Q: How to change the face name of a batch of photos?
I have a set of photos in iPhoto that are all tagged with a certain face name.
They appear under that name on the faces cork board.
Now I would like to change the name of that face to someone else in all of those photos.
Does anyone know how I can do that? (it's about 300 photos)
For those who are interested why I want to do that:
the face is that of my son. I tagged the photos from the beginning (and some were tagged by iPhoto automatically).
Of course, at the beginning, I had not created a card in my contacts for him.
Now, my son has his own email address. So, now he's got his own card in Contacts.
But iPhoto does not make the connection between the name in iPhoto and the Contacts card, it seems.
(I know I could manually add an email address in iPhoto in the info panel on the right hand side, but that does not seem to make the connection to Contacts either.
Any ideas and pointers will be highly appreciated.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Posted on Aug 15, 2014 2:15 PM
Try the following:
- Add one new photo of your son.
- Tag this photo using his contact card.
- Now you will have two Faces stacks of your son on the crock board..
- Drag the older stack with all his previous photos onto the stack with the contact card name. Select "Merge"when prompted.
This will rename the older faces using the new name from the contact card.
Posted on Aug 15, 2014 2:31 PM


