AI photo quality checker — catch the misses before your client does
Every frame graded for focus, noise, exposure and composition, with a PASS, WARN or FAIL and a one-line critique. Blur, closed eyes, smeared faces, bad hands, misspelled signage and near-duplicates get flagged before delivery.
What gets checked
- Per-frame verdict — PASS / WARN / FAIL with a written critique
- Focus, noise, exposure and composition graded 0–100
- Face integrity and anatomy checks catch smeared faces and wrong hands
- Text and spelling check on signage and captions in frame
- Near-duplicate clusters — keep the top frame, drop the rest
- Twelve lenses, from wedding and wildlife to product and stock
- Every gate is a switch — turn off what your genre doesn't need
- Native RAW support; originals never leave your device
Cull first, then check
The two workspaces do different jobs and are meant to be used in order.
- CULL
Fast triage of a whole shoot into tiers, with burst clusters grouped
- QUALITY CHECKER
Deep inspection of the keepers, with a deliverable verdict per frame
- TOGETHER
Thousands of frames become a short, checked, editor-ready set
From the card to your editor
Load the shoot straight off the card, and every verdict leaves with the files as metadata your editor already reads.
- CARD OR FOLDER
Scan an SD card or shoot folder in the browser, subfolders optional
- RAW + JPG PAIRS
Matched by filename stem so a frame is never checked twice
- XMP SIDECARS
Verdict tier, stars, colour label, title, description and keywords
- EMBEDDED FIELDS
JPEG, PNG and TIFF get metadata written into the file itself
- EXIFTOOL SCRIPT
Included in the export zip for pushing metadata into RAW originals
- READS IT
Lightroom Classic, Bridge (as-is), Capture One (enable sidecar XMP), Photo Mechanic, darktable, digiKam
Grading that follows your genre
The lens sets what a failure means. Agency rules only apply when you ask for them.
- WEDDING & EVENT
Expressions, eyes open, coverage
- SPORT & WILDLIFE
Peak action, sharp subject eye, clean background
- PORTRAIT
Intentional shallow depth of field is never called soft focus
- PRODUCT & ARCHITECTURE
Even light, isolation, straight verticals
- STOCK & EDITORIAL
Agency megapixel minimums and market saturation
- GENERAL
Neutral grading for mixed shoots
FAQ
What does the Quality Checker actually check?
Focus (sharpness via Laplacian variance), noise, exposure, composition and effective megapixels, plus face integrity, anatomy and any text in frame. It also clusters near-duplicates with a perceptual hash so you only keep the best frame of each cluster.
Is this only useful 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 follows. Stock-specific gates such as market saturation and agency megapixel minimums only switch on under a stock or editorial lens; a wedding batch is never rejected for being 'oversupplied'.
What's the difference between Quality Checker and Cull?
Cull is the fast first pass: it grades a whole shoot and sorts it into tiers so you can drop the misses. Quality Checker is the delivery gate: it inspects the frames you kept in more depth — faces, anatomy, text, resolution — and gives each one a PASS, WARN or FAIL with a written critique. Most people cull first, then run QC on the keepers.
How is it different from culling in Lightroom?
Lightroom shows you everything and asks you to flag it. The Quality Checker reads every frame, assigns a verdict with a short critique, and groups visual duplicates, so the keep-vs-cull decision is one click instead of one hour.
Does it catch AI artefacts and smeared faces?
Yes. Face integrity checks for melted or smeared features, anatomy checks for wrong hands and limbs, and a text check catches misspelled signage — the failures a fast human pass usually misses at thumbnail size.
Can I load a card or a whole shoot folder?
Yes. Point the browser at the SD card or the shoot folder and it scans in managed chunks — subfolder scanning is optional, RAW+JPG pairs are matched by filename stem, and you can pause, reconnect and resume without redoing checked frames.
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 preview is uploaded.
Can I turn individual checks off?
Every gate is a switch: megapixels, market saturation, composition, anatomy, text and face integrity. Turn one off and nothing it would have flagged counts against a frame — including in the reasoning shown on rejects.
How much does it cost?
Quality Checker runs at 1 credit per image on every plan. Re-runs cost 1 credit per image; cached passes don't.
Where do my photos go?
Pick a folder and originals stay on your machine — only a 1280px JPEG preview is uploaded for scoring. The vault stores that preview plus the verdict and metadata.
I don't use Lightroom or Bridge — how do I get ratings back on my RAW?
The XMP export zip includes a README plus embed-metadata.sh (macOS/Linux) and embed-metadata.bat (Windows). Install ExifTool (free) and run the script — it copies title, description, keywords, star rating and colour label into each RAW or JPG. darktable, Photo Mechanic and digiKam read the .xmp sidecars directly, and Capture One does too once "Prefer Sidecar XMP" is enabled in Preferences → Image → Metadata — no script needed.
Ready to check your next delivery?
Free tier included. No card required, nothing to install.
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