Culling

The Ultimate AI Culling Studio
for Photographers

Leverage Imagen’s AI to significantly cut down your culling workload while still maintaining full control.

How Imagen Culling Studio Works

Upload project
Upload project
Set ranking & grouping
Set ranking & grouping
Review & select photos
Review & select photos
Introducing

Cull Edited Previews

Now you can do the unthinkable and tackle the culling process from a brand new, optimized perspective.

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

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

Imagen Culling

Let us do the heavy lifting

Efficiency is the name of the game and that’s what guides us every step of the way. Imagen mimics the human selection process and automatically groups similar photos, from which your keepers are selected based on AI-powered detection.

  • Face Recognition

    Detects subjects and duplicates.

  • Blurry Photos

    Detects out-of-focus images.

  • Closed Eyes

    Recognizes unintentional blinks.

  • Kiss Recognition

    Some closed eyes are still keepers.

  • Your Preferences

    Keep full control by setting your grouping preferences and adjusting the culling results.

  • Detects subjects and duplicates.

  • Detects out-of-focus images.

  • Recognizes unintentional blinks.

  • Some closed eyes are still keepers.

  • Keep full control by setting your grouping preferences and adjusting the culling results.

  • 5 stars
    I loved that you didn’t have to leave Imagen, download your edits and then go into Lightroom. Those few minutes saved is awesome when you’re doing a lot. Also loved that it used the same shortcuts as Lightroom so felt very natural and simple to use.
    Katrina Johns
    Personal Branding & Family Photographer, New Zealand
  • 5 stars
    “It’s a great game changer for me! It’s so much faster than reviewing through Lightroom.“
    Giovanni Logrono
    Wedding Photographer, USA
  • 5 stars
    “Culling through the images is great! The program was very easy to use and fast (much better than Lightroom).“
    Katie Billstrom
    Wedding Photographer, USA
  • 5 stars
    “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
  • 5 stars
    “Fck me, Imagen has helped me so much with my editing process. Viva Imagen!”
    Fer Juaristi
    Fer Juaristi
    Fer Juaristi Photography, Mexico

Frequently asked questions

  • AI culling software automates the culling process by utilizing advanced algorithms to intelligently select and organize photos based on certain criteria.
    Imagen Culling Studio’s 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.

  • Imagen’s Culling Studio 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 Studio. This results in a streamlined post-production workflow, encompassing culling, editing, and cloud backup, all within a single app.

  • Imagen Culling Studio’s 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 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 Culling Studio 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 Studio.
    After making selections, move on to editing, apply your desired AI tools, and download your fully culled and edited photos.

  • If you are looking for free photo culling software — all Imagen subscribers can access the Culling Studio and all of its features for FREE, while still in beta. Whether you are a commitment-free ‘Pay-as-you-go’ member or an annual plan subscriber, you get both AI Editing and Culling Studio at no additional cost Check out our pricing page for more details and to compare our plans.

  • Imagen AI culling 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 culling software such as Imagen’s Culling Studio 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 Studio 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 new Imagen Culling Studio ‘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.

Put Imagen to work for you

$0.05 per photo. Incredible results at a minimal price.
Crop, Straighten and Subject Mask are each available at an extra $0.01 per photo.

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