Face recognition: adding new faces

[jsmcwilliam@gmail.com]

I am running Elements 2024 under Windows 11 and am going through a large number of scanned slides. I import them in batches e.g. 2000 - 2024, 2015 - 2019 etc. Each batch has its own catalogue. I then create yearly albums within each batch. This allows me to work with one year at a time. I select People and name the faces that appear there. This helps me with tagging individuals, however, sometimes a scanned image will have a face which has not been recognised and as such does not have a name. Can I ask the program in retrospect to scan that image (face) which I can then name.

John McWilliam

[Donkey6019]

Hi John, did you ever solve this? I have a similar problem but in Elements 2025.

Thanks

[Greg_S. · Accepted solution]

jsmcwilliam@gmail.com said:  Can I ask the program in retrospect to scan that image (face) which I can then name.

@Donkey6019, if the face has been analyzed but not recognized (perhaps because it is not at the right angle for FR to work), the only way to add a name to the face is to double-click the thumbnail in the main grid so the image is in SIV (Single Image View) and to use the Mark Face button to add the face coordinates manually:

If it is not so important to you to have the face displayed in a People tag, you can simply drag the person's People name tag to the image (or vice versa).  In this case, the face will show up in the People stack as a generic icon.

[Donkey6019]

Thank you Greg, that first solution solved the problem. Very much appreciated.