P: Add possibility to tag (metadata) a specific region of a picture

For those of you asking for region metadata, I'd like to hear more about what you expect to be able to do with that information. I understand the use case for faces and to-do notes for developing, but if you draw a region and keyword it as 'dog', what problem would that solve for you (that isn't solved by adding a 'dog' keyword to the whole photo)?

I am curious how the fabulous database and filters at www.shutterstock.com is established.
You can filter there millions of photos by multiple tags such as Chinese, men,aged 42 to 50, working in construction, with yellow hats.

Do they "tag " the millions of photos they receive every week, or do they parse the filter request and use AI on the raw database?

Note that this request has already been implemented by Photo Supreme V2.
They are using it for object,face, pet,... tagging.
ANd they do it by the MWG standard among which Adobe is a memeber!

I really hope that when LR implements its face tagging feature they do not forget the region tagging stuff.

Feature request: Would like to have the ability to add and edit Image Region Metadata, per the Metadata Working Group's Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata, Version 2.0, November 2010. Useful not only for face tagging, but feature tagging as well as comments, to do notes for developing or using, etc.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
LIGHTROOM: Image Region Metadata support.

Note: This topic was created from a reply on the Lightroom: Please add face recognition to Lightroom (ability to specify regio... topic.

Hello, Here is my idea:
It would be great if we can have the posibility in the Module Library, while filtering our images, to "draw/write" over the images tha changes you would like to do later in the developed module. This will focus you on one task at each time and help you to do a quicker workflow.

Hope this helps. thanks bye

[From the merged thread]

The Metadata Working Group, of which Adobe and Microsoft are members, has already defined a standard method for representing regions and metadata associated with those regions. In particular, keywords, map locations, and persons (as already defined by the standards) can be associated with regions. This all gets stored in XMP metadata, of course.

See "Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata, Version 2", section 5.9 for more details.

It would be great if LR supported that standard.

I think we would like a simple brush tool so we can mark photos or just details we want to modify (as we can do with films), the tool should be applied as a "layer" so we can hide it easily and would be great if we can even search photos by graphics and colors used to marks them.
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