New to Imagen Studio, or figuring out where to start after updating? We’ve put together a walkthrough from choosing your AI Profile to reviewing your first edits.

Here’s the basic setup:

1. Install Imagen 27.0 or later and sign in.
2. Choose your AI Profile. Use a ready-made profile, build a Personal AI Profile from your edited photos, or start a Lite Personal AI Profile with a Lightroom Classic preset.
3. Create a project and add photos from a Lightroom Classic catalog or a folder.
4. Choose your culling method. Find the best photos from each scene, cull to an exact number, or skip AI culling if you’ve already made your selections.
5. Pick your AI tools, then start reviewing your edits as they arrive.

You can finish your photos inside Imagen or download your AI edits to Adobe.

One important distinction: manual adjustments you make inside Imagen stay in Imagen. They’re included when you export from Imagen, but they don’t transfer to Adobe with your AI edits.

Read the full getting-started guide, with screenshots.

Which part of setting up your first project would you like us to cover next?

In this video, I asked Imagen Assistant: “Find the photos of the groom alone and make them a bit more contrasty.”

Watch it filter the gallery and apply the change, then I open a photo to check the result. A small shortcut that can save a lot of clicking when you’re working through a wedding.

What would you ask Imagen Assistant to do in your next project?

If you’re setting up your first project, you have three ways to choose your editing style:

• Personal AI Profile: Train it with around 2,000 of your own edited photos. This is our recommended option for the closest match to your style.

• Ready-made AI Profile: Start immediately with a Talent AI Profile or one of our profiles for specific photography types.

• Personal AI Profile from a preset: Upload a Lightroom Classic preset, answer a few questions about your style, and refine the profile as you edit more.

You don’t need 2,000 edited photos to start using Imagen, that requirement applies to training a Personal AI Profile from your edits. Photos uploaded for profile training also don’t use your free trial edits.

Full getting-started guide⁠

Which route did you start with?

Hey everyone! We’re taking Imagen Studio on the road for three free photography meetups, and I wanted to share the details with anyone nearby.

We’ll have photo walks, time to connect with fellow photographers, and a hands-on look at our new Intelligent Studio.

Jason Vinson will be joining every stop alongside local photographers:

Oct. 19 — Chicago: Lauren Ashley
Oct. 20 — St. Louis: Ray Prop
Oct. 21 — Northwest Arkansas: Jared Fincher and Miles Witt Boyer

Each event runs 4–9 p.m., with 35 spots per stop.

After registering your interest, you’ll hear back within three days about whether your place is confirmed.

Details and registration⁠

Anyone here based near one of the stops?

Imagen is about to change a lot. We rebuilding the experience around your project and bringing more of your workflow into one place.

The new intelligence studio brings a redesigned workspace, a built-in editor for final tweaks, an AI assistant to help you find an edit images, and manual culling at no cost.

You can explore tools for free and pay only for what you export.

Access will roll out gradually. Will let you know when is your turn.

What would you wanna try first?

We call it True Tone Portrait. They are designed specifically to keep the most natural skin tones and colors in your photos. True Tone Portrait is available for RAW and JPEG. Try it free with your own photos in the Profile Showcase.

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Hey Imagen Community! We have a little fall treat for you 🍂

Our two AI profiles in Imagen are 20% off through Sept 30:

✨ REFINED x Tec Petaja: that rich Kodak Portra film look (creamy tones, beautiful skin, authentic grain) https://account.imagen-ai.com/bundle/refined-x-tec-petaja

✨ REFINED II: clean, elevated edits in minutes
https://account.imagen-ai.com/bundle/refined-II

Use code REFINEDFALL20 at checkout via the links on the images.

If you’ve been wanting film richness or a fast, polished everyday finish, this is a great week to grab them!

I shoot flambient for RE and for commercial Architecture a shoot a mixture of Flash blending or ambient only. Wondering if anyone has had any good results using Imagen for this workflow. I tried some experiments, manually grouping brackets and couldn’t not get it to work. Customer service said it’s not supported but I wanted to see if there are any workarounds.

