(Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World) Here Aftershoot’s ‘magic unicorns’ have gathered the best 15% of our original 317 images into a filtered collection, so we can find something good to quickly share with our client. You can make it only locate and group Identical copies or allow it to group Similar shots by clicking the appropriate preferences button. Aftershoot also lets you adjust the criteria for culling duplicates. A Strict setting will cause it to cull anything that isn’t pin sharp, while Moderate will include slightly blurred shots after the cull. For example, you can set the threshold for how Aftershoot deals with blurred photos. You can adjust the preferences of the culling settings to see more or fewer photos after the cull. You can view shots as thumbnails in the Grid view or double-click to take a closer look in the Loupe view. The predominantly black interface is slick and cleanly designed so your focus is never distracted from your photos. Explanatory labels appear with blue arrows that indicate the relevant buttons to press to create a new album for Aftershoot to analyse. When you first open Aftershoot, pop-up labels helpfully talk you through the process of importing a folder of files for the app to analyse. Interface and usabilityĪftershoot uses helpful pop-up guides to lead the novice through their first cull. Check out our supporting video to see the Aftershoot workflow in action. You can customize the way it creates duplicate sets by adjusting a tolerance preference.

After analyzing the shots it then groups them according to color-coded and star-rated filters such as Blurred, Closed Eyes, and Highlights. You can also use the app to ingest (import) shots from a memory card into a folder and create a back-up folder at the same time. However the main focus of this review is on using Aftershoot to cull unwanted photos and leave you with the best results.Īftershoot scans an existing folder of photos on your PC’s hard drive and then sorts the shots out into different groups using a range of filters. It can then apply those color and tone tweaks to your best shots when they are exported from Aftershoot to Lightroom Classic (so the actual editing is automatically applied in Lightroom). Aftershoot also has a Beta feature called Aftershoot Edits that does involve uploading your shots to the cloud so it can understand how you like to edit. You don’t need to worry about the hassle (and extra time) of uploading your images to a cloud-based AI service.

(Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World)Ī welcome key feature with Aftershoot is that it performs its image-analyzing and culling operation directly from your PC. You can then click on a blue filter to discover the best of the best or a red filter to view blurred shots. After a cull Aftershoot assigns colour labels and ratings to various shots.

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