BONUS SOFTWARE
Keep your photos organised with this month’s bonus software download
If your New Year’s resolution was to sort out and manage the ever-growing collection I of photos captured on your digital camera, then be sure to download this month’s bonus Excire Foto Light software and let its AI-assisted tools do the hard work for you.
Excire Foto Light is a digital asset management (DAM) app that uses artificial intelligence to analyse imported photos and then automatically assign keywords to them. You can then search for specific keywords to find your files much faster than by scrolling through thumbnails. This powerful software also enables you to manually sort your shots by popping them into collections or assigning ratings and colour labels to them. Ratings and labels can then be filtered to help you in the culling process so your best shots are easy to find while the duff ones can be deleted.
The Light version of Excire Foto has limitations (such as not supporting raw files), but if you enjoy using this giveaway version and want to expand its capabilities then you can purchase the full version for Windows or Mac from the Excire website.
Key features
1Add labels
In the Folders panel click Add and browse to a folder of photos. Click Start. Excire Foto will analyse the shots. Click on the imported folder to view thumbnails of its contents. Click on the bottom left of a thumbnail to add a star rating and colour label and flag the shot as Accept or Reject.
2View AI keywords
When importing shots, Excire Foto’s AI tool analyses their contents and generates keywords, saving you a huge amount of time. Click on a thumbnail then look in the Keywords panel. Here, you’ll see keywords such as ‘Portrait’. You can also assign keywords manually by typing in a text field.
3Search via attributes
Now that you’ve assigned labels, flags, stars and keywords to your photos, you can start culling. By choosing Edit you can search for shots that have an Accept or Reject flag (or a specific star rating). You can also click on the Find by keyword icon and search for files that have been AI-tagged ‘Portrait’, for example.
