A Personal AI Preset is an AI Preset that learns to edit like you. Narrative studies the edited photos in your Lightroom Classic catalogs, finds your most consistent editing styles and trains AI Presets from them.
Personal AI Presets are on Premium and Ultra plans. Compare Narrative plans.
What do I need before I start?
Before you start, check your Lightroom Classic catalogs are ready:
You need at least 1,500 edited and exported photos in your Lightroom Classic catalogs. This is the same for Color and Black & White AI Presets.
Connect the drives with your catalogs and your original RAW files. If your RAW files aren't connected, create Smart Previews in Lightroom Classic instead.
If your photos are stored in the cloud, download them to your computer or an external drive first.
Narrative learns best from photos you've edited in a consistent style, for example the same kind of shoot in similar light. Learn what kind of edited photos you can use.
Narrative chooses your training photos for you. If you'd rather choose particular catalogs, folders or collections, see Can I choose which photos Narrative trains on?
What counts as edited and exported?
Edited means you've made changes to the photo in Lightroom Classic's Develop module.
Exported means you've exported the photo from Lightroom Classic, for example with File → Export, or published it with a Lightroom Classic publish service. Lightroom Classic records this in the photo's History panel, and that's what Narrative looks for.
Photos you've exported from another app, or copied out of Lightroom Classic another way, don't count as exported.
How do I train a Personal AI Preset?
You train a Personal AI Preset from the AI Presets screen.
Click the Narrative logo in the top-left corner to open the Projects screen.
Click AI Presets on the left.
Click Train a new AI Preset.
Choose the type of AI Preset you want:
Color + Black & White: Narrative tries to train both.
Color only: Narrative trains up to three Color AI Presets in one training run.
Black & White only: Narrative trains up to three Black & White AI Presets in one training run.
Click START TRAINING. Narrative finds the Lightroom catalogs on your connected drives and analyzes your edited photos.
How many AI Presets will training create?
One training run can create up to three Color and three Black & White AI Presets, depending on how many consistent editing styles Narrative finds. It may create fewer. Each catalog doesn't get its own AI Preset.
This isn't the same as how many you can keep. How many Personal AI Presets you can keep depends on your plan:
Premium: 1 Color and 1 Black & White Personal AI Preset.
Ultra: 5 Color and 5 Black & White Personal AI Presets.
When can I close Narrative?
Keep Narrative open while it analyzes your catalogs, prepares your photos and uploads them. You can use other tabs in Narrative while it uploads.
Once uploading has finished and the status changes to Training, you can close Narrative. Training carries on in the cloud, and we'll email you when your AI Preset is ready.
How long training takes depends on how many photos you're training with.
Can my AI Preset get better after training?
Your Personal AI Preset gets more accurate as you add more edited photos to it, and it learns from the corrections you make in Lightroom Classic. Learn how to improve your Personal AI Preset.
What if training doesn't work?
If training fails or gets stuck, see Training my Personal AI Preset failed or My AI Preset is stuck analyzing or uploading.
Can I choose which photos Narrative trains on?
Narrative chooses your training photos automatically. If you'd like to choose particular catalogs, folders or collections yourself, contact our support team. They can turn this on for your account and help you choose.