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Wolf Eilers
Wolf Eilers
Inspiring
April 25, 2015
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P: Allow Named People thumbnail photo to be changed

The new facial recognition in Lightroom 6/CC is well done (if sometimes amusingly quirky). One change I'd like to suggest is allowing the Named People thumbnail photo to be chosen from the list of confirmed thumbnails. Lr sometimes picks an unflattering image or one of very low quality. When I see a list of faces in the Named People list I want to see nice looking mugshots. We don't all shoot fashion models!

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    adman001
    Participant
    January 1, 2022

    This is a still sorely needed feature, and should be so easy!! 

    It's now 2022... please add this feature Adobe!!

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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      August 19, 2020
      This is such a sorely needed and yet simple feature. Lightroom Classic CC seems to take the oldest photo in the face set. Makes no sense at all when you have photos spanning 10-15 or more years. Please let us choose a "main image" for the saved face!! It's 2020 already.
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        johnrellis
        johnrellis
        Legend
        January 28, 2020
        "Just go to "..." on selected photo and choose "set as album cover" or something similar"

        That works for Lightroom Desktop (Cloud) but not for Lightroom Classic. I've removed Lightroom Desktop (Cloud) from this feature request.
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        adamDr
        adamDr
        Known Participant
        January 28, 2020
        But this is possible for a long time already. Just go to "..." on selected photo and choose "set as album cover" or something similar
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        FeedbackCommunityMember
        Inspiring
        January 27, 2020
        amen been looking for answers but none found - soooo annoying! just started with the face recognition but that is really annoying!

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          FeedbackCommunityMember
          Inspiring
          January 4, 2020
          Can't believe why anyone would do a face recognition feature without allowing you to manually specify the thumbnail.
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            philc30713433
            philc30713433
            Known Participant
            January 29, 2019
            This appears to be still an unanswered and much desired feature.
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              daveh60963894
              Participant
              July 10, 2017
              Agreed. The option of choosing your representative thumbnail is available in other photo software.
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                FeedbackCommunityMember
                Inspiring
                October 12, 2015


                Please add the option to choose the thumbnail of a "person". The latest added foto often isn't representative.
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                  edm81363
                  Participant
                  June 11, 2015
                  Concur that the user should be able to choose the image they prefer.
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