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Separate the gems from duffers the easy way with this clever Ai-powered culling software

Back in the days of film, every exposure was precious; with a mere 36 frames at their disposal before changing rolls, not to mention film and processing costs, photographers would hit the shutter sparingly. But in these digital days, with cards comfortably swallowing gigabytes of images and with no additional outlay, it’s all too easy to come back from a shoot with thousands of images, which leads to hours at the computer, sorting the wheat from the chaff in the culling process.

Aftershoot automates this tedious task, trawling through all the images from a shoot to find the keepers for you, not only identifying shots that have missed focus or have blinking

1 Set your preferences

Before you start the culling process, you need to tell Aftershoot how strict it should be. You can set how tolerant it should be for image blur, and how it should treat duplicated images. You can also select the number of ‘highlights’ – the images rated as the best of the best. You can also determine the colour coding and star-rating of images.

2 Cull the images

Click the Start Culling button and Aftershoot gets to work. This could take some time, depending on the number of images and power of your computer, so it might be an opportune moment to go and have a cuppa while the computer gets on with the automated culling process. Once the culling is complete, the program sends an email alert.

3 You’re in control

The software doesn’t actually delete any images, and you’re free to override its decisions. You can use shortcut keys to quickly re-rate shots, and the software learns from any changes you make to refine its culling process. Once happy, hit the Export button to load the selected images into Lightroom or Capture One, or save them into a folder. subjects and so on, but picking the best image from groups of similar shots and selecting the best composition using advanced AI algorithms. It then star-rates images, suggesting those that are worthy of further processing and separating them from those that are fit only for the trash can. The program works with all the latest Nikon Raw files.

Aftershoot normally costs $14.99 per month, but we’re offering N-photo readers a free three-month subscription (worth $45). And if you’d like to keep on using the software once the subscription has expired, you can get it at the discounted rate of $99 for a year. For more information, see: https://aftershoot.com