AI photo culling — score, group, cull
Cull a 5,000-frame shoot down to your strongest keepers in minutes. Every frame is scored for focus, exposure, noise and composition, near-identical bursts are grouped, and your picks land in Lightroom or Bridge as stars and colour labels.
What the culler does
- Twelve shooting lenses — wedding, event, portrait, sport, wildlife, product and more
- Burst and near-duplicate clusters — keep the best frame, drop the rest in one click
- Focus, noise, exposure and composition scored 0–100 per frame
- Written reasoning on every reject, so you can disagree and override
- Lenient → Ruthless scale, with every individual check switchable
- Stars and colour labels written to XMP for Lightroom, Bridge and Capture One
- Works on RAW (CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, RAF, ORF, 3FR) and JPEG/PNG
- Originals stay on your device — only a 1280px preview is uploaded
Pick the lens that matches your shoot
The lens decides what counts as a keeper. Change it per batch — the same images graded under a wedding lens and a stock lens give you different picks, on purpose.
- WEDDING
Eyes open, real emotion, decisive moments
- EVENT
Speakers, reactions, coverage variety
- PORTRAIT
Flattering pose and expression, eye sharpness
- SPORT
Peak action, sharp subject, storytelling
- LANDSCAPE
Light, depth, level horizon, no people penalties
- WILDLIFE
Sharp animal eye, behaviour, clean background
- TRAVEL
Sense of place, story frames, mixed subjects
- ARCHITECTURE
Straight verticals, clean lines, window detail
- PRODUCT
Isolation, even light, edge-to-edge sharpness
- STOCK
Agency triage, marketability, saturation checks
- EDITORIAL
Newsworthy, unstaged, context over polish
- GENERAL
Mixed first-pass triage
How to judge a culling tool
Most culling tools score frames. The differences that matter show up on your second shoot, not your first.
- Runs in the browser
Nothing to install, works on a laptop or a borrowed machine
- Reasoning you can read
Every reject explains itself instead of showing a number
- Your ratings, your scale
You choose the stars and colour for each tier, once
- Editor-native output
XMP sidecars Lightroom, Bridge, Capture One and darktable already read
- Files stay yours
Full-resolution originals and RAW never leave your device
- Pay per image
Credits instead of a subscription you keep paying between shoots
FAQ
What does AI culling actually do?
It scores every frame for focus (sharpness), noise, exposure and composition, then clusters near-duplicate frames with a perceptual hash. You keep the strongest of each cluster and drop the rest in one click — a 5,000-frame shoot becomes your best few hundred in minutes.
Is this only for stock photographers?
No. You pick a lens per batch — wedding, event, portrait, sport, landscape, wildlife, travel, architecture, product, stock, editorial or general — and the grading changes with it. A wedding lens cares about open eyes and real expressions; a wildlife lens cares about a sharp animal eye and a clean background; a stock lens cares about marketability. The stock rules only ever apply when you choose a stock or editorial lens.
Does it group burst sequences?
Yes. Near-identical frames are grouped into clusters using a 128-bit perceptual hash plus colour, chroma and edge-orientation maps, with EXIF timestamps pairing rapid-fire bursts. Each cluster gets one suggested keeper and you can promote a different frame at any time.
Can it handle a 3,000-frame wedding?
Yes. Folder scans run in managed chunks so a multi-thousand-frame shoot uploads and grades continuously, and you can pause, stop and resume without losing the work already done.
Do my ratings show up in Lightroom or Bridge?
Yes. Every tier maps to a star rating and a colour label that you set once in Settings, and those are written into XMP sidecars — so Lightroom, Bridge, Capture One, Photo Mechanic and darktable read your picks natively. You can also embed metadata directly into JPEGs.
Can I tune how strict the culler is?
Yes. Lenient, Standard, Strict and Ruthless presets cover most workflows, and Custom mode exposes focus tolerance, noise tolerance and how many near-duplicates to keep per cluster. Individual checks — market saturation, composition, anatomy, text, face integrity, megapixels — can each be switched off.
Does it work on RAW files?
Yes — Canon CR2/CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Adobe DNG, Fujifilm RAF, Olympus ORF and Hasselblad 3FR. The embedded preview is extracted in your browser; only a 1280px JPEG (~150–300 KB) is uploaded. RAW originals never leave your machine.
Can I cull without keywording?
Yes. Cull-only uploads skip keywording entirely; you can run keywording later on any batch from the Vault if you want it.
How much does it cost?
Culling is 1 credit per image on any plan, with a free monthly allowance. Re-runs cost 1 credit per image; cached passes don't. There is no per-seat desktop licence.
Ready to cull your next shoot?
Free tier included. No card required, nothing to install.
[ LAUNCH STUDIO ]