How do I customise culling criteria?

Every culling profile is a list of criteria — plain-language rules the AI scores each photo against. You can edit them, add your own, and tell FilterPixel exactly what a keeper looks like for this particular shoot.

What a criterion is

A criterion is just two things: a name and a one-line description. The description is what the AI reads, so write it the way you would explain it to an assistant.
For example, the Vacation & Travel profile includes a criterion called Storytelling, described as “Narrative arc of the trip or day”.

Step 1 — Open a profile's criteria

1.       Start a Deep Cull and click Choose to open the profile library.
2.       Find the profile you want to tweak.
3.       Click the pencil icon on its card. The Customise Profile window opens, listing every criterion in that profile.

Step 2 — Add your own criterion

Scroll to the empty row at the bottom of the list, then:
1.       Type a short name — for example, “Buildings selection”.
2.       Type a description — for example, “select abstract building structures”.

Step 3 — Add as many as you need

Click + Add criterion for another empty row. In the video we added a second one: Green ratio — “Select images with more greens like forest, pond, grass fields”.

Step 4 — Save and cull

Click Save. The profile card now shows its updated criteria count and a Customized label. Click Use profile, then Start Deep Cull — the AI scores every frame against your rules.
What that looked like: a 257-photo project culled down to just 16 keepers — and every one of them a building or a greenery shot. Exactly what we asked for.

Good to know

•         Be specific and visual. “Select images with more greens like forest, pond, grass fields” works better than “nature”.
•         You can edit the built-in criteria too, not only add to them — and reset a profile if you want the defaults back.
•         Criteria are saved with the profile, so a customised profile is ready to reuse on your next shoot of the same kind.
•         Fewer, sharper rules beat many vague ones. Each criterion should describe one visible thing in the frame.

Updated on: 23/09/2026