Cull your shoot in

half the time

Narrative's game-changing features enhance your creative decision making,

while our AI saves you hours by removing monotonous choices.

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Make quick decisions on the quality of your images

See face details faster

See everyone's faces perfectly with Close-ups – no more time spent zooming and panning for each face. If you do need to zoom, just hit the spacebar to zoom straight to the most important face.

See everyone's faces perfectly with Narrative Close-ups – no more time spent zooming and panning for each face. If you do need to zoom, just hit the spacebar to zoom straight to the most important face.

Spend less time second guessing

Eye and focus assessments allow you to quickly identify if your subjects are in or out of focus and if their eyes are open or closed.

Narrative eye and focus assessments allow you to quickly identify if your subjects are in or out of focus and if their eyes are open or closed.

Start reviewing images almost instantly

Important thousands of RAWs in seconds. No wait times to navigate through your photoshoots. Select is built from the bottom up to save you as much time as possible.

Important thousands of RAWs in seconds. No wait times to navigate through your photoshoots. Narrative is built from the bottom up to save you as much time as possible.

Your images organized and ranked

Image Assessments allow you to quickly identify the worst images from your shoot and then hide them, meaning you are viewing 20-30% fewer images per shoot.

Narrative image Assessments allow you to quickly identify the worst images from your shoot and then hide them, meaning you are viewing 20-30% fewer images per shoot.

Filter out the worst images

Image Assessments allow you to quickly identify the worst images from your shoot and then hide them.

Instant image transitions

See your next image the moment you tap your arrow key, and in perfect detail. No loading time.

Ship direct to Lightroom

Once you’re done culling, send your images over to your editing program in 1-click, and optionally pre-edit them.

Easy to adopt

Shortcuts, layout and features you will be familiar with.

Full feature set

In addition to clever AI features, Narrative has all the core features you need such as ingest, image renaming, cropping and more.

Cull free, really

If you choose not to upgrade to Pro after your trial, you can still use Narrative Free. Unlimited projects and images.

How Narrative fits into your workflow

Import thousands of RAWs to Narrative and cull your shoot.

Import and cull

Import thousands of RAWs to Narrative and cull your shoot.

Apply your AI-Preset when Shipping to Lightroom from Narrative.

Ship and edit

Apply your AI-Preset when Shipping to Lightroom from Select.

Your images are edited and show in Lightroom in minutes.

Adjust and improve

Your images are edited and show in Lightroom in minutes.

See why thousands of photographers love culling with Narrative

2 bn+

images imported per year

164

countries Narrative users live in

183h

yearly hours saved by the average Narrative user

93%

of photographers who tried Narrative recommend it

Great work needs a great workflow

Get started with Narrative for free on Windows and macOS. No credit card required.

Unlimited projects | Unlimited images | Integrates with Lightroom.

Frequently Asked Questions

Narrative will modernize your workflow as a professional photographer. There’s no risk in trying Narrative, as it’s completely free.

As photographers ourselves, we are obsessive about creating technology that helps you, so you can spend more time doing what you love.

With our bleeding-edge technology and constant product updates, we are confident that Select will cut your culling time in half. You can see a full list of our game-changing features here.

Culling is the process of going through all the images from a shoot and choosing the best ones (the ones you want to edit). By culling, you will get rid of duplicates and objectively bad images and you will save yourself time when it comes to editing.

Culling with a dedicated image selection tool (like Narrative) is very different to culling within your editing program. Narrative is lightning-fast, AI-powered and purpose-built to help you identify and eliminate images that you won’t want to edit.

Any professional photographer who shoots high volumes of images (especially if those images are of people) will benefit from having a dedicated image selection tool.

We have built industry leading AI that detects faces and assesses images.

Our assessments include:

  • Focus assessments to tell you how well your subject is in focus

  • Eye assessments that gives you information about when your subjects eyes are closed (blinking, kissing, looking down, etc)

  • Image assessments to let you know if we think there are other images within a scene that may be better than this one


Our approach is to build AI that empowers you by augmenting your already existing skill set. We don’t think of AI as some magical phenomena that can do your job for you.

We believe that tools using AI can help you to be more efficient and more accurate, but AI should not replace your ability to interpret whether a moment you have captured in a photograph is one worth sharing and celebrating.

Using Narrative, there are no wait times to import or navigate through your photoshoots. You can import thousands of RAWs in seconds.

There are no low res images, no loading bars and thumbnails load immediately. This makes it incredibly fast to flick through your images.

Our image assessments allow you to quickly identify potential picks from your shoot. Filtering by Potential Picks means you only need to look through half of your images to pick a great selection.

Narrative is built from the ground up to save you as much time as possible.

You can use Narrative on both macOS and Windows. View the full systems requirements here.

Narrative supports the following image formats: CR2, CRW, CR3, NEF, NRW, RAF, DNG, RAW, RWL, ARW, RW2, ORF, PEF, FFF, 3FR, JPG.

Narrative supports one click import to edit your shoot in Lightroom Classic (mac and windows) as well as Lightroom CC, Photoshop and Capture One on mac.

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