P: Assign People tags to pictures that were missed

I had just decided on Lightroom as my standard photo organization app and am getting to learn all the features as we speak. I came across this issue, where a slightly turned-away face was not detected, I was certain I would be able to simply add the face (like any other photo application with facial-detection I have previously come across!)

 

But no, I must say the lacking response from Adobe on such a simple feature request is absolutely horrendous. 

I'm glad I never got further than the free trial. 

add/edit/assign face information for  each photo in Lightroom would be great. 

 

Lr often fails to recognize same person's face information if a photograph is taken in a different condition.

 

Like I get the great idea that the facial recognition is and truly it is something I want improved but I agree with everyone else -

 

Especially with corona hitting but still being out taking pictures of people just now having them in masks I need the ability to manually tag people!

 

I feel like improved facial recognition is a complete cop-out for not incorporating a necessary feature!! No matter how great facial recognition gets there will always be those photos I want to tag a person in whose face for one reason or another is unavailable/unrecognizable! Like previous people pointed out shots where the person is walking away or is wearing a mask of some sort do not have a face for facial recognition to work with but still should be able to be tagged to the person!!

As a developer, I don't see why it would take any significant amount of time or effort to let a user manually add faces (they can already be added automatically, the data model is there, just let users add to it).

I have really been thinking of moving to another application as this feature is still not implemented or even under consideration after two years. This is likely a product decision to keep the application "simple"

The inability to manually add a face is such a strange omission from Lightroom.

I'm organizing a photo collection using lightroom Cloud for my business and find it infuriating I can't manually add a face tag for staff. While coming to grips with using Lightroom, I accidentally deleted a lot face data for photos of one staff member and now the People section only has them in 4 photos. Why can't I fix this? The lack of fine-grain manual control is hardly user friendly. 

Adobe / Rikk: Your paying customers want updates, not platitudes. Stop with this "we understand the issue" nonsense. As previously stated, for two years now, the problem is not poor facial recognition. What we want is manual tagging for photos where faces will never be recognized. Stop dancing around. At best, you look foolish. At worst, you're ignoring your customers. Businesses that do this typically fail. Get your act together.

Give us a concrete update.

Adobe / Rikk: Your paying customers want updates, not platitudes. Stop with this "we understand the issue" nonsense. As previously stated, for two years now, the problem is not poor facial recognition. What we want is manual tagging for photos where faces will never be recognized. Stop dancing around. At best, you look foolish. At worst, you're ignoring your customers. Businesses that do this typically fail. Get your act together.

Give us a concrete update.

I've been using Lightroom to organize the photo collection for business and I am trying to tag staff members. I accidentally made it tag certain staff using just their first name in lower case. It's infuriating I can't alter the tag setting itself to make it their full name. I have to manually go through each photo and give it a new tag. One of them I accidentally removed and now it won't let me select them in that photo at all. 

You are making it less user friendly by taking away fine manual control. This stuff should be so simple. Why is it so fiddly? 

Late to the discussion, but now in the process of reverting back a migration of 30k+ photos from Classic to Adobe Lightroom/Lightroom/CC/Whatever it's now called due to this exact issue.

As I'm facing a daunting migration, I'm seriously looking at Lightroom competitors ATM.... :{