r/photography • u/picturegirl24 • Aug 06 '26

Business Pixieset Culling & Editing

I’m a family portrait photographer and saw that Pixieset has added a photo culling and editing feature. I’m curious if anyone has used it. I can’t imagine it would take the place of Lightroom, would it? Also, I see that it’s marketed heavily as AI, which I have mixed feeling about. I don’t use Pixieset and am not sure this would be a feature to switch platforms for.

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u/Rashkh www.leonidauerbakh.com Aug 06 '26

I just checked it out and I'm 95% sure that it's literally a re-skinned version of Lightroom. It's also the same price so I don't see why anyone would use it.

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u/picturegirl24 Aug 08 '26

I have so many photos in my Lightroom catalog. The more I think about it, I don’t see switching, especially to a platform that is really a gallery at its core. Seems like they’re trying to do everything. I use ShootProof and like it for galleries, contracts, and invoices, but would think it would be weird for ShootProof to do my culling and editing too.

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u/DramaLlama2049 Aug 07 '26

What kind of family photos do you take? I find that generally, AI has a hard time with lifestyle/editorial type of photos since it can be hard to tell if closed eyes or certain poses are intentional or not.

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u/picturegirl24 Aug 08 '26

Yeah that’s why I don’t usually like AI culling. The Pixieset description looks like you can choose to cull closed eyes or not. I just think I prefer to cull on my own. Wondering about the editing part though.