Very interesting software and very fine demos of its functions, thanks. I plea guilty to skipping some wordy pasages. There are tons of YT videos and many of them are void of substance. So I have developed the habit of skipping to passages with substance. I got curious about your other videos and will skim through them.
One benefit of Excire is how it boosts my creativity. I use it search for categories of photos, like mountains, flowers, sculpture, or sunrise and sunset, which I then use as a launch pad for creative photo editing. Excire not only surfaces old photos I had long forgotten, but it also acts as catalyst for new ideas, such as composite photos, where I can combine two or more old images to form new ones. I use it with ON1, which has some excellent AI and layering features that make composite photos a breeze to create.
How much of the processing is one on the local device and how much is sent up to the cloud? I don’t want all my photography dumped on a Chinese server somewhere.
I just found this video based on the idea that something like this had to exist. I just downloaded it and I’m on the 14 days trial. It’s sorting through a drive with 37,000 photos right now. Haha. This has turned into a problem for me, and I think this might be the solution. Thanks for the video!
just bumping in, after 4months, as the program really worked as you wished? I'm kind of in the same situation 😂😂 would like to know. thanks in advance.
I have just purchased Excire. I want to organise all my photos on my external hard drive, as well as sort them more accurately and quickly. When I have used Excire, is it best to create a seperate folder on my external hard drive for these photos and then remove the others or is there another way. As one of the other reasons I purchased Excire is because I want to remove all my duplicates. Your advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you for the walk through the program. I installed Excire and have loads of images on my HD. I want to cull should I do that from Adobe or excire. It seems to me that excire does not know when something has been deleted. Ad vis a versa if I delete from Excire bridge does not know it is deleted.
Great video, as I've already purchased Excire Foto 2024 but have not really gotten into it yet. I have 2 questions: - Can the keywords generated by Excire be physically embedded into to image files as IPTC metadata, so that these images can also be searched by other software? (Note: I'm referring to JPG files, not RAW) - on People searches (face recognition), can images of a particular face be assigned a keyword that is the name of that person? To make searches possible for a specific person?
Can we generate more keywords by the AI and store it in the photos? I think manatee should be keyworded not only animal. It is strange if it can not generate it but can search it?
You can manually add your own but you can't "train" the ai to say - always recognize a Manatee. I have been told it has to do with accuracy. It is more important to be accurate in the key-wording than the search.
Hey Joe, new question, how do you like the microphone? I have the Rode podcaster and have had some sound quality issues like too much background noise. It picks up my laptop fans. Is that one better?
Think of Excire like Bridge. It doesn't care if you edit it. It only cares about where it is located. As long as Excire knows about the folder your photo is in, you are good.
Thanks Joseph for the video. I take a lot of pictures of football games. Do you know if the AI would be able to find all the pictures of the player on my team with a specific number. I am not sure how I would get it to learn which team is mine though.... There are other SW out there that do this, but this one offers another whole bunch of interesting features.
I find the best catalogue system is my own!!! I have a file system that lets me find any photo I want to work on. Why pay for software when my own works well and I am used to it. You mentioned eagles....My main Animals folder is called Animals and that has sub-folders such as Birds and in there are further sub-folders for each kind of bird I have photos for. Simple, quick and easy. This is replicated for all my other animal titles and then it is the same for all my other main folder titles and sub-folders. So, if I want to find a photo of a church for instance, then I look under Archticture and sub-folder Churches. What could be simpler!!!!
Well, that's a good system and maybe the software is not for you. In my opinion I would say that Excire is still better. The ability to find hundreds of photos across many different folders makes my workflow much simpler. Not everything I shot in a single day is the same so separating images by category would be tedious and time consuming when I could do things like answer this comment 🙂
So how do you achieve that? Let's say you spend a week traveling and you photograph tons of different things every day. You'd have architecture photos, people, animals, street photography, etc. You're saying that after you import say 4000 photos you put them all one by one into the right folder for each image? That seems tedious. Also what if an image is two things? A person with a dog? Or architecture and street? Or nature and macro? Seems more complicated to me not easier.
@@ShutterSpeak Yes, it is a good system and does work for me (and many others who use something similar) I think it really depends on what you need and how that is accessed etc. Whatever the system is then there has to be some sort of search tag or other keyword etc to do a search. Mine is by category or country (if I have been on a specific shoot to another country etc) I am not knocking the product, just trying to explain that there are other very effective ways of cataloging that are cost free and efficient!!
