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Excire Foto boost The best gets better as the AI-powered Excire Foto 2027 packs in lots of new features to sort your photo library
numbers, vehicle registrations and menus. Text recognition is also possible in another must-try feature: AI-powered smart filtering – this lets you filter your image database by visible text, plus content and metadata. In a folder of racing motorbikes, we selected ‘Text in photos’ in the filter bar and keyed in ‘426.’ It identified all the shots of a single race bike carrying that number. On a folder of British seaside scenes, we searched for ‘fish and chips,’ which brought up every photo with those words somewhere in the image. It’s a huge time saver and incredibly powerful. After this, we switched to content filtering and keyed in ‘church’ in a folder of mono cityscapes at dusk. All images with a church in the frame appeared. By default these are in time order of capture, but by selecting ‘aesthetics,’ the AI system reorders them by visual appeal. That’s a useful tool to sort some of your best shots quickly. Location-based searching and browsing has been transformed thanks to the new World Map View. Explore images via an interactive map interface, making it easy to rediscover work from specific cities, countries, regions or even streets. Excire Foto’s core AI search capabilities remain a major strength of the software. You can search for faces, content, visually similar images and more. The software now includes Timeline Graph, which shows how many images were taken at a specific date and allows you to filter accordingly: ideal for navigating extensive archives. Additionally, the new Survey View offers a distraction-free environment for comparing, rating and selecting images. Inspired by traditional light tables, it’s a fast, intuitive way to identify the best frames.
Software Excire Foto 2027 Platforms Windows and MacOS Licence One-time purchase, no subscription Launch price £199 (normally £229) Upgrade price From £79 Free trial 14 days At a glance Image evaluation has also received an upgrade. New rule-of-thirds overlays and focus peaking tools enable instant assessment of composition and sharpness while reviewing images. And Excire offers powerful culling tools that can group, sort and even select the best photos. Importantly, Excire Foto is still a stand-alone application with a one-time purchase price and no subscription fees. It performs its AI-powered analysis locally, meaning photographers retain control of their image libraries without needing to upload files to the cloud. Updates also include support for OneDrive and Nextcloud, improved keyword management, video export tools, a more refined interface and faster folder navigation. Try Excire Foto 2027 libraries free for 14 days and you’ll be hooked!
If you’ve ever tried Excire’s award- winning Foto software, you’ll know it’s an incredibly powerful and fast way to rediscover forgotten portfolio shots, overlooked gems and pictures from your hard drives. Now, it’s taken a huge leap forward with the 2027 version that’s packed with even more cutting-edge tools. The latest version of this AI-powered, stand-alone software turns folders of work into a fast, searchable library by using new search tools, location-based browsing, smarter filtering and enhanced image evaluation – and it supports MacOS and Windows for both stills and video.
n Search through photos using everyday language n Explore your archive through a new interactive world map n New focus peaking and Survey View features for evaluation n No subscription or cloud dependency required n Free 14-day trial, then 15% off purchase if you quote PHOTONEWS Five reasons to try Excire Foto 2027 Installation is quick and easy, and it doesn’t take you long to get to grips with the intuitive workflow. Import your folders of photos and videos, then it’s simple to navigate to a gallery view. There’s a new filter bar that helps you to navigate your photo library, with options like filtering by ratings, flags, file type and metadata. You can even filter images by specific people using the powerful, AI-driven facial recognition. But it goes further. Excire Foto 2027 can now identify visible text within photographs, so you can search for images containing everything from street signs and shop names to race
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