When creating a Personal AI Editing Profile, the images you use to train it are its foundation. In this article, we shall explore which edited images you should choose for this purpose.
Consistency
This is arguably the most important thing when choosing edited images for your future profile.
Aftershoot's AI works by recognizing the different lighting and shooting conditions in your images. Based on that, it will learn to replicate your style and make adjustments in similar conditions.
What's most important is that the edited images you use, showcase similar edits in each condition. For example, suppose you upload backlit portraits consistently edited with lowered highlights, raised shadows, and an appropriate White Balance. Aftershoot will recognize this and assess the images, to apply similar adjustments based on what it had learned from the examples it was presented.
Likewise, suppose you’re in situations where the dominant light source is fluorescent lighting and you consistently edit these images by adjusting the White Balance, dropping the shadows, increasing dehaze, raising the clarity, and lowering the contrast. In that case, Aftershoot will recognize this and apply similar edits in conditions like this.
Variety
It’s important to upload a large variety of images taken under the various lighting conditions you might encounter.
Aftershoot's AI will only know how to apply edits in the conditions where a sufficient number of edited images are uploaded when you create your Personal AI Editing Profile.
Similarly, Aftershoot won't consider one-off edited images. So if you only edit several images in a certain condition and way - say you have a few images taken at sunset with a dramatic edit, Aftershoot's AI won't take them into account, to not jeopardize the rest of your Personal AI Editing Profile.
How Aftershoot Sees It
There's a simple way to explain how Aftershoot sees your edited images and learns your editing style.
Imagine you have an assistant who never edited a photo in your style before. They can look at how you adjust sliders for wedding photos. But that doesn’t mean they know your editing style, because they won't be able to replicate it for boudoir or portrait photos. Your assistant will only be able to make adjustments similar to your style, only after you show them plenty of examples of your work and teach them.
Multiple Profiles
But what do you do if you edit similar conditions in different styles? Well, you might want to consider creating multiple Personal AI Editing Profiles.
For example, if you're a wedding photographer, you can create a balanced AI Profile trained on all the usual wedding conditions you shoot in - sunny, backlit, cloudy, indoor photos with off-camera flash, indoor photos with on-camera flash, indoor photos with no flash, and so on. If you edit similar images and conditions to those used to train your Personal AI Editing Profile, then it will perform as you expect it to.
However, if you try to use it on images shot in different conditions, such as a studio shoot where you would modify the white balance differently due to more flashes from different locations and controlled lighting - then this AI Profile won’t perform as you'd expect or want. For this reason, it would be best to train different Personal AI Editing Profiles for different conditions and editing styles.
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