@@DigitalPhotoMentor Each to their own I suppose. How do I achiever that??? Perhaps doing what you think is my system then yes, it would be tedious. However, my system works well because it is structured and includes all processes from SD card to finished edit. All the negatives (for you) you have chosen to highlight are overcome within that. You have to see how I use it before you can decide that it "seems more complicated to me not easier" otherwise I wouldn't use it. Part of my system begins with sorting and editing from a single file I create for the RAW images from that shoot. Not just dealing one at a time as you assumed. I have been using this for a few years and have never failed to find a photo....even when there is a dog and a person!!! If the main subject is the dog then that is where it goes. If the main subect is the person then that is where that one goes....if on the odd occasion it isn't clear then I would put one in each category (to answer your question about having two categories in one photo) I have also never come near to shooting 4000 images in a shoot. I am not a professional photograher nor am I a "spray and pray" shooter that racks up a load of rubbish with the good stuff. As with any shoot when a lot of images are taken, the time factor is around the editing...not storing them in folders. Some people use a similar system to mine, but choose to sort by dates (year, month, day etc) but that doesn't appeal either. For instance, if you wanted to find a certain photo but can't remember the year you took it then you have a problem. If great photographers who do shoot a lot of photos, such as Nigel Danson, and others, use a file system then it shows there ARE other personal systems that work very well. Sorry to ramble on but, as easy as it is to use, it would be even longer if I were to describe how the full system works!!!!!
@@NJM1948 Agreed. I think you should use whatever works best for you. For me, Excire is a huge time saver. I am very happy with it. Why not download the trial and see if Excire does work better for you? It's free.
Thank you so much for your helpful videos. Too bad Excire Foto 2024 is not a plugin for Lightroom or Photoshop. Does Excire plan to make it a plugin for Lightroom and/or Photoshop? I see that your example of editing in other programs includes Photoshop 2024 but not Lightroom Classic. Can you export to Lightroom Classic in Excire Foto 2024? Again, I appreciate your videos as a Nikon Z9 user.
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Very interesting software and very fine demos of its functions, thanks. I plea guilty to skipping some wordy pasages. There are tons of YT videos and many of them are void of substance. So I have developed the habit of skipping to passages with substance. I got curious about your other videos and will skim through them.
Thank you for watching
One benefit of Excire is how it boosts my creativity. I use it search for categories of photos, like mountains, flowers, sculpture, or sunrise and sunset, which I then use as a launch pad for creative photo editing. Excire not only surfaces old photos I had long forgotten, but it also acts as catalyst for new ideas, such as composite photos, where I can combine two or more old images to form new ones. I use it with ON1, which has some excellent AI and layering features that make composite photos a breeze to create.
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No problem!
How much of the processing is one on the local device and how much is sent up to the cloud? I don’t want all my photography dumped on a Chinese server somewhere.
I just found this video based on the idea that something like this had to exist. I just downloaded it and I’m on the 14 days trial. It’s sorting through a drive with 37,000 photos right now. Haha. This has turned into a problem for me, and I think this might be the solution. Thanks for the video!
just bumping in, after 4months, as the program really worked as you wished? I'm kind of in the same situation 😂😂 would like to know. thanks in advance.
Hello.
What about EXCIRE 2024 and Capture One ?
Thanks
CAn I see JPG+RAW as a pair, represented by one image in the catalogue?!
I have just purchased Excire. I want to organise all my photos on my external hard drive, as well as sort them more accurately and quickly. When I have used Excire, is it best to create a seperate folder on my external hard drive for these photos and then remove the others or is there another way. As one of the other reasons I purchased Excire is because I want to remove all my duplicates. Your advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you for the walk through the program. I installed Excire and have loads of images on my HD. I want to cull should I do that from Adobe or excire. It seems to me that excire does not know when something has been deleted. Ad vis a versa if I delete from Excire bridge does not know it is deleted.
Great video, as I've already purchased Excire Foto 2024 but have not really gotten into it yet. I have 2 questions:
- Can the keywords generated by Excire be physically embedded into to image files as IPTC metadata, so that these images can also be searched by other software? (Note: I'm referring to JPG files, not RAW)
- on People searches (face recognition), can images of a particular face be assigned a keyword that is the name of that person? To make searches possible for a specific person?
Wondering the same? Any feedback?
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Can we generate more keywords by the AI and store it in the photos? I think manatee should be keyworded not only animal. It is strange if it can not generate it but can search it?
You can manually add your own but you can't "train" the ai to say - always recognize a Manatee. I have been told it has to do with accuracy. It is more important to be accurate in the key-wording than the search.
