Excire Photo 2024 is a new program that lets you automatically add keywords and your own custom ones; search for one or more images by free text, keyword(s), groups or individual people; identified faces; GPS locations; event; main colour in an image; by camera model, camera lens, lens focal length used, shutter speed used, and more. All of this metadata is written directly to your files or to XMP sidecar files, so the information stays with your images, not trapped in a proprietary database. This feature rich program is available for Windows and MacOS, even on M1 and later processor chips. Learn how this software can relieve you of much time and effort in organizing your digital images.
In this insightful webinar, genealogist Art Taylor demonstrates how artificial intelligence can transform the way researchers organize and access their growing collections of historical photos and documents. Presented as part of Legacy Family Tree’s AI for Genealogists series, the session introduces attendees to Excire Foto 2025, a standalone AI-driven photo management software designed to simplify the process of cataloging, tagging, and retrieving both modern and archival images. Taylor, a seasoned researcher with more than two decades of experience and an extensive photo archive dating back to the 1860s, shares his firsthand experience using Excire to overcome one of genealogy’s biggest challenges—keeping digital collections searchable, structured, and meaningful.
Key Takeaways:
AI-Powered Organization: Excire Foto 2025 automatically analyzes images, assigns relevant keywords, and evaluates visual quality, allowing genealogists to locate specific photos by theme, person, or object within seconds. The program’s intelligent search, facial recognition, and metadata tools significantly reduce manual tagging time while maintaining precision.
Metadata and Integration Features: Users can edit or add metadata such as GPS coordinates, capture dates, and descriptive details to scanned and digital images, ensuring long-term accessibility. Excire integrates smoothly with external editors like Lightroom Classic and other software, making it adaptable for both hobbyists and professionals managing large archives.
Enhanced Research Capabilities: Collections and groups can be built virtually—linking one photo to multiple individuals, locations, or historical events—without duplicating files. This functionality not only helps genealogists establish context between related materials but also preserves valuable storage space.
Throughout the session, Taylor highlights the program’s efficiency in handling multiple storage drives, support for various file formats, and even its capacity to identify duplicates or organize by attributes such as camera type or color tone. The engaging Q&A segment explores real-world applications, from handling metadata standards to evaluating free trials, upgrade options, and integration with cloud services.
To experience the full presentation and see Excire Foto 2025 in action, viewers are encouraged to watch the complete webinar on Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Exploring the live demonstrations and audience discussions provides a richer understanding of how AI can streamline archival organization and improve genealogical workflows.
For those ready to deepen their research efficiency, be sure to download and explore the accompanying syllabus, which includes links, tutorials, and additional resources for implementing AI photo management tools in genealogical projects.
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Awesome presentation as always!!! Everyone should watch this one!!
Excellent and extremely thorough! Will need several more viewings however, as Excire has so much capability!
Had never considered this as a use for AI! Great to know and now I have another program I may want to invest in.
This was a great introduction to this application.
Very interesting!
Already happen to use Excire Foto 2025 as my last step in my Photo Image Workflow. I have six apps before I get to the final stage of Excire. I found, like all the webinars, he provided me some tips on things I have not previously used in Excire Foto 2025 regarding genealogy specifically. Thanks for the webinar.
More detailed than I expected. Speaker was very knowledgable.
I am on an M2 MacBook 15 but I found the screens Art showed were too small to follow his examples. Good information on Excire.