Adobe Lightroom: Configuring Assisted Culling in Lightroom

Demo summary
A demonstration of Lightroom's early access Assisted Culling feature, showing sliders for subject focus, eye focus, and eye openness.
Step-by-step
- Navigate to the Library module in Lightroom
- Click on Assisted Culling
- Toggle on Subject Focus, Eye Focus, or Eyes Open based on your criteria
- Adjust the sharpness sliders for Subject Focus and Eye Focus to set the stringency level
- Enable 'Reject photos without people's eyes' to filter out test shots or empty frames
- Select 'Reject all misfires' to remove black frames or accidental shots
- Toggle 'Exposure issues' to automatically reject over or underexposed images
- Click View to see the resulting selects and rejects
Options
- Adjust sliders from 'Soft' to 'Sharp' (0 to 100)
- Reject documents and receipts
- Reject images where eye openness cannot be determined
Watch out for
- The feature is currently in early access
- Setting the Eye Focus slider to 100 may be too stringent and reject a high volume of images
Tips
- For headshots, set Eye Focus near 100 to ensure maximum sharpness
- Avoid redundancy by selecting either Eye Focus or Subject Focus rather than both
- Keep 'Eyes Open' unchecked for candid shoots where people might be squinting or looking at each other
- Watch the real-time count of selects and rejects while moving sliders to find the right balance
- Be cautious with rejecting exposure issues if you prefer to salvage them manually in post-processing
Highlights
“it is kind of cool to see how many images it's going to reject in real time as we move some of these sliders around”
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