The AI workspace for your photos

Your camera roll is the largest, most disorganised library you own. Thousands of images sorted by the one dimension that's almost never what you're looking for: date. You need the photo of the product packaging from the client visit. The site photo showing the existing condition of the north elevation. The whiteboard from the workshop. The receipt from the business dinner. The reference shot of the tile pattern you liked. Each one is somewhere in a scroll of thousands, and finding it means swiping through months of images, hoping you recognise it before your thumb gives out. Your photos hold valuable information: documentation, reference material, records, memories. The system for retrieving any of it is your memory of roughly when you took it.

Fabric makes every photo searchable by what's in it: the content, the colours, the objects, the text, the visual characteristics. Describe the photo and find it. Drop in a similar image and find everything that looks like it. Stop scrolling and start searching.

Search every photo by what's in it

Camera rolls and photo folders search by date and, sometimes, by location. Neither helps when you need "the photo of the brick sample from the site visit" or "the product shot with the white background."

Fabric's AI search reads the visual content of every photo: objects, scenes, text, colours, composition. Describe what you're looking for in plain language and find the image. "The whiteboard from the strategy workshop" finds the whiteboard. "Product packaging with the blue label" finds the packaging. The search understands what's in the photo, not just when it was taken.

Fabric also reads text inside photos. A photographed receipt, a whiteboard covered in writing, a label, a sign, a business card. All searchable by the text on them. This turns your phone camera into a capture tool for any information that's easier to photograph than to type.

Find similar photos across your entire library

Sometimes you don't have the words. You know what the photo looks like, but describing it precisely is harder than just showing something similar.

Similar search lets you drop in any photo and find everything visually related across your library. Find every photo with a similar colour palette, a similar composition, or a similar subject. Useful for pulling together reference photos from different trips, finding all product shots with a consistent look, or locating every photo you've taken of a specific type of material or environment.

The explorer surfaces visual connections across your photo library, grouping images by similarity and colour. Browse your collection spatially and discover photographs you'd forgotten alongside the ones you're actively looking for.

Auto-organised as you capture

The reason photo libraries become unmanageable is that organising thousands of images manually is a task nobody finishes. Fabric's smart organization automatically tags and categorises photos based on their content as you add them. Colour recognition, subject detection, and content analysis happen without you filing, tagging, or sorting.

Smart collections auto-populate based on content type and visual characteristics, so categories form as the library grows. Your product photography groups itself. Your site documentation clusters by location. Your reference shots find their neighbours. The organisation happens as a byproduct of saving, not as a separate chore.

Annotate photos with context

A photo without context loses its meaning. The site photo is useless if you can't remember which wall it shows. The reference shot means nothing if you've forgotten what you liked about it.

Annotations let you pin comments to specific spots on any photo. Mark the area of concern on a site photo. Note what you liked about a material sample. Label the elements on a whiteboard photograph. The annotations are searchable, so a note pinned to a photo six months ago is findable by what it says.

The AI assistant also works from your photos. Ask it to describe what's in an image, find all photos that show a specific element, or pull together every documented photo from a particular project or trip.

Capture and sync across devices

Photos start on your phone. Fabric's mobile app and quick capture make the path from camera to searchable library as short as possible. Take a photo and it's in your workspace, searchable by content, synced across devices.

For automatic capture, Fabric connects to your iOS screenshots and Android screenshots, so screenshots are saved to your library without a manual step. Sync existing photo folders from your desktop via desktop file sync. Pull in photos from Google Drive or Dropbox.

Fabric syncs across devices, so a photo taken on your phone is searchable on your laptop within moments. The library is always with you.

Share photos with protection and tracking

When you need to share photos externally, whether it's site documentation with a client, product shots with a partner, or event photos with a team, publish any photo or collection with password protection and link analytics. Control who has access and see when they've viewed the material. Update the collection and the link reflects the changes.

Who uses Fabric for photos

Photos are central to documentation and reference across many workflows. Architecture studios document sites, construction progress, and material samples. Designers capture reference photos and product shots for design projects. Creative teams and agencies manage brand photography and campaign assets as part of their digital asset library. Video editors save reference stills and location photos. Freelancers document client work. Educators capture whiteboard diagrams and classroom material. Anyone who photographs receipts, documents, and records for life admin.

For building visual moodboards from your photos and references, see moodboards and inspiration.

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FAQs

Can Fabric search photos by what's in them?

Yes. AI search reads the visual content of every photo: objects, scenes, text, colours, and composition. Describe what you're looking for in plain language and find the image.

Can Fabric read text in photos?

Yes. Text on whiteboards, receipts, labels, signs, business cards, and documents is readable and searchable. A photographed receipt is as searchable as a typed note.

Can I find photos that look similar to one I already have?

Yes. Similar search finds visually related photos across your entire library. Drop in any image and find everything with a similar look, colour, or composition.

Can I search photos by colour?

Yes. Search by a specific colour and find every photo in your library that matches. Useful for finding images in a specific palette or with a dominant colour.

Are my photos automatically organised?

Yes. Smart organization tags and categorises photos based on their content without manual effort. Smart collections auto-populate by visual characteristics.

Can I annotate photos?

Yes. Annotations let you pin comments to specific spots on any photo. Your annotations are searchable by what they say.

Do photos sync from my phone automatically?

Photos you take in the Fabric mobile app sync immediately. You can also connect iOS screenshots or Android screenshots for automatic screenshot capture.

Can I import existing photos from Google Drive or Dropbox?

Yes. Fabric connects to Google Drive, Dropbox, and supports desktop file sync for local folders.

Can I share photos with clients securely?

Yes. Publish any photo or collection with password protection and link analytics. Control access and track views.

Can I use photos alongside my other files?

Yes. Photos live in the same workspace as your notes, documents, PDFs, and audio. Search returns results from across everything, so a site photo connects to the meeting notes from the visit and the documents for the project.

How many photos can Fabric handle?

There's no practical limit. Whether you have hundreds or tens of thousands, every photo is searchable by content, colour, and similarity.

Are my photos private?

Yes. Your content is encrypted and only visible to you unless you choose to share it. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant.

How is this different from Google Photos or Apple Photos?

Consumer photo apps organise by date, location, and face recognition. Fabric adds meaning-based search (describe what you're looking for in words), visual similarity search, colour search, searchable annotations, connection to your non-photo content, and an AI assistant that works across your photos and everything else. The difference matters when photos are work material, not just personal memories.