Release v3.6.0

[bmachek]

This update brings 1 new feature, 2 fixes and 1 other change.

New

• Eye focus, eye state, smile and gaze per face

Fixed

• Download the AI models family by family

Other changes

• Face state: signals that hold on real photographs, for culling, People, search and AI Edit

Download

If you are on	Download
Windows (64-bit)	LrGeniusAI-windows-x64-3.6.0.exe
macOS (Apple silicon)	LrGeniusAI-macos-arm64-3.6.0.pkg
Your own server or Docker	LrGeniusAI-plugin-docker-backend-v3.6.0.zip

Already have LrGeniusAI installed? This update changes parts that the in-Lightroom updater cannot replace on its own, so please install it with the full installer above. Your catalog, settings and everything already analysed stay as they are.

Back up your catalog first

LrGeniusAI writes its results into your Lightroom catalog, and Lightroom counts
each of those writes as an edit: every photo LrGeniusAI processes gets a new
Edit Date, smart collections that filter on Edit Date pick it up, and the
old date cannot be set back. With Automatically write changes into XMP
turned on, Lightroom also writes the new metadata into XMP sidecars and
DNG/JPEG files, so cloud or NAS sync will upload those files again.

Back up your catalog before you run a new version over it, and start with a few
photos. How to back up, and what else to check:
https://github.com/LrGenius/LrGeniusAI/wiki/Getting-Started#before-you-start-back-up-your-catalog

If your computer warns about the download

Both installers are downloaded rarely enough that Windows and macOS may not
recognise them yet. This is about how well known the file is, not about
anything found in it.

• Windows — if SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC", click
  More info, then Run anyway.
• macOS — if the installer is blocked, open System Settings → Privacy &
  Security and click Open Anyway. In Terminal, xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <path to the .pkg> does the same thing.

Something not working? Please open an issue at
https://github.com/LrGenius/LrGeniusAI/issues — a description of what you did
and what happened is enough to get started.

Technical changelog

What's Changed

• feat(cull): eye focus, eye state, smile and gaze per face by @bmachek in feat(cull): eye focus, eye state, smile and gaze per face #471
• fix(models): download the AI models family by family by @bmachek in fix(models): download the AI models family by family #473
• Face state: signals that hold on real photographs, for culling, People, search and AI Edit by @bmachek in Face state: signals that hold on real photographs, for culling, People, search and AI Edit #474
• fix(ml): switch off ONNX Runtime telemetry by @bmachek in fix(ml): switch off ONNX Runtime telemetry #475

Full Changelog: v3.5.2...v3.6.0

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This discussion was created from the release Release v3.6.0.

[Frank289159]

I had version 2.20 until now. I just ran the 3.60 setup.exe, but the plugin in LR isn't working again. This time, it seems even more overloaded AI features, even more databases, and other things are required in the background. And just like with the 2.20 update, the server won’t start again—or rather, I’m told the server is still on 2.20? It’s all very confusing. Especially since I only need the tagging feature. I’m very disappointed with the development of this plugin, which was so brilliant at first.

It now feels more like a playground for cloud programmers than a plugin I can actually use productively. For me as a photographer, it’s no longer what I need.

Fortunately, there’s now another update available for the pure tagging module. Even though I’m missing two features there:

• the second language
• the ability to freely choose a parent folder for the tags

So far, those have been the only reasons for me to use the “full” version at all.

But I’ll have to live with that, because I’ve now finally given up on the “new” module and uninstalled it. I won’t waste any more time on it and hope that Adobe will eventually add this feature. Until then, I’ll use the standalone tagging plugin. And maybe others will join my “complaint,” and we’ll get the developers to not only focus on the new toy but also optimize the old, yet productive and simple tool a bit and keep it up to date.

[bmachek]

Based on your description I assume you didn't uninstall 2.20 which caused the problems. On the other hand I admit that LrGeniusAI is just too much for people that only want to tag pictures.

For me personally the main purpose of LrGeniusAI and also LrGeniusTagAI always was to find the pictures I was looking for. I develop LrGeniusAI for my personal needs, and I am happy if someone else finds the software useful. I'm doing this in my free time, I don't feel the need to make everybody content with my software. Everybody has a different approach and use case.

There a tons of plugins out there by now that focus on purely tagging and some of those are still actively developed, maybe you want to give one of them a try and place you feature requests there.

[bastiansander]

I just discovered the plugin today and gave it a quick test. It looks really good! I downloaded and installed version 3.6.

I mainly photograph birds, so I’m especially interested in the automatic species recognition and tagging. I can identify the species myself, but I’d like to save myself the trouble of tagging them manually.

My question: even though I’ve set the language to German everywhere, the species names in the tags are still in English. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks for sharing your work!

[bmachek]

Nein, das geht leider nicht. Das BioCLIP v2 Modell auf dem die Bestimmung beruht kennt nur lateinische und englische Bezeichnungen.