The Ultimate AI Photo Culling Face Off | Aftershoot vs. FilterPixel vs. Narrative Select
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- I am looking at and reviewing three of the big names in AI photo culling software: Aftershoot, FilterPixel, and Narrative Select. Each of these systems are designed to free up a photographer's time and streamline their workflow by making the picking process of images "smart", but which tool is the smartest? Let's see if we can find out!
#aiphotography #aiculling #aftershoot #filterpixel #narrativeselect
📚 The chapters for this video:
→ Introduction // 00:41
→ Pricing // 02:47
→ Culling Speed Test // 08:16
→ The UI // 11:59
↳ Design // 12:43
↳ System Communication // 17:30
↳ Making Selection Corrections // 22:38
↳ Exporting // 27:11
→ Cull Quality // 29:51
→ Final Scores & Wrap-up // 32:05
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1. This is not an ad for Aftershoot, FilterPixel, and/or Narrative Select
2. My vocal tone was designed for whatever playback speed you can handle me at, so have fun! 😀
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Narrative Select // narrative.so/select
👋 About me!
Hey, I'm Britney! I'm a former wedding and portrait photographer now turned user experience and search engine optimization-er.
I have a lot of opinions on things, and even though I have now retired from being behind the camera, I still have a deep love of exploring the systems and gear that make a photographer's life enjoyable and freeing. With this YouTubing outlet, I'm excited to celebrate, commiserate, and get suggestions on what's coming next.
Thanks so much for the amazing review! Justin the co-founder of Aftershoot here! Would love to get you on our updated version! Looks like the testing is on an older version of the app! We’re always improving and updating every 4-6 weeks so we have definitely added and improved some things! Let us know if you’d like to give it another run with the updates!!!
30:20 cuts to the chase. narrative and aftershoot tie. altho narrative took 3 secs to cull and aftershoot took 4.5 mins. she also says the ai is the same, same pics selected w all the programs. but she doesnt find the softwares useful compared to manual culling. it took her the same amount of time to cull her own images as the 4 min ones. thx for posting!
My findings were the same, insofar as Aftershoot. I used the software for over a year through multiple updates and over time I found I actually spent more and more time manually culling afterwards because I did not trust the AI picks versus manual picks. One example is that the AI culler seemed to prefer an image where the subject was smiling, and the broader the smile, the higher the rating - even if they blinked. As a senior photographer, many of our favorite images are the serious face. The thing I found most helpful was the closeup view of each face in the preview mode, but I still was going through each image one-by-one, so the "time savings'" was minimal. Especially considering I had to wait for the AI to go through the bunch first (although this can be done while you step AFK). Ultimately I decided I would save the subscription fee and do my own culling. I am faster so perhaps the best thing the tool taught me was speed and efficiency.
As nice as the thought of having an AI cull large weddings, I think for the time being, I will cull my own. Mayyyyybe the editing will be more useful, but we shall see. Oh, and good luck on your channel, and thank you for putting in the work.
Appreciate the deep dive. I've been in the free trial for Filter Pixel (which is now back down to 2 weeks) and there's a couple of things that I've found helpful. I do school photography (among other things) and just uploaded 3909 images - it did it's initial cull in 12m which kind of blew my mind. I also found that the duplicates were about 60-70% accurate - a lot of room for improvement - but this helped as it meant I could just take a quick look at the dupes and then use the compare tool to find the ones with the best focus/expression. There were definitely images in the duplicates that didn't belong and I also found it would sometimes select blurry images - not sure why.
My major question is how long will it take for the AI to learn my culling style so that it becomes more efficient and I can start to trust it more?? That's why we're all here, right?! Culling is the bane of my existence and I was hoping an AI tool would change my life, but given that I'm hesitant to trust another human to do it, I'm nor sure I should trust the AI yet either. 😬
Great review. Thanks for the deep dive and detailed information. What are your thoughts on Imagine-AI? Have you looked at that? Also, I'd love to have you on my podcast, Creative Tech Chats, to chat about AI and photography. I'll send you a DM.
I wish you would have looked at how the difference System Resources effected culling in Aftershoot. I'm wondering if that shows any differences in selections. If they're all working off of the same/similar AI models, that one at least seems like it has an edge in how heavily it judges photos, versus the others. I would rather an AI help select a few of the potentially best shots versus assume every shot or even broader from an event shoot that I would want to select. I think for me, that aspect is what's most important in combing through photos. I'll go through the rest manually for the officially released album of photos. If there's an increased accuracy in overall best shots, composition wise, that helps at least get those out more immediately following an event.
