Excire’s groundbreaking Lightroom plugin offers prompt search, intelligent image evaluation, and more.

Excire Software, has today launched the latest iteration of its trailblazing Lightroom plugin: Excire Search 2024. Powered by five state-of-the-art AI models, Excire Search 2024 elevates Lightroom’s DAM capabilities to unprecedented levels. The plugin features:

  • A sophisticated prompt-search AI for seamless image retrieval through text descriptions;
  • A pioneering X-tetics AI that intelligently rates each image based on its aesthetic qualities;
  • Advanced facial recognition software for people- and face-based search;
  • Duplicate-search software to assist with culling and cleanup;
  • An X-tags AI for accurate image keywording.

With Excire Search 2024, image evaluation, culling, categorization, and retrieval can be almost entirely automated within Lightroom. This will enable photographers to spend less time behind the computer and more time behind the lens.

A Lightroom workflow like never before

Powerful, fast, and essential for Lightroom users seeking a time-saving approach to image organization, Excire Search 2024 boasts an array of features designed to shortcut traditional file-management bottlenecks and eliminate tedious workflow tasks. Ideal for both hobbyists and professionals, Excire Search enables photographers to:

  • Instantly retrieve any image within Lightroom using Search by Text Prompt. This revolutionary new tool puts entire photo catalogs at users’ fingertips. Thanks to Excire’s futuristic X-prompt AI, photographers can find files in their Lightroom databases by entering a free-text description, such as “dogs playing on a beach at sunset.” Operating the prompt tool is highly intuitive. Just type a sentence into the provided search field and instantly view the results. Excire Search’s powerful AI is capable of understanding complex sentences, context, and even abstract concepts such as “happiness” and “sorrow.” Gone are the days of searching endlessly for lost files within a Lightroom catalog. Instead, if the user can describe an image, they can find it.
  • Evaluate photos with X-tetics AI, a model designed to accurately judge image aesthetics. Trained using hundreds of thousands of photos as well as extensive input from expert photographers, the X-tetics AI feature independently evaluates images imported into Lightroom. Then, it outputs a unique Aesthetics value for each file. The Search by Aesthetics tool can then be used to sort Lightroom collections by image quality. With this tool, users can identify the most shareable — and most deletable — images from photoshoots.
  • Automatically categorize files with X-tags AI. This innovative tool analyzes each photo in the user’s Lightroom catalog and generates relevant keywords to aid in search and categorization. Thanks to X-tags AI’s unique capabilities, users can skip the tedium of manual keywording. Instead, they can let Excire Search do the heavy lifting, making it easier than ever to categorize and retrieve images based on their content. While X-tags AI has appeared in previous versions of the Excire Search plugin, the latest version boasts a revamped engine with enhanced content-detection capabilities.
  • Manage photos with Search for Duplicates, Search for People, and Search for Faces. These three additional tools are useful for finding and culling images in Lightroom. Search for Duplicates is powered by the cutting-edge X-alike AI, which allows for rapid identification of duplicate Lightroom files. It can also highlight near-identical photos so photographers can conveniently compare images captured in burst sequences. Search for People and Search for Faces rely on class-leading facial-recognition technology called X-face AI. This allows users to categorize and retrieve files containing specific individuals, as well as certain facial characteristics, such as age, sex, and the presence of a smile.

Additional Excire Search 2024 features include:

  • An upgraded Search by Example Photo tool, so photographers can effortlessly retrieve images similar in content or color to a selected file
  • Sophisticated keyword transfer, so photographers can control whether — and how — Excire-generated keywords are integrated with Lightroom’s own keyword functionality
  • Effective integration with Lightroom’s existing interface for a beginner-friendly image-management workflow

Price & availability

Excire Search 2024 is available for both Windows and macOS; the program can be downloaded directly from the Excire website. The software’s MSRP is $189, but a limited-time launch discount reduces the price to $149. Additionally, existing Excire Search 2022 users can upgrade to Excire Search 2024 for $59. Meanwhile, existing Excire Search 2 users can upgrade to Excire Search 2024 for $99. A 14-day trial version is also available for download.

To learn more about Excire Search 2024’s groundbreaking new features, please visit www.excire.com/en.