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August 6, 2023
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Writing metadata to a file

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After people are recognized and the data is written to the file, the name is written to the "Tags" column. How can I make people's names appear in the "people" column?

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johnrellis
johnrellis
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August 6, 2023

I believe you're referring to columns in Windows File Explorer.  While the Tags column shows the industry-standard metadata field for keywords, the People column shows a Microsoft-proprietary field that was written by old versions of Microsoft Photos apps (Live Photos, Photos, or whatever the marketers were calling it that year) that supported people recognition. The current version of Microsoft Photos doesn't do people recognition, and Microsoft hasn't updated File Explorer to show the industry-standard field.

 

If you're really determined, you could use the free Exiftool utility to copy the people names written by LR in the industry-standard field to the Microsoft-proprietary field.  If you have experience with command-line scripting but aren't expert with Exiftool, expect to take several hours at a minimum figuring out the correct magic. 

 

Alternatively, you could use Adobe Bridge to view the metadata of files outside of LR.

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    Станислав25471259tz59Author
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    August 7, 2023

    Thanks a lot, now everything is clear. I use windows Explorer. And how would you recommend writing down names ? Is it possible to write names in some other column other than the tag? And how to do it to comply with the industry-standard? So that it can work on all platforms (not just windows).

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
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    August 7, 2023

    When you a person's name to a face in LR, it creates a keyword with that name and also a "face region" labeled with that name.

     

    The keywords get written to two industry-standard metadata fields: IPTC:Keywords and XMP:Subject.  Very many programs and services read one or both of those locations (e.g. File Explorer reads IPTC:Keywords and displays it in the Tags column).  The programs use their terminology for those fields: "keywords", "keyword tags", "tags".

     

    The named face regions are written into XMP metadata following the Metadata Working Group standard. Though many large companies, including Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Canon, and Sony, LR is the only program I know of that implements the face regions. As I mentioned above, the old Microsoft Photos programs wrote named face regions into proprietary XMP metadata fields (those old programs predated the finalization of the Metadata Working Group standard).

     

     

     

     

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