Narrative Select

An AI culling app that scores photos by sharpness, focus, open eyes, and expression to speed up selecting from huge photo sets

4.4 United Kingdom

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What is it

Narrative Select is a UK AI culling app. It automatically scores each photo on sharpness, focus accuracy, whether eyes are open, and subject expression, helping photographers quickly find the best-quality shots from large volumes and compress the lengthy culling process to a minimum.

It focuses on doing the one thing — culling — deeply and well, letting photographers efficiently filter down the keepers before moving into editing.

What problem it solves

Culling is the most tedious and time-consuming part of post-production, especially for portraits and event photos where there are often many similar compositions and checking focus and expression by zooming in one by one is very draining. Narrative Select uses AI to quantify these objective metrics into scores, letting photographers quickly compare by score and review in groups — far more efficient than judging shot by shot.

It suits portrait, wedding, and event photographers, and anyone needing to quickly pick the best from hundreds or thousands of photos. It makes the "first filter out the unusable" step fast and grounded.

Key Features

Auto-scores sharpness and focus accuracy
Detects open eyes and subject-expression quality
Group-compares similar compositions for quick decisions
Speeds up culling of huge photo sets with quantified scores
Focuses on the culling process, filtering keepers before delivery

Pros

Quantifies culling's objective metrics for grounded judgment
Group review of similar photos saves time versus zooming in one by one
Focuses on doing culling well, with an intuitive flow

Cons

Feature-focused on culling — editing still needs other software
Final style decisions still need human oversight

Use Cases

Portrait photographers quickly picking open-eyed, in-focus shots from bursts
Wedding photographers group-comparing similar compositions to speed culling
Event photographers first filtering thousands of photos by score

Editor's Note

Breaks culling into metrics like sharpness, open eyes, and expression to score one by one — making photo selection grounded and fast.

FAQ

Which photo-quality aspects does Narrative Select judge?

It scores sharpness, focus, open eyes, and subject expression, helping photographers quickly find the best-quality photos.

Can it edit photos directly?

It focuses on the culling process, mainly to speed up selection; editing is best done with other image-editing software.

Can AI scores be fully trusted?

Scores greatly speed filtering and provide an objective basis, but final decisions are still best confirmed by the photographer per style and client needs.