Culling software comparisons
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Both products help photographers reduce a shoot to a reviewable selection, but their verified workflows are different. Aftershoot is a desktop culling workflow designed to operate locally; PhotoMentor is a browser-based, brief-aware workflow that explains why finalists were surfaced.
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Both products support photographer-controlled culling, but they enter the workflow differently. Narrative Select is a desktop application with direct RAW and HEIC/HEIF support, scene ranking, face assessments, and Lightroom handoff. PhotoMentor is browser-based and adds a photographer-written brief plus reasons for finalists.
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Both products prepare reviewable selections and preserve the photographer’s final decision. FilterPixel’s official pages describe direct RAW/JPEG/HEIC support, genre and target-count controls, recoverable Keep/Review/Reject organization, scores and reasons, and Lightroom star-rating export. PhotoMentor uses a browser workflow with a free 25-photo demo and a free-form session brief.
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