Smarter Culling  
Alternative To Photo Mechanic

With Photo Mechanic you need to manually cull, image by image. Aftershoot pre-selects your best shots in minutes. You just review, adjust, and approve.

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Aftershoot vs Photo Mechanic

How They Compare on What Matters Most

Benefit

AI Automated Culling

Duplicate Grouping

Image scoring

Key Face Detection

Learns Your Style

Manual Override

Why Aftershoot is better  for your workflow

The AI selects your best shots automatically, saving hours on every gallery.

Scene-aware grouping tells true duplicates from intentional variations, so you hand off 15 to 20% fewer files.

Every shot is ranked by technical quality, so your sharpest, best-exposed frames surface first.

The AI finds the key faces in each shot and flags their strongest expressions.

Aftershoot adapts to what you keep and what you skip, so selections feel more like yours every project.

Step in anytime and pick your own favorites. The final cut is always your call.

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Why Photographers Are Switching  From Photo Mechanic To Aftershoot

Photo-By-Photo Culling Takes Too Long

When you have to look at every photo in a pile of 500+, you end up spending hours just sorting through everything.

Decision Fatigue from Endless Choices

Making pick/reject decisions on hundreds of shots gets overwhelming. When you’re looking at 20 nearly identical shots, choosing becomes mentally exhausting.

Fast Turnaround Wins Business

When culling takes too long, your delivery timelines suffer. Clients want their galleries fast, so they book photographers who deliver fast.

Two Ways Aftershoot Handles Your Culling

AI-Automated Culling

From 4,000 shots to your final 500, in minutes.

Aftershoot groups duplicates, flags closed eyes and blur, and surfaces your strongest images ranked by quality, with your shooting style factored in. You review the shortlist, make a few swaps, and you’re done before your first coffee gets cold.

Instant Keep-or-Remove

No learning curve. AI sorts your images into two clear groups. Keep what works, move what doesn’t.

Cull as Broad or as Selective as You Want

Choose how tightly AI culls your gallery, from lenient to strict outputs.

Your Originals Stay Safe

Nothing gets deleted or changed. Every image stays exactly as it was, so you can revisit or rethink selections anytime.

AI that Learns Your Style

It learns what you like, what you skip, and what makes the final cut, so every project feels more like you.

AI-Assisted Culling

Speed Through Your Final Selections

Let AI assist your culling – get smart grouping, key faces detection and image scoring while you maintain full creative control.

Intelligent Duplicate Grouping

AI analyzes each frame to differentiate true duplicates from intentional variations — giving you 15–20% fewer files in editing.

Key Face Detection

Quickly spot the strongest expressions. AI highlights the moments where everyone looks their best.

Image Scoring

Every photo is ranked for quality, helping you find the standout shots without the endless scrolling.

Full Creative Control

AI helps you move faster by organizing and suggesting your best shots, while you stay fully in control. Nothing changes unless you decide it should.

Pricing

Unlimited photos. One price. No surprises.

Unlike per-image tools that charge $0.05+ per photo, every Aftershoot plan is truly unlimited.

Selects

AI Culling for every shoot

Unlimited AI Culling
AI Automated + AI Assisted modes
Survey Mode & Spray Can

Precision culling options
All integrations (LrC, C1, PM, Bridge)
Offline processing

$10_/mo

Billed annually · $15/mo monthly

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Most tools do one thing well. We built Aftershoot to take care of all of it, every step connected, from the moment you import to the moment you deliver.

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