How do I select the Highlights from a project?

Highlights are the standouts of your cull — roughly the top 10–12% of your Keepers. They are picked automatically at the end of every Deep Cull, and you can resize the selection to fit the delivery.

Step 1 — Find them in Quick Filters

Open your culled project. In the Quick Filters panel on the right, under OUR PICKS, you will see three levels:
•         Keepers — every shot worth delivering.
•         Highlights — the best of those keepers, about one in ten.
•         Best — the remaining keepers.

Step 2 — View only your Highlights

Tick Highlights and untick the others under OUR PICKS. The grid now shows only your highlight shots, and the bar at the top reads Showing Highlights. Press Enter on any photo to review it in full screen.

Step 3 — Customise how many you get

Highlights are a proportion of your Keepers, so the way to resize them is to change the keeper count and cull again:
1.       Click Re-Start Culling at the bottom of the grid.
2.       Set the keeper count you want for this shoot.
3.       Let Deep Cull re-run — it scores the project again against your new setting.

In the video, going from 60 keepers down to 20 took the Highlights from 6 to 3 — a tighter, stronger showcase, still drawn from the very top of the pile.

Good to know

•         Fewer keepers means fewer highlights. The ratio holds either way, so use the keeper count as your dial.
•         Highlights carry a HIGHLIGHT badge on the thumbnail, so you can spot them even in a mixed view.
•         Filter to Highlights before editing or exporting when you want to work on just your best shots — see How do I export photos as JPEG with different quality settings?

Updated on: 23/09/2026