AI First Pass
Better than AI automated culling. You take thousands of photos during each shoot. First Pass uses AI to automatically assess and rank them, making it faster and easier for you to take over and select the best ones that make the cut.
Better than AI automated culling. You take thousands of photos during each shoot. First Pass uses AI to automatically assess and rank them, making it faster and easier for you to take over and select the best ones that make the cut.
First Pass sorts and ranks your entire shoot before you open the cull. At high volumes, it saves you hours each week.
First Pass sorts your shoot into five tiers, with a color-coded analysis showing why. You understand the logic and make the final call.
Control how the AI works for you. Shift between Ruthless, Balanced, or Control with AI First Pass, and choose which tiers are shown to you.
Most culling tools make the call and hand you the results. Narrative shows you the work — every image sorted and ranked, every reason explained — so the final decision is always yours, but you get there 2X faster.
Here’s a list of the different states our smart tech knows and detects.
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When you create a new project, Narrative sorts your entire shoot by scene. Each scene's photos are ranked into five tiers, ranging from Best in Scene down to Undesirable.
Depending on your culling style, you can make AI to do a Ruthless, Balanced, or Cautious first pass. You can also choose which tiers to review: just the Best in Scenes, or all the way down to Undesirable.
Each ranking comes with color-coded analysis showing you the reasons behind it, including focus, expression, composition. You're never left wondering why an image landed where it did with Narrative.
You get access to First Pass with Standard, Premium, and Ultra plans.
Create a new project, and Narrative will automatically run the AI assessment. In an instant, you will get a preview of your RAWs, sorted by scenes, and ranked into five different tiers.
Everything is under your control, but it will be a breeze making the final decision.
No — and that's the point. It's assistance, not automation.
Narrative’s AI sorts and ranks your images, so you can cull your shoot 2X faster. You can immediately see exactly why each image was ranked, saving you the time and energy spent culling.
With Narrative, you have the full control over what you see and how the first passes are made. You always make the final decision.
Yes — Narrative is designed for people like you. The more you shoot, the more time First Pass saves you.
Your worst images are separated out before you even begin, and your best images are already identified. You won't start from scratch each time you sit down to cull.
Most culling tools hand you their picks and expect you to trust them. Narrative is the only AI photo culling software that offers human touchpoints, so you can leverage AI assistance to make faster and easier decisions.
You get the speed benefits of AI without ever handing over your creative judgment. For professional photographers, that's not a small distinction.
No problem. With Narrative, you have complete transparency into the AI-assisted assessment process.
You will see exactly why each image was ranked and make the final call. Also, you can shift between Ruthless, Balanced, and Cautious, depending on how comfortable you are with AI First Pass.
