Such a shame because if picasa could upload at 16mb like the auto function it would be almost perfect. Do any of the alternatives to picasa have the facialrecognition feature for. The plugin creates and maintains a list of facename keywords under an allencompassing parent keywords picasa faces. Since i only use it as a local editor, i am not interested in using any cloudbased system. Since p2lr is a lightroom plugin, it runs on both mac and pc anywhere lightroom runs. Luckily, there is a plethora of alternatives that can amaze any fan of picasa with a variety of tools and. The adobe photoshop lightroom cc program for photo processing and. Photo studio home is a powerful desktop photo organizer that vastly improves upon the editing and management features available in picasa.
The faces tool in apples photos for os x program can often recognize. By importing your photos into lightroom and running p2lr, you can preserve all your picasa albums, star ratings, face recognition information, captions, and tags. When importing files, imatch extracts face annotations created by these products from the xmp record and converts them into imatch face annotations. There are other concerns that most will have moving between picasa and other options. I assumed that the more faces you identify, the stronger the match will be for confirmed faces. Apple photos sometimes referred to as photos was added by 37fd60e1 in jul 2015 and the latest update was made in oct 2019. Picasa is a program that many people use for uncomplicated photo management and simple image processing. Googles free desktop photo organizer is stepping up to iphotos killer feature by adding face recognition and syncing it with picasa web albums, making it easy to send uncle bob. Picasa searches for all the images in your hd and shows them on an eyecatching and intuitive interface.
So if i have confirmed 100s of faces, that the algorithm would get better and better at discerning what face belongs to what person. Indeed, using picasa and lightroom in parallel is a mess, the edits may be lost, and i have to resync lightroom often. Im another picasa 3 facial recognition user with a couple hundred thousand photos with embedded facial information that i would love to import into acdsee. To turn face detection on or off in picasa, you need to use the folder manager function. If you have already imported your photos into lightroom, thats ok. Using face recognition tags from pse or picasa lightroom. Released the picasa facerecognition plugin for lightroom. You can optionally save your picasa photo edits such as crops and color enhancements if you want. Jeffrey friedls blog jeffreys picasa face recognition import lightroom plugin. Adobe, microsoft, sony, nokia, and others extension of xmp. Face recognition lightroom classic lets you quickly organize and find images using facial recognition technology. When writing metadata, imatch converts face annotations back into xmp regions automatically.
How to use face recognition in lightroom 6 tutorial. Facial recognition is used to identify that its a face and then who that face is. Is picasa image metadata compatible with lightroom. Ive used acdsee for about 20 years, but always needed picasa for organizational work due to its facial recognition. That said, it goes without saying that the winner is picasa. To turn on face detection on a folder its a bit trickier than it seems. Its possible to update the information on apple photos or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam. With acdsee, there is no need to import your photo collection. From then on, once you have done new facerecognition work on some images in picasa, simply select the same images in lightroom and invoke file plugin extras import picasa face data. After a long triaging stage, this new version come with more than 600 bugfixes since last stable. And such features as face recognition, skin enhancement and geotagging make this app. I even have adobe lightroom, which i like for editing, but its slower and more complicated than picasa for basic downloading of photos and viewing of them.
It is widely used for editing and organising photos, albums and syncs them to share. Or at least more predictable in what it does not to mention i prefer the editing. Jeffreys picasa facerecognition import lightroom plugin. However, iphoto 09 has a few features picasa was, until tuesdays update, missing, namely the facial recognition tools. Picasa web albums have had facial recognition for some time, but the desktop. This means you can work high resolution and top quality. It seems i must completely not understand how lightroom s facial recognition works. Once the initial indexing is complete, face indexing continues to run in the background. Great to see that lr cc writes face data to xmpmwgrs tags jay. If you chose to find faces in the entire catalog, wait for indexing to complete. Mylio offers the features you love in adobe lightroom and more. Even the autotone does an amazing job on many photos. If you used picasa face recognition and want to transfer the faces and names to lightroom, you will need to run picasa and save the face recognition data in your photos before importing into lightroom. If picasa would upload at high quality g photos and picasa.
The photoshop elements application is a very good alternative for picasa as it comes with extensive photo editing tools and options. Picasa photo app gets better at recognizing faces, locations wired. Ive been using it for several years but picasa which i used before i moved to digikam had far better face recognition. There used to be a concern about picasa face detection tags, but it turns out. To sum up, if you are looking for a complete solution like picasa which has editing, batch processing, smart organization, and also modern features like face recognition then acdsee is the perfect pick. Picasa web albums have had facial recognition for some time, but the. Below are instructions to assist you in exporting picasa face tags to the xmp metadata format. Dear digikam fans and users, just few words to inform the community that 7.
