Culling is normally the step before delivery: you go through the shoot, drop the missed frames and send the rest. It breaks down when photos leave the camera while you are still shooting, because nobody looks at them before they land in the gallery. A blurry frame then sits among the good ones until the client or a guest finds it.
What makes a photo count as blurry
FotoMe AI scores every photo for sharpness when it is indexed, and flags those under a fixed cutoff. The score is about the subject, not the whole frame. When faces are found it uses the sharpest face, so a group photo with one sharp face is not flagged. Without a usable face it asks whether anything in the frame is sharp. This matters because a sharp portrait with a soft, out-of-focus background has very little detail across the frame, and a frame-wide measure would wrongly call it blurry.
A flag is a prompt to look, not a verdict. Motion blur on purpose, a silhouette or a low-light atmosphere shot can all be flagged and be exactly what you want. That is why nothing is deleted for you.
Judge the subject, not just the background
- •Portrait with soft background: inspect the eyes and face. Background softness alone is not a reason to remove a useful portrait.
- •Group photo with a sharp person at the front: inspect the other important faces too. A score based on the sharpest face does not prove everyone is in focus.
- •Intentional movement: keep a successful creative frame even if it is flagged. Compare it with the brief rather than applying a blanket rule.
- •Stage or room detail with no face found: review the image as coverage. It may belong in the organizer’s delivery even though selfie search cannot find it.
Review the flagged photos in one place
- 01Upload the event as usual, from the dashboard or from your camera. Scoring happens during indexing, so there is nothing to switch on.
- 02Open the event’s Cull tab. The badge shows how many photos are flagged.
- 03Choose the Blurry filter. The blurriest photos come first, so the clear misses are at the top.
- 04Open a photo in the lightbox to check it at size. If it is fine, Keep it; the flag goes away.
- 05Select the photos you do not want and delete them. Select all reaches flagged photos on pages you have not scrolled to, up to 2,000 at a time.
Delete is permanent and there is no trash, so read the confirmation: it names the reason and shows the thumbnails.
The second list: photos with no face found
The Cull tab also has a No face found filter. It lists photos where face detection ran and found nobody. Many of them are fine: detail shots, decor, the cake. The point is that a guest searching by selfie can never be matched to these photos, so it is worth a quick look to make sure nothing important is in there. Keep marks a photo as fine for that filter only.
What this does not do
- •It does not group near-duplicates or detect closed eyes. Only an exact byte-for-byte duplicate of a photo already uploaded is skipped on upload.
- •It does not replace a full cull of a shoot in dedicated culling software.
- •It does not score photos indexed before the feature existed.
- •Guests never see the flags, and their selfie search is unchanged.
Make it part of your delivery routine
Open the Cull tab once the upload has finished indexing and before you share the link or the QR code. For a live event with camera upload, check it at a natural break, so the weaker frames are gone before guests start searching.