ORGANISING PHOTOS
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n the previous page we demonstrated how to find
favourite files more easily by adding star ratings
and then filtering the results. This is a fairly
general way to organise your shots. You can
organise your photos in a more specific way by tagging
images according to who is in each picture. This is a
particularly handy feature because many of your photos
are likely to feature friends and family members.
To help you tag people in your images, Elements is capable
of searching through its library of images and presenting
you with any people pictures that it can find. You can thentell the software who each face belongs to, and it will create
an appropriate people tag for that particular person. You
can then sort your people tags into groups (such as Friends,
Family and so on). Photoshop Elements’ People Recognition
window will even download your Facebook contacts, which
will help you tag members of your social network more
quickly and easily.
Elements’ face-recognition feature can speed up your
organising workflow, but of course, it’s not infallible.
Occasionally, it might suggest naming people when there
aren’t any people present in a shot. So we’ll show youFind and tag your people pictures ............................................
Use Photoshop Elements’ face-recognition feature to tag your
shots according to who’s in them and then place them in Groups
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Mark Face in Elements 14
In principle, Elements 14 will work in a similar way,
automatically analyzing images for faces as you import
them into the catalog. For existing images, you can double-
click them in the Media pane and click the Mark Face button.
The Organizer will now offer to analyse your images.1
Scan your images
In Elements 13 you can click the Add People button in
the Organizer, and click Yes. Elements will scan your
files to look for faces. The results will appear in a window
and each thumbnail will have a message asking, ‘Who is this?’.
Click the text field and type a name.GET THE START FILES HERE: http://bit.ly/type-files