P: Allow Named People thumbnail photo to be changed

Report · Apr 25, 2015

The new facial recognition in Lightroom 6/CC is well done (if sometimes amusingly quirky). One change I'd like to suggest is allowing the Named People thumbnail photo to be chosen from the list of confirmed thumbnails. Lr sometimes picks an unflattering image or one of very low quality. When I see a list of faces in the Named People list I want to see nice looking mugshots. We don't all shoot fashion models!

Report · Apr 28, 2015

I just started using LR CC face detection and have to agree. Many of the images for People thumbnails in the ones I've processed so far are quite poor. I think the first one you choose becomes the default image. Not jumping the gun to tag the first recognizable image to find a better one may be a workaround.

Report · Apr 28, 2015

LR chooses latest picture of the person for the thumbnail photo I think. (not as in latest tagged photo but latest photo according to exif info.) I would rather LR choose largest / front facing picture as thumbnail.

Report · Jun 11, 2015

Concur that the user should be able to choose the image they prefer.

Report · Oct 12, 2015

Please add the option to choose the thumbnail of a "person". The latest added foto often isn't representative.

Report · Jul 09, 2017

Agreed. The option of choosing your representative thumbnail is available in other photo software.

Report · Jan 29, 2019

This appears to be still an unanswered and much desired feature.

Report · Jan 04, 2020

Can't believe why anyone would do a face recognition feature without allowing you to manually specify the thumbnail.

Report · Jan 27, 2020

amen been looking for answers but none found - soooo annoying! just started with the face recognition but that is really annoying!

Report · Jan 28, 2020

But this is possible for a long time already. Just go to "..." on selected photo and choose "set as album cover" or something similar

Report · Jan 28, 2020

"Just go to "..." on selected photo and choose "set as album cover" or something similar"

That works for Lightroom Desktop (Cloud) but not for Lightroom Classic. I've removed Lightroom Desktop (Cloud) from this feature request.

Report · Aug 19, 2020

This is such a sorely needed and yet simple feature. Lightroom Classic CC seems to take the oldest photo in the face set. Makes no sense at all when you have photos spanning 10-15 or more years. Please let us choose a "main image" for the saved face!! It's 2020 already.

Report · Jan 01, 2022

This is a still sorely needed feature, and should be so easy!!

It's now 2022... please add this feature Adobe!!

Report · Jan 11, 2022

In the old days, I could use Google Photos to people tag all my photos, so it's nice that Lightroom Classic has such a feature. What it seems to lack is a way to choose which thumbnail will be the default one in the Named People window. Is there a way of doing this (other than picking a good pic first)?

Report · Jan 11, 2022

Unfortunately, no way of doing this, though it's been a long-term, medium-popular feature request:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-allow-named-people-thumbnail-photo-to-be-ch...

Report · Jan 11, 2022

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the existing Idea:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-allow-named-people-thumbnail-photo-to-be-ch...

Report · Jan 11, 2022

Thanks for the link. I wait in anticipation. Like others.

Report · May 30, 2022

When you mark a person in a photo, Lightroom itself chooses (apparently at random) the photo to display on the "cover". Do you know if you can somehow select this photo yourself? Ligthroom always chooses the most nightmarish and atypical one ))

Select, displaying here, as in the attached screenshot.

Report · May 30, 2022

Not a Face Rec user, but

So you are looking at a stack of images with the same name (face), Probably like any stack, you can expand the stack, select the image you want shown, and select that image as on top.

link below on stacking, not nessecarily correct foe Face stacking:

https://expertphotography.com/lightroom-stacking/

Report · May 30, 2022

This has been asked for several times.

Report · May 30, 2022

Unfortunately, you can't change the cover face. It's a fairly popular, long-standing feature request. Years ago people thought that LR used the most recent face you tagged with that person, but I tested that just now, and it doesn't seem to be the case in my catalog.

Report · May 30, 2022

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the existing Idea:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-allow-named-people-thumbnail-photo-to-be-ch...

Report · May 31, 2022

By the way, if I am not mistaken, in Lightroom CC - you can choose the cover for faces 🙂

Report · Sep 05, 2022

How do I do this?

Report · Sep 05, 2022

"How do I do this?"

In LR Classic (the original, folders-based LR), you can't.

In the LR cloud versions (mobile, web, desktop) I don't know if you can -- you'll have to post to the LR cloud forum:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based/ct-p/ct-lightroom?page=1&sort=latest_...

If you don't know which app you're running, do Help > System Info and look at the first line.

Report · Sep 18, 2022

Please add the ability to choose your own thumbnail for People in Lightroom.