AI Workflow
The discipline
AI has moved into every stage of the photographic workflow — culling, masking, noise, retouching, generation — and pretending otherwise is no longer teaching. This workshop maps the terrain honestly: where machine assistance genuinely serves photographers, where it quietly replaces judgement, and where it crosses lines that matter, with disclosure norms and the emerging rules of competitions and editorial use.
You will build an assisted workflow that saves hours without outsourcing your eye, and you will know exactly what in your images you can still vouch for.
Departures
Field notes
Let the machine cull for failure; never let it cull for feeling.
Every generated pixel is a caption problem. Decide the caption first.
Speed is only a virtue if the time saved goes back into photographing.
Questions, answered
Is this pro-AI or anti-AI?
Neither; it's pro-photographer. The tools are demonstrated at full strength and interrogated at full strength. You leave with your own policy, written down.
What tools are covered?
Current assisted features across the major editors, plus standalone tools by category rather than brand — the specifics shift monthly; the framework is what lasts.
Does LUMENS accept AI-generated images?
The magazine and community gallery require photographs — capture-based work with disclosed processing. This workshop teaches exactly where that line runs.
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