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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.

169 replies

Timothy.Spear
Inspiring
August 23, 2022

Make sure you upvote this consolidated issue.

Adobe somewhat appears to listen to customers. But some items seem to always be ignored...

Maybe @peter-b8062983  or someone else from Adobe can step in and explain...

 

Tim

Participant
August 23, 2022

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Version 5.5

Various platforms including Windows and IOS

10,000 + photo's

For about 95% of my photo's the facial recognition works and small faces are shown with no name which I am then able to fill in.

For an annoying 5% it doesn't and there is no way I can find, on a particular photo, to get facial recognition to work.

About 12 years ago using Google Picasa it was possible to draw a square around someone's face and then add a name to it.  Could something along these lines be added to Lightroom?

Here is a photo for which Lightroom can identify no faces

https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/f39802f677754feba5910000e8de59ac

 

Timothy.Spear
Inspiring
July 7, 2022

@peter-b8062983 

 

Any chance for a follow up since we have beat up on the others here?

 

Tim

matthewuscenes
Inspiring
July 7, 2022

It is truly crazy that this isn't an option.

guido.bartoli
Participating Frequently
June 26, 2022

A simple "Rescan for faces" to apply face recognition again on selected picture(s) and "Add faces" to click on the missed ones would be perfect.

Timothy.Spear
Inspiring
June 24, 2022

Make sure you upvote the issue.

Participant
June 24, 2022

I have spent hours trying to figure out how to add People tags that were missed and finally found this thread.  I find it insane that this is not a feature since a) apparently it was easy in Lightroom Classic;  b)  it's extremely easy in a simple program like Apple Photos.   I had made the decision to migrate all photos to Lightroom (cloud) because I love the interface, but this is a big deterrent of that.  I realize I can use Keywords, but who wants to have to go back and keyword every picture with the person's name?  For $9.99/mo, I would expect this would be a no brainer. 

Participant
June 3, 2022

I'm using the face recognition feature to organize family photos and it works fairly well when the face is in view. Obviously when the face is partially obscured or turned away, it has no chance. Is it possible to manually identify the people or person in the shot?

 

Example: my niece is chasing a ball across the yard. Where she's facing me and holding the ball in triumph, she's identified, tagged and this picture shows in her stack in the people view. When she's jumping up after the ball (facing partially away from me with her arm blocking her face), she's not and no feasible improvements Adobe makes to the Sensi recognition will help!

 

Clearly one solution is to create an album named for her, add these problem shots to it and all the photos automatically added to her stack but this seems redundant & cumbersome. Is there a better way?

Sameer K
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 9, 2022

Hi Vitor,

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

Manual tagging of faces that were not auto-detected by Adobe Sensei is currently not available as a feature.

Please feel free to case an upvote in this thread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-ideas/p-assign-people-tags-to-pictures-that-were-missed/idi-p/12239960

 

Thanks!

Sameer K.

 

 

Timothy.Spear
Inspiring
March 29, 2022

So you are effectively implying that Adobe Lightroom product roadmap is being decided by engineers who think that they know more than their customers. (e.g. what I call the Apple attitude)

I state it this way because the Feb 2022 release includes the following functions:

  • Intersect Mask: I cannot find a single request for this feature in the forums. It only shows up in discussion on usage.
  • Export from a specific version: No references in online forums.
  • Export using short side for maxium dimmension: No request found, work around existed (do the math and use the long side).

 

That is just an example. When you go back and look at what is in the releases, and you watch this forum. There is very to little to no correlation that I can find. Especially, when you consider I came from Classic which I used for close to a decade and that team actually addressed many customer issues, not all, but some. Here I see little to no progress on actually addressing customer comments; especially on core functions which are required to make the product actually useful.

 

Tim

Participating Frequently
March 29, 2022

What are the timelines for this feature to be reviewed? Please give us a roadmap or let us know that ther isn't one if that's the case.