P: Assign People tags to pictures that were missed

This thread is about Lightroom Desktop - not Lightroom Classic. They do not use the same methods for face detection/tagging. 

Hello, everyone! I just stumbled across this discussion today, because I was encountering the exact same problem, namely Lightroom Classic indexed faces, and in at least one case, found a face of a person in 4 photos, but did not recognize her face in four others. (My educated guess is it;s because she was in profile and in shadow.) I tried to tell Lightroom to check those 4 photos 1,000 times, and it never "found" a face at all in those photos.

HOWEVER, I Googled a little more and found a solution that might help everyone here! Check out the directions on this page, toward the bottom: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/face-recognition.html

I just did it, and it worked! I didn't add a keyword to the photos, I actually drew a box highlighting the face, said this is "Nancy Smith," and it added those 4 to the already facially tagged other 4. The instructions are not detailed, so it took me 5 minutes to get it. You need to be in the library in "People," but using the loupe view. That's what gives you the facial recognition tool.

I sure hope this helps everyone--I logged into this site, just to share this fix! 🙂

--Dave

The guy at the top, who Lightroom "thinks" is a rack full of delicious blueberry muffins, was standing behind and to my right when I took the photo on the top left. I hadn't even met him at the time I took the other photos. Please, Adobe, tell me again how we don't need manual People tagging.

Lightroom grouped 2 *different people together in an unnamed album and asked me to verify the match to yet a third different person. I clicked "No" and figured out I was given the opportunity to select photos, tap the three dots, tap "Add To" or "Move To" and reassign to different People album(s). I backed out of the menu to look at the Info tab for each photo before I "Moved" or "Added" them anywhere however when I went to actually add/move all I had access to move between was the standard Albums, not People albums.

I have multiple Albums filled with multiple wrong people that I haven't been able to fix in a long time. I just hide them for now.

Adobe: People have been asking for this for two years. It is completely disingenuous to tell paying customers like myself that you understand when you are clearly skirting the issue. The problem is not poor facial recognition. What we want is manual tagging for photos where faces will never be recognized.

Stop deliberately ignoring this. Get it done!

I agree manually adding is a much needed feature. I have photos with partial faces or with people facing away from the camera which have not been detected but I would still like them to be searchable. I understand the want to fix facial recognition, but surely you build from the ground up with manual first? Maybe even using the manual tagging as information for similar people in your collection that have not been noticed on the first sweep, maybe you'd need to confirm they're people but I'd much rather do that than have someone untagged.

Thank you!

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Add me to the list of people that need to be able to tag people not recognized by facial recognition. Please. Really Please.