Iphoto 11 -How to turn off faces?

You can't turn off Faces. End of Story.

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback for feature requests.

There is no evidence that Faces makes iPhoto 'instable'.

iPhoto is a $15 app. Lightroom is a $150 one, is a lot more powerful - and complex. It's missing one of the best features of iPhoto - integration throughout the OS, and there's no migration path to LR.

Aperture is $70, has a lot more power and is more complex. It's a good match for LR, has OS integration, has an easy migration path from iPhoto and you can turn off Faces.

has an easy migration path from iPhoto and you can turn off Faces.

Exactly. Simply open your iPhoto Library in Aperture and turn off "Faces! iPhoto and Aperture share a unified library format.

And that works in Aperture, but if you come back to iPhoto?

And that works in Aperture, but if you come back to iPhoto?

I made some tests:

• If I disable the face detection for an Aperture library, that already contains detected faces, and then open this library in iPhoto, iPhoto will show these faces already in the library.
• If I create a new Aperture library and import images with the face detection disabled, the "Faces" folder in the Aperture library will contain no named and detected faces. If I browse this library in iPhoto, iPhoto will not add to these faces. The initial "Faces" scan will not be performed.
• But if I import photos into this library while browsing it in iPhoto, then iPhoto will scan the newly added photos for faces, but not the photos already in the library.

Regards

Léonie

Yes. You don't want lossless processing, you want a destructive workflow. Use apps that work the way you want.

Sorry but there's a contradiction here:

i like the idea of lossless editing, but unless you are a superpro (or a supernerd...) it is definitely enough to enhance a picture and keep this.

If keeping the enhanced version only is 'definitely enough' then no, you don't like the idea of lossless processing.

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback for feature requests.

But really, why want iPhoto to do that when there are all these others apps that already do it - Photoshop, Graphic Converter, Pixelmator etc etc etc

But, i want Iphoto to store my final images and to have the seamingless itegration in the OS, without having to carry "the bulk" with me - especially nowadays when using SSD´s is still expensive. I hope i could explain this.

And that is what Aperture would do for you: It lets you keep high quality jpeg previews on your internal drive and reference selected original files (tiff, raw, jpeg) on an external volume. The external drive can be offline, as long as you do not want to edit those referenced images.

My Trainer had me just (shift) select all the current Faces pictures on the "bulletin board," then Delete. Seemed to work. (May have been Command Delete, but it worked.)

big thumbs up to you for supplying the best answer even if it was not chosen!

all these people talking endlessly about aperture and lightroom when the solution is: command/ delete

in iphoto, go to faces folder on left column. select all faces. press command + delete

yes you can! (or at least disable it)

That does not turn off faces, just deletes faces from the iPhoto Window. The process continues in the background, scanning and creating thumbnails.

okay point taken, but at least it stops the thumbnails appearing on the photo which very annoying