I have been adding lots of old photos to my Aperture library. If select a project or folder of photos and choose “Faces”, I see all the faces I have assigned on the upper portion of the window and a single row of images at the bottom that include 'unnamed faces'. As I work through unnamed faces by assigning names, skipping, etc new images just keep appearing from the right. Is there a way to tell how many unnamed faces you have remaining? There doesn't appear to be a way of seeing more than a single row of these images nor can you resize the thumbnails. I would like to see how much work I have remaining.
thanks for any suggestions
Jim
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Hi Jim,
The way I understand it, Aperture keeps getting smarter each time you identify a face. I was a bit disappointed with Faces to begin with but lately it’s getting more and more precise. So if there was a “number of images remaining” I suspect it would change each time you assign a name.
The good news is that you don’t have to do them all at once :)
Morten
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Jim,
Morten is right—it does keep getting smarter. However you actually can do them all at once, and save yourself quite a bit of time.
If you double-click on any face on the cork board, it will show you all faces that match—and all the ones that might match. From there you can click once to accept it, click twice to reject, or drag around entire groups of photos at once to label them as matches, or option-drag around them to reject a batch.
I wrote about Faces quite some time ago, when Aperture 3 first came out, in this article; “Faces; A First Look (And Something Great About Smart Albums)”. You’ll find some more info in there, and also I have an entire chapter dedicated to Faces in the eBook “In-Depth Getting Started with Aperture 3”.
Good luck,
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Thanks Morten and Joseph,
the article “Faces; A First Look” really helped. I had looked at it once before but something clicked this time.
Adding a smart album of all photos with ‘unnamed faces’ tells me the number of photos that I need to process. There might be multiple unnamed faces in a single photo but at least I have an idea of how close I am getting. This will work great.
Also creating a smart album of photos with ‘no faces detected’ is also a good check to make sure Aperture didn’t miss some faces. Many of the old photos I have added are scanned images of pretty poor quality. I notice that Aperture misses many faces in these photos especially when the face is small in the photo.
Thanks again,
Jim
Jim,
Glad the article helped! If you run into any more issues, you know where to come :)
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