Lightroom 6 Face Recognition
These are suggestions for A___. The only two correct ones are highlighted on the second row. I got these results after training LR on 95 of her photos taken around the same time. Only two other shots (of the same person) are related. After a bit more training, I and an unrelated man showed up as a match for her. The skulls I can understand, but the tire and Halloween mask? And the monkey is just offensive. LOL!
The autocomplete on names is terrible. I type in Mary F which should match to Mary Frances M____ but fills in Mary Fred G____. Fred G____ being another person in my catalog. Seeing it autocomplete and had a similar length name, I pressed Enter before I realized it was wrong. If I type only Mary I get choices of three different Marys. Typing F should give me the proper one. Instead it starts the autocomplete again with F as if for a new name instead of part of the name I am already typing. Very annoying.
Overall, the feature is useful and somewhat accurate. I think Google's Picasa was smarter, but that integrates with your Google account and some people dislike online facial recognition. So that is a plus for Lightroom.
I wonder if this training can be used across catalogs? Unless the speed improvements they made allow much larger catalogs, I am still going to have my photos in way too many different catalogs.
Names are stored as keywords on the photo. I don't really like that. I would prefer a separate name box. Because they are just keywords, there is no indication in Grid View that the photo has names or just other keywords.
There are some places it is faster, like switching between photos. But it just got so slow on me I had to kill the program with Task Manager. And now I am stuck with Adobe Creative Cloud that I can't uninstall and seems to be running a Adobe Desktop Services process all the time even though I am using the standalone version.
I ran across a message in the Preferences that said GPU Acceleration isn't working for me. Apparently, ATI Radeons have some problem and updating to the latest drivers don't help yet. Although that is bad, it that means my LR should get faster when that is fixed.
Lightroom 6 Face Recognition
These are suggestions for A___. The only two correct ones are highlighted on the second row. I got these results after training LR on 95 of her photos taken around the same time. Only two other shots (of the same person) are related. After a bit more training, I and an unrelated man showed up as a match for her. The skulls I can understand, but the tire and Halloween mask? And the monkey is just offensive. LOL!
The autocomplete on names is terrible. I type in Mary F which should match to Mary Frances M____ but fills in Mary Fred G____. Fred G____ being another person in my catalog. Seeing it autocomplete and had a similar length name, I pressed Enter before I realized it was wrong. If I type only Mary I get choices of three different Marys. Typing F should give me the proper one. Instead it starts the autocomplete again with F as if for a new name instead of part of the name I am already typing. Very annoying.
Overall, the feature is useful and somewhat accurate. I think Google's Picasa was smarter, but that integrates with your Google account and some people dislike online facial recognition. So that is a plus for Lightroom.
I wonder if this training can be used across catalogs? Unless the speed improvements they made allow much larger catalogs, I am still going to have my photos in way too many different catalogs.
Names are stored as keywords on the photo. I don't really like that. I would prefer a separate name box. Because they are just keywords, there is no indication in Grid View that the photo has names or just other keywords.
There are some places it is faster, like switching between photos. But it just got so slow on me I had to kill the program with Task Manager. And now I am stuck with Adobe Creative Cloud that I can't uninstall and seems to be running a Adobe Desktop Services process all the time even though I am using the standalone version.
I ran across a message in the Preferences that said GPU Acceleration isn't working for me. Apparently, ATI Radeons have some problem and updating to the latest drivers don't help yet. Although that is bad, it that means my LR should get faster when that is fixed.