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Digging deep to find photos with Excire

Excire is software that identifies subjects and major characteristics in your photo library. There’s two applications compliment your existing workflow — Excire Search is a Lightroom Classic plugin, while Excire Foto stands alone. I spent a few days exploring both and found each to have clear use cases. Let’s imagine

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Finding people in Excire Foto

I have been playing a bit with the new standalone version of Excire Foto, a great search tool to easily sort through your images. This version is great if you don’t use additional software like Lightroom Classic for cataloging and editing your photos. If you want to search for a

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Setting up Excire Foto for photo analysis

A few weeks ago, I received a beta version of Excire Foto and was excited to discover its capabilities. Below, I’ll run through the easy setup process and show you how to analyze your photos in the program. Installation was simple on my Mac, following the standard DMG installation process.

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A first look at Excire Foto

Here at Photofocus, we’re big fans of products that solve everyday problems. A lot of us have used Excire Search, the plugin for Lightroom Classic that helps you intelligently search through your catalog. But for those of us who don’t regularly use Lightroom Classic, we were disappointed to not have

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Finding the right people

Finding the right people in Excire Search 2 Pro

Today I would like to show you one of my favorite new features about Excire Search 2 Pro — Search for People. In the Lightroom Classic plugin, you can use Excire’s facial recognition with attributes. That means you can find a person wearing a red shirt or a blue shirt.

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Finding faces easily with Excire Search 2.0 Pro

I’ve long been a fan of Excire Search, a tool that lets me find images based on subject, color, faces and more in my Lightroom Classic catalog. It highlights the power of artificial intelligence (AI), without sending your photos to the cloud, meaning that your photos stay private and on

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Finding stock video with visual search

More and more, video is becoming a standard for client projects. Photographers, web designers, marketing folks have all released that motion is a great way to tell engaging stories. Sometimes though, you’ll find a gap in your video sequences when you put them together. Maybe it’s a forgotten shot or

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Excire Search for Lightroom Classic

Intelligent search in Lightroom Classic with Excire Search

When Lightroom CC was announced, I was kind of disappointed to see that Adobe’s Sensei search wasn’t going to be making it over to the Lightroom Classic application. While you can search for things like the camera used, date taken and more, I can’t all of a sudden find all

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Photofocus Quick Tip Lightroom

Quick Tip: Locking the Attribute Filters

In some cases you may want to “lock” the filter criteria you’ve set in Lightroom when searching for a particular image, so the same filter criteria will remain in place even as you navigate among different folders. In this quick tip, you’ll learn how easy it is to lock the

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