LrGeniusAI for Every Photographer
AI keywording, culling, and search — free, local, and built into Lightroom Classic.
LrGeniusAI is a single free plugin that covers the full AI workflow inside Lightroom Classic — from selecting the best shots to finding them years later. Below is how different photographer types use it.
Wedding & Event Photographers
You shoot thousands of frames per event and spend hours culling before you can even start editing.
How LrGeniusAI helps
- AI culling (beta) pre-selects the best frames with face-aware scoring — detecting focus, expression, and composition across large batches.
- Face recognition clusters guests and family members so you can quickly verify coverage of key people.
- Contextual analysis lets you provide names, venue, and event details before indexing — generating captions like "Bride and groom exchanging rings at sunset ceremony."
- Semantic search finds the "first dance with grandparents in background" shot years after delivery.
Stock & Editorial Photographers
Stock libraries require precise, comprehensive keywords for discoverability. Manual tagging is slow and inconsistent.
How LrGeniusAI helps
- Open-vocabulary AI keywording generates descriptive, unrestricted tags — not a fixed taxonomy — matched to what is actually in each image.
- Bulk indexing processes your entire library in the background while you work on other tasks.
- Captions and alt-text give you ready-to-use descriptions for agency submissions and accessibility requirements.
- Keyword deduplication cleans up overlapping and redundant tags before submission.
Nature & Wildlife Photographers
Species names, behaviors, and habitats need specific, accurate keywords — general-purpose tagging tools miss the details that matter.
How LrGeniusAI helps
- Contextual hints let you specify the location, species, or situation before analysis — the AI incorporates your hints into keywords and captions for better accuracy.
- Open-vocabulary keywording captures behaviors ("bird in flight", "pair courting", "juvenile feeding") rather than just species labels.
- Semantic search finds "golden hour shots of red deer at the forest edge" without requiring exact keyword matches.
- Works with local AI models via Ollama — no photos sent to external servers.
Hobbyist & Personal Photographers
Your catalog has grown to tens of thousands of images and you can never find the shot you're thinking of.
How LrGeniusAI helps
- Semantic free-text search lets you describe what you remember — "kids playing in the snow in red coats" — and find the photo instantly, without needing to have tagged it.
- AI keywording runs on your existing library in the background, building a searchable index over time.
- Find Similar starts from a photo you like and surfaces visually similar shots across your entire catalog.
- Everything runs locally via Ollama or LM Studio — free, private, no subscription.
Photo Archivists & Library Managers
Large legacy catalogs lack consistent metadata. Manual remediation at scale is impractical.
How LrGeniusAI helps
- Bulk AI keywording processes thousands of untagged images and writes standardized keywords directly into Lightroom metadata.
- AI captions and alt-text improve accessibility and make images searchable by their descriptive content.
- Keyword deduplication consolidates variant spellings, synonyms, and legacy tags into a clean controlled vocabulary.
- Local processing keeps sensitive or confidential image collections off external servers.
Ready to try it?
LrGeniusAI is free, open-source, and runs inside Lightroom Classic on macOS and Windows.