In short: connect your folder, let face tagging group the shoot by person, then cull in three fast passes (technical misses, shortlist, final call) instead of one slow scroll. What is culling and why it works this way is covered in that guide; this one is the exact steps.
The situation
The photographer's gallery landed, or the guest folder finally has everything in it, and now there are 3,000 photos sitting between you and an album. Scrolling them in order, top to bottom, is the slow way and the way that loses good photos to fatigue. This is the fast way.
What you need first
- A Google Drive folder with the shoot in it (the photographer's delivery, guest photos, or both merged into one folder).
- That folder connected to a Confetti event.
- A few hours, not a weekend. Grouped culling in passes is dramatically faster than a single chronological scroll.
Step 1: Connect the folder and let it scan
Connect your Google Drive folder to your Confetti event. Confetti reads the folder read-only to build the photo grid; it never writes to, moves, or deletes anything in your Drive.
Step 2: Let face tagging group the shoot by person
Run face tagging on the scanned photos. Confetti groups faces that look like the same person into clusters; you name each cluster once, and every photo of that person gets tagged automatically. See what AI face tagging does for the mechanics. This is what makes the rest of the cull fast: you're comparing "every photo of the couple" side by side, not scrolling a folder in shooting order.
Step 3: Pass one, cut the clear misses
Go moment by moment (getting ready, ceremony, portraits, reception) and remove the blur, the blinks, and the frames where someone's walking through the shot. These are fast, low-judgment calls. Nothing is deleted from your Drive; you're just choosing not to include them when you build the album.
Step 4: Pass two, shortlist per moment
Within each grouped moment or person, pick your top two or three, not your single favorite. Comparing three strong finalists is easier than trying to pick "the one" too early, and you'll thin further in the next pass.
Step 5: Pass three, the real calls
Compare your shortlist against itself, ideally with fresh eyes rather than in the same sitting you started with. This pass is small by now, usually a fraction of the original 3,000, so the hard calls are actually manageable.
Step 6: Build the album from what's left
Use the Standard builder to hand-pick from your shortlisted photos into a named album, or the Intelligent builder to have an AI pass arrange a paced, story-structured album from a pool you choose. See Standard vs. Intelligent albums for which fits. Generating an Intelligent album uses one AI credit; refining it afterward, swapping or reshuffling photos, is free.
What this process does NOT do
At every step, your original Drive folder is untouched. Culling and building albums in Confetti never deletes, moves, or edits a single file in your Drive. The only thing that changes is which photos are included in the album definitions you create.
The result
A shortlist that went from 3,000 photos to a few hundred in three passes, and an album built from it that you can download to your own computer and share by link once it's finished.
Related
- What is culling? Picking the keepers from thousands of photos
- Choosing the keepers from 3,000 wedding photos
- What is AI face tagging?
See pricing for what's included at each event size, then connect your folder and start the first pass.