Methods and systems for generating image capture device parameter suggestions that would produce an image in, or closer to, a desired aesthetic style. In particular, the systems and methods described herein include pattern recognition techniques which are utilized to extract visual features from a set of images, those features defining an aesthetic style. The set of images comprise exemplars of said aesthetic style as well as images representing a plurality of variations in image capture parameters. An algorithm is trained to discriminate between exemplar and variation images based on their extracted visual features. When the system is presented with an input image the same visual features are extracted from it and are compared to the characteristic visual features of the exemplar and variation images with the trained discriminator algorithm. The similarity of the input image to exemplar and variation images are used to generate image capture device parameter suggestions.