Excire Foto
App Provides Easy Photo Management
and Quick Content-Based BrowsingCompany: ExcirePrice: $59Rating:Hot: Search by faces is a real timesaverNot: Easier integration with photo editor
would make it perfectBack in the September 2018 issue of Photoshop User magazine
I reviewed the Excire Search Pro plug-in for Lightroom Classic,
which is AI-powered technology that can analyze the contents
of your Lightroom Classic catalog, to provide you with additional
tools for searching your library within Lightroom. The company
behind Excire Search has released a new product called Excire Foto,
which has all of the AI smarts of the plug-in, but is a completely
standalone product.
Basically, it’s the smartest photo viewer tool I’ve ever used. The
plug-in version is better suited to a Lightroom Classic user like
myself, but I can see situations where the standalone app could be
useful as a front end to Lightroom Classic, or as a way to view and
access files you don’t manage with your Lightroom Classic catalog.
If you don’t use Lightroom Classic at all, then this standalone
version could really come in handy.
For example, my son recently graduated from high school and
I was working on gathering up lots of old photos for a photo
book for him. While I do have a very large library of family photos
in my Lightroom Classic catalog, I came across an old hard drive
in a drawer that wasn’t associated with my Lightroom catalog,
and it had tens of thousands of old photos on it going back to- I assumed that many of them were duplicates of what I had
in Lightroom Classic, but I thought it might be a good way to test
what Excire Foto could tell me about the contents, and see if there
were photos on it I could use in my book project.
Just like with Lightroom, you first have to import the photos into
the Excire Foto catalog. I pointed Excire Foto at the parent folder
containing 135,000+ photos in various subfolders, and let it run
Review by Rob Sylvan> PHOTOSHOP USER>^ OCTOBER 2020[ 118 ]
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