The worst thing about being a wedding or event photographer is having to edit thousands of photos, but I recently discovered Narrative SelectionThe software uses AI to make the selection process much faster.
Narrative Select is not photo editing software, it’s dedicated to one thing: get rid of the bad images and keep the good ones. Selecting narration will help filter your photos as quickly as possible, and then import the selected photos into the editing software of your choice.
Narrative Selection can import more than 5,000 raw files in about three seconds and take no extra time to load or create previews. Using artificial intelligence, it recognizes faces and looks for blurry and flickering images. The software will automatically warn you if it has problems with the image and will zoom in on each face in the photo so you can quickly check for expressions without having to move around the image. In my testing, the software was able to detect when subjects were kissing or “posing” and would not add an alert in these cases for eyes closed.
You can then quickly scroll through the images, rate them as you would in other software, and filter out images based on software or user ratings. Once done, simply export your best images to the editor of your choice.
The best aspect of Narrative Selection is that for most users it will be 100% free. Currently, you can use this software for six projects a month without paying anything. For unlimited usage, you can pay $18/month or $150/year.
Perhaps the biggest problem right now with Narrative Select is that it’s only available for MacOS, but it looks like a Windows version may be in development. If you are an interested Windows user, Register hereand they will send you an update if the software is available.
