Review AI analysis of photographs and faces

What you will do

After importing a shoot, use Arams photo and face analysis to find photographs that may have focus, motion, exposure, pose, or expression problems. Review those candidates at full resolution, keep the photographs that work, and return to the full shoot with a visually checked shortlist. Filters such as Motion Blur, Out of Focus, and Closed Eyes help you decide what to inspect; they do not decide what to reject.

Before you start

• Photo and face analysis runs on the server and consumes analysis credits. It is separate from free automatic AI tagging.
• Use photographs that you are authorized to send for server analysis. If Arams shows its server-analysis notice, read it and choose I Agree only when sending the selected photographs is appropriate.
• Before importing, turn on Automatic photo analysis and Automatic face search in Settings > General.
• Keep the source photographs at full resolution so you can inspect fine details such as focus and eye position. Keep the originals unchanged; analysis does not require you to retouch or export them.

Steps

Run photo and face analysis

1. Create a project and import the full-resolution photographs.
2. Select the photographs that you want to analyze.
3. If the analysis control reads Analyze, choose it. If automatic analysis has already started, let it finish instead of starting another operation.
4. Wait until the analyzed counter reaches the number of selected photographs and the button reads Analysis completed. Do not start Retouch preview; it is a different operation.

Analysis completed means the server operation has finished; review individual results against the photographs. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Analysis completed means that the server operation has finished. You still need to review the matches before making culling decisions.

Inspect image- and face-quality filters

Choose a filter for the problem you want to review. In the left panel, select the checkbox beside its category to enable the controls, then expand the category:

• Image Features contains Overexposed, Underexposed, NSFW, Plain Background, Textured Background, Bad Pose, Motion Blur, Kissing, Outdoor, and Aesthetics.
• Face Features contains Occluded, Cropped, Bad Light, Out of Focus, Bad Mouth, Bad Eyes, Eye Contact, Smiling, Profile, Turned Away, Looking Down, and Closed Eyes.

Click the open-eye control on the filter row to show matches; the other eye control excludes matches. Click the active eye control again to reset that row. The photo count and gallery update to reflect your choice. You can combine criteria; otherwise, reset the current row before choosing another so you know which filter produced the gallery.

Choose a filter that matches the quality problem you want to inspect. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

The number beneath a thumbnail is a gallery score, not the confidence of the active filter. Arams does not show a confidence value for Closed Eyes in this view.

Find closed-eye candidates

The following route uses Closed Eyes as an example. Choose another quality filter when it better matches the problem you are looking for.

1. Select the checkbox beside Face Features, expand the category, and click the open-eye show control on the Closed Eyes row.
2. Treat the filtered grid as a review queue, not a reject list.

Treat the filtered photographs as candidates to inspect, not as an automatic reject list. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

A Closed Eyes match may show closed or partly closed eyes, a lowered gaze, an obscured face, or an incorrect result. Treat the match as a prompt to inspect the photograph, not a reason to reject it.

Inspect a face at full resolution

1. Open a candidate in the large viewer.
2. Wait for Loading… to disappear. With the photograph viewer focused, press Z to toggle zoom, then use the mouse wheel over the face to choose a useful scale. Z is the default shortcut; if you have customized your keys, check keyboard shortcuts.
3. Judge what the pixels show: closed, partly closed, obscured, looking down, or open. Also check the whole photograph for expression, focus, and motion before deciding whether to keep it.

Inspect the eyes in the photograph, then consider the expression, focus, and motion in the full frame. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Zoom until the eye position is clear enough to judge from the photograph. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Check faces in the right panel

Optional preview: use the right-panel face view when you want to keep the overall composition visible while checking a face. For precise inspection of the original pixels, use the main viewer and zoom instead.

1. Select the photograph and click the face-outline icon in the far-right toolbar to open Details and Faces.
2. Expand Faces if necessary. Beside its heading, choose the split-rectangle icon to switch to the larger face view.
3. Inspect the eyes in the enlarged face preview. The analysis icons point to possible issues, such as closed eyes.

The face preview is not a guaranteed 1:1 view of the original pixels. See Inspect detected faces for the illustrated panel controls.

Compare a nearby open-eye photograph

This comparison is optional and is most useful when the candidate belongs to a burst with a similar frame.

1. Return to the gallery and click the active open-eye control on the Closed Eyes row again to reset it. If no other filters are active, the full batch is visible again.
2. Open a nearby frame from the same burst.
3. Compare the eyes, expression, focus, motion, and obstruction around the face.
4. Choose the stronger photograph after checking the full image.

Optional: compare a nearby frame when it helps you choose the stronger expression. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Nearby frames often make expressions and fleeting blinks easier to compare.

Optional: use the same scale to compare the visible eye position in nearby frames. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Review borderline or incorrect results

Continue through the candidates that matter to your cull. Leave partly closed eyes, side glances, lowered eyes, occlusions, and hard-to-read faces in a borderline group until you can compare them visually. Keep a photograph that works even when its analysis label is wrong.

When the candidates have been reviewed, click each active eye control again to reset the analysis filters so photographs outside the results are visible again. Continue with ratings and selection.

Check the result

The review is complete when you have judged the useful candidates from the photographs themselves and reset the analysis filter to return to the full shoot. Your shortlist is then ready for ratings and selection.

If it does not work

• Analyze is unavailable: check whether the control already says Analysis completed and whether the counter covers your selection. Otherwise, confirm that photographs are selected.
• Analysis does not complete: do not start a second analysis while the current operation still appears active. If Arams shows an error, leave the originals unchanged and try the analysis again later.
• The analysis filters are missing: confirm that Automatic photo analysis and Automatic face search were enabled before import and that analysis completed. Reset ordinary filters and reopen Image Features and Face Features.
• Closed Eyes returns no photographs: no photograph in the current selection matched that filter. Review other useful indicators or continue the cull without it.
• A candidate has open eyes: treat it as an incorrect result and make the culling decision from the photograph.
• The face is too small to judge: open the large viewer and inspect the source at a useful scale. Follow Inspect detected faces when you need the face panel.
• The account cannot run analysis: photo and face analysis requires available analysis credits. You can continue culling without the AI quality filters.

Related topics

• Import photos
• Inspect a photograph and zoom in
• Inspect detected faces
• Filter photographs during culling
• Select photographs for delivery