How to AI Edit Your Images With Aftershoot

You’ve culled your first several albums with Aftershoot and are ready to try the AI-powered editing you’ve been hearing so much about. This article is here to help you edit an album with Aftershoot Edits.

Whether you plan to cull your images first or just want to edit them, the first step is to import them. On the Aftershoot Home Screen, click on Create New Album.

What you have in front of you is the Import screen. Here is where you will add the images that you wish to edit. You have three options to choose from when adding your images:

Once you've uploaded your images, you will be prompted to choose the genre of this album.

Then you can proceed to editing by clicking on the Edit tab at the top of the screen or by clicking on the Start Editing button on the right side of the screen.

Next, look at the right-hand drawer under Edit Preferences and click on the Choose AI Profile dropdown.

To proceed, click on Explore AI Profiles, which will open a new selection screen.

To edit in Aftershoot, you need one of the 3 things mentioned below.

If you want to create a Professional AI Profile trained on your edited images that would mirror your editing style, click on the respective Create button, and refer to this article for help.

Or you could create an Instant AI Profile, based on your favorite Lightroom preset. Read this article to find out how.

If you want to use a pre-built AI Style or Creator Style, refer to this article to see how to choose and compare them, and then proceed to this article to find out how to edit with one.

Once you’ve created or downloaded an AI Profile, you are ready to edit!
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The first thing you need to choose is the Professional AI Profile, Instant AI Profile, or AI &Creator Style you want to use for this edit.

Then, you need to decide if you want Aftershoot to automatically Crop and Straighten your photos. All you have to do is enable the corresponding toggles. You can also customize how you want Aftershoot to Crop your images by selecting between a Loose or Aggressive setting, as well as your preferred image ratio outcome.

Note: You can also choose to just Crop and Straighten your images, without editing. To do that, select Crop & Straighten only in the AI Profile selection dropdown.

Next up is AI Masking. If you choose to enable it, you have to choose between Subject Mask Only and Subject Mask with Edits. During Subject Masking Aftershoot detects the main subject of an image and isolates it, for an additional layer of editing on top of it -- for Subject Masking with Edits. Or the edits can be added by you to the subject only, with the rest of the image remaining untouched – for Subject Mask Only. Find out more about Subject Masking with Aftershoot in this article.

Now it's finally time to click on the Edit button in the lower right corner of the screen. You can sit back and relax at this point or do some other work. Once your edit is done, you will receive an in-app notification, as well as an email. It's important to remember not to let your computer go to sleep while Aftershoot is editing.

For more information and tutorials on how to cull or edit your images with Aftershoot, be sure to visit our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@aftershoot.

With the edit done, you can start reviewing your images directly in Aftershoot. By default, they are showcased in Grid View with the edits already applied. You can see the difference by clicking on the Show Before/After icon in the lower-right corner of the screen or by using the \ key shortcut.

You can also make the finishing editing touches through manual editing by entering Loupe View through the L or Enter key shortcuts. Find out more about manual editing in Aftershoot in this article.

When you’re done reviewing and/or making manual edits, you can go back to Grid View and click on Customize Profile.

This will allow you to make changes to how the AI Profile you used makes edits, while your memory is still fresh. But you can also do this later, find out how in this article on AI Profile adjustments.

With all of that out of the way, just click on the Export button in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Next, if you want to export your images to your system, click on Export to Folder.

Here, you can choose where on your system to export to, how to name conflicting files (i.e., files that have the same name), choose the file format between original, JPEG, and TIFF, as well as image quality and color space.

Or you can export your images into your software of choice by choosing from the list below Export to or in the Other Apps dropdown.

Find out more about all the export features available in Aftershoot in this article.

If you have any questions or issues, don't hesitate to get in touch with us at [email protected] or through in-app support!