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diriyea19967652
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August 26, 2025
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Lightroom Classic – speeding up metadata with AI (my experience)

  • August 26, 2025
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Hi all,

I work with large sets of photos in Lightroom Classic and always found metadata (titles, captions, keywords) to be the most time-consuming part. Recently I have been experimenting with a small plug-in I built that uses AI to help generate this information and write it directly into the IPTC fields in LrC.

It is still simple, but for stock photography and bigger projects it has saved me time. I am sharing in case others here are exploring similar workflows, and I would be interested to hear how you handle metadata automation in your own setups.

If you are curious, I put a short description and the download info here:
https://www.metamagicplugin.com/

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DramaticPhotographic
Participating Frequently
August 27, 2025

I just tried metamagic due to this post - I'm pretty impressed.  Generated keywords are accurate and useful - often even identifying the location and feature from landmarks.

 

What I didn't like is that the plugin adds so many keywords that my manually added (and thus more important to me) keywords were lost in a sea of generated ones.

 

I messaged the author and he was remarkably responsive - he is considering adding an optional configurable prefix (eg  z.) to generated keywords such that they appear after manually added ones in the LrC keyword box.  Via synonyms, the prefix will not appear in exported photo's keywords.

 

Assuming that enhancement happens, i'll definitely be buying some credits.  (even though debatably they are a bit expensive).

 

 

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
August 26, 2025

I hadn't heard of Metamagic before, thanks. It appears to use OpenAI.

 

Other programs and plugins that use AI to provide metadata for LR-cataloged photos include Any Vision (which uses Google Gemini), LrGeniustag AI (Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Ollama), Excire, and LrTag. They all have different features and pricing.

 

Metamagic's pricing seems pricey, $20+ for 1000 photos. Whereas Any Vision and Lrgeniustagai cost as little as $0.10 for 1000 photos (using Google Gemini).  Excire has a fixed price of $200, so the cost per 1000 photos will be competitive with tens of thousands of photos.

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