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Digital Asset Managementon: October 15, 2020 at 4:29 am
…. when I switched back from Lightroom to C1 I was missing a plugin in C1 called Excire Search.
But now there is a standalone version of Excire Foto that fits very well with C1.
Best regards
Oliver
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Re: Excire FotoReply #1 on: October 15, 2020 at 9:08 amThis looks really interesting. I am going to get it and dive into it. Any suggestions?
Kevin Raber
Owner and Publisher of photoPXLRe: Excire FotoReply #2 on: October 15, 2020 at 10:26 amThis looks really interesting. I am going to get it and dive into it. Any suggestions?
Hello Kevin,
I just bought the license for Excire Foto today. Unfortunately it cannot use the data from Excire Search. So I let the indexing and keyword creation run again.
Oliver
https://www.riwodot.de
https://vero.co/riwodot
https://www.instagram.com/riwodot/
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Oliver Ritter-Wolff.
Re: Excire FotoReply #3 on: October 15, 2020 at 10:31 am… 1st steps in the video tutorial: https://www.excire.com/en/tutorials/excire-foto-tutorials/
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Re: Excire FotoReply #4 on: October 15, 2020 at 12:31 pmLooks interesting. I got through one video on top of everything else I am doing today. Wonder how it will index 50,000 images or more. What are you going to be using it for? Would you be interested in doing an article on it?
Kevin Raber
Owner and Publisher of photoPXLRe: Excire FotoReply #5 on: October 15, 2020 at 1:26 pmLooks interesting. I got through one video on top of everything else I am doing today. Wonder how it will index 50,000 images or more. What are you going to be using it for? Would you be interested in doing an article on it?
Hello Kevin,
I have already worked with two quite large databases under Lightroom, which worked fine.
However, I have to admit that I also have to clean up a lot, so that they can be reduced by 80%. I know that many users create several thematic databases. We only had two large databases in Lightroom and structured them logically. But every now and then we used snapshots of them.
Give me a little time to gain experience with Excire Foto, then I’d be happy to write a field report. But you would have to proofread it, because my English leaves a lot to be desired.
Oliver
https://www.riwodot.de
https://vero.co/riwodot
https://www.instagram.com/riwodot/
Re: Excire FotoReply #6 on: October 15, 2020 at 1:29 pmCool, wecan ahn dle the editing and clean up. Trying to decide if it is worth investing to take a look at this.
Kevin Raber
Owner and Publisher of photoPXLRe: Excire FotoReply #7 on: October 20, 2020 at 4:06 amI’ve used the Excire plugin (now v. 2.0) in Lightroom for a couple of years now. It’s really made for people who need auto-keywording (stock photographers, wedding photographers etc) and seems to be good at that. But I hardly ever keywords in LR so that’s wasted on me.
What I find the Excire image search is great for is discovery. You know, when you want to think about a project or a collection but don’t really remember what images you have that might work. Or you just want to surprise yourself. It’s great fun for noodling.
After Excire has processed your catalog (and created one of it’s own) — which takes many hours; overnight at least in my case, but after the initial run it updates new imports as you go — you can ask it to create a variable-size collection of ‘similar’ images by reference to an example image or by specific attributes (colour, for example). It’s sometimes uncanny what it returns. Faces, of course, but textures, shapes, even photographic ideas that often surprise: either because you hadn’t remembered the image or because the connections between the images are unsuspected. Sort of serendipity in a can.
I don’t need the stand-alone version but I’ve tried it. Seems OK if a bit limited on the meta-data side and not as flexible as say Adobe Bridge. But it seems to perform the same discovery tricks just as well as the plug-in and allows ‘open-with’ connections to editors on my Mac.
Re: Excire FotoReply #8 on: November 3, 2020 at 3:54 amHello Peter,
yes – “Excire Foto” is far from being perfect but it helps you to find all kinds of motives you have photographed at some point.
With “Excire Search” you just have the nice integration as a plug-in in Lightroom. I would like to have an integration for example in Capture One.
Oliver
https://www.riwodot.de
https://vero.co/riwodot
https://www.instagram.com/riwodot/
Re: Excire FotoReply #9 on: April 5, 2021 at 6:45 amHi,
there is an Easter special that gives you 15% discount (seen don digitalkamera.de):
“Search and find your photos easily, even in very large photo collections! Excire Foto is the stand-alone image manager with artificial intelligence for automatic keywording. Excire Search 2 extends Adobe Lightroom with intelligent, local image recognition. So that you can make good use of this decelerated time and finally bring order to your photo archive, we are putting a nice Easter discount in your Easter nest. With the code OSTERN2021 you get a 15% discount on all products in the Excire Shop. Simply enter the code in the shopping cart under “Vouchers”. The code is valid until 30.4.2021 and cannot be combined with other promotions.”
Best regards,
Heiko
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