Is there any plugin for lightroom that enables face recognition. Lightroom classic uses imaging characteristics to find faces, and then stacks images of similar faces together. Frequently asked questions face recognition tagging. If you are in the look out for a standalone face recognition system for protecting your mac macbook pro, macbook air, and imac against illegal access when you are out, then keylemon is worth giving a shot. So now i use picasa as a desktop tool with face recognition. Windows live photo gallery seems to be more metadata friendly than picasa. Now that lightroom supports face recognition and tagging, the sooner i can ditch picasa altogether the better. Tag that photo reads these tags when the image is scanned and merges the face tagging metadata with tagthatphoto face tags. Now, and thanks to picasa you will have the album you desired and you will be able to see your photos anytime you want. Indeed the reason im here is looking for something that does face recognition better on linux. Last night i was working on my mac air, and i found to my utter amazement that not only does it have most all the same controls as lightroom for improving and editing a photo, and not only can i write a narrative about what we were doing and what the event was all about, but it asked me to label a face. Picasa face tag migration acd systems international inc. Googles picasa and adobes lightroom have become the two. A lightroom plugin that for importing picasaweb face recognition data.
Adobe lightroom for mac is the photoshop version of mac. So far in using lightroom i love the control i am getting with tweaking my photos. Face recognition apps for mac complete guide to facial. These days, with so many digital photos and videos on our computers, the task of managing all this digital media has become very complex. When you first go the faces view o key lightroom will ask you if you want to turn on auto face detection, which will run the process in the background while you are working, or if you want to, you can. Googles picasa and adobes lightroom have become the two main.
How to use face detection efficiently in picasa organize. Create a small set of photos that require face recognition, import those photos into a small lightroom catalog, do the face recognition in picasa or pse, and see how it works. As we group the faces and name them, lightroom gets smarter. Picasa was the only 32bit program i was still using daily, and in years of searching, i havent found any other software as good. Lightroom for heavy batch processing and auto as a free semiback up tool. Choosing the right software for managing your digital photos is very important because you spend a lot of time with this tool. The good news is that picasa can do pretty much anything, from facial recognition and tagging to gps tagging to web. P2lr is a free plugin for adobe lightroom that allows you to import your picasa data into lightroom. Here is a list of the 21 best lightroom plugins of 2020. Moreover, you can use it as a standalone photo editor or as a plugin for adobe photoshop and lightroom. So having a good tool is very important for every photographer. Lightroom cc facial recognition is really great for.
Finding photo programs that recognize faces the new york times. You can continue to work as lightroom classic indexes your images. The plugin matches up image data via image filename and path, so both picasa and lightroom must be working with the exact same image files and not, for example, merely identical copies. If you use iphoto or the new mac photos along with picasa. Color efex pro belongs to the nik collection by dxo and it is a series of renowned creative plugins for adobe photoshop, adobe photoshop elements, and adobe lightroom. Without any doubt, the presentation is one of the high points of this applications. I can speculate that one reason that picasa facial recognition was so effective is that all of the algorithms were processed on a web based server where presumably there was greater horsepower available for making all of the necessary comparisons. Ive downloaded lightroom 6 and it looks ok in this respect, though ive not yet allowed it to scan my photos to see how good the recognition is. Or will i have either to wait for lightroom to get face recognition and mapping, or to go to mac. Picasa offers an option in the most recent public version to export the face tagging metadata in adobe xmp format.
How to use face detection efficiently in picasa organize pictures. Picasa photo app gets better at recognizing faces, locations. All in all i think iphoto has a better integration with the rest of the os, and picasa has better performance for large collections of pictures. Use intelligent facial recognition in lightroom classic. Its improved but picasa outranks it easily in this respect.
The photoshop label is an oldie when it comes to the market of photo editing apps. You can also save your picasa photo edits such as crops and color enhancements if you want. Since p2lr is a lightroom plugin, it runs on both mac and pc anywhere. I dont care about this much and have long suspected that when this is turned on that it greatly slows down picasa. Just a short followup to last weeks giving up on picasa face recognition post, ive gone ahead and released the lightroom plugin id built before realizing the major problems plaguing picasa s face recognition feature.