![]() The former is Lightroom-centric, the latter is not. If you’re looking where to start exploring, check out Imagen or Aftershoot. They won’t have the same impact if you’re going to use them to sift through 1,000 nature photos from Yellowstone. Right now these technologies work best on photos of people: portraits, weddings, and other events. If culling and bulk editing aren’t a big part of what you do, the benefit from AI-powered culling and editing services is going to be minimal. I don’t want to become the artificial intelligence zealot who is going to say that it’s the right solution for every photographer. I don’t want to try to scare you by saying you’re falling behind, but… you’re at risk of falling behind. It’s no longer just those newfangled punk kids using it. A moment of awareness for those who haven’t experimented at all with any AI services.An up-front acknowledgement that we’re going to keep hearing about this stuff in articles, videos, conferences, meetups, and other photography communication in the coming year.I share this observation for two reasons: If we look at this through the Rogers technology adoption bell curve model, we’ve moved from “Early Adopters” into “Early Majority.” They’re finding that AI culling and editing software is a valuable step in their workflows for their wedding and portrait sessions. These aren’t folks who are experimenting for the sake of experimentation’s sake. It came up during a break in a meeting while I was chatting with someone from Illinois. It came up in a conversation at a hotel bar with someone from Oregon. It came up in a conversation over lunch with a photographer from Arizona. I don’t say this because there were multiple software vendors on the trade show floor hawking their artificial intelligence wares, but because it kept coming up in conversations organically. I spent several days in Nashville last week at Imaging USA, and I wanted to call out one big takeaway for me: AI photo culling and editing is now mainstream. ![]()
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