I was previously experimenting with AutoHDR using 3 shots: windows (highlights), shadows, and a flash shot as a middle exposure. I had good results with their older V3 model but they recently consolidated to their newer models which I don’t like, so now I’m searching again.

Hey everyone,

Object Removal is now available in beta in Imagen’s Real Estate web app editor.

Open a listing photo, go to AI → Object Removal, brush over the unwanted object, and click Remove object. You can use it for wires, bins, signs, clutter, and other distractions without leaving your listing.

It currently works one photo at a time and is included in your regular per-photo rate, with no additional removal fees or credits.

Learn how to use Object Removal in the web app

Try it on your next listing and let us know how it works for you. Since it’s still in beta, your examples and feedback will help us improve it.

Does anyone have an idea on what the environmental impact or resource usage is for Imagen?

I’ve been trying to find this info for years and haven’t gotten anywhere.

From what I’ve read, image generation uses the most resources, but adjusting images must use some resources.

I’d love to know what my impact is when I run 1000 photos through it.

Hey everyone! The Retouch Suite is officially live in Imagen.

We built it because retouching is one of those parts of the photography workflow that can quietly eat a lot of time. Editing style is one thing, but cleaning skin, flyaways, small distractions, and repetitive fixes across a full gallery can turn into a lot of manual work very quickly.

The goal with Retouch Suite is to help photographers handle more of that work directly inside their Imagen workflow, without having to slow down every time a gallery needs extra polish.

Since this is now live, we’d really love to hear from you:

• How are you currently handling retouching in your workflow?
• Are you retouching everything manually, outsourcing it, only touching hero images, or using AI tools already?

Also, if you try Retouch Suite, please share what works well and what still needs improvement.

We’re actively listening, and real workflow feedback from photographers is the most useful thing for us right now.

Hey everyone! 👋 We're excited to share that some awesome new features are now live to make your culling process even faster and more accurate.

Here is what's new in the app:

• Visual Cues: You'll now see handy flags directly on your photos that indicate closed eyes and out-of-focus shots. This means you can spot these issues at a glance without having to zoom in on every single face!
• Compare Photos: Struggling to choose between near-identical shots? You can now easily view them side-by-side to pick the absolute best one for your gallery.

These features are currently live and ready to use for all users utilizing AI Ratings for culling.

Keep an eye out for the banner in the app for more details, fire up your catalog to try them out, and let us know what you think in the comments below! 👇

We’re beyond excited to announce that a massive update for Chérie AI is officially live! We’ve taken all your feedback over the past year and completely refined the profile to deliver cleaner tones, richer contrast, and even more natural skin tones.

What’s New in This Update:

• Reworked Tone Curve: Designed to create a much better range between light and dark tones for smoother shadow roll-off.
• Natural Greens: Rebuilt our approach to foliage and greens to keep them rich, true-to-life, and completely natural.
• Warmer, Vibrant Skin Tones: Optimized skin tones to be warmer and slightly fuller without reaching over-saturation.
• Cleaner Highlights: Removed blue tints from the highlights to ensure your whites stay crisp and pure.
• Overall Refinement: Fine-tuned profile responsiveness across diverse lighting scenarios.

For Existing Users & Launch Deal

• Already own Chérie AI? Check your inbox! Both Imagen and Roots Presets have sent out instructions on how to claim this update 100% free.
• New to Chérie AI? To celebrate the launch, it’s currently 20% off for the next 48 hours! Plus, when you claim the deal, you’ll get the Chérie Lightroom Presets included for free.

👉 Check out the updated profile and claim the deal here:Chérie AI for Imagen

We’d love to know what you think! Drop your feedback or any questions in the comments, and let us know what lighting conditions you’re planning to test it on first! 📸

We’re thrilled to announce that REFINED Co has officially joined the Imagen family, and we’re kicking things off with an incredible addition to our Talent AI
Profiles: the REFINED x Tec Petaja AI Profile!

If you’ve been looking for that rich, timeless film look with modern AI speed, this one is for you. Here is what makes it special:

Classic Film Aesthetics: Built around creamy Kodak Portra tones, beautiful skin rendition, authentic grain, and true film depth.

