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The ultimate AI culling for photographers

Imagen’s culling mimics the human selection process, delivering results that feel like you chose them yourself, only in a fraction of the time.

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How Imagen culling works

1
STEP 1

Upload a project

Get started in seconds: just drag and drop or upload your shoot.

2
STEP 2

Set your preferences

Pick your culling method and define how photos are group and rated.

3
STEP 3

Review and finalize

Review, compare, and easily adjust ratings to finalize your best shots.

4
STEP 4

Send to editing

Send your selected photos to editing with your AI Profile applied.

Speed up your workflow

Imagen’s AI Culling shortlists your best shots by grouping and rating your photos, while you stay in control of every final pick.

Face Recognition

Detects subjects and duplicates.

Blurry photos

Detects out-of-focus shots.

Kiss recognition

Some closed eyes are still keepers.

Closed eyes

Recognizes unintentional blinks.

NEW

Cull to Exact Number

From high-volume shoots to strict client requests, precision and control are now built in.

Set a specific count or percentage, and Imagen’s AI selects the best matches. As always, you stay in control. Review, adjust, and move straight to editing in one smooth flow.

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Cull Edited Previews

Review previews of your photos with your favorite AI Profile applied directly within Culling.

Once you’re done with your selections, swiftly move on to editing, apply your desired AI tools, and download your fully culled and edited photos.

Try for free

Reviews from those who know best.

The term ‘game changer’ gets thrown out a lot, but for any busy photographer, this software will change your life.

Michael Antony
Michael Antony
Michael Antony Photography, USA

My survival is due to Imagen… I would MARVEL at how little I had to adjust.

Charmi Patel Peña
Charmi Patel Peña
Wedding Photographer, USA

Discovering Imagen has been like someone inventing toilet paper. Simply essential and now life is unthinkable without it. I now know that those years of editing backlogs are a thing of the past. I’m truly grateful.

Sarah Edmunds
Sarah Edmunds
Portrait & Wedding Photographer, Italy

Table your doubts and embrace a modern and efficient workflow enabled by AI. Imagen creates a stunningly consistent starting point across your entire collection of images, which allows you to immediately start on the more nuanced aspects of your edits.

sam
Sam Hurd
Sam Hurd Photography, USA

Fck me, Imagen has helped me so much with my editing process. Viva Imagen!

Fer Juaristi
Fer Juaristi
Fer Juaristi Photography, Mexico

Thanks to Imagen, I can actually enjoy editing… I have recovered hundreds of hours back.

Daniel Alonso
Daniel Alonso
People TrueLove Tellers, Spain

Frequently asked questions

Imagen’s photo culling software is an in-app solution tailored for photographers to swiftly cull photos using AI. It enables reviewing, ranking, and seamlessly forwarding selected photos for AI editing with a preferred Personal or Talent AI Profile, all within the Imagen app. Review previews of your photos with your favorite AI Profile applied directly within Culling. This results in a streamlined post-production workflow, encompassing culling, editing, and cloud backup, all within a single app.

AI culling software automates the culling process by utilizing advanced algorithms to intelligently select and organize photos based on certain criteria. Imagen Culling latest AI algorithm automatically groups similar images, recognizes faces, detects blinks, kisses, and blurry photos, presenting them for your review, saving you hours of your workflow. Learn more

Imagen Culling AI app photo culling process is based on the “Culling In” method. This is a process of adding a rating or ranking to the images you wish to keep, as opposed to “Culling Out,” which involves rejecting the images you want to discard. Users can customize their culling software preferences by rating their photos with stars, colors, or flags, and choose their preferred grouping criteria based on their desired level of similarity.

Another unique advantage of the Imagen’s AI photo culling software is the fresh and optimized perspective, allowing culling your entire catalog using previews of their edited versions. This means you can review photo previews with your preferred AI profile already applied, directly within the Culling.
After making selections, move on to editing, apply your desired AI tools, and download your fully culled and edited photos.

