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Learn how to automatically select the best photos from a group, with filters like subject focus, open eyes, and more.
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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.
Before you begin:
Select Catalog Settings > Metadata > Assisted Culling to turn on the Assisted Culling feature. Alternatively, select the drop-down beside the Identity Plate and turn on Auto Analysis to access Assisted Culling.
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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 are applied to an album.
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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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In the Organize Result section, you can apply batch actions to organize photos by flagging, rating, labeling, and adding the Selects and Rejects photos to the collection or folder.
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