Aftershoot AI profiles: setup and training tutorial

This tutorial explains three ways to choose an editing style in Aftershoot: marketplace profiles, an instant AI profile, and a professional AI profile. It focuses on how photographers can prepare training material that reflects their current work.

For marketplace profiles, the speaker shows how to inspect before-and-after examples and try a profile on your own images. The instant option starts with a Lightroom preset already on the computer. After naming the profile, the user adjusts exposure on sample images. The demonstration uses a black-and-white preset.

The professional option uses previously edited Lightroom catalogs. The speaker recommends keeping those catalogs consistent with the jobs the profile will edit. For wedding work, that means completed wedding catalogs rather than a mixture of weddings, architecture, portraits, and product shoots.

According to the speaker, Aftershoot requires 2,500 images; he recommends 5,000 to 10,000. He distinguishes photographs taken from finished images delivered to clients: collecting 10,000 edited files could mean 10 to 20 weddings. He also advises using recent work because older catalogs may teach an editing style the photographer no longer wants. These are training recommendations, not independently verified guarantees of matching results. The supplied material does not establish whether profile training or editing runs locally or requires a server.