P: Please add face recognition to Lightroom (ability to specify region metadata)

that ́s you.. and it is perfectly fine when you don ́t see the benefits.

im sure i don ́t see the benefits of some features you want!

other photographer shoot the same people over and over (family etc. etc.).
they will see the benefits.... they see them already when using PICASA.

well i hope they do something at all.

it ́s a shame that most apps have FR but lightroom not.

even apps you get for free have it.

but i guess like the MAP module it will be a medicore attemp at best.
freeware apps have better geotagging then lightroom.

Note that Picasa 3.9 is now embedding the face information into the xmp, using the standard developped by the Metadata Working Group, of which Adobe and Microsoft are members.
Seems that those defining standards are not able to follw them (microsft photo gallery saves the face information using its own implementation, adobe photoshop element store the faces in a database only)
I love adobe products so I hope you will catch up
regards

You should have a look there then

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

with this youdo not need to tag names but just region. Then lightroom could use this defined region to zoom in.

THe good thing is that it can work any thing wether it is people or not

@7198024:

Exactly, the first step should be having LR understand that there *is a face in the image*. What can you do with that? When you hit Z, LR will zoom in on that face, not the center of the photo. Implication? Faster analysis of the quality of the most important part of the image: the face. Faster? Yeah, you aren't constantly zooming in and out.

If LR can identify that 4 faces in the image (READ: NOT IDENTIFY WHO THEY ARE), then LR can give you a 4-up on your 2nd monitor at 1:1 zoom so you can see face details and judge sharpness very quickly while your primary monitor is zoomed out for color/composition judging. These little things will speed up the pruning/filtering process in the Library module.

Then, only then, should LR *maybe* refine the face algorithm to uniquely identify the person. But even then, really, how much time would we be saving when we can blanket tag all of the photos in a shoot's folder in 3 seconds already: CTRL+A, type tag, ENTER

I am personally still having the problem of seeing how Facial Recognition is going to benefit my processing and workflow on a shoot-to-shoot basis and I mostly shoot people.

I tag my photos with the individuals included at the time of import and the system works well for me and probably others.

I WOULD NOT want facial recognition to be part of standard and mandatory processing. That is as some have suggested as building it into 1:1 preview or import functions. I DO NOT want it part of it as the last thing I want is to have to add another step to my processing of going back and correcting facial recognition or having a series of pop-ups going "Who is this person?"

I personally only see the point of facial recognition for those types that haven't managed their catalog or for those using Lightroom for personal use that want to point it at their catalog and say go find me all of the photos of 'grandma'.

I personally think it should be a feature that should wait until it is developed into a broader "object" recognition feature vs. something that is only useful for identifying people so it could be of use to those hoping for broader function and identification and could identify multiple things in photos that does take time to go through as you shoot.

There are usually so few people in images most people, I just don't see the value for Adobe concentrating their resources on developing "Facial Recognition" in LR4 when I think there would be broader appeal features that people would use under the currently implied timelines for LR4.

Christopher

I'd find it terribly convenient if LR would find faces in my images, perhaps while doing a 1:1 prerender, and show the faces on my 2nd monitor. While I cruise through the photos in the Library module, I can then use my main screen (30" FTW) to judge composition and lighting and look over to my 2nd screen to see face sharpness and expression. Man, that would be fantastic!

Ditto. I recently spent more than 60 hours manually entering tagging data for all the people in my 60,000+ LR3 photo library. Most of these photos were scans from slides and old negatives. Facial recognition would have been a godsend to me. (I only found the Picasa trick after I had completed doing this manually.)

I recently purchased a Mac just so I could experiment with Aperture and I-photo just for the facial recognition tools.

EXACTLY!! Face-finding is very useful for image development shortcutting such as "quick face zooms" and to judge images based on people blinking or smiling or whatever. As a professional, I don't give a rip about who the hell the person actually is. I mean, it might be useful if LR could identify them as "Nameless ID 123" so that it could show me all of the images in this folder with that face, but it doesn't have to be "Jenny"

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE PHOTOSHOP/LIGHTROOM USE FACE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE TO HELP TAG PHOTOS WITH NAMES OF PEOPLE IN PHOTO DATABASES