Arams user manual

Use Arams to select, retouch and deliver your photographs. Choose a starting point below, or find a specific task in the chapters.

Getting started

1. Sign in to Arams with your existing account.
2. Complete your first photo workflow: create a project, import photographs, choose a selection and save JPEG copies.
3. Optionally, continue with local retouching or cloud retouching when you want to process your photographs.

For an overview of the available workflows and their requirements, start with What is Arams?.

In general settings, you can view your account details and find the interface language setting.

Supported version

This manual describes workflows verified on Windows with the English interface. Labels and layout may differ between versions.

Click any screenshot to open the original at full size. Credit balances, account details, and server status on your screen may differ from the examples.

Chapters

Getting started

• What is Arams?
• Credits, plugins and free features
• Sign in to Arams
• Explore the workspace
• Complete your first photo workflow

Manage projects

• Manage your projects
• Create a project
• Reopen an existing project
• Keep projects and source photographs available
• Take camera RAW files through to a finished export
• Back up and restore a project

Organize photographs

• Organize photographs in a project
• Import photos
• Select and deselect photographs

Select photographs

• Select photographs for delivery
• Inspect a photograph and zoom in
• Rate photographs for culling
• Filter photographs during culling
• Review AI analysis of photographs and faces

Compare similar photographs

• Review groups of similar photographs
• Crop and straighten photographs

Find photographs and people

• Find photographs and people
• Review detected faces
• Automatically tag and find photographs with AI

Prepare retouching

• Choose retouching tools and settings
• Use retouching presets
• Apply retouching settings by gender
• Activate an existing plugin
• Correct color with AI, curves and LUTs
• Compare retouching with the original
• Retouch a consistent photo series
• Retouch a portrait while preserving natural detail
• Clean clothing and studio backgrounds

Process photographs

• Retouch a photograph locally
• Preview Heal with cloud processing

Monitor processing

• Review processing tasks

Prepare files for delivery

• Prepare files for delivery
• Export a portrait with Face Make
• Export photographs and verify saved files
• Refine layered TIFF exports in Photoshop
• Deliver separate selections for different people
• Export photographs to MyShot

Metadata and other applications

• Exchange ratings and labels through metadata

Customize your workspace

• Customize your working environment
• General settings
• Customize keyboard shortcuts

Integrations

• Use the Arams plugin with Lightroom

Troubleshooting

• Fix an import that stays empty
• Diagnose stalled processing and export

The camera RAW workflow covers Sony ARW import and JPEG export; support for other cameras and RAW formats can vary. Preservation of ICC/EXIF during export and macOS workflows still need separate verification. XMP exchange of ratings and labels is covered separately in metadata settings.