Peakto 1.8's AI-Powered Conversational Search for Photos is a Game-Changer
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2023
- Cyme have just updated their photo management app Peakto to version 1.8 and added an AI-powered conversational search tool. After testing this I reckon it's the most powerful tool for local photo searches I've tried. No keywords required and it doesn't even use the cloud. Don't understand why no-one's talking about this amazing tool.
I'm giving away a free licence to Peakto Summit edition. Stay tuned to the end for the deets. - Навчання та стиль
You’re right it is more impressive that Excire foto. You convinced me.
Good morning Andy, thank you for the informative video.
Wow! Having it offline is refreshing
It is isn't it. So much is reliant on an Internet connection these days that it's nice to have some that can work just as well without one. :)
I had not heard of this until watching your video. I just purchased the new version of Excire 2024. I watched your review of that as well. Good job on both!
Thank-you kindly - glad it was useful :)
Great video again Andy, ta tah :)
Not sure I have enough photos for this to be useful but I'm all for a freebie when it works well.
Looks really helpful. Ta for the heads up.
Sounds great!!
Looks like the answer to collate my images. Have tried duplicating programmes but to no avail really. Looking forward to really testing my trial period. Thanks for the review.
Let me know how you go :)
👍👍helpful video
Great review. Looks great
This is brilliant!
This is great, thank you for doing this video!
I just came here for the freebie - thanks 😉
Haha- welcome Paul :)
This looks quite exciting actually.
Hi Andy
With your video on Any Vision, this product shows the positives that AI can bring to a photographer. I don't tend to add key words as part of my work flow as LRC can be a tad clunky but this makes life so much easier. Great stuff and keep up with these refreshingly honest videos. John Spencer
Thanks John. Yep - for productivity it's a huge bonus. Between these two plug-ins my appallingly disorganised photo archives are far more accessible. :)
amazing app
It really is!
This is pretty cooooool
Thanks Angie - you're a legend!
Sounds great.
Hi there @maxg8815 - Congratulations. You are the lucky winner of the Peakto licence. Could you please send me your name and email address to info@andyhutchinson.com.au 🥳 👏 🥳 👏 🥳
Hello maxg8815 Please get in touch soon or I'll have to re-roll the prize draw
Hey mate. I'll give it a few more days and then redraw the competition. I can't think of an alternative way of getting in touch with you.
hi Andy, interesting video been trying to organise my phots lately, but no where near the numbers of photos you have, and it drivews me crazy after 30 mins. this program may be a game changer
It certainly takes a lot of the hassle out of it. :)
Hey Patrick. I did the draw again because I couldn't get in touch with the original person and your name came out this time. Please email me at info@andyhutchinson.com.au so I can arrange to get you the key. :) @patrickmeares3837
It’s too bad this is only for Mac. For the perpetually disorganised like myself, this would be a godsend. Oh well, back to the chaos…
Cool program but if this Mac exclusive all wait for the windows version look very useful though
I got all excited by your video, went and looked at the website and decided to subscribe. Typed in my credit card details, downloaded the software, enetered the licence key and .... "computer says no". Sorry but I need to be confident about the company I'm buying from. The app might be brilliant but if the back end business service is shite, I can't really feel good about trusting them to be providing me with a service in the future. So I think that's the end of Cyme for me. Pity, cos it looks good.
That's a real shame. I know that the Cyme support guys read the comments on these videos, so perhaps they'll reach out to you. :)
@@Andyhutchinson yes I’ve been in touch and they are really helpful but I’ve run into some more issues and I really feel like it’s not ready for prime time just yet. We’ll see. The search is fantastic but there are some issues around communication with Capture One
In the interests of fairness, an update. After a day of interaction with the support guys, it now works (mostly). The search is amazing, and I've already dug out photos of places I'd forgotten I've even been to, so I am well pleased right now!
Glad you got it sorted - it's a bit of a revelation, isn't it! Freedom to search on whatever comes into your head. :)
@@Andyhutchinson As you said - sure beats keywording :-).
A thought - if Apple had still got Aperture it would have been an ideal place for them to leverage their AI technology and create a real killer app. Oh well ....
Hi Andy. Great review. Can this program work as a stand alone catalog for one’s photo collection? I’ve been enjoying your reviews of other software programs which are well done and the odd humorous comment is entertaining.
Yep. It can 100% work as a standalone catalog. All you have to do is point it at wherever your photos are stored - an internal or external drive and it will then index them. Then you can use it to search and group stuff into albums and rate it and all the usual stuff. It has no editing tools built in, so you'd need to jump off to your photo editor of choice to edit any images. :)
@@Andyhutchinson Thanks Andy. Appreciate.
Thanks for the info Andy.
What would be the Windows equivalent of Peakto? You weren't blown away by Excire Foto, so that leaves packages like Lightroom, Bridge, and a few others. What are the capabilities of the new ON! Photo Raw 2024 in this regard?
On1 was the same as Excire - it had AI keywords but they were too vague to be useful. If you're just after AI keywording then check out the AnyVision plugin - johnrellis.com/lightroom/anyvision.htm
Thanks for the review! Can you do a review of preferred (iPhone) camera apps? There's a lot out there (Halide Mark II, ProCamera, Camera+, etc) and I would really love some suggestions/help
It's on the list. Been there a little while actually because every time I go to make it someone releases a new cool app and I get distracted. But I will get round to. My current personal favourite is Camera+.
Very impressive, Andy! Will it do folders of images on a drive, outside one of program catalogs, too?
Yep. It'll index any folder or drive you point it at. There's a trial version on their website if you want to test it. :)
To be up-front, I'm not a Mac user so this is really just a curiosity-only question, but... Presumably the generated index resides on your computer. How much storage is used by the index for 250k+ images? Thanks.
The .sqlite database file it uses is currently 591Mb on my Macbook :)
Interesting software. Does it detect faces? Can I assign name to the face from baby to adult?
Dose this search your computer only or the cloud?
Only Instagram and that doesn't really count as the cloud. It only applies to local files at this stage -Lightroom, Capture One, Photolab, Apple Photos, Aperture, Luminar, iView and any folders or drives you want to add. Possible something they'll add in the future. :)
@@Andyhutchinson hi Andy....Lightroom Cloud is going in beta this week...so this will be our first Cloud based catalog synchronisation. We might add more in the future based on request...not necessarily catalogs, but cloud storages like DropBox for example could be aggregated in peakto for those of us who use DropBox as an image container.
Not interested in this software ... but it would be vise to know if the AI learning part and maybe also search requires active internet connection (does software upload all your down-sampled images to their servers for image recognition )
No internet connection required and nothing is uploaded.
Hi, I confirm hereby that none of your images are uploaded to any server. The AI analysis is run locally. Thanks for asking.
Could the program search faces and how?
I wondered the same thing. It doesn't do it yet but hopefully they'll add it in the future.