How to use imagic in 2 minutes: automatic, by hand, or by asking Claude

0:00Three ways to use imagic

imagic culls and edits your RAW photos, on your own computer. Here are the three ways to use it, in two minutes.

0:071. Automatic

One: let imagic do the work.

0:09Import a shoot

Point it at a folder of RAWs. It imports the whole shoot: nothing is moved, and nothing is uploaded.

0:16AI culling

The AI scores every frame for sharpness, exposure, eyes and focus.

The best frame of each burst is kept, and the rest are sorted for you.

0:27Duplicates

Find Duplicates groups the near-identical shots.

Auto Pick keeps the best of each, and the rest go to the trash.

0:35AI Optimize All

AI Optimize All edits every photo in one go, and learns from the ones you edit yourself.

0:42Export

Export at full resolution, as JPEG, PNG or TIFF, at any quality.

And the whole shoot is finished.

0:512. By hand

Two: do it yourself.

0:53Cull by hand (K keeps, L trashes)

Prefer to choose? The culling gallery shows one photo at a time, at full quality.

K keeps, L trashes, and your call always beats the AI's.

The arrow keys move on, so a whole card goes by in minutes.

1:07Edit by hand

In the editor, every slider is real RAW processing.

Pull back a bright sky with the highlights slider,

try one of forty-four colour grades, like Portra, cinematic, or black and white,

or let AI Masking select the subject, and edit only that part.

Then copy your edit, and paste it onto the next photo, or all of them.

1:283. By asking (agent mode)

Three: just ask.

imagic connects to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP app, and still runs on your computer.

Ask it to cull four hundred and sixty-nine RAWs, and it's done in under a minute.

Describe a look, and it sets real sliders and masks. Nothing is generated.

1:48Get imagic

imagic runs on Windows and Mac, with a free trial of five hundred exports. Get it at imagic dot ink.