FAQs

Use the ‘Create SmartPreset’ option via the Lightroom menu (Library > Additional module options > SmartPreset erstellen) Create SmartPreset) with edited RAW images. For more information, please refer to our tutorial videos.

If you use the ‘Kickstart’ option for SmartPreset creation, you can train your own AI with just 20 training images. If you have enough images to hand, we recommend regular creation with at least 500 sample images in your style, as this can lead to even better results. Basically, the more data, the better for the AI – but only as long as the photos have been edited consistently.

Creating your own SmartPreset is simple and very quick. You have two options:

‘Kickstart’ – for getting started & one-offs

With just 20 edited images, you can create your own SmartPreset using the “Kickstart” function and start using it in just over ten minutes.

This option offers you an easy way to get started if you don’t have any/not enough edited images to hand or would like to try out a new style. For example, ‘Kickstart’ is suitable for one-off customer orders that are to be edited in a special look.

Simply import a RAW selection (more than 20 images) into Lightroom and click on ‘Kickstart’. Neurapix selects 20 representative images from this shoot, which you then edit as examples. On this basis, Neurapix creates your new SmartPreset and automatically edits the remaining images from the shoot in the newly learnt style.

Regular creation – for mature styles

Your SmartPresets will be even better with the regular creation of 500 already processed images. It can be used after just one to two hours – initially via the Neurapix servers. If you have a Neurapix flat rate, you can also have your SmartPreset working locally on your own computer after a good two days.

This option is useful for anyone who has already found their own editing style and has a finished shoot in RAW format.

The key to a good SmartPreset is a consistent style. This means the processing should be as uniform as possible across the entire dataset, i.e., across all included shoots. ‘Outliers’ in the editing style can confuse the AI and lead to undesirable results—similar to how a human editor would struggle when shown different sample templates.

You should also make sure that you only make minor changes to the calibration and gradation curves within a SmartPreset, as these settings can have a strong influence on the other slider values.

Basically, the more images you add to a SmartPreset in your consistent target style, the better it will be.

Neurapix uses pre-processed DNG files to generate SmartPresets. Pre-processed images are uploaded for server processing, enabling the AI to examine the largest possible dynamic range. In this way, the file size could be reduced to a few KB per image. As a result, only small amounts of data are uploaded or downloaded, even for large photo shoots.

For local processing, the AI uses heavily processed vectors (a few hundred numbers per image) from which images cannot be reconstructed.

In the classic creation of a color SmartPreset (at least 500 images), the B/W style is automatically additionally created, provided there are at least 20 edited B/W images included.
Those who wish to specifically create just a B/W SmartPreset can use the “Kickstart” option to create their own look in a few minutes.
Only 20 images need to be exemplarily edited.
As usual, photographers can create as many of their own B/W SmartPresets as they want, free of charge.

The creation time depends on various factors. These include, for example, the workload on the server (queue) and the number of uploaded images. Under normal circumstances, the creation of a SmartPreset initially takes between one and a half and three hours, but it can also be faster or slower.

The preparation of a SmartPreset for local processing (as part of the Neurapix flat rate) can take up to two days. In any case, you will receive an e-mail notification when the SmartPreset is ready for use.

Refinements are not incorporated into your SmartPreset in real time. Nevertheless, it is recreated (refined) at predefined intervals. The exact time depends on various factors, especially the number of newly uploaded photos. You can see how many corrected images you still have to upload for the next refinement in your user account. Once the critical threshold has been reached, the SmartPreset automatically joins the current queue on the Neurapix servers. The update process of the SmartPreset itself then takes one to two days.

No, but you can create your own SmartPreset based on a purchased SmartPreset with just a few clicks, which you can then further customise and refine.

In this case, we recommend creating a new SmartPreset for your new style. If the AI receives different styles on the basis of which it is supposed to learn your editing style, it can no longer deliver consistent results. Unlike other providers, you can create unlimited SmartPresets with Neurapix – always free of charge.

Use Adaptive SmartPresets, which utilise Lightroom’s AI masks. They are automatically applied in the image editing process.