Today’s Question: Can Lightroom Classic automatically identify the subjects in my photos so I don’t need to keyword my photos?
Tim’s Quick Answer: Lightroom Classic does not include a search feature based on image analysis, but you can use the Excire plug-in for this purpose. The non-Classic version of Lightroom does, however, include search based on image analysis.
More Detail: While I very much prefer Lightroom Classic over the non-Classic version of Lightroom, there is one feature available in the latter that I wish was available in the former, and that is search based on image analysis.
Fortunately, however, there is a plug-in called Excire Search that provides the same capability in terms of being able to identify photos based on the subjects they contain, so you can search based on image contents.
You can learn more about Excire Search here:
https://excire.com/en/excire-search/
Hopefully at some point in the near future Adobe will add similar capabilities to Lightroom Classic. In the meantime, Excire Search provides a very good alternative, especially for those of us who won’t switch to the non-Classic version of Lightroom just to gain access to this type of search capability.
