

Just bear in mind that you are going to have to put aside a little time to set all this up as it’s not all automatic, although Lightroom will do most of the heavy lifting for you.

This can really help speed up the process. Here is an example of the images inside a stack. If you scroll down to the bottom of the stack, you will see “similar” faces where Lightroom suggests other photos that might contain the Confirmed person.Īt the bottom of the faces view is a dropdown list of different ways to sort the suggested faces. You can also long press the S key to open the stack, when you release the key, it will collapse the stack again. You can double click on the stack or press S to open it. Once you have finished tagging all the images, you will need to check the stacks to make sure that it’s correct. When you accept the suggestion, the image will be added to the Named faces stack. When you roll over a suggestion, you can click one of the 2 options to accept or reject the suggestion. You will see that as you start to work, Lightroom will start to guess who the people are. Tip: Ctrl+Click and drag several stacks at a time to save time. You can speed up the process by dragging stacks from the unnamed into the names and they will be added to the stacks. As you start to add more names, you will see auto suggest to help you.Īs you start to identify the faces, they will be moved into a Named People Section. You will now start to identify the faces. Press the delete key to remove them from faces view, they won’t be deleted, just removed from this view. You will also get some “false positives” these are images that aren’t in fact people. You will initially find that there are several stacks of the same people.

When it has found them, it will load them up into stacks under “Unnamed People”. Lightroom will go through your catalog looking for faces. When you begin, go to face view by pressing “o” on the keyboard or clicking the image of the face

When you first go the faces view (O key) Lightroom will ask you if you want to turn on auto face detection, which will run the process in the background while you are working, or if you want to, you can manually do it on demand. These options can always be changed by selecting or deselecting Face Detection in the Identity Plate.
