P: Face Aware Liquify doesn't find faces in some cases

Hi Gordo,

I tested your image and face aware had no trouble with it that I could see. What problem were you having?

Manual face selection isn't available at this time.

Thank you,
Hannah Nicollet

Unfortunately you didn't test it on the face I posted 😞
Again, would it be possible to enable manual facial control points when auto face detection doesn't recognize a face?

> I wish Adobe would just enable manual identification of faces when auto-detection doesn’t work. >

I agree. On1 has a face detection algorithm that does allow us to manually select the face and reshape the paths for eyes and mouth. But On1 is editing for tone, color, and smoothing, which is much easier to mask for. 

I'm guessing that there's more to it when the entire face structure gets modified with one slider or another — so if the face is in strong profile or strongly tilted in any direction, how does the slider affect the underlying structure so what would normally make a smile from a mouth head on can do that with a mouth on a slant? Or half a mouth? I think it's possible for them to figure it out, but maybe it's taking this long because they don't have  one person assigned to it full time, and there's a lot of if-then stuff that has to go on under the hood to tell the sliders what to operate on and by how much.

They could have us use something like the On1 method to locate the edges of the features (don't forget it includes nose, jawline, distances of features from other features, and their shapes), but programming the sliders does sound like it could be very complicated.

But for more simple issues like the one right below, where the program can't tell eyes from glasses, or the downward tilt, or maybe the beard, (and I know it has problems with hats, too), I'd be thrilled with a hybrid between On1 and the auto recognition we have now, even if they can't solve all the problems.

I do hope they're working on it, anyway. It's a great convenience not to have to use the other tools to make the alterations. I'm not expecting much anytime soon, though, since I very much doubt they assign one such project per person, but I'm always hopeful.<G>

I wish Adobe would just enable manual identification of faces when auto-detection doesn’t work. It’s been about a year and there’s no progress on a fix 😞

it wont work on mine and shes facing forward 

YES!

Face aware could not find the face in this photo.

I don't have experience with face-liquefy, and this is not ideal, but this last woman's face is detected if you rotate it to make the eyes level...draw between the center of the eyes with the ruler and select Image Rotate Arbitrary (14-some degrees).