Excire Foto Help

When adding photos, their metadata are loaded. For the keywords already stored in the photo to be loaded, the option “Load keywords from analyzed photos” must be enabled. You can find the option in “File” → “Settings” in the “Metadata” tab..

Although all metadata is loaded while adding photos, the keywords stored in the images are not loaded to Excire Foto until the images are analyzed downstream. Therefore, if the “Analyze photos” option is disabled while adding, then the keywords will not be loaded.

The analysis can be done later by right-clicking on a folder and selecting “Analyze” but the keywords can only be transferred to Excire Foto if the analysis is performed directly when adding the photos.

For photos that have already been added and analyzed, the loading of metadata (including keywords) can also be triggered afterwards by executing “Photo” → “Load metadata”. .

When saving metadata via “Photo” → “Save Metadata”, in the case of so-called “metadata arrays”,which include keywords, metadata already saved in the photo will remain there.

The keywords assigned in Excire Foto are appended to the already existing ones. To ensure that after “Save Metadata” exactly those keywords are stored in the photo that were assigned in Excire Foto, the “Append contents of a metadata array" option must be deactivated.

Thus, the keywords in the photo will be replaced by the keywords assigned in Excire Foto. You can find the option in “File” → “Settings” in the “Metadata” tab.

This can be done using the “Load Metadata” and “Save Metadata”Please also note that the “Load keywords from analyzed photos” option (Metadata tab) must be set in the preferences.

Export can be triggered for one or more selected photos from the “Photo” menu. In the trial version, this functionality is disabled.

When exporting, you can select whether a new JPG or PNG file should be created for each of the selected photos at a selected location, or whether the original files should be copied to this location.

Along with the exported files, metadata can be saved if required. This includes metadata read by Excire Foto as well as assigned keywords.

Depending on the destination file type and the “Always use sidecar files” option in the settings in the “Metadata” tab, XMP sidecar files may be created.

Unfortunately, with proprietary RAW formats, we are unable to write metadata to the file due to a lack of standardization. This is handled similarly by other apps, such as Adobe Lightroom.

With DNGs and JPEGs, things are a little different. There we try to write the metadata to the file unless the option “Always use sidecar files” is enabled. It can happen that writing metadata to a DNG file doesn’t work for various reasons. In this case, a sidecar file is placed next to the DNG file.

In the settings (File → Settings), you will find a tab “Metadata” where you can set which metadata can be used for filtering.

Unfortunately, this is not possible, because Apple keeps your photos in proprietary management. In Excire Fotos, you can only add photos that are located in folders in the file system. So you have to export your photos from Apple Photos or transfer your photos from an iPhone to your computer using the “Digital Pictures” app.