Faces Corkboard Sorting

Is it possible to tell it to sort by last name (surname) instead of simply "By Name"? It would make finding specific people much easier (I know you can just go by their, well, face, but mentally, you'd know where to look if their last name starts with an S versus B).

Two observations:
- Face detection is getting inaccurate if you tag a lot of people with only few tags each.
- It is inaccurate with large faces that cover more than half of the picture.
I have no solution for the above mentioned problem: face detection is becoming inaccurate if you tag every picture of person (even if it is a photo with a very bad quality)
(tagged 159 people in 2708 photos so far)

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Faces corkboard stuck at "To get started with Faces-"

I've named a number of faces in a mess of photos in this library imported from an older version of iPhoto, and they don't show up on the Faces corkboard. Instead, it stays at the "To get started with Faces, select a photo of people you know, click Name, and then type their names. Named people appear here on the corkboard" screen. If you mouse over the Faces icon in the source list, the tooltip says "Faces (27)", and you can step through all the faces with the left and right arrows if you get to someone's Faces page from a photo tagged at them, but you can't get to the centralized listing of everyone's face. Even clicking the "All Faces" navigation arrow from someone's Faces page brings you back to the sticky-note corkboard.
I've tried rebuilding the iPhoto library, but that didn't affect anything. The only thing that I can think of that would've affected this is that the external drive with the iPhoto Library on it was accidentally unmounted during the faces building process, but every other part of iPhoto and the Faces feature was unaffected. I haven't tried removing face.db and face_blob.db yet, since there are around 18,000 photos to reexamine and I've tagged quite a few already.
Not a major issue, since you can still get to everyone's Faces page, but it's rather annoying not having an attractive corkboard full of faces. Any suggestions?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Try Trash the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file from the HD/Users/ Your Name / library / preferences folder. (Remember you'll need to reset your User options afterwards. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.)
*What's the plist file?*
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.
Regards
TD

Using arrow keys to view one thumbnail at a time in the Faces corkboard.

In the faces window, you can wave the mouse over a picture on the corkboard and see all the pictures but the effect can be hard to control. In iPhoto '09 you could, just park the mouse over the corkboard picture and use the right- and left-arrow keys to view one thumbnail at a time. This does not work in iPhoto '11... any way to re-establish this behavior?

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ADF Faces: columns sort problem

Hi all,
I'm new ADF Faces italian user and I have some problem sorting columns of table component...
I have tried to convert my ResultSet in a List, and the data are correctly inserted in the "af:table" but the column sort don't work...
I have already read the "af:table" Oracle specification but I have not just found a solution...
This is the part of my backing bean that return the List:
private List anagsList;
public List getAnagsList()
Connection connection;
Statement statement;
ResultSet resultset;
try
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.168.75:1521:ORA1", "EL2DEMO", "admin");
statement = connection.createStatement();
if(inputText1.getValue().toString().equals(""))
resultset = statement.executeQuery("SELECT AN_RAGSOC, AN_NOME, AN_DATANASCITA FROM ANAGS");
else
String query="SELECT AN_RAGSOC, AN_NOME, AN_DATANASCITA FROM ANAGS WHERE ";
query=query + "AN_RAGSOC LIKE '%" + inputText1.getValue() + "%' OR ";
query=query + "AN_NOME LIKE '%" + inputText1.getValue() + "%' OR ";
query=query + "AN_DATANASCITA LIKE '%" + inputText1.getValue() + "%'";
resultset=statement.executeQuery(query);
anagsList = new ArrayList();
while(resultset.next())
anagsList.add(new AnagsRecord(resultset.getString(2), resultset.getString(1), resultset.getString(3)));
resultset.close();
statement.close();
connection.close();
catch(Exception e)
System.out.println(e);
return anagsList;
This is my AnagsRecord class:
package mypackage.backing;
public class AnagsRecord
private String nome;
private String cognome;
private String dataNascita;
public AnagsRecord(String nome, String cognome, String dataNascita)
setNome(nome);
setCognome(cognome);
setDataNascita(dataNascita);
public String getNome()
return nome;
public void setNome(String nome)
this.nome = nome;
public String getCognome()
return cognome;
public void setCognome(String cognome)
this.cognome = cognome;
public String getDataNascita()
return dataNascita;
public void setDataNascita(String dataNascita)
this.dataNascita = dataNascita;
And this is table component:
<af:table var="al" emptyText="No records found."
rows="20" value="#{backing_ADFFaces.anagsList}"
banding="row" bandingInterval="1">
<af:column sortable="true" sortProperty="dataNascita">
<f:facet name="header">
<af:outputText value="DATA NASCITA"/>
</f:facet>
<af:outputText value="#{al.dataNascita}"/>
</af:column>
<af:column sortable="true" sortProperty="cognome">
<f:facet name="header">
<af:outputText value="COGNOME"/>
</f:facet>
<af:outputText value="#{al.cognome}"/>
</af:column>
<af:column sortable="true" sortProperty="nome">
<f:facet name="header">
<af:outputText value="NOME"/>
</f:facet>
<af:outputText value="#{al.nome}"/>
</af:column>
</af:table>
I have already installed the ADF Faces demos (column_sortable.jspx) and it works well, but the backing bean is not very understandable...
please help me...
ciao!

