Every photo is checked for sharpness as it is indexed, whether you upload from the dashboard or send it from your camera. Review what was flagged, keep the ones that are fine and delete the rest in bulk.
Add photos from the dashboard or send them from your camera. Each photo is scored for sharpness while it is indexed for face search, with no extra step and nothing to switch on.
The event’s Cull tab lists what was flagged, with a badge showing how many photos need a look. Pick a filter: Blurry, blurriest first, or No face found, newest first.
Open a photo in the lightbox to judge it at full size. Keep dismisses the flag. Select the rest, including photos on pages you have not scrolled to, and delete them in one go.
A photo is flagged when its sharpness score is under the cutoff. The score looks at the subject, not the whole frame: with faces it uses the sharpest face, so a group shot with one sharp face is not flagged, and a sharp portrait with a soft, out-of-focus background is not either. Without a usable face it asks whether anything in the frame is sharp.
A photo where face detection ran and found nobody. It is a review list, not a junk list: detail shots and decor belong here. These are photos guests cannot find themselves in by selfie, so it is worth a look. Keep means “fine as is”.
Photos sent straight from a camera never pass through your usual cull-before-upload step, so a blurry frame reaches the gallery unseen. The Cull tab is where you catch it.
The system flags; it never hides or deletes a photo on its own. Keep is a one-tap “this is fine”, and keeping a photo for one filter does not clear another.
One grid per filter, the same lightbox and selection as the Files tab, and Select all that reaches photos on pages not loaded yet (up to 2,000 at a time).
The sharpness number is never shown. A raw score means nothing to a photographer, so the photo is either flagged or it is not, and the blurriest come first.
Culling sits between upload and delivery. Send frames while you shoot with camera to cloud upload, clear out the weak ones in the Cull tab, and share one link or a printed QR code so guests can search for themselves by selfie. See how QR code photo sharing works.
The review is the same everywhere; what changes is how many frames you shoot and how soon the gallery goes out.
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Fast action produces misses. Review them in one pass instead of scrolling the whole race.
Several shooters across rooms and days, with one place to review what looks soft.
Deliver a tidy gallery the same day, with the weak frames already removed.
Low light and movement make blur common; the Cull tab sorts it to the top.
Catch the soft arrival and award frames before guests start searching.
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Photo culling is going through the photos from a shoot and removing the ones you will not deliver, such as blurry frames, missed shots and near-duplicates. In FotoMe AI the system flags likely-blurry photos and photos with no face found, and you review them in the event’s Cull tab.
Open the event’s Cull tab and choose the Blurry filter. Every photo is scored for sharpness when it is indexed, and those under the cutoff are listed there, blurriest first. Open one in the lightbox to check it, then Keep it or delete it.
No. The score is based on the photo’s subject, not the whole frame. When faces are found it uses the sharpest face, so a sharp portrait with a soft background, or a group shot with one sharp face, is not flagged.
No. Photos are only flagged. Nothing is hidden or deleted until an owner or editor chooses Delete. Keep dismisses a flag and leaves the photo as it is.
Yes. Photos sent over SFTP or FTPS are scored the same way as photos uploaded from the dashboard, which matters because camera upload skips the cull you would normally do before uploading.
Face detection ran on the photo and found no face. It is a list to review, not a list of bad photos: detail shots and decor belong there. Guests cannot find themselves in these photos by selfie, so you may want to check them.
Yes. Select the photos, or use Select all to include flagged photos on pages you have not loaded yet (up to 2,000 at a time), then delete them. The confirmation names the reason and shows the thumbnails. Deleting is permanent.
Not yet. Today the Cull tab has two filters, Blurry and No face found. Photos that are exact byte-for-byte duplicates of one already uploaded are skipped on upload, but near-duplicate grouping and eyes-closed detection are not built.
No. Flags are for the people running the event. Guests search by selfie and see their matches as before.
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