From the book
From the book
From the book
Person keywords
As you add face names, you will simultaneously create keywords, which by default, will be added at the root level to the Keyword list. If you want the person keywords you create to be more manageable, I suggest you use the contextual menu shown in Figure 10.55 to enable “Put New Person Keywords Inside this Keyword” for a specific Keyword group, such as (in this instance) PEOPLE. With this scenario, all person keywords you create will automatically become children of the PEOPLE keyword, and an asterisk will appear after the target keyword name. You can drag a face from the People view mode to the Keyword List panel as a shortcut for applying a correct people keyword. Similarly, you can also drag a person keyword to a face in the People view mode to apply.
You will also notice in the contextual menu shown in Figure 10.55 that you can choose Convert Keywords to Person Keywords. This means where you have previously assigned a keyword with someone’s name, you can convert this to a person keyword. You can do this for single or multiple selected keywords. You can even select a parent keyword and convert it into a Person keyword, and all of the associated child keywords will also be converted. What happens exactly is that this step adds the keyword to the person keyword list, but will not necessarily always add face regions to the photos (see Step 3 on page 48). But where a face region gets added and you enter the first few letters of that person’s name, Lightroom will now know to auto-complete as a known person keyword.
In Figure 10.54, you can see that the Keyword List panel now contains filter options that allow you to filter by All keywords, by Person keywords, or by all Applied keywords.
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Figure 10.54 This shows the Keyword List panel with the Filter keywords active and filter categories below.
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Figure 10.55 The Keyword List contextual menu includes an option to “Put New Person Keywords inside this Keyword.” When this option is activated, you will see an asterisk appear next to the keyword name.
- In this example, I wanted to convert an existing, regular keyword to become a Person keyword. First, I clicked the arrow next to the keyword Nick Woodley to load all of the photos with this keyword into Library Grid view. Next, I right-clicked the regular keyword to access the contextual menu and selected Convert Keywords to Person Keywords.
- I then clicked the People button to switch to People view. At this stage in People view mode, it had assigned face regions to the photos, which now needed confirming. I selected all, typed in Nick Woodley to one of the selected faces, and hit Return.
- Occasionally, automatic face detection will fail to find a face in some photos. In this example, I double-clicked one such photo to open in Loupe view (Figure 10.56). I then mouse-clicked the Draw Face Region button to activate the region drawing tool. Next, I mouse-clicked the photo and dragged the region drawing tool over the face. Lastly, I began typing the first few letters of Nick’s name. Since the name was a known Person keyword Lightroom auto-completed the name.
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Figure 10.56 In the Loupe view, with the Draw Face tool active, you can click a suggested face region name and click to confirm or reject.