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The fast lane to sorting your images Lost shots, duplicate files and endless folders become a thing of the past with Excire Foto 2025
Keeping control of a growing archive is one of the biggest challenges for modern photographers. Whether you’re shooting professionally or building a vast personal library, thousands of images and videos can quickly transform into a digital black hole. That’s exactly the problem that Excire Foto 2025 sets out to solve – and why it has just been voted the best imaging software by readers of Photography News . Excire Foto 2025 is a standalone, AI- powered photo organisation tool that is designed to turn folders full of work into a fast, searchable and usable image library. It works with both photo and video files, supports MacOS and Windows and takes full advantage of modern processors and AI acceleration. The exciting result is a piece of software that is powerful yet surprisingly easy to use. One of Excire’s standout features is its AI-assisted culling module. Selecting photos from large shoots has long been photography’s most time-consuming and soul-destroying task. Excire changes that by automatically grouping images by similarity, content, faces and more; sorting and highlighting strong frames and making it easy to compare close-ups of faces at full resolution. Rather than wading through hundreds of near-identical shots, photographers can now make confident decisions quickly before moving on to the creative work that really matters. Search is where Excire truly shines. Its free-text, natural-language search allows users to find images simply by describing them. Type in phrases like ‘smiling people outdoors,’ ‘red motorcycle on a road’ or ‘bride holding a bouquet,’ and Excire can retrieve the relevant photographs instantly with no manual keywording required. It’s uncannily accurate and works across entire libraries, even finding images you’d long forgotten existed. The software’s automatic keywording, which runs very quietly in the background, helps further. Excire scans each image and applies relevant tags for colours, people, objects and scenes. If you don’t have time
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Excire doesn’t just identify faces but allows searches based on attributes such as age,
gender, number of people and expression
to tag every file manually, this alone can be transformative. Suddenly, years of images become discoverable again. People and face recognition is another major strength. Excire doesn’t just identify faces but enables searches based on other attributes such as age, gender, number of people and expressions. Named people are automatically grouped into collections, making both client requests and personal searches fast and reliable. Crucially, all facial recognition happens locally on your computer, keeping personal data private. Excire also tackles duplicate files and burst sequences with ease. Its duplicate
tools identify exact duplicates and near- duplicates, for an easy clean up of wasted space to streamline archives. Burst shots are automatically grouped, so you can easily pick the best frame and discard the rest, if you want. For those who want a deeper insight into their work, Excire Analytics provides a fascinating overview of shooting habits. From camera usage to focal lengths and genres, the Analytics module turns your archive into a source of useful data, which can help inform future equipment and creative decisions. Despite its technical power, Excire Foto 2025 remains fast and intuitive. Images load instantly, navigation is smooth even with large libraries and the interface stays out of the way. It doesn’t try to replace an editing software or overwhelm users with gimmicks. It focuses on solving a specific, real problem exceptionally well. That focus is why Excire Foto 2025 has earned its prize at the Photography News Awards. It turns unwieldy image libraries into something organised, searchable and inspiring. For photographers who want to spend less time hunting for files and more time making great images, Excire Foto 2025 is a well-deserved winner.
Excire Search 2026 supercharges your Lightroom workflow
If you use Lightroom Classic, Excire’s Search 2026 plug-in brings a new level of speed, intelligence and automation to your photo and video catalogue. Packed with advanced AI tools for culling, search and organisation, Excire Search 2026 lets you instantly locate long-buried files, easily select your best photos and finally regain control of your archive – without ever leaving Lightroom Classic. It’s the definitive all-in-one photo and video management plug-in for Lightroom Classic with no uploads, internet dependency or external data processing – just pure AI power at your fingertips. Your Lightroom library will get a whole lot smarter.
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