Lightroom’s web interface allows you, as CC subscribers, to access any of your synced photos from anywhere in the world using a web browser. Yesterday, Adobe announced they were adding an exciting new feature – Technology Previews.
Like Google Labs, Technology Previews give you access to the experimental pre-release features that the Lightroom Web engineers are working on. Based on the feedback received, they’ll continue to be improved before release as official features.
The first Technology Preview added to Lightroom Web is an intelligent search facility, which uses image analysis technology to find specific photos based on their content. For example, search your photos for “boats” and Lightroom will try to find all of the photos that appear to include a boat. No keywording needed! It’s early days, but it has great potential. It’s currently limited to English search terms, but other languages will be added in future.
To enable it, go to Lightroom Web at http://lightroom.adobe.com, sign in, click the Lightroom icon in the top left corner, and select Technology Previews from the menu, then flick the switch for the search technology. The text lights up to show it’s enabled.
To search for photos, type your search term in the top left corner of the Photos view. The initial indexing may take some time, as everyone’s enabling it at the same time.
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Cool feature. However, three hours after I turned it on, I still can’t find anything I search for. No keywords, no camera info or anything else. How long did you have to wait for it to start working after you turned on the feature?
I think my 35K catalog took around 7-8 hours. When you search, it should tell you if it’s still indexing. Bear in mind though, it’s image-analysis search, not keywords or camera metadata (at least at this point in time). Try searching for something like “boat” or “chair” or “cat”.
Hi. Thanks. I just checked again after having uploaded 30-40 new photos, and I can search them, but not the 18K photos I have from before. I thought this from the Adobe blog meant I can already search for metadata: “The search technology will search on a lot of different things, including metadata such as file names, captions, titles, camera, lens, and exposure data, location, faces, etc”. Searching for “Canon” returns the new photos uploaded, but not the old ones… Anyway – this is just a preview, so some glitches should be expected, I guess…
Which blog post are you reading? The official one said: “The functionality will also grow and improve before we release it, adding in the ability to search through an image’s metadata and more” http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2016/03/introducing-technology-previews-and-search-in-lightroom-for-web.html
Interesting. I read Julieanne Cost’s blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2016/03/search-added-to-lightroom-web-as-technology-preview.html 🙂
It has still not indexed any of the photos I uploaded to LrM before I turned on the new feature. I will post a comment to the blog you linked to about this.
It seems you might have found a bug. The engineers are requesting your email address to investigate for you.
Let me see what I can find out from the developers Henrik, on the expected behaviour here.
I found the search is working better with English searchcommand than with my native language, Dutch. The keywords i tried are part of the metadata so search should find them. But i think Adobe is mainly using it imagerecognition for now.
You’re right Roelof, they did say that the image recognition is currently limited to English.
Thanks for the “heads up”