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Your search for the ultimate Lightroom upgrade is over! Excire’s Search 2026 plug-in brings next-gen photo and video management powered by AI
If you are a Lightroom Classic user drowning in images, Excire’s new Search 2026 plug-in might just change your workflow forever. This is more than just an upgrade but a reinvention of what Lightroom can do, bringing a new level of speed, intelligence and automation to your photo and video catalogue. Why be afraid of your archive of images when you can put it to work for you? Filled with advanced AI tools for culling, search and organisation, Excire Search 2026 means less time hunting through folders and more time creating. Sharper and faster For portrait, wedding and event shooters, Search 2026 is a game changer thanks to Excire’s new AI-powered culling system – an intelligent tool that sorts, rates and filters your images in seconds. While Lightroom Classic has introduced basic culling, Excire’s AI culling operates on an entirely new level – part of a broader, powerhouse toolbox of intelligent features Lightroom doesn’t offer. The software can now group photos by scene, people, content and more, while automatically identifying shots with sharp eyes, blurred faces or standout aesthetics. It can even auto-flag your best images or reject outtakes, based on fully customisable criteria that you set. One of the most useful new additions is face sharpness evaluation. Excire automatically indicates face sharpness with coloured labels, and the plug-in even magnifies every detected face so you can check eye sharpness in an instant. When it comes to editing portraits, group shots or events, this is a small touch with a big difference, enabling detail confirmation at a glance. Excire doesn’t rely on basic metadata, it actually analyses your photos. This means that, by assessing eye sharpness, global focus and facial characteristics, you are able to instantly pinpoint keepers from thousands of frames. Smart way to search At the heart of Excire Search 2026 is a brand-new Search Panel, seamlessly
FACE TIME Identifying faces in sharp focus versus slightly soft is one way Excire Search 2026 helps you sort your images
Excire makes managing hybrid photo/ video libraries entirely frictionless
Built for every image maker Excire Search 2026 still includes the features that made earlier versions so popular – such as auto keywording, similarity search and aesthetic ratings – while adding upgrades like HEIC and PSD file support, expanded data storage and better processing for panoramic photos. With these combined tools, Excire Search 2026 becomes the definitive all-in- one photo and video management plug-in for Lightroom Classic, offering easy-to-use solutions to photographers’ most time- consuming problems. In an era when so much AI processing relies on external servers, Excire has taken a privacy-first approach. Every bit of analysis happens locally on your own computer, meaning your catalogue stays private and under your control. No uploads, no external data processing and no internet dependency – simply pure AI power at your fingertips. Your Lightroom library just got a whole lot smarter.
preview window for deep catalogue browsing. For many users, this is going to become the nerve centre of their new Lightroom experience. Perfect for content creators For the first time, Excire brings its AI management tools to video. The plug-in analyses representative frames from each clip, generating smart keywords for search and organisation. From wedding films to YouTube shorts, Excire makes managing hybrid photo/video libraries entirely frictionless.
integrated into Lightroom Classic. It offers instant access to all of Excire’s AI tools in a configurable, modern interface that both looks and feels native to Lightroom. If you need to find ‘a smiling woman in a red dress at sunset,’ type it in using a natural-language prompt search and Excire will instantly deliver the results. Want to locate a specific face or find near-duplicates? Excire’s people and face recognition and duplicate finder make it fast and simple. You can display the Search Panel as a subtle toolbar or expand it to a larger
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SPEEDY SEARCH There are lots of different ways to search your images, including faces or keywords, all made possible by clever AI
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