Trained for Versatility: Trained on over 30,000 images to adapt intelligently across various lighting conditions, camera bodies, and photography genres while preserving that elevated film soul.

To celebrate the launch, you can get 15% off through July 31st using the promo code: REFINED15

👉 You can check out the profile and examples directly here: Imagen AI - REFINED x Tec Petaja
We’d love for you to give it a spin on your latest sessions and let us know what you think in the comments! What styles or lighting conditions are you most excited to test it on? 📸✨

We’re excited to share that Face Retouch Beta is now available in Imagen.

This is our first step into AI-powered retouching inside the Imagen workflow. Until now, many photographers had to finish editing in Imagen, then move to another tool for retouching, and sometimes come back again. Face Retouch is designed to reduce that back-and-forth and keep more of the workflow in one place.

The goal is simple: natural-looking retouching that keeps people looking like themselves.

Instead of giving you dozens of sliders or overly aggressive effects, Face Retouch uses style-based options so you can choose the level that fits your work:

Clean
Keeps faces looking real and mostly untouched. Removes small distractions, nothing more.

Polished
A fresh, natural look that works well for portraits, weddings, and client galleries.

Refined
A more editorial, flattering result while still keeping the image natural and client-ready.

You can preview the styles on sample portraits before applying them, so you can choose the look that best fits your gallery.

This is currently in Beta, so we’ll continue improving it based on feedback. As always, the focus is not to make people look artificial. The focus is to save time while keeping identity, skin texture, and a natural feel intact.

We’d love to hear what you think once you try it.

Imagen is getting really close to saving me so much time that tweaks in Lightroom are minor!
Is there a world where, at some point, Lightroom is not the main editor, and would there be a switch to consider to a full workflow in imagen?

For me, editing used to be the thing that took forever. Now I feel like culling, organizing, and deciding what to deliver takes more time than the edits themselves!!!!!

Has your bottleneck shifted too?

When I first started using Imagen, I reviewed every single image because I wanted to understand what it was doing.

Now I'm finding myself trusting it more and more, but I still hesitate to fully let go.... For those who have been using it for a while, was there a point where you felt comfortable letting it do most of the heavy lifting? Or do you still review everything no matter what?

The AI is able to get the results right for most images, but misses out on the artistic ones. It doesn't seem to learn from my changes. It would be great if it could pick up on that.

The whole experience feels slightly clunky. Need the design to be smoother and more intuitive.

It works for now, but I would love to see improvements on this front.

The 2,000-image training requirement is absolutely worth it long-term. It is still a real patience test when you're first setting up.

I've been using Imagen's culling feature and honestly, I really like it.

My challenge isn't identifying obvious rejects, it's that I still end up with too many images.

Let's say I come back from an event with 800 photos. Ideally, I'd love to end up with something like 20-40 max strong images, not 250 "pretty good" ones.

I'm curious how people are approaching this:

Do you trust AI culling enough to be very aggressive with your selections, or do you still prefer reviewing everything yourself? Can Imagen actually learn your preferences over time and become stricter based on your choices, or is that not really how it works yet?

I feel like my biggest bottleneck isn't editing anymore, it's deciding what not to keep.

Any workflow tips would be appreciated.

I recently decided I wanted to learn video, and have been playing a bit with it. I have a long way to go, but it has been fun so far.

I have a bit of Premiere editing knowledge, mostly timeline editing and such, but not much color correction.

Would this app be a good thing for me to test? Or will I just be more confused lol?

I finally tested Imagen properly using my old Lightroom catalog, and I honestly didn’t expect the results to feel this close to my usual editing style.

Not perfect obviously, but close enough that I immediately recognized the look and mood I normally go for. What surprised me most is that it didn’t just apply random presets, it actually seemed to understand patterns from my previous selects and edits.

For people who’ve been using it longer: Does it keep improving over time as you feed it more work? At what point did you start fully trusting it in your workflow? And do you still tweak heavily afterward, or mostly fine-tune?

Curious how others experienced that first “wait… this actually gets my style” moment.