(Early Access) Assisted Culling (LrClassic)

What I don't understand with this feature is why Adobe hasn't used the subject AI model as the basis for picking out subjects to test for sharpness.  This model already does a pretty decent job in masking, so why not use this as it would be a lot more generic and work on a lot more than just people, and then have refining options to test for eye sharpness etc

The majority of my photos are of drag race cars on the track. Therefore most of my shots are panning. What I look for when culling is just one spot anywhere on the vehicle that is sharp. AI Assisted Culling is of no use to me. The miss rate at each level when I see the selects and rejects is ridiculous. I am better off to continue with my old way of doing things. I know I am not the average user Adobe is targeting but it doesnt seem hard to at least find 10% of the photograph in focus and select it. It is raw data converted by Lightroom so the information is there. Plenty of pixels to examine in some way. If it makes sense in my old brain it has to be possible.

I don't like this feature but I don't know how to unmark all the photos that were selected by LR and bring them back to normal status.  I wish there was an 'undo' feature for this batch process.

Hi Rikk,

The first impression shows this is an opportunity. It is so far focussed on peoples pictures, and my focus is nature, so we do not have the same goals. However, I did experience something missing. When I apply the filters it results in red crosses, green confimation checkboxes or nothing. 

3 remarks:

1. I do mis the way to influence the filter results. E.g. sometimes it states overexposed for picures with much white (in e.g. Greece most pictures get that), or you get unsharp when plants are on although the flowers are sharp. However,  I do not see a way to ignore/remove that opinion of the tool. I want to decide myself in the end. It should be a help, not leading.

2. When a picture has a mist on it (like happens in fog or other normal situations) we do have the option to correct for it in LR, but AS disapproves the picture anyway

3. The tools menu has a part named 'select scores' but its just a list of filters applied. Select is no the appropriate name.

Cheers,

Louis 

Absoluty useless. Not everyone shoots people. Excire does a 100% better job all day. You can pick your subject so the score its accurate I mainly shoot action and motorsport photography. It rejected every panning shot i did even if the subject was tack sharp. I will continue to use exire. Also put a STOP button somewhere in the dialog box so I dont have to waste my time. 

I hate this. Please tell me how to get rid of this nag screen.

When I try to import new photos the Assisted Culling box pops up and locks my screen.  I can't import....I have to go to Task Manager and close Lightroom.  Can't exit from Lightroom.  Help!

While analyzing photos,

the behavior of potential candidates appearing and disappearing on grid view is uncool.

It should be displayed only after it has been confirmed as rejected.

A princípio acreditei que fosse me ajudar a economizar tempo, mas na verdade não. Até o momento já identifiquei muitos erros ou bugs dessa ferramenta que tem MUITO potêncial para nós fotógrafos de eventos. Um dos erros foram que as fotos com a pontuação máxima de foco nos olhos, olhos abertos, estavam justamente o oposto, desfocadas e com olhos fechados. Não sei se é um bug por ser catálogos com muitas fotos, mas é algo que pode ser aprimorado. Uma outra sugestão que eu daria também seria de selecionar as melhores fotos de uma sequência de fotos repetidas, isso seria um adianto enorme. 

Posso estar equivocado, mas no meu computador todo o processo foi executado exigindo bastante da CPU e memória RAM, enquanto minha GPU tirava uma soneca. Meu lightroom já está configurado para usar a GPU, todo o processo de renderização e exportação é feito suavemente com ela, mas o Assisted Culling não. Se houver alguma forma de mudar isso, me avisem. Caso não seja possível ainda, tá aí algo que a Adobe pode providenciar para a próxima atualização.

I might be wrong, but on my computer, the whole process ran heavily on the CPU and RAM, while my GPU was taking a nap. My Lightroom is already set up to use the GPU — all the rendering and exporting runs smoothly with it — but the Assisted Culling doesn’t. If there’s any way to change that, please let me know. If not, that’s definitely something Adobe could add in the next update.