In the Library module, select Import.
Last updated on
Oct 27, 2025
Learn how to select the best photos with Assisted Culling when you import a folder.
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The AI-powered Assisted Culling feature in Lightroom Classic lets you efficiently organize photo collections and folders by identifying the best images, rejecting low-quality photos, and making editing adjustments. You can cull your pictures at the time of import and use the feature for albums already available in Lightroom Classic.
This feature is currently available as Early Access. Assisted Culling in the Import dialog isn't available for the Devices section.
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Select a folder from the Source menu, and then select Assisted Culling. Lightroom will run an analysis in the background for the selected folder.
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Once the analysis is completed, in the Assisted Culling panel, choose from the following Select options:
- Subject Focus: This option chooses images with the subject in focus. You can drag the slider left and right to set the selection criteria.
- Eye Focus: This option chooses images with the eyes in focus. You can drag the slider left and right to set the selection criteria.
- Reject photos without people's eyes: Select the checkbox to reject the images that don't have human eyes.
- Eyes Open: This option chooses images with open eyes.
- Reject photos without people's eyes: Select the checkbox to reject the images that don't have human eyes.
- Reject 'Can't Tell' images: Select the checkbox to reject images in which it's impossible to distinguish whether the eyes are open or not.
Assisted Culling options in the Import window.
Assisted Culling options in the Import window. -
Choose from the following Reject options to define what to exclude photos from the collection:
- Documents and receipts: Choose this to reject all images of documents and receipts.
- Misfires: Choose this to reject images captured accidentally.
- Exposure issues: Choose this to reject images with exposure problems.
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In the View section, choose the following buttons to view photos accordingly.
- Selects: Displays all the images based on the selected filters.
- Rejects: Displays all the images based on the rejected filters.
- All: Displays all the selected and rejected images based on the selected filters.
The images are displayed based on the Selects or Rejects icons based on the selected criteria. Hover over the icon to view additional details such as the pass or fail criteria and score. Right-click the icon and choose Mark as Select or Mark as Reject to override the Assisted Culling result, if desired.
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Auto Stack your images based on Capture Time and Visual Similarity in the Assisted Culling panel.
Tip
- In the File Handling panel, select Don't Import Rejected Images to exclude the rejected images from getting imported.
- Select Import Auto Stacks to Collections to import the auto-stacks to the selected collection.
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