It’s been two years since I first explained picture tags and how valuable they are for sorting and searching your photos. (See: “Tag! You’re It!”) While tags are immensely helpful, there’s a problem: tagging every picture is so very time-consuming. For instance, on my main computer, I have 52,374 pictures. (By the time you read this, there’ll be more.) Can you imagine how long it would take me to manually tag all of them?
Oh wait, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking you don’t have 52,000+ photos on your computer! You’re probably correct. However, I bet you have more photos than you think especially if you take pictures with a tablet or a smartphone. (Speaking of smartphones, I have over 10,000 pictures on mine.)
That brings us to our quandary. When we start accumulating more than 1,000 pictures, finding a picture quickly that we need/want long after we actually took the photo is often a daunting task. It would be an easy process if we tagged all our photos but tagging them after the fact takes forever and few of us have the presence of mind to tag them as we take them!
Enter Excire Foto. I have been looking for a program like this forever! Here’s what it does: it looks through all my photos and, using AI (Artificial Intelligence), it automatically tags them. I can then search by tags. (Note: the app calls them keywords.) I can adjust tags if I need to by removing an incorrect tag and/or adding a correct one. Additionally, I can find pictures that are similar to the one I’m currently viewing; I can find pictures which contain people; I can even find faces based on age and gender.
I’m producing some short videos to show some of the program’s features. Here’s Part 1 which, in less than 3 minutes, shows you the keywords for a photo and then how to search using a keyword. Take a look and then read my final thoughts:
If you have any appreciable amount of photos, I urge you to give this program a try. If you know me, you understand I only recommend programs and apps I like and believe in. This is one of those apps. Just click the picture below and start your trial.