(Early Access) Assisted Culling (LrClassic)

After testing the new AI Culling feature in Lightroom Classic 15 on several real wedding and event shoots, I can say it’s not working at all as intended.

The “Subject in focus” and “Eyes in focus” scores are completely off. Very often, photos that are clearly out of focus get scores in the 90s, and sharp, perfectly focused portraits get very low ratings. In the example screenshot (can’t share the full image due to privacy), there are three people, all of them out of focus, but Lightroom shows almost perfect scores.

I understand it’s still an early beta, but right now it feels like the system is just assigning random numbers rather than analyzing actual sharpness or facial detail. I’ve tested it on multiple events and got the same results every time. At this point, it’s not reliable enough to use for any serious culling work.

Assisted Culling at import dialog now always grayed/unavailable at my system.

Is thre any condition to use this?

MacOS 26.0.1 / M4 MBAir

Lightroom Classic version: 15.0 [ 202510171722-44f87028 ]
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition
Version: 10.0.19045

Logical processor count: 24

System memory: 128GB

GPU Mem 24GB

It seems even when i'm not using Assisted Culling it's trying to analyze all my files in the catalog which is about 125K.  There is no settings in the properties to manage this and i go back to look at it and it seems to just go back to 125K.  If i leave it for a while it's at 88K but then it just went back to 100K of images left to anayle.  Yet, i'm not even using it.  I know i can just pause but why is it always doing all images in my total catalog instead of the the collection i choose.  I mean if i choose a collection and start tinkering with the settings it seems to just do that collection but if i'm not using it at all it seems to hit all.

So my CPU is about at 40% and my harddrive is at like 450MB/sec non stop.  I'm kind of okay of it doing my whole catalog but seeing how it resets so easy i'm curious will it ever finish? 

Anywone else have this issue?

How do I get rid of assisted culling.  It's just wasting space on my screen as I don't do people and I wouldn't trust a machine to do my culling anyhow.

Even though it will be difficult to implement technically, auto-stacking should be possible across multiple folders. To illustrate the purpose, I use the following scheme: The parent folder contains one subfolder for each camera.

New Lightroom Classic version. Ok, load and go on with my business. But do not give me a heads-up about CULLING; just fail to close LR while all the images in my library are CULLED! I never felt better than I did after permanently turning off CULLING.

AI, I've got your number!

I am finding an inconsitancy in the subject focus tab. if I set the sharpen to 50 I recieve 24 selects out of 42 photos with one photo that is clearly out of focus. if I then set it to 80 I get 3 photos which is great but the out of focus photo is still there for some reason so its not there yet but I will use it for fast sorting its most defenatly woth using.

thank you... 

I just tried the assisted selection and I've run into something I'm not sure is a problem with the application or if I'm just missing something. I chose a folder with approximately 840 JPG files, and Lightroom selected half of them. I have it set to only show the selected photos, and I've also told Lightroom to create a collection with those selected photos. When the photos load, I switch to the Develop module, check, and it shows all the photos from the original folder. So, it made the selection, but it still loaded all the photos. I also checked the collection, and it's there too, with all the photos from the folder. What happened? I don't know. I've tried the process twice, and it's always the same result.

I think this is going to be very useful

Trying on some non portrait subjects it was still selecting sharpness well. I was happy to start drilling down on some big bursts by moving the subject focus slider on the assisted culling panel and having the Selects/Rejects displayed change in real time. I suppose it is the same as upvoting the "rank by focus score" but I found myself trying to select the "sharpest" so some granularity would help - the sharpness changes in tens and I couldn't type a number into the slider or scrub the number, or slow scrub with the shift key, all of which would be nice to pick the sharpest, or the top three or four out of thirty etc

Nice function!

Mike

Hi,

How do I unselect the selected "rejects" that I want to put back into the "selected "images section