Excire. A new AI driven Dam

[gchappel]

The only thing I missed moving away from lightroom about 2 years ago was the digital asset managment (dam). The ability to search my entire database was very useful. It would have even been better if I was more diligent in keywording. I use a date based system, so I can find just about anything pretty quickly- but the search engine was easier.
I just discovered a standalone Dam- Excire Foto. It also has a version that works within the lightroom catalog structure, although I have not tried that version.
It uses artificial intelligence to automatically keyword, catalog and sort the images.
I have played with this for a couple of days, and it does a pretty good job. I have about 10,000 images loaded. Automatic keyword searches work pretty well- not perfect but pretty neat.
It can find people, find only smiling people, etc. If you find one picture- it can search and find the same person in any image in your database- all automatically.
If you are lazy at keywording like me- or if you are not using a dam at all- this looks like a worthwhile program.
I am on a 30day trial. Program presently costs $39.
Thought this might be helpful for someone else as well.
gary

 

[drr1531]

Thanks for posting this, Gary. I may give it a try. I've also been remiss with keywording and am currently about half way through cataloging my files. The facial recognition alone sounds like it is worth the price.

 

[Mike Buckley]

I remember when I finally concluded cataloging all of my images and have kept them up to date ever since. That first onslaught of cataloging decades of images surely would have been a lot faster with the use of AI.

 

[Walter]

Doesn’t support hierarchical keywords.

https://forum.excire.com/showthread.php?tid=536

 

[Mike Buckley]

Doesn’t support hierarchical keywords.

As a long-time user of cataloging software (about 12 years), I strongly advise that that should be a deal breaker.

 

[gchappel]

As someone that presently has essentially no keywords- this is a whole lot better than nothing. I still will probably not use keywording- it is not part of my present workflow.
Yes I can find old images, but does take me 10minutes.
What I find most interesting is its ability to find specific people- I have used that a couple of times already.
It is also fun to open an image, and ask it to find similar images. I often work in small projects and this may be very useful. It has found some older images I had forgotten about.
I don't have any real skin in this game yet, yeck I have not yet even purchased it. But it has been fun to play with.
gary

 

[Growltiger]

It seems clever but not clever enough. For example if it sees a picture of a church does it label it as "church" or does it work out which church it is and say "Italy - Montepulciano - San Biagio" (an example from one of my photos from long ago).

 

[Walter]

To be fair, this isn't necessarily for everyone, but perhaps has its place. That said, one could simply use Google Photos which has very intelligent AI built into it.