A Colorbration starts as your preset. It learns from the edits you finish in Lightroom Classic. Each trained version then adjusts every photo toward how you finish it.
From your handoffs
After a handoff with Edit, keep editing in Lightroom Classic as usual. Once you have left a photo's edits alone for about 12 hours, Cullibrate reads the finished edits from your catalog, without opening Lightroom or changing anything, and learns from them.
From past edits
- Right after you create a Colorbration, choose Find my past edits. Later, open it from Home → Colorbrations and choose Add past edits.
- Find: select the Lightroom catalogs to scan. Cullibrate finds them by itself; choose Add catalogs if one is missing. It reads them without opening Lightroom or changing anything.
- Review the set: keep the edits that are your style. Group them by catalog or by preset, and use Refine to narrow them, for example to exported photos or flagged picks.
- Upload: check the summary and choose Upload. A reduced-size version of each photo uploads in the background while you keep working.
Learning needs the free Adobe DNG Converter. Cullibrate tells you if it is missing and continues by itself once it is installed.
Training in the Alpha
When new edits are added, the Colorbration asks for a new version. In the Alpha, training requires some manual preparation, so it waits until we prepare it. Until a version is ready, your preset keeps applying on every handoff. Manage shows where it is:
- Waiting to train: it's in the queue. You'll be advised.
- Checking your edits…, then Training its first version… or Training a new version…: training is under way, sometimes with a percentage.
- Finishing the new version…: almost done.
- Now trained: the new version applies from your next handoff.
- Training didn't finish: it runs again after your next edits.
Choose a version
Manage → Choose a version lists every trained version, plus Preset only. Pick one to use it instead of the latest. While you've chosen a version yourself, a newer one shows as new in the list and applies when you pick it.
If learning pauses
| You see | What to do |
|---|---|
| Install Adobe DNG Converter (free) to keep learning. | Choose Get it, install it, and learning continues. |
| Update Adobe DNG Converter to keep learning. | Install the latest Adobe DNG Converter. |
| Sign in to keep learning. | Sign in again; nothing is lost. |
| Waiting for the drive with these photos. | Connect the drive, or choose Continue without them. |
| Waiting for files stored in the cloud. | Download the files to this computer, or choose Continue without them. |
| Waiting for a connection that isn't metered. | Connect to a network that isn't metered. |
| Waiting for power saving to turn off. | Turn off Low Power Mode (Energy Saver on Windows). |
| Your disk is full. | Free some space. Learning continues when there's room. |
| Update Cullibrate to keep learning. | Install the latest Cullibrate. |
| … photos couldn't be used | Nothing to do. Photos it can't learn from, such as missing originals, are left out. |