P: Assign People tags to pictures that were missed

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I'm organizing a photo collection using lightroom Cloud for my business and find it infuriating I can't manually add a face tag for staff. While coming to grips with using Lightroom, I accidentally deleted a lot face data for photos of one staff member and now the People section only has them in 4 photos. Why can't I fix this? The lack of fine-grain manual control is hardly user friendly. 

[RobAllen_19FT]

The inability to manually add a face is such a strange omission from Lightroom.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

As a developer, I don't see why it would take any significant amount of time or effort to let a user manually add faces (they can already be added automatically, the data model is there, just let users add to it).

I have really been thinking of moving to another application as this feature is still not implemented or even under consideration after two years. This is likely a product decision to keep the application "simple"

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Like I get the great idea that the facial recognition is and truly it is something I want improved but I agree with everyone else -

Especially with corona hitting but still being out taking pictures of people just now having them in masks I need the ability to manually tag people!

I feel like improved facial recognition is a complete cop-out for not incorporating a necessary feature!! No matter how great facial recognition gets there will always be those photos I want to tag a person in whose face for one reason or another is unavailable/unrecognizable! Like previous people pointed out shots where the person is walking away or is wearing a mask of some sort do not have a face for facial recognition to work with but still should be able to be tagged to the person!!

[Hyo_M_]

add/edit/assign face information for  each photo in Lightroom would be great. 

Lr often fails to recognize same person's face information if a photograph is taken in a different condition.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I had just decided on Lightroom as my standard photo organization app and am getting to learn all the features as we speak. I came across this issue, where a slightly turned-away face was not detected, I was certain I would be able to simply add the face (like any other photo application with facial-detection I have previously come across!)

But no, I must say the lacking response from Adobe on such a simple feature request is absolutely horrendous. 

I'm glad I never got further than the free trial. 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This is just sadly disappointing that we can't manually tag faces. Seriously, what is Adobe thinking? I've been using their software for over 10 years and this is yet another massive drop of customer service, that they keep pushing our prices up to have access for... Come on team. Get your act together please.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This seems like it would be so easy to add and is such a big omission. I have so many pics of my kids where they aren't quite facing the camera so it doesn't tag them. I'm now thinking I will have to abandon the people function all together and just use keywords for people.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

@Rikk why would you change this from "problem" to "idea"? This is not a feature request, this is a bug. 

As stated by many others, improved facial recognition will never function well enough to not implement this feature? What makes you guys think that? 

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

*elsa Don't worry too much about Adobe's nomenclature. Bug vs. FR is just whether something is not working the way it was designed (bug) or whether the design needs to be improved to work better (feature). In this case, manually assigning people tags goes beyond the original design spec, but that doesn't mean it's any less important.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This was the point I was trying to make. How can omitting the ability to manually tag a face be a design choice? Lacking this makes the peoples feature so non-functional it should be considered, and prioritized, as nothing else than a bug.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Rikk, Adobe Team,

People around the world have been wearing masks for 9 months, rendering facial recognition useless. Manual tagging is now essential. What are you doing to address the issue?

Rikk, your bio title is "Quality Engineering - Customer Advocacy". Emphasis on customer advocacy, which has been nonexistent on this thread. Paying customers deserve to be heard.

Daniel Jeffries

[MrIkigai]

Same issue for me.  Not being able to manually add missed faces is a major reason I'm forced to use Classic.  

[MrIkigai]

I could live with Classic not synching faces with CC if CC had the ability to manually tag faces. It does not so I have to stick with Classic even though I like CC better and want to use Sensei

[MrIkigai]

Call it a bad decision, whatever, just add it to the next version or you're gonna lose subscribers

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Agreed. Rikk, Adobe, it’s time you start listening to paying customers. 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Agreed. Rikk, Adobe, it’s time you start listening to paying customers. 

[nernernally]

Yes this would be really helpful.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I have many photos in LR where no face is recognized.  No little boxes around the face so I don't have the ability to add a name to the face.  Some of the photos simply have one person with a simple background and the face is clearly visible but LR doesn't recognize it as a face.

  We really need the ability to manually identify a face in the photo and to add the person tag.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

This thread is being merged into an existing authoritative thread for better tracking and response. 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Lightroom fails to recognize people on a fairly random basis.   Sometimes it can see every face in a group photo of 40 people, other times in does not recognise a face in a single close up portrait.    And this is when the person appears many more times than 5 in the collection.  The problem is if the app doesn't see a face (as a face) in an image you cannot add a people tag manually.    I see that many other users have complained about this - when will it be fixed

[schachtb]

Now February 2021 and this functionality still missing. Is there an update to this issue?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I really want to manually add Face tags too....   this would be a very handy and useful feature

[schachtb]

Amusing to see comments from 2yrs ago on this issue...with absolutely no progress. I just spent an hour with LR Level 2 support (unaware of this thread) and he confirmed the Lightroom CC is really not where Adobe is going so don't hold breath waiting for the manual people square capability. Preaching to the choir but that people square functionality exists in LR Classic, so it's absurd to claim that it's not important. It was important 10 years ago it's important now. More importantly the Level 2 guy intimated that this feature is NEVER COMING, because adobe isn't investing in the Cloud/desktop application. I (and apparently many of you here) were thinking Adobe LR was moving to cloud, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Seems like we are all stuck with desktop (and no robust people ID) for another 10 years.

As an aside Google Photos has the best people recognition, but of course that breaks the entire management workflow. Conceivable for an event, one can pour 20K photos into Google, have it do the ID, and then put a slideshow/etc there.  Extremely awkward but it turns out that Lightroom is only minimally in the modern era of face recognition in the cloud.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This would be an enormous help!