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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: thmoore on July 01, 2015, 09:22:27 pm

Title: facial recognition
Post by: thmoore on July 01, 2015, 09:22:27 pm

Is there any way to undue, not pause, facial  recognition.
I didn't hear Schewe's warning on the videos in time.
So can I get back to step one and not scan entire catalog?

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: thmoore on July 02, 2015, 11:11:34 am

figured it out

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: Paul Gessler on July 02, 2015, 03:36:30 pm

Would you care to share your solution so future searchers can find the answer here?

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: thmoore on July 02, 2015, 06:20:53 pm

Really a work around as suggested by Jeff Schewe in the video.

pause the fnd faces function in the name plate area
uncheck face detection in catalog settings

select a folder or collection and click face icon in tool bar.

On a small folder or collecton of files it is OK; if large numbers of files it is quite slow.

HTH

tom moore

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: dbritch on July 03, 2015, 09:37:39 am

What was the nature of Jeff's warning?

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: thmoore on July 03, 2015, 08:28:34 pm

Just about the length of time required if you chose to scan entire catalog

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: Schewe on July 03, 2015, 09:22:55 pm

Quote from: dbritch on July 03, 2015, 09:37:39 am

What was the nature of Jeff's warning?

That you want to enable facial recognition folder by folder or collection by collection so YOU control what Faces is looking. Depending on the size of the catalog, finding faces can take a really, REALLY long time and require a lot of work on your part to assign the correct faces.

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: thmoore on July 04, 2015, 06:53:21 pm

If one has already made the wrong choice, ie LR wants to scan the entire catalog; is there a way to rewind and start fresh with facial recognition?

Title: Re: facial recognition
Post by: dbritch on July 05, 2015, 01:39:56 am

Thanks!  Yes, I have about 180,000 images, and I let it analyze them all.  It did take quite a while, but now that it's done, I don't think it's a problem.

Are there other issues, such as - now that it's got a huge database of faces, the database takes more RAM, and is slower or less effective when restricted to a folder of new images?