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 just started using this software yesterday to archive old photos and was baffled there was no manual tag function. I get improving the AI Face recognition is the main goal, but preventing customers who pay monthly for a service from doing this manually? The lack of ability for me to tag people facing away from the camera, in masks, or not detected by the AI make the whole purpose of a face tagging feature pointless if i search for every picture containing one person and some photos fall through the cracks. Face Recognition was one of the primary reasons I chose Adobe LR. I've gone full stop on my archiving until i figure out whether Adobe is adding this back or I am  able to find a similar program to pay for that does not restrict face tagging.

[Teejo75]

This has been open since 2018 and it has a "Not Planned" tag.

This is NOT going to be implemented. Adobe is essentially telling us to f**** off.

Stop using Creative Cloud CC. I stopped using it and canceled the storage plan I had because of it. I've gone back to using Classic.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Does anyone know when Lightroom CC will get the feature to manually tag someone face on a photo so I could include the picture in "People" view?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

@Rikk is this on the roadmap yet? It is really quite annoying to not be able to manually add when th... 

[lemerv]

Hey @Rikk any update on this feature? Covid seems like more than enough of an incentive to get this feature near the top of your to-do list.

[b3nkts]

the people page need a possibility to assign picture where the facerecognition fails.  like a partly hidden face or other that I want to associate to e person

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

How hard would it be to add a manual tagging feature into the application? Come on Adobe, listen to your paying customers!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Okay, it's great that you've merged this thread into another thread to help track this message board... now, when will Adobe actually implement the feature that everyone here is asking for? Manually adding face recognition to Lightroom CC!

[MrIkigai]

Try Mylio.  Good for face tagging, and protecting your photos automatically but a bit simplistic for editing.  Save to metadata if you want your face tags to be usable in other applications.  By default, Mylio writes them to .xmp sidecars.

[philr7]

How to add photos to "People" in Lightroom?

[Jim Wilde]

Could explain a bit more about what you are trying to do? The "People" section is automatically populated with all the faces that have been detected by the face recognition software. All faces that have been named, and all unnamed faces that contain at least five instances of the same face, will appear in the People section. It's not possible to manually draw a face recognition frame that the software did not detect, is that what you are wanting to do?

[philr7]

Jim, thanks for your reply.

When I add new pictures  (new people) to my photos file they appear in the photo display. however, they do not appear in the people display. How do I get the sw to rescan the photo file so that the new pictures are added to the people section?

[Jim Wilde]

The first thing to do is to check that the People view is enabled (it is by default, but can be disabled by the user). Open Preferences>General tab and ensure the option is enabled.

Assuming it is still enabled, there are two reasons why you may not be seeing a face in the People section:

1. The face recognition software has not recognised the face as a face (e.g. profile shots). If it hasn't recognised a face, there is unfortunately nothing you can do in Lightroom to manually draw a face recognition region. So unrecognised faces will remain untagged.

2. As I mentioned earlier, a recognised but unnamed face will only appear in the People view when there are at least 5 instances of that face. However, if there are less than 5 photos with the same unnamed person, they WILL appear in the People section if you are able to name them.

So, if you select an image that has a face or faces that you know, but which isn't showing up in the People view, then open the Keyword tab (near the bottom of the right-hand toolbar), you will find a People section showing above the Keywords section in the right-hand panel if there are any recognised faces in that selected photo (named or unnamed). If the face is unnamed you are able to type in the name if you know it (and once named, it will then appear in the general People view). If there are multiple faces on the same photo, and you want to make sure you're adding the correct name, you will find that if you hover the cursor over any of the faces in the list in the right-hand panel, a white rectangle will appear over the corresponding face in the image (but you must be in Detail view, not Grid view, for that function to work).

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I just signed up for Lightroom CC and this is such a major disappointment.  I was liking most things until now.  At least I am still within my trial.

[philr7]

Thanks. It worked. And I now how it works.

Phil

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Adobe, it appears you're ignoring every single one of us. What is the status?

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

There's a little blue badge at the top that says "not planned". However the thread remains open for further votes, if it gets lots, they might change their minds.

[Timothy.Spear]

There are three separate issues.

1. The graphical tagging in the image (drawing the little rectangle on the image) when the AI misses a face.

2. Associating a name with the image under the special People area.

3. Order of people in the image

The first would only be useful when looking at the image inside Cloudy. As such, it is not very valuable to me.

The second is critical search and other related functions.

The third aspect, I have older photos where on the back, you have the people written out matching the order/position on the image.  I would somehow like to accomplish this with the people data, maybe the ability to add an order of the people in the image?

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Please review https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/forum-usability-topics/how-to-requesting-features-ideas... regarding making feature requests and consider splitting this post into multiple distinct requests.

Thanks. 

[Timothy.Spear]

@Rikk 

Will do. It is really one feature request, I just cover the related aspects, some of which have already been marked as "not planned:.

[Timothy.Spear]

The ability to add missing people, even if Lr cannot find the associated facial region.

This is needed for searching and finding people in the images.

If we utilize keywords, than you will get duplication and other issues and make it harder to manage.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

@timothy_spear Make sure you are adding to and voting for those threads. Posting a separate thread when other exist falls through the cracks.

[Timothy.Spear]

@Rikk 

In this thread you mention the focus is to enhance the facial recognition engine itself.

Although this has improved, it is still lacking. Therefore, at a minimum allowing the ability to tag individuals in the People section without using keywords and facial regions is foundational to solving this issue. Adding this feature will also do a lot to reduce the pressure to develop the "perfect" facial recognition AI.

Never let perfection be the enemy of good. You see this applied to many areas of LightRoom Desktop, why not to this part of the application?

Tim

[mathieud65778067]

Hi Adobe team,

I've been using Lightroom CC for one year now, on a PC and an iPad.

However great the software is, there seems to be a few critical features still missing.

One of them is the way people & faces are tags.

One thing you will never be able to prevent: the algorithm will never be able to recognise 100% of appearances for one person. There will always be many reasons for someone even in the middle of a sharp picture, which the algorithm cannot recognise:

- because it's a child with a tiger face mask,

- because the person is turning his back on the picture (and you still want to keep that picture),

- because he has swimming pool glasses

- because he's swimming and covered with water

- because he's too far (and small) on the picture

- because his head is upside-down on the picture

- and so on....

For all these reasons, some features are absolutely critical to add in Lightroom CC:

1. Most importantly: be able to manually add one person / face to a photo, even if Lightoom hasn't recognised that there was someone unknown to it. Currently, you can add a tag with a name, but then you have 2 tags in LR for that person: 1 keyword + 1 person's tag. This is really suboptimal for searches.

2. Currently, using LR on the PC, the software shows you the people already recognised on the picture. So you know if someone is missing or not. However on the ipad, this is crucially missing.

Many thanks for your help

[Patbeau]

Hi Jim

I very like the functionality that match the corresponding photos to persons. But I have some photos that I don't have the possibility to assign to specific persons. I don't see that specific section when open the Keywords section for some of my photos

Thanks

Pat