P: (AI) Batch edting based upon a personal style

I am a full-time corporate event photographer and I live in poorly lit convention centers and hotel ballrooms where there are all kinds of weird lighting and often several different color casts in a single shot. I have evaluated all of the currently available AI tools (Imagen AI, Neurapix, Evoto, etc.) that claim to learn your editing style, and none of them does even a halfway acceptable job, and none of them learn your masking style. Because of the challenging conditions I usually work in, I often have to retouch my photos with Brush & Object masks because, for example, a face might be half in shadow, or only be half lit by a strongly colored light source. This means that using an AI People mask to select Facial Skin won’t work because it will select facial skin I don’t want to change. 

Unlike 3rd party tools, Lightroom has access to the catalog and all of my retouching and masking history. In addition to doing a much better job learning how I use my global sliders to adjust photos to land on my desired look, could Lightroom also learn that most of my masks often cover parts of faces, and then learn how I change the color, exposure, etc. of faces through Brush masks?

I guess the key would be looking at an unretouched raw file, breaking it into all of the different regions (Background, Subject, Sky, Facial Skin, Clothes, etc.), comparing various settings like Exposure, Temperature, Tint, Contrast, etc.in these regions to the model that Lightroom built detailing how I like each of these regions to typically look, and then creating adjustments (both global slider adjustments and all kinds of masks) to move the regions to where they need to be. 

I understand such an approach would be computationally expensive, but if it got me 80% of the way there so I just had to quickly inspect the results and tweak the outliers, I would gladly put up with a long running process. And something that I think often gets lost when talking about AI retouching of photos is that it’s about more than just raw speed. If an AI process that is “click once run for a long time” takes just as long or longer than my manual process of hand editing each and every photo, I will take the AI process every time because it is cognitively much simpler for me to do. And the AI process will likely get faster over time with better models and faster hardware, whereas my manual process won’t.

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It seems that there could be a way to upload my LR catalogs (w/ or w/o image files?) to some kind of an AI tool that would then comb through my originals and then edits to get a sense of my style and then create some kind of a pre-set for me, depending upon the image content (landscape, portrait, product, street, etc.).

See this feature request.

Several third-party services have been mentioned: Imagen AI, Batch.ai, Neruapix, and Aftershot. I don’t have experience with any of them, though I know there are (or were) a fair number of LR Classic users using Imagen AI. Last year, a bug in their not-well-designed plugin corrupted catalogs’ .lrcat-data files, causing a huge amount of grief.

Also, the resources it would take for Ai to process thousands of images would be astronomical. 

Photo correction is a highly nuanced skill.  Correction settings for one photo won’t achieve the same results in another unless both photos are identical with the same deficiencies.  

Ai-powered or not, batch correction sequences can only do so much before human intervention is needed to edit the photo manually.

When I have a troubled region in a photo, I select it and let GeminiPro (NanoBanana) have a crack at it. Gemini does a very decent job of correcting specific problems, but it’s not prefect in all situations. 

No two snowflakes or photos are exactly alike. For that reason, I don’t know how you could package this in any meaningful way. 

​@Tim! 

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EDIT: this thread has now been moved from Photoshop to LRC.

Jane

Assisted Culling is now a reality in Lightroom 15! Finally, a fix that many have been waiting for.
...not quite like Imagen AI or Aftershoot ...but there's hope!

Imagen, Aftershot, and other programs come to the rescue of photographers by integrating with Lightroom for automatic image selection and AI correction based on custom profiles created by the photographer based on their own styles.

Don't you think it would be interesting if Adobe also integrated all this into Lightroom?