bodhi_1980

Q: Faces - People I don't Know What to Do

Running along the lines of my OCD'edness.  What can I do with the literally thousands of faces that are background people.  Is there a way to ignore these faces en mass?  It annoys me when I tag faces that I have a list of Suggested Faces who are simple random people in the background of my shoots. Should I tag them as Man/Woman so I can filter out people who I don't want to be able to be searchable? Or better yet is there a way to just tell Photos to ignore them.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 5, 2016 1:58 PM

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  • by bodhi_1980,

    bodhi_1980 bodhi_1980 Apr 5, 2016 2:00 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:00 PM in response to bodhi_1980

    Also I'm aware of the right click Ignore face  I just want to do this en-mass but make sure if I do a search for say photos with faces in them but not say a person I whose name I tagged is a part of.

    Screen Shot 2016-04-05 at 4.58.50 PM.png

     

    And yes that is a photo of Oakland GM Billy Beane. Met him at the NYSE.

  • by LarryHN,Solvedanswer

    LarryHN LarryHN Apr 5, 2016 2:09 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:09 PM in response to bodhi_1980

    You can select a gorup and ignore them - there is no way other than just doing it

     

    LN

  • by bodhi_1980,

    bodhi_1980 bodhi_1980 Apr 5, 2016 2:02 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:02 PM in response to LarryHN

    But does this still tag them as having a person in the photo if I did a search for photos with people?

  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Apr 5, 2016 2:09 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:09 PM in response to bodhi_1980

    You can select several faces at once in the strip of unnamed faces, ctrl-click the selection, then select "Ignore ....faces".

    Screen Shot 2016-04-05 at 23.02.46GMT.png

    To select a range of faces click the first face, then had down the shift key and select the last face of the range.

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Apr 5, 2016 2:07 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:07 PM in response to bodhi_1980

    There is no way to ignore them en-mass, because there's no way for Photos to know which of the identified faces are meaningful to YOU. If "Unidefied" bothers you, they you'll just have to dismiss them, basically, one by one.

     

    What does help, is that when you're in the Faces album and look at the Suggested Faces row at the bottom of the screen, you can Command-click to select more than one suggested face (scroll to see more), right-click on any of the selected faces, then choose Ignore X faces.

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Apr 5, 2016 2:13 PM in response to Rysz
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:13 PM in response to Rysz

    Forget to note...

     

    The way to avoid this mess, is to perform this task at steady intervals, so you don't accumulate too many new "unidentified" and "need-confirming" faces at any one time.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 5, 2016 2:35 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:35 PM in response to bodhi_1980
    But does this still tag them as having a person in the photo if I did a search for photos with people?

    Clicking "Ignore this Face" for a group of photos will remove the suggested face from the strip of unnamed faces below the faces album.  But it will not remove the faces circle from the photos, if you have "View > Show Faces Names" enabled".

     

    For example, in this library I rejected all suggested faces, but some photos are still showing unnamed faces, when I enlarge the photos. I have to click the "x" to remove the faces thumbnail as well.

     


    Screen Shot 2016-04-05 at 23.28.39GMT.png

     

    But still, it is better to "Ignore" the faces than to add them all to a special faces album "Strangers", because that would influence the faces recognition algorithm.  Ignoring a face tells Photos that it is a face, but you do not want it to be recognized.

     

     

    I ignore the faces strip completely and name the faces by browsing the faces enlarged. If a face is marked, that I don't care for, I click the "x", if a face is marked that I want to keep, I type a name into the name field.  The advantage is, that I am seeing the faces in the context  of the full photo this way - and I know when and where the photo has been taken. It is much easier to remember the names of people, if I start from a certain moment.

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Apr 5, 2016 2:37 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:37 PM in response to bodhi_1980

     

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 5, 2016 2:49 PM in response to Rysz
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    Apr 5, 2016 2:49 PM in response to Rysz
    The way to avoid this mess, is to perform this task at steady intervals, so you don't accumulate too many new "unidentified" and "need-confirming" faces at any one time.

    That is the theory - but impossible with iCloud Photo Library.

     

    After I enabled iCloud Photo Library on four Macs, I have my main Photos library synced to the three other macs, and I have to weed out the unnamed  faces from forty-thousand photos on all three other macs, because the faces albums don't sync with iCloud.  There is no way to sync an exiting library  in easy stages with iCloud, moment for moment. The strip with thousands of unnamed faces is completely random with unrelated faces side by side.

  • by bodhi_1980,

    bodhi_1980 bodhi_1980 Apr 5, 2016 3:02 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 5, 2016 3:02 PM in response to léonie

    This is awesome advice. Thank you.

  • by bodhi_1980,

    bodhi_1980 bodhi_1980 Apr 5, 2016 3:06 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 5, 2016 3:06 PM in response to léonie

     

    That is the theory - but impossible with iCloud Photo Library.

     

    After I enabled iCloud Photo Library on four Macs, I have my main Photos library synced to the three other macs, and I have to weed out the unnamed  faces from forty-thousand photos on all three other macs, because the faces albums don't sync with iCloud.  There is no way to sync an exiting library  in easy stages with iCloud, moment for moment. The strip with thousands of unnamed faces is completely random with unrelated faces side by side.

    Wait.  What?  Ugh.  I'm just about to clean up my other macs and move them to external drives connected to my home network.  So iCloud doens't sync all the meta data?   That is an awful oversite!  Who can I yell @Apple to develop that feature that's lacking.  Guh, seems like apple wants to give up to Adobe after all.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Apr 5, 2016 3:07 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 3:07 PM in response to bodhi_1980

    You're welcome

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Apr 5, 2016 3:17 PM in response to léonie
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    Apr 5, 2016 3:17 PM in response to léonie

    .... because the faces albums don't sync with iCloud.  There is no way to sync an exiting library  in easy stages with iCloud, moment for moment.

    Good point. I'm aware of this, but since I have only one Mac as my "main" library it doesn't affect me, so I didn't think of it.

  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Apr 5, 2016 3:14 PM in response to bodhi_1980
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    Apr 5, 2016 3:14 PM in response to bodhi_1980

    File your complaint here:

    https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

     

    I'll re-file my bug report as well. Mac OS X 10.12 and iOS 10? Hope springs eternal...

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