Hey Joe, new question, how do you like the microphone? I have the Rode podcaster and have had some sound quality issues like too much background noise. It picks up my laptop fans. Is that one better?
Hey Joe, after you edit a photo in Luminar how do you save it back to Excire? Do you need to export it? Does it automatically get added to Excire?
Think of Excire like Bridge. It doesn't care if you edit it. It only cares about where it is located. As long as Excire knows about the folder your photo is in, you are good.
You didn't discuss using AI to find specific people then tagging those faces with a name. Can you do that?
Thanks Joseph for the video.
I take a lot of pictures of football games. Do you know if the AI would be able to find all the pictures of the player on my team with a specific number. I am not sure how I would get it to learn which team is mine though.... There are other SW out there that do this, but this one offers another whole bunch of interesting features.
Defiantly not
I find the best catalogue system is my own!!! I have a file system that lets me find any photo I want to work on. Why pay for software when my own works well and I am used to it. You mentioned eagles....My main Animals folder is called Animals and that has sub-folders such as Birds and in there are further sub-folders for each kind of bird I have photos for. Simple, quick and easy. This is replicated for all my other animal titles and then it is the same for all my other main folder titles and sub-folders. So, if I want to find a photo of a church for instance, then I look under Archticture and sub-folder Churches. What could be simpler!!!!
Well, that's a good system and maybe the software is not for you. In my opinion I would say that Excire is still better. The ability to find hundreds of photos across many different folders makes my workflow much simpler. Not everything I shot in a single day is the same so separating images by category would be tedious and time consuming when I could do things like answer this comment 🙂
So how do you achieve that? Let's say you spend a week traveling and you photograph tons of different things every day. You'd have architecture photos, people, animals, street photography, etc. You're saying that after you import say 4000 photos you put them all one by one into the right folder for each image? That seems tedious. Also what if an image is two things? A person with a dog? Or architecture and street? Or nature and macro? Seems more complicated to me not easier.
@@ShutterSpeak Yes, it is a good system and does work for me (and many others who use something similar) I think it really depends on what you need and how that is accessed etc. Whatever the system is then there has to be some sort of search tag or other keyword etc to do a search. Mine is by category or country (if I have been on a specific shoot to another country etc) I am not knocking the product, just trying to explain that there are other very effective ways of cataloging that are cost free and efficient!!
@@DigitalPhotoMentor Each to their own I suppose. How do I achiever that??? Perhaps doing what you think is my system then yes, it would be tedious. However, my system works well because it is structured and includes all processes from SD card to finished edit. All the negatives (for you) you have chosen to highlight are overcome within that. You have to see how I use it before you can decide that it "seems more complicated to me not easier" otherwise I wouldn't use it. Part of my system begins with sorting and editing from a single file I create for the RAW images from that shoot. Not just dealing one at a time as you assumed. I have been using this for a few years and have never failed to find a photo....even when there is a dog and a person!!! If the main subject is the dog then that is where it goes. If the main subect is the person then that is where that one goes....if on the odd occasion it isn't clear then I would put one in each category (to answer your question about having two categories in one photo) I have also never come near to shooting 4000 images in a shoot. I am not a professional photograher nor am I a "spray and pray" shooter that racks up a load of rubbish with the good stuff. As with any shoot when a lot of images are taken, the time factor is around the editing...not storing them in folders. Some people use a similar system to mine, but choose to sort by dates (year, month, day etc) but that doesn't appeal either. For instance, if you wanted to find a certain photo but can't remember the year you took it then you have a problem. If great photographers who do shoot a lot of photos, such as Nigel Danson, and others, use a file system then it shows there ARE other personal systems that work very well. Sorry to ramble on but, as easy as it is to use, it would be even longer if I were to describe how the full system works!!!!!
@@NJM1948 Agreed. I think you should use whatever works best for you. For me, Excire is a huge time saver. I am very happy with it. Why not download the trial and see if Excire does work better for you? It's free.
I have LR Classic. Will Excire automatically import keywords that I set up in Lightroom?
An image of the program logo would b nice 😢
Thank you so much for your helpful videos. Too bad Excire Foto 2024 is not a plugin for Lightroom or Photoshop. Does Excire plan to make it a plugin for Lightroom and/or Photoshop? I see that your example of editing in other programs includes Photoshop 2024 but not Lightroom Classic. Can you export to Lightroom Classic in Excire Foto 2024? Again, I appreciate your videos as a Nikon Z9 user.
There is a plug-in for the older version and I am told there will be one for this version in the future...