How to Use AI Photo Selection

What the AI actually does

AI Photo Selection is a ranking pass, not an edit. Each chosen photo is decoded on your device and scored from 0 to 100 for sharpness, exposure and faces, with reasons you can read next to it — sharp, blurry / out of focus, too dark, blown highlights, 2 faces and similar. Near-duplicate bursts are grouped so a run of almost identical frames competes as one. The result is a shortlist in album order that you can reorder, extend or cut. No stock or generated images are involved, and nothing in your photographs is changed.

Step by step: run the selection

1. 1

   Start an AI album

   Open Album Studio, click Create album, give the album an Album name (for example Wedding — Rahul & Priya), choose the Create with AI card and click Continue with AI.

2. 2

   Choose the photos to consider

   In Photos for the AI album, open the booking under Choose the booking whose gallery this album uses. Use the folder tabs, Select shown, Select all in folder or Select entire gallery, filter with Client selection: → All, Selected or Not Selected, and watch the N chosen for the album counter. Photos from your computer can be added under From computer. Then click Next.

3. 3

   Set the target and run it

   In AI selection, enter Photos in the album (the default is 40) — the number of frames you want to keep. The line beside it reads N photos available · M analysed. Click Run AI selection; progress shows Analysing X / Y, and Stop aborts it.

4. 4

   Read the result

   The shortlist appears as AI selected photos (N) — album order, each row with its score chip, the reasons and the file's sequence number. Open Not chosen (N) to see what was left out and why; Add brings a frame back.

5. 5

   Adjust by hand

   Use the arrow buttons (Earlier, Later) to reorder, Replace to swap a frame for another, and Remove to drop it. Add More Photos brings in frames that were never considered. Change Photos in the album at any time — the list re-selects to the new size.

6. 6

   Continue to the design

   Click Next to reach Design, where you choose Automatic design or Use a template, then generate. If you would rather skip the AI entirely, the first step offers use all selected photos to carry your own choice straight through.

How to judge the shortlist

• Check the Not chosen list first: the frames the couple will ask for are usually quiet moments the score did not reward.
• Trust the reasons, not only the number. similar to … means a burst twin; softer than the rest means a borderline frame worth a full-size look.
• Keep one strong frame per moment in the AI selected photos order — the order becomes the album's story order.
• If a whole folder is missing, use Add More Photos rather than raising Photos in the album past what the sheets can hold.

The shortlist feeds the next step directly. If the selection still feels too large for the book, treat it as a second cull: choose photos for an album explains how many frames a spread can hold before a sheet feels crowded.