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Inspiring
October 27, 2018
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P: Assign People tags to pictures that were missed

  • October 27, 2018
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Once the indexing has been completed and Lightroom CC has found all the potential faces, it would be nice to have the ability to add People Tags to pictures that were "missed" where no faces were recognized.  The idea of People Tags is to be able to search for people and generate all potential results.  Right now it's messy because you have to resort to keyword tags to identify people that were missed with facial recognition and makes searching and cataloging a tedious task.

172 replies

oyro
Participant
June 29, 2025

The lack of ability to manually assign people to photos is the single reason why I won't switch to Lightroom cloud.

Participant
April 13, 2025

Still no ability to tag people that aren't autodetected. Really disappointing that such basic functionality hasn't existed for so many years.

Participant
December 31, 2024

Just signed up for Lightroom CC. I am also extrememly dissapointed with the People recognition. The ability to manually assign People to a photo is a priority feature in my opinion.  Why offer spmething that doesn't work properly, Adobe?

mathieud65778067
Participating Frequently
July 18, 2024

It's been almost 3 years since the answer from Peter @ Adobe.

Still no feature to add people's tag when not recognised....

Participant
April 8, 2024

When people's faces are missing, it does not auto-detect that there are people.  Online tutorials show me that I should just click on the Add People button and highlight the person.  However, I cannot find the Add People button anywhere.  Any suggestions?  Thanks for your help!

 

 

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 8, 2024

Add faces (not people, and your image does not contain faces) is an option in Lightroom Classic. It does not exist in Lightroom desktop, so I merged this with the feature request.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participant
April 4, 2024

I have the same issue, would love to tag the faces but does not seem possible

Participant
April 3, 2024

I have just imported a PSE catalog, via a LR Classic mergeof 90000 photos into LR Desktop. 

 

These include several hundred pics from athletics, cycling and motor racing events with large crowds in the background. While LR Desktop is very good a recognising faces, including artworks and statues, it also wants me to identify names of individuals in crowds, which I neither want or am able to do. 

 

Is there any way to remove single or groups of photos from the people/face analysis?

Inspiring
December 30, 2023

I am beginning to agree with you.  It would be nice if Adobe could make some comment, even if it is obly "we are not going to bother with manual tagging".

We all pay a fair amount for the various apps and it would be nice if we were recognised.

daveh44701976
Participant
December 19, 2023

Laughed seeing this, because this thread is almost 5 years old.  If they aren't adding the capability in that amount of time it is never going to be added.  


I just stopped using it all together.

 

Inspiring
December 19, 2023

I have migrated from LR Classic to LR CC and am, in general, pleased I made the move.

BUT, in LR Classic, I had the abilty to draw a box around a 'face' and tag it as a person.  Why cannot LR CC have the same feature?  It picks out faces with a reasonable degree of accuracy but badly lit or faces at an angle it misses and I need to have them tagged.

 

Will this be introduced any time soon?