Remove Duplicate Photos

Fallback is our smart selection tool that automatically identifies and hides visually similar photos, keeping only the sharpest and best-composed shot from a sequence makes it into your final property gallery. When you're shooting a real estate listing, you often take multiple shots of the same angle to ensure you get a perfect one. Fallback analyzes these groups of near-duplicates for you, looking at factors like sharpness, focus, and composition to pick the winner. The others aren't deleted, just hidden from the main selection, so you can always review them later if needed. This saves you a massive amount of time during culling. Instead of manually comparing dozens of similar images for a single listing, you're presented with a pre-culled gallery. This builds incredible consistency into your workflow and lets you deliver a polished, professional real estate gallery to your clients much faster.

You can activate fallback with a single click before you upload a project. In the upload screen, you’ll find the option to enable it for your entire batch of photos. Once enabled, our AI gets to work during the culling process. It groups similar images together based on their visual content, which is perfect for those sequences you shoot for every room in a property. It then selects the technically superior photo from each group and marks it as the ‘keeper’. The rest are simply hidden, not deleted, giving you full control to override our suggestions. This setup means you can confidently upload an entire real estate shoot, knowing that the initial tedious task of finding the best shot of each composition is handled for you. It’s a simple setting that creates huge time savings and improves gallery consistency.

Fallback dramatically speeds up culling by doing the most repetitive work for you. For a typical real estate listing, you might shoot 5 to 10 photos of the same room from the same angle to guarantee a sharp image. Manually clicking through and pixel-peeping each of these shots to find the best one is slow and tedious. Fallback automates this entirely. It analyzes each group of similar photos and presents you with only the strongest option. This means your first pass on a culling job is already 80% done. Instead of sifting through hundreds of redundant images, you're working with a much smaller, pre-selected gallery of high-quality shots. This allows you to focus your time on creative choices and final selections for the property, rather than on the mechanical task of eliminating technical rejects. It’s how photographers cut their culling time by up to 90% per listing.

While it seems similar, fallback is a much smarter and more active process than Lightroom's stacking. Stacking in Lightroom simply groups photos based on capture time, which you have to manually trigger. It doesn't analyze the content of the photos or make any recommendations. You still have to do all the work of opening the stack and comparing each image to find the best one. In contrast, our fallback feature analyzes the visual information within each photo of a sequence. It intelligently selects the best shot based on critical focus and clarity, then hides the rest. It’s an automated decision-making tool, not just a grouping function. This saves you the mental energy of making thousands of micro-decisions for every real estate gallery, keeping greater consistency and speed for your entire property portfolio.

No, fallback is designed to select the single best photo from a sequence of similar, non-bracketed shots, not to merge brackets. For your bracketed exposures intended for HDR, you’ll want to use our dedicated HDR Merge tool. Fallback's purpose is different: it’s for culling those moments when you fire off several frames of the same composition to ensure you nail the focus. For example, if you took five photos of a kitchen island, fallback will analyze them and pick the sharpest one for your gallery. You would then use HDR Merge to combine the corresponding five-shot bracket for that chosen composition. Think of fallback as your culling assistant for the entire real estate listing, and HDR Merge as your specialized tool for creating perfectly exposed images from your bracketed sets.

You never lose control. Fallback acts as your expert assistant, not a final decision-maker. It makes intelligent suggestions by selecting the best photo and hiding the duplicates, but every single photo is still there. You can easily view the hidden photos in any group with a single click. If you disagree with the AI's choice for a specific part of the property, you can instantly override it and select a different image to be the ‘keeper’. This workflow gives you the best of both worlds: the speed of automation and the assurance of 100% manual control. The goal is to remove the tedious parts of culling a real estate listing, freeing you up to apply your professional judgment where it matters most, keeping the final gallery meets your exact standards.

Fallback is a key tool for achieving high-level consistency in your work. It ensures that every single image selected for a real estate gallery is the most technically proficient one from its sequence. By automatically weeding out shots that are slightly out of focus or have minor motion blur, it establishes a high baseline of quality before you even begin editing. This means the final property gallery delivered to your client is uniformly sharp and professional. When you're shooting hundreds of photos for a large property, it’s easy to miss a slightly soft image during a manual cull. Fallback acts as a safety net, applying the same rigorous, objective criteria to every photo. This systematic approach is crucial for building a brand known for reliable, high-quality results on every listing.

Yes, absolutely. Fallback is an incredibly powerful tool for scaling your team and maintaining brand consistency. Because it’s an automated, AI-driven feature, it applies the same objective standards for sharpness and clarity to every photo, regardless of who on your team is doing the upload. This removes the subjective guesswork that can lead to different culling standards between photographers. Every real estate listing, from a small condo to a large luxury property, will have its initial culling done with the same logic. This keeps that every gallery your company produces meets a consistent, high-quality technical benchmark. It simplifies your training process and gives you peace of mind that your brand’s reputation for quality is being upheld on every single shoot, no matter who is behind the camera.

Currently, the fallback feature operates with a finely tuned algorithm optimized specifically for the common challenges in real estate photography, so there aren't manual sensitivity sliders. We’ve trained it on millions of property photos to expertly identify near-duplicates and select the sharpest frame, whether it’s a wide-angle room shot or a detailed close-up. The system is designed to be a one-click tool that provides maximum efficiency without requiring complex configuration for each new listing. This approach keeps you get reliable and consistent results across every gallery you process. It’s built to understand the nuances of a typical real estate shoot, giving you a powerful culling tool that works right out of the box, saving you time and improving the overall quality of your delivered images.

If fallback groups photos you intended to be distinct, correcting it is simple and fast. The AI groups images that are visually very similar, which is common when you reposition slightly between shots. However, you always have the final say. You can instantly view all the photos the AI has grouped together. From there, you can easily un-group them or select multiple 'keepers' from within a single group. The system is designed to be a flexible assistant. Its primary job is to handle the 95% of cases where you have clear duplicates, saving you a huge amount of time on a property shoot. For the few instances where your creative intent differs, you retain full manual control to adjust the selections. This ensures your final real estate gallery perfectly matches your vision for the listing.