Going through dozens or maybe even hundreds of photos to pick your favorites and clear storage space can be a long, annoying process. Thankfully, Canon has released a new app that automatically does that for you.
Easily Take a Roll of Photos Down to the Best Few
Canon USA has launched a photo culling app on the App Store that allows you to quickly and easily find your best photos. The app itself is free, but in order to use it, you will have to get a subscription for $14.99/year or $2.99/month. Both subscription options have a three-day trial.
Canon USA executive vice president Tatsuro “Tony” Kano, explains:
Canon’s app, simply named Photo Culling, operates on an AI called Photography Intelligence Learning or PHIL for short. PHIL suggests which photos you should keep and which you should delete based on which of the two photo culling options you select.
The first option, Whole Culling, is great for better portrait photography. When this option is selected, PHIL will determine your best photos by scoring them based on four factors: sharpness, noise, emotions, and whether your subject’s eyes are closed (if applicable).
Meanwhile, the Similar Culling option chooses your best shots by comparing scores between similar photos. For instance, let’s say you took a bunch of photos of the clouds, and then a bunch of photos of some flowers. The app would separate the cloud photos and the flower photos into separate groups.
Whichever culling option you choose, if a photo’s score is over the target score that you set, then the photo is considered a keeper. PHIL will then suggest deleting the remaining photos that didn’t score high enough. In the event that you don’t agree with PHIL, don’t worry. You still have total control over all your shots.
Other features of the app include photo count and storage space display info, photo albums, parameter settings for photo scores, and the option to use dark mode.
Will You Download Canon’s Photo Culling App?
It would seem that Canon’s photo culling app has everything you would need to make the process of choosing your best photos less tedious. However, at the end of the day, it’s up to you to decide if you hate photo culling enough to justify paying for something you could do yourself (albeit probably very slowly and bored out of your mind).
At the time of writing, the app isn’t available for Android, but perhaps Canon has that in the cards for the future.
