Goettingen, February 26, 2024 | The German AI company Neurapix has added a new feature to its image editing. Photographers can now optionally select whether they want to have their photos cropped by the Neurapix AI in addition to editing them to save even more time. The feature is free of charge for Flat rate customers. In the Pay-per-Picture model, 1 cent per photo is charged for all optional features including AI cropping.

Over the past few weeks, the Neurapix AI has trained with many millions of images in order to select the best possible crop. It has analyzed how real photographers have cropped their photos in direct comparison to the original motif. When cropping, Neurapix takes into account numerous common techniques such as the golden ratio or rule of thirds. In addition, it has found aesthetically pleasing crops that do not follow any fixed rules and can apply them.

A single click is all it takes to use the new AI image cropping. After selecting the photos to be edited, photographers simply click on Edit Images (Library > Plug-in Options) via the Lightroom menu. Before the editing starts, now only the checkbox next to Crop and Straighten needs to be ticked under Optional Features. Straightening is automatically included when cropping. Nevertheless, the two previous options (None and Straighten) remain in the Optional Features section.

The edited and cropped images will be available in short time as usual. Like the entire editing process, cropping can be undone or adjusted manually at any time. “With the new Image Crop function, photographers can now save even more time when editing images with their SmartPreset – while maintaining full control over their photos,” says Simon Diegmann, co-founder and CCO of Neurapix.