This app will tell you which of your photos are actually good enough to post (which is both harsh and helpful)
It's a rare occasion when you take the perfect photo on the first try. Most likely, your camera roll is clogged with photos as you attempt to shoot that all-star selfie, picture at the concert, or snapshot of the new glow-in-the-dark donuts.
But for all you accidental photo hoarders, photography app EyeEm and its AI helper are here to remove your pre-post photo clutter.
The app rolled out an update on Wednesday, giving users the ability to choose which photos will be the most liked. The new feature is called EyeEm "Selects," and it's an AI curator that automatically selects the best shots on your camera roll based on learned algorithms.
The app is actually a place where anyone can sell their photos. And while not everyone is trying to select the perfect photo to sell, it's still a super useful way to figure out which photos you should delete and which ones you should post. After all, if EyeEm thinks that one photo is going to sell better than the others, it probably also means that's the photo you should post on social media, too.
EyeEm's Vision technology works so well because it learned to appreciate aesthetics from expert researchers and photo curators. That means when suggesting photos to post, it doesn't focus solely on technical features, like if the rule of thirds was followed. To train Selects, developers gave the feature a test set of millions of photos already on EyeEm to learn with. Photo editors sorted through them to identify which ones were "good." This taught the AI assistant how to choose the photos that have the most significance and tell the best story, and not just the photos with the good quality and composition.
On top of that, EyeEm helps you find similar photos on your camera roll. That way you won't miss out on posting photos you took a while ago and may have forgotten about.
Even if you think you've got a better eye than this technology, EyeEm can still be a helpful tool for photographers by helping you shoot better photos in the first place. When you take pictures in the app, it corrects for exposure and gives you a grid and level to make sure everything's lined up just how you want it. There are also 24 adjustable filters available — that's one more than Instagram — with plenty of fine-tuners like saturation and contrast.
EyeEm's Selects update is only available for
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" data-ga-click="1" data-ga-label="$text" data-ga-item="text-link" data-ga-module="content_body">Android users right now. But don't worry, iPhone lovers — your update is on the way. That said, if you really can't wait, an app from EyeEm called The Roll works in a similar way to organize and rank the photos in your phone's camera roll.Apple, Google, Facebook, and almost any other digital tech company you can think of have been working on their own ways to help you identity which photo to choose. Many digital platforms have been using algorithms to predict what we'll want for quite a while (like which videos we'll want to see on our Facebook news feed), so it's really just a matter of time until this kind of AI help is all everywhere. But for now, EyeEm Selects has your back.
Molly is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While there, she studied life sciences communication and conservation biology. Molly has worked in multiple communications positions at UW and recently acted as a science intern at Business Insider in NYC. She is a lover of all things science and tech related, and is always ready to take on a new challenge. When Molly isn't writing, she fills her time training for IRONMAN events, acting as the unofficial #1 Wisconsin athletics fan, and trying as many new foods as her budget will allow.
