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#Apple photos face recognition pro#
On my Mac Pro desktop, this process took about 2 days as I recall. All these different options are there in Photos.Since I came to Thailand 6 weeks ago, iPhoto on my Macbook pro has been scanning for faces. So there's tons of different ways to do it. You can go into just about any photo any way you want and change the name. Go in here and you can Control click and have some face options in there under Show All. Even if you look, if you're in here, and you can Control click on these to get more options. I could just be looking at the new photos that I've brought in and do it right from there. So I don't have to be inside of People to add and delete faces. I can go ahead and name them or hit the X button to delete them. I can actually name them right from here. Under View you'll have Hide and Show Face Names so if you don't see them that's where they are. Now any photo we want, we don't have to be in the People mode, we can go into a photo here and we can see the names here. That allows us to easily confirm those photos. Then we'll go there and then we'll say Confirm Additional Photos and Yes. So it's very easy to go through and add some more. There are fewer ones here now because I've gone through and added more. I'll hit Done here and I'll go back to People and hit Additional People. So it allows me to go through very quickly to eliminate some. So we'll go to People, let's go to Mike, and there we go. So I can click here on People, let's see if we go to Joe, Confirm Additional Photos and no more of him. So let's go and find one where it makes sense. Confirm Additional Photos and in this case it doesn't appear to be any. Let's look at the one that will help us add more faces here. Confirm Additional Photos, Unfavorite this Person, or Add to Memory. Then you have some options here at the bottom when you're looking at an individual person. It goes back and forth which is handy when you want to find a good head shot of somebody regardless of what else is in the picture. The same works when I hit Show All and show Summary.
I can look only at the faces so it just zooms in on the face. Or Summary and it kind of puts them in a nice arrangement here. Once I've done that as much as I want and I, you know, can ignore some of these, get back to them later, that kind of thing I can go into any one of these faces, so let's say in here, and I can see all the photos there. So you can see I have a two there now and I can assign a name for that. Once I've selected both of them I can hit Merge and Add and it will merge those two into one. I can Control click to select multiple images just like you would in any app you're using. Now what happens when I see there's two photos here of the same person. Anytime I want I can return to add people. So, for instance, I'll click here and I'll hit Add and you see it adds it here at the bottom and I still have to assign a name just like before.
I can now go ahead and click on any one of those and hit Add. When we do that it's going to go to this screen and it's going to show you just the faces inside of other photos that it's identified. You know there's more faces in there and you want to add them to here. Now what happens when you want to add more. I can hit Show Favorites Only or Show All. They'll appear at the top and all the rest will appear below. I can do that for the others as well.Īny that I want to add to my Favorites I can drag to the top here. I can click where it says Add Name and add a name. For instance it knows that this person is there in two different photos.
#Apple photos face recognition how to#
So it's a little bit different than how it worked before and it's not so straight forward as to how to get things going.īut basically, if you have a bunch of photos already in there, and I just imported a bunch of clipart photos here with people in them, go to the People section on the left sidebar and what you'll see is a bunch of identified faces with no names under them because, of course, the Photos app can't guess what their name is but they do know they're the same people. Video Transcript: I've gotten a few questions recently about how to use the new face feature, it's actually called People, in Photos for Sierra. Check out Using Photos Face Recognition at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.