P: AI Culling

@Jao vdL exactly!

Re Photo Mechanic, there is no difference in culling in LrC (with previews built) and Photo Mechanic nowadays

It's even faster if you just use embedded previews on import and disable the automatic replacement of embedded previews during idle time. No need for other culling programs anymore. Previews are immediately there and stepping through images is immediate in Library.

Photo Mechanic is a good tool for selection, but it is stuck in 2010 in every sense, starting from its old design to the fact that AI can do this job just as well as a human with large volumes of photos.

Firstly, if you work with commercial orders, you always have copies of the originals before handing over the photos to the client. If not, then you need to look for a job in another profession - for example, as a cashier at Walmart or McDonald's. Secondly, nothing prevents you from manually adding a photo if it wasn't selected by the AI

@KR Seals the culling can be specific to certain parts of the day, i.e. family photos or parts of the portrait session (eyes closed etc). Yes of course we don't want to remove photos of Aunt Susie. 

Re Photo Mechanic, there is no difference in culling in LrC (with previews built) and Photo Mechanic nowadays. Perhaps 5-10 years ago yes, but not anymore (trust me I've tested this)

If you are a high volume shooter of any kind and are not using Photo Mechanic for culling, you are just wasting a lot of valuable time.

With AI culling, I see a situation where you have to explain to the customer that AI deleted the only photo you had of their aged Aunt Susie who recently passed away.

ust jumping into the conversation about AI culling in Lightroom. Honestly, it's high time Adobe brought this feature on board. With everything moving so fast in the tech world, having AI to help sort through and pick the best shots is not just cool, it's essential.

Think about it - AI culling would be a major breakthrough for all of us. It's not just about saving time (which is huge), but it's also about staying ahead in the photography game. We all want to snap those perfect shots, and AI could really help us nail it by focusing on what really matters in our photos.

Adobe, rolling this out would be a massive win for everyone using Lightroom, especially us who have been around for a while. It's the kind of update that keeps Lightroom at the top. Can't wait to see this happen!

Thanks for making Lightroom awesome and looking forward to this game-changer.!!!

I am not sure why a company as advanced as adobe isn't able to provide this for us

They are perfectly able to provide this. They just won't add any cloud sync (and by extension cloud based AI) features to Classic anymore as they have publicly stated. So we are quite unlikely to ever get this in Classic. As stated above it works in the cloud version if you sync from classic to the cloud and then you can use the AI search and AI culling features in the web interface. 

I agree that we need ai tools. 

Although I am not a wedding photographer, it would be helpful for Adobe to classify for me based on specific criteria such as columns, design, locations, colors etc.  

When I take a picture on my iPhone, and it gets backed up in Google, I can search that library via any keyword. For example, dog on a motorcycle, women in pigtails, woman in kimono, etc etc etc. 

I am not sure why a company as advanced as adobe isn't able to provide this for us