AI software for photographers is getting so good that it is both incredible and a little horrifying. Every few months, a new app claims it can save us time, but most of them still only handle one piece of the job. Aftershoot’s newest update feels different.
This is no longer just an AI culling app. Aftershoot can now cull, edit, retouch, export, create client galleries, and even help sell prints, all without needing to jump into Lightroom, Capture One, Photoshop, or a separate gallery service.
To test it, I uploaded an entire wedding with 2,613 RAW files. Aftershoot culled the full shoot in about 18 minutes, grouped duplicate images together, picked the best shots, and even showed me which faces were in focus and which people had their eyes open. Instead of zooming into every group photo manually, I could quickly check the AI’s work and move on.
From there, I filtered the job down to the four and five star images and let Aftershoot edit 749 photos. You can train it on your own Lightroom catalogs to match your style, or you can use AI profiles from its Marketplace. I used an editorial style profile and turned on AI cropping, straightening, and masking.
The huge change is that Aftershoot now lets you tweak edits and export directly inside the app. In the past, you still needed Lightroom or Capture One for final adjustments and JPEG exports. Now, each image gets its own edit, and if something needs a small change, you can fix it right there.
The retouching is probably the most impressive part. Aftershoot includes sliders for acne, blemishes, freckles, forehead lines, smile lines, teeth, eyes, glasses glare, and hair flyaways. You can dial in one image, save that look as a preset, and apply it across the full gallery. The results I saw looked polished without looking fake, which is exactly what I want from AI retouching.
After that, I clicked Create Gallery, and Aftershoot uploaded the edited and retouched images into an online client gallery. You can allow free downloads, charge for downloads, connect Stripe, and sell prints. There is also a face filter that lets guests instantly find photos of themselves, which could be massive for wedding and event print sales.
Aftershoot was clearly built with wedding photographers in mind, but this update makes it useful for far more than weddings. Portrait photographers, event photographers, school photographers, corporate headshot photographers, and family photographers could all benefit from this.
The big deal is not that Aftershoot added another AI feature. Everyone is doing that. The big deal is that Aftershoot is connecting the entire workflow: import, cull, edit, retouch, export, deliver, and sell.
You still need to review the work. You still need taste and judgment. But the amount of repetitive labor this removes is hard to overstate. What used to take days, or even a week, can now be done with under an hour of hands on work.
If you shoot weddings professionally, you need to try Aftershoot. If you shoot any type of people photography, you probably should too.
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