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Lightroom Classic Early Access AI-Powered Assisted Culling and Auto Stacking

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Lightroom Classic Early Access: AI-Powered Assisted Culling and Auto Stacking

Clip title: Assisted Culling (Early Access) & Auto Stacking in Lightroom Classic Author / channel: Julieanne Kost URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5yy-XpLXOs

Summary

This video provides a comprehensive overview of the new “Early Access” Assisted Culling and Auto-Stacking features in Lightroom Classic, designed to enhance photographer productivity. The speaker, Julianne Kost, demonstrates how these AI-powered tools streamline the process of selecting and organizing photos, particularly for portraits. The features can be applied either after importing files in the Library module or directly during the import process.

Assisted Culling utilizes trained AI models to analyze images, especially portraits of people, based on several criteria. Users can enable filters such as “Subject Focus” to detect sharpness of the person, “Eye Focus” for in-focus eyes, and “Eye Open” to flag photos with closed eyes. Each filter comes with a slider to adjust its leniency or strictness, allowing photographers to fine-tune the selection process. Images are categorized as “Selects” (indicated by a green tick) or “Rejects” (indicated by a red cross), with detailed culling scores available for selected images. The system also offers options to reject photos categorized as documents/receipts, misfires, or those with extreme exposure issues, focusing on truly unwanted images. Manual overrides are available to change an image’s status if needed.

For organizing results, Lightroom Classic offers “Batch Actions” allowing users to apply flags, star ratings (e.g., two stars for selects), color labels, or add photos to collections. Rejected images can also be bulk-removed. The “Auto-Stack” feature helps manage burst shots by grouping visually similar photos or those taken within a user-defined capture time interval. These stacking preferences can also be adjusted via sliders, though the video notes that stacks created during import are not currently carried forward to the Library module in this early access version.

When used during import, Assisted Culling presents the same filter options, allowing users to pre-filter and choose to “Don’t import rejected images.” Metadata presets, including star ratings, can also be applied at this stage. Key takeaways highlighted by the presenter include that the AI analysis runs locally on the device, meaning no internet connection is required. Furthermore, as this is an early access feature, Adobe encourages users to provide feedback to help refine and improve these tools for future releases.

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