Coming from the land of "why has no one thought of this before," ON1's latest release, Photo Keyword AI, promises to make organizing your photo far easier and more efficient. It looks awfully nifty, and for anyone who has a large catalog of photos in Lightroom that they need to navigate, it could be an indispensable tool. This great video will show you the tool and how to use it to organize and search your images.
Coming to you from Anthony Morganti, this excellent video takes a look at the new ON1 Photo Keyword AI. Photo Keyword AI is not an editing tool; rather, it is for organizing and navigating large catalogs of images. The program has two main functions that are both enabled by its ability to leverage AI to identify different content in a photo: searching and keywording. If you are anything like me, you rely heavily on keywords for organizing your Lightroom catalog and finding old photos, but you are also terrible at keeping up with it. After editing a large batch of images, the last thing I want to do is go through and keyword them, but it really is necessary as your catalog grows, and this new software looks like a big help in that endeavor. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Morganti.
Excellent video, as always the case from Anthony. Just a pity that the application looks half-baked.
Doesn't appear that it supports the use of a controlled vocab or hierarchical keywording - Two essentials for me.
Also, it's a shame that the demo uses the same keywords with different case (Sky and sky, for example).
Boy, what worthlessness in this product.
For (only!) 11 images it takes forever; For the same image, it gives different keywords. This is a timesink, both using and then interpreting.
After buying, but not using, ON1 for about 10 years, I will not upgrade again.
Their main package often does have some bits of good stuff, but it does not operate as a Photoshop plugin, another dealbreaker and PITA.
I always hope for more competition to Adobe, but these guys repeatedly overpromise and underdeliver. And their technical team always shows as second rate, and always second fiddle to their rampant overhyped marketing department. RIP
Anthony, your stuff is great, but, here, you were less critical than your usual stuff.
I'd suggest that perhaps the software would use the GPU if available, but Anthony being a Mac user complicates things...
Is he using Intel or Apple silicon? If he's using an M2, the GPU is going to be very slow compared to an RTX3090. Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64b benchmark shows that the 3090 is 284% the speed of the 10-core GPU. I didn't check other benchmarks, but wouldn't expect much difference when comparing 10 cores against 10496 cores.
Works best with lightroom with newly imported photos. If photos have previous lightroom edits overwriting the metadata with ON1’s keywords will also overwrite those edits