I have massive selection bias anxiety and these assist tools are intriguing to me in relieving that part of my being, as I am slow to cull. I do have my doubts though, as I have used FilterPixel so far and I still have to look through everything manually to make sure it's picking those best shots, but it's at least helped me in the way that it categorizes and puts similar images all next to each other, as sometimes I turn away to grab another little moment for a few shots and then turn back, so the timeline of shots gets screwy. It puts groups of images into context and that's helpful for my process. It's something that I feel like LR could have built in at some point, as they move further into implementing AI as well. That is so great for events where your attention gets pulled all over the place.
The thing I liked best was the keyword tagging. It could look at an image and give a basic tag for what was going on in the moment, like people hugging and dancing, or portraits and group shots, but this is also something I could see LR implementing at some point. If the others are as accurate in this way as well, which I assume they are, as their AI models seem very similar, I may just have to use that Aftershoot trial for my next few events. FP just felt too barebones for me. It felt more like a shell for more to be built into it, but it still has a skeleton at least, which was great play with. Just left wanting more to justify paying. It's also good to see these products trending down in price as well. Affordability is rough with the types of events I work.
I'm also interested to see where the AI editing aspects of these software models gets to. I think it's a bit overpriced to be training AI to edit like us, but really just have to go through everything still, especially at first, with a low image database to base everything off of. This last year, I experienced a hard drive crash and I had not backed up the whole previous year's photo edits before it suddenly went. I already culled those albums, but would love to feel like I could get those back to being at least somewhat accurately edited again and have that back catalog able to be pulled from again. The addition of AI tags would help me further categorize so that I can just go back and grab that couple's shot or a group without such an extreme level of combing to go find something.
Thank you for doing this dive! It really helped me in it breaking down with real life experience. Going to try Aftershoot for the next month of events and hopefully I'll be reporting that I'm saving at least my selection anxiety, if not time!
We're grateful for being part of this discussion, and we appreciate the acknowledgment of FilterPixel as the most user-friendly option.
I want to emphasize that FilterPixel now starts at $8.99 per month, making it the most cost-effective AI culling solution currently available (pricing was updated approximately 10 days ago). It stands out as the only option providing a perpetual license without any subscription fees, which positions it as the leader in terms of pricing. Additionally, it boasts exceptional speed, especially when processing a large volume of photos.
FilterPixel's batch processing ensures that its speed remains competitive with other software until you reach around 1000 photos, at which point its efficiency becomes more apparent. Furthermore, each update is meticulously designed to enhance the accuracy and speed of the product, ensuring that users experience continual improvements.
We encourage you to stay tuned for upcoming updates and enhancements.
There is no way ai is going to stick to your style of culling. I am also 100% sure you are going to miss some gems of images if you dont even look at your images yourself. Just use photo mechanic like the pro's do. You still cull in like an hour and it's worth it.
You should give imagen-ai a try
Have you used this for culling? I hear it's a good app for colour and editing
@@lisataitphotography9720 I honestly dont see why people would use AI to do their culling, culling is too much a matter of taste, and with something like photo mechanic its really fast. I can cull thousands of images in like an hour. and while i am culling i can see which images are portfolio worthy etc, i mean i cull at the speed i look at them and i need to look at them at some point anyways so i dont see why you would not even look at them all, you might miss some gems in there.
I use imagenAi and i love it for editing. But for culling, I find ultimately it's the same as the point she makes at about minute 32 - you still have to go through everything pretty carefully to see what the AI chose at the final picks. I also find it's picking wayyyy to many keepers than I normally would. So it's nice when it verifies the ones I would have kept but it's just as much work as culling it myself if not a bit harder.
This is not for all photographs sadly. Yet another comparison that only compares tools for Portrait Photography only. Sad
AI Culling is crazy. I wonder How many people are actually doing it for hi-end portraits? Seems like several large 4k or 8k monitors/tvs would be quick.
I heard like 90 to 100% of AI gui apps are using the same backend. Anybody know the actual name of the backend on these AI Cull tools?
Sounds like AI Culling is not ready yet, untill they improve the cull-ai and the oversight / reveiw interface.