Choosing your images

Your model learns your look from the photographs you choose, so this step matters more than any other. Plan on about an hour.

150 to 200 of your finished images. We'll narrow them down with you to the 30 to 50 that best capture your style, and keep another 10 to 20 aside to test the model against your real work. You approve both sets before anything is trained.

Send more than you think you need. Picking from too many is easy; working from too few isn't.

• Finished and edited the way you deliver to clients today
• Current work in the style you want to be known for, not older work you've moved past
• Varied within one look: different subjects, scenes, angles, distances, and light, all clearly yours
• Yours outright: you hold the copyright, so no client-owned or work-for-hire shoots

• Watermarks, logos, text, borders, or frames. The model will learn to draw them.
• Near-duplicates. Five frames from the same burst teach one scene, not your style. Pick the best one.
• Identifiable people, unless your release clearly covers AI training. When in doubt, leave it out.
• One-off experiments that don't look like the rest of your work
• Screenshots or social media exports. They're compressed and lose detail.

Weddings in one look and fishing in another? That's two separate models. Put each style in its own folder. Mixing them produces a blurry average of both.

You'll get sharing instructions after the agreement is signed. Please don't send images before then.