Sorting hundreds of photos after a wedding is hard. Every photo looks almost the same, and picking the best ones takes hours. You want to send a beautiful story with about 100 photos... but end up stuck late at night, clicking stars and flags.
FilterPixel’s Magic Number makes it way faster. Just tell the app how many photos you want — like "Give me 100" — and it’ll do the heavy lifting. You get to spend more time being creative, and less time stuck in a never-ending photo sorting app. Your workflow should be fast.
What Problem Does Magic Number Solve?
Photographers shoot a lot — to stay safe. You snap bursts for blinking, multiple angles, tiny details, backup shots — all smart moves. But later?
Choosing just the best one out of five cake-cutting photos feels exhausting. Manual culling is slow and mind-numbing. That’s where Magic Number helps. It works like a super-smart photo culling app — showing you the top picks and saving you from endless choices.
How Does Magic Number Work?
FilterPixel groups all your pictures by how similar they are. Every burst, every little movement — gets its own group.
Inside each group, the app scores each picture based on sharpness, eye focus, faces, smiles, composition, and more. When you type "100," it picks the best one — just like your eye would!
Here’s the cool part:
- It can pick slightly more or less than the number you mentioned as your magic number, that's okay because Magic Number always keeps your unique shots too.
You get a tight, smart selection without losing the one-of-a-kind shots.
Three Easy Buckets You’ll See
After the app sorts everything, your photos fall into three groups:
- Best: Top picks ready to edit.
- Review: Shots that are duplicates or part of a similar group.
- Reject: Blinks, blurry, bad expressions — the throwaways.
Most photographers just check the Best panel (grab a few extra from Review if required) and they're ready to go! It’s how the best photo management apps make your life easier.
Why You Might Get More or Less (And Why That’s Good!)
Magic Number focuses on quality first. If you clicked one special shot (like a drone shot of the venue) and there’s no "duplicate," the app won’t skip it just because of a number goal.
It’ll give you slightly more photos to keep your story complete.
You’ll always have the full vibe without missing anything important.
Overshot Your Wedding? Good — Let Magic Number Turn That into an Advantage.
Photographers overshoot for a reason: you’re chasing moments, not just poses. That split-second smile, a tear in the background, a hand reaching out — it’s all part of the story. So you click more. But when it’s time to deliver that story, the sheer volume becomes your enemy. That’s where Magic Number flips the narrative. Instead of drowning in files, you get to curate with purpose. The tool processes your overshoot not as excess, but as potential — grouping what’s similar, surfacing what stands out, and letting you shape the final gallery with a clear, uncluttered view.
How to Make Magic Number Work Even Better
- Shoot Short Bursts: 2-3 clicks for each scene. It gives the app better options to pick from.
- Tag Must-Haves: Use your camera’s star or color tag for critical shots. FilterPixel will keep those safe.
- Cull Before Heavy Previews: Run Magic Number as soon as you upload RAWs — no need to load giant previews for bad photos.
- Spend 60 Seconds in Review: Quick check here = more storytelling moments kept.
Try It on Your Next Wedding
Import your wedding photos. Put your Magic Number. Get the gallery size you promised.
Done!
It’s that fast. If you get a little over or less than 100 photos, just trust the process — you’ve got a cleaner, smarter gallery with minimal effort. Photo sorting apps often take hours — but with Magic Number, you choose photos faster.
Your Turn
Magic Number cuts the busywork, so you spend less time clicking and more time creating. Sort smart, shoot better — and keep your focus where it belongs: on the story.
Try Magic Number Tool for free for 14-day along with other super helpful tools that charge your photo culling process and cuts down 10+ hours per shoot.