Imagen’s AI culling software offers two subscription plans:
Annual plan: $12/month, billed annually, saving you a total of $72 per year. Monthly plan: $18/month, billed monthly, and can be canceled anytime.
Learn more on Imagen pricing page

Imagen AI culling software is cloud-based and doesn’t take up your computer’s CPU or GPU. All you need for a seamless culling process and optimal performance is a computer and an internet connection. As long as your computer supports Windows 10 or later, or macOS version 10.11 (El Capitan) or later, with a processor supporting 64-bit, you’re good to go. For more details, please check here.

Culling photos in Lightroom Classic involves several steps; First, you manually review photos
In the Library module’s ‘Loupe view’. Then, you use star ratings, flags, or color labels to mark the rejects and the keepers. The last step includes editing the selected photos and deleting the rejects.

The best photo culling software such as Imagen Culling, power by AI paves the way for faster processing, and automated image selection, making it much easier to quickly cull and batch edit your photos with it, compared to Lightroom. Imagen Culling app even utilizes the same familiar keyboard shortcuts as Lightroom – to speed up the workflow when making your final selection.

Culling in photography refers to the process of selecting and sorting through photos to choose the best ones for further editing. In other words, the photo culling process means sorting through the full photoshoot gallery to remove the duplicates, blurry, overexposed, and overall less successful shots and only keep the best ones.

Yes! The Imagen culling app’s ‘Low-rated’ category feature simplifies photo culling by automatically identifying blurry, poorly exposed, and uninformative photos. This can help you improve your workflow efficiency with streamlined decision-making, helping photographers achieve better results and stay in full control. To filter out the unwanted results, you need to turn on the Low-rated setting in culling results. Learn more about it in this guide.

The best AI culling software doesn’t disrupt your current workflow — it enhances it. Imagen, for instance, integrates seamlessly with Lightroom, allowing for a smooth transition from selection to editing. Moreover, by combining both the photo culling and editing within the same platform – Imagen allows you to complete all of your post-processing workflow in a single window. Learn more

AI culling software for photographers like Imagen is highly accurate, but it isn’t infallible. Plus a personal preference always plays a role. Sometimes, it may discard a shot you would have kept or flag an image that you might overlook. To counter this, you can do a quick review to ensure nothing valuable gets left behind. However, even with this step, AI culling software saves hours compared to manual photo culling.

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Cull 2 projects for free

The ultimate AI culling for photographers

Imagen’s culling mimics the human selection process, delivering results that feel like you chose them yourself, only in a fraction of the time.

Get Started

How Imagen culling works

1
STEP 1

Upload a project

Get started in seconds: just drag and drop or upload your shoot.

2
STEP 2

Set your preferences

Pick your culling method and define how photos are group and rated.

3
STEP 3

Review and finalize

Review, compare, and easily adjust ratings to finalize your best shots.

4
STEP 4

Send to editing

Send your selected photos to editing with your AI Profile applied.

Speed up your workflow

Imagen’s AI Culling shortlists your best shots by grouping and rating your photos, while you stay in control of every final pick.

Face Recognition

Detects subjects and duplicates.

Blurry photos

Detects out-of-focus shots.

Kiss recognition

Some closed eyes are still keepers.

Closed eyes

Recognizes unintentional blinks.

NEW

Cull to Exact Number

From high-volume shoots to strict client requests, precision and control are now built in.

Set a specific count or percentage, and Imagen’s AI selects the best matches. As always, you stay in control. Review, adjust, and move straight to editing in one smooth flow.

Try for free
frame 1261152715
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Cull Edited Previews

Review previews of your photos with your favorite AI Profile applied directly within Culling.

Once you’re done with your selections, swiftly move on to editing, apply your desired AI tools, and download your fully culled and edited photos.

Try for free

Reviews from those who know best.

Michael Antony
Michael Antony
Michael Antony Photography, USA
Charmi Patel Peña
Charmi Patel Peña
Wedding Photographer, USA
Sarah Edmunds
Sarah Edmunds
Portrait & Wedding Photographer, Italy
sam
Sam Hurd
Sam Hurd Photography, USA
Fer Juaristi
Fer Juaristi
Fer Juaristi Photography, Mexico
Daniel Alonso
Daniel Alonso
People TrueLove Tellers, Spain

Frequently asked questions

Save hours on your next project

Subscribe and get unlimited culling for every project

Try Culling Now
See pricing