- Getting started
- Organizing folders
- Using collections to organize images
- Taking your collections on the road
- Using flags and ratings
- Adding metadata
- Tagging faces in the People view
- Organizing photos by location
- Finding and filtering files
- Reconnecting missing files and folders
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Tagging faces in the People view
Undoubtedly, your growing photo library will include many photos of your family, friends, and colleagues. Lightroom Classic CC makes it quick and easy to tag the people that mean the most to you, taking much of the work out of sorting and organizing what probably amounts to a large portion of your catalog, and making it even easier to retrieve exactthe photos you’re looking for.
Face recognition automatically finds the people in your photos and makes it simple for you to tag them; the more faces you tag, the more Lightroom Classic CC learns to recognize the people you’ve named, automatically tagging their faces whenever they appear in new photos.
There are no lesson images provided for this exercise, so the first thing you need to do is to import some of your own photos.
Use either the Import button, or the drag and drop method you learned in Lesson 2, to import a good selection of photos featuring the faces of people you know. Make sure you have a mix of single-person images and groups of various sizes, with plenty of overlap—and at least a few strangers’ faces.
Tip
If any of the photos you import has embedded GPS information, the Enable Address Lookup dialog will open. Click Enable.
By default, face recognition is disabled; the next step is have Lightroom analyze your photos and build an index of those images that include faces.
In the Catalog panel, change the image source from Previous Import to All Photographs, so that Lightroom Classic CC will index the entire catalog. Press Control+D / Command+D or choose Edit > Select None.
Show the toolbar, if necessary (T), and click the People button.
Lightroom displays a message screen welcoming you to the People view. Click Start Finding Faces In Entire Catalog. A progress bar appears at the upper left of the workspace and the Activity Center menu opens, with a tip showing you where you can turn face recognition off and on. Wait for the indexing process to complete before moving on.
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The work area is now in People view mode. Lightroom Classic CC stacks similar faces for tagging, with an image count for each stack; the default sorting order is alphabetical but, as none of the faces are yet tagged, they are arranged by stack size. At this point, all the faces are listed in the Unnamed People category.
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Click the stack badge on a people stack to expand it. Multiple-select all of the photos in the stack that belong together; then, click the question mark below a selected thumbnail, type the person’s name and press Enter / Return.
Lightroom moves the selected photos into the Named People category, and the image counts in both category headers are updated.
Repeat the process for two or three more unnamed stacks. Already, Lightroom is learning from your input, suggesting more photos that may belong with those you’ve named. Move the pointer over a suggested name to confirm or dismiss the suggestion.
TipYou can also add photos to the Named People groups by simply dragging them directly from the Unnamed People pane.
Continue until you’ve named at least five or six people, and tagged several photos for each; then double-click one of the faces in the Named People stack to enter the Single Person view, where the upper division is now labeled as the Confirmed category, showing all the photos tagged with the selected name. Below, the Similar category displays only the suggested matches for this face.
Add as many photos as you can to the group in the Single Person view; then, when you’re done, click “< People” at the left of the Confirmed header to return to the People view.
Repeat the process for all your named people, alternating between the People and Single Person views until the only untagged photos that remain are people you don’t know, or image fragments incorrectly identified as faces. Remove these from the Unnamed People list by moving the pointer over each and clicking the X icon that appears at the left of the label.
Click the Grid view button in the toolbar; then double-click a photo with multiple people to see it enlarged in the Loupe view. Click the Draw Face Region button (
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Inspect the Keyword List panel to see your new People tags listed with your other keywords. You can use the Keyword List panel or the Text and Metadata filters to search for People tags, just as you’d do for any other keyword.
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