Peakto Search at DPReview

For years I’ve been banging on about the importance of assigning keywords to your photos to make them easier to locate later. That’s a big part of my book Take Control of Your Digital Photos, and it’s also core to finding images in Lightroom as part of my book Adobe Lightroom, a Complete Course and Compendium of Features. But few people actually take the time to tag their images.

But there are other options. Lightroom desktop (formerly Lightroom CC, aka the newer version of Lightroom that syncs with Creative Cloud) can return results for what you type in the search field, even if you never applied a single keyword. That’s because Lightroom desktop automatically syncs your photos to the cloud and Adobe uses AI to analyze the contents of the images. You may have never added the keyword “car” to a photo containing a car, but the search feature will find it because the machine learning models know what automobiles look like.

Lightroom Classic, however, lacks this capability. Now, a new plug-in for Classic from CYME called Peakto Search can scan your photo library and build its own index of the contents of your images. It can also index several Lightroom Classic libraries, enabling you to search across multiple libraries even if they’re not currently running.

I wrote about Peakto Search at DPReview, which was just published today: Peakto Search for Lightroom Classic: Using AI to search the contents of your photos.

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