposed to Grid View which lets you look at multiple photos at once, the Loupe View focuses on a single image at once.

This screen also provides you with Advance Features like aggregating and showing the Key Faces in an image and the Duplicates for an image for a quick comparison between them.

Similar to Grid View, you can also change your selections by using keyboard shortcuts or clicking on the stars and colors.

The biggest workflow enhancement of culling photos in Loupe View is the ability to view similar photos for the image that you’re currently viewing.

You can instantly switch between the photos by clicking on a different image displayed on the bottom right. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to do this (period and comma on Mac and on Windows).

Once you have a duplicate image selected, the main image will be changed to reflect your selection. You can then again mark this as a keeper or reject by using keyboard shortcuts or clicking on the stars and colors.

Loupe View also lets you zoom in directly to the Key Faces detected in the image. To do this, you can click on the detected faces on the right or use the keyboard shortcut (Options + Arrow Keys on Mac and Alt + Arrow Keys on Windows).

Aftershoot also lets you use keyboard shortcuts to change the Color/Star Ratings. You can head over to this blog post to see how you can do so!

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