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October 20, 2017
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P: Please add face recognition

  • October 20, 2017
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I am disappointed that there is no facial recognition in Lightroom CC. I am a professional Photo Organizer and I was hoping it would be a good alternative to Mylio and other programs for organizing client's photos. With facial recognition in other competitive products, it is a way to add lots of names as keywords very efficiently.
I scan client photos also, and I can't edit the capture date in Lightroom CC, so that is disappointing also.
This product still does seem promising as a way for my clients to view, share and enjoy their photos if I have organized their collection and applied metadata using other products such as Lightroom Classic.

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 17, 2018
moving to new thread

Please reference the new conversation here: People View
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 17, 2018
Moving to new thread

Please reference the new conversation here: People View
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 17, 2018
Splitting to new thread

Please reference the new conversation here: Waiting for People to show up
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 17, 2018
Greetings,

The Lightroom family of products was updated today and contains support for this feature. Please download the new version and give it a try and let us know how it works. Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Lightroom CC: Please add face recognition.
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 17, 2018
Moving the issue from the feature request

Please reference the new conversation here: Lightroom CC: I do not see my People view populated
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
matthurne
Known Participant
October 17, 2018
663.83 GB of 1 TB used here, still waiting for face detection on my library as well.
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
October 17, 2018
I'd already added that thread to the issue we are tracking but thanks for posting the links both places. 
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Known Participant
October 17, 2018
839.65 GB available of 1TB; and I have 19,137 photos.

Over 48 hours now and still nothing.

Appreciate the work you guys are surely doing behind the scenes—but I think some lessons learned on this. It’s really poorly communicated, and for us users just seems broken 😕😕

Can’t wair for it to be up and running properly, I have been hanging out for this one.
matthurne
Known Participant
October 17, 2018
Rikk, please see https://forums.adobe.com/message/10685211#10685211 for some additional feedback on this topic. I'll copy it here well:
The upside to all this is: I'm really excited about this new feature, and grateful that Adobe has added it! Just a few days before the release someone asked me to dig up all the photos I have of just them with one other person, and I had no idea how I would achieve that without manually combing through my library one photo at a time (I haven't had the time or discipline to do something like manually add a tag for each person in every photo, or any other strategy). This new functionality should make that sort of search much, much easier.
 
The downside is, of course, that it hasn't actually detected faces in the vast majority of my library, so I can't actually leverage this great new functionality in any useful way yet.

To be fair, there may be legitimate technical reasons why Adobe couldn't run the recognition before the release. However, I don't think there's a good excuse for the poor communication to customers around this. I think we'd all be less confused and frustrated if they provided better documentation/communication on how this is being rolled out. Some form of visibility into whether progress is being made on the detection within each of our libraries would also go a long way.
sidwphoto05
Participating Frequently
October 17, 2018
Rikk do you want me to send you my Adobe ID, too?