Marking faces in photos and organizing people stacks

You can identify faces of people featuring in your photos and then organize photos containing them. The identified faces then populate as people stacks based on this labeling. People view allows you to organize your photos based on the people you identify in each photo.

By switching to People view, you can see stacks of all labeled people. Double click on a person's stack to view all images having that person labeled in them. The people tags are not displayed in the Media view by default. However, to view the people tags in Media view, select View > Show People in Tag panel.

The tag panel must be activated to view the people tags. Click Tags/Info in the action bar to activate Tags panel.

You can identify the faces that appear in photos and create people stacks. This helps organize and identify photos based on the people that appear in those photos. For example, if your friend Jim appears in some of your photos, you can mark Jim and then sort/view the photos featuring Jim.

People stack refers to a stack which has all the photos of the person identified and added to the people list in Elements Organizer.

Once you have identified faces in the photos and labelled the people, you can switch to the People view to organize them further.

Click the People tab to view the people stacks formed. People stacks refer to the stacks of photos of a person.

Elements Organizer interacts with Facebook and helps you download your contact list. While adding people, you can download your Facebook friend list and identify faces of friends (present in your friend list).

• In the Media view, select a photo and click Add People.
• In the People Recognition dialog box, click Download/Update facebook friend's list to name people.

• Click Authorize and enter your facebook login credentials. Close the facebook window after authenticating successfully. 

The friends list is downloaded to Elements Organizer. You can start tagging photos of your facebook contacts in organizer now.

There could be people in photos whose faces you were not able to identify in the initial workflows. For example, a friend named Cathy was added to your facebook friend's list after you took photos at a friend's birthday party. Also, there can be some faces appearing in photos that were taken from a distance or turned away faces.

You can identify such missing faces by marking them.

• In the Media view, select the photo in which a missing face has to be marked. The Mark Face button is present only when viewing images in full zoom Single Image View.
  
• Double-click on the photo to open it in an expanded view and click Mark Face button in the task pane.

The photo opens in a wider view. If the Who Is This? selection box is not placed over the person you want to label, select the box and drag it over the face of that person.

Enter the name of the person and click the confirm icon.

Once you have identified faces in the photos of a person, you can also find more photos of the same person. There can be photos that you have shot, downloaded, or imported after identifying the person's face in a set of photos.

You can identify faces appearing in videos too.

You can further improve identifying faces in photos by organizaing them by groups. A group displays photostacks of people tagged for that group.

For example, you can create a group named work or colleagues and tag photos of people from your professional contacts.

You can do several things in the People view to navaigate effectively through the People stacks.

• Assign as profile pic: Double-click on a people stack. The photos present in that stack are displayed in the workspace. Right-click a photo and select Assign as Profile Picture.
• Navigation bar: Double-click on a people stack. Switch between faces and photos to view the maximized photos of the tagged faces.
• Open a photo for editing: Double-click on a photo to open it in a mazimized view. Right-click on the photo and select Edit with Photoshop Elements Editor to edit it further.