Hi,
I have the same problem (with another language), national characters are not sorted properly.
Any pointers how to solve this?
Regards,
Patrik

Why don't images show on the faces corkboard?

When I open FACES none of the images show. I have LOTS of pics and people assigned here. When I open any single person, the images show up. When I go to "Confirm Additional Faces" the vast majority of the images dont show there. HELP.

Try the following:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
2 - Run Option #2, Rebuild Thumbnails. It may take more than one run to do the job.
OT

Trinidad my faces - table - sorting is not working, how should I implement

Hi All,
I am using trinidad table and sorting enabled, but the columns are not getting sorted at runtime.
Can anyone explain how to implement it?
Thanks,
Hari

You will have more luck if you ask Trinidad specific questions at a forum/mailinglist devoted to Trinidad. There's one at their own homepage over there at Apache.org. Good luck.

How can I stop iPhoto from reidentifying faces I have already 'crossed', while still being able to identify and sort new faces.

iPhoto has detected faces of people I dont know, in my 'iPhoto faces' whenever I click the cross in the corner of the face (when sorting faces) the face temporarily disappears, but once I have uploaded a fresh batch of photos (and want to identify new faces) it automatically re-identifies the old photos that I don't want to have to sort again. How can I stop iPhoto from reidentifying faces I have already 'crossed', while still being able to identify and sort new faces.

Thank you, that makes sense (I think!) However, I need to be able to tell iPhoto who the people identified in my photos are, does that make sense? How do I identify the people in my new photos without clicking 'find faces'. I know that button searches through my photos to find faces, but it also gets me to the place where I identify the faces as my friends and family, is there a shortcut to get to that place without clicking 'find faces'? That is what I really need, please help!!

Advanced Sort, Filter (color, image size), DUPLICATES, face recognition, GUI customizeability

Hi,
here are some of my Lightroom Feature Requests (maybe later more):
- Filter based on image size. Example: show me all photos with a resolution of 1600x1200 or less.
- More complex filtering. Example: show me all photos from the Collection A that are tagged with keyword 'k1' and 'k2' but not with keyword 'k3' and that are in the date range d1-d2 and were made with camera model X.
- Automatic portrait/human face recognition
- Sort and filter by color! Example: show me all photos that are mostly green (blue, yellow, red, ...)
- Intelligent recognition and optional deletion of duplicates. Calculate some kind of fingerprint for each photo (file size won't do I guess) so that it will be possible to recognize duplicates EVEN if they are of different image resolution or orientation (landscape, portrait), i.e. really based on CONTENT of the image!
- Make the components in the side panels movable so that the user can arrange his/her own panel with the components he uses most and on that side of the screen where he wants it.
Besides that: I LOVE Lightroom. A GREAT product!! Use it A LOT!
Nice greetings from Germany,
Stefan.

I second that.
"More complex filtering. Example: show me all photos from the Collection A that are tagged with keyword 'k1' and 'k2' but not with keyword 'k3' and that are in the date range d1-d2 and were made with camera model X."
This should be relatively easy to do. Most other DAMs in the market, e.g. ACDSee, do have this feature. It doesn't really becomes a real database until you have this feature.
"Intelligent recognition and optional deletion of duplicates."
Another great feature in ACDSee. Somehow it finds duplicates, even if filenames and dates are different, shows the different photos and gives you an option on what to do.

How can I sort faces by alphabetically?

I have more than 1000 faces in Photos. It is a nightmare to find one in the faces screen for editing, mixing or renaming purposes. In iPhoto faces were sorted alphabetically.

NO sorting in this 1.0 version of Photos.
You can request features, point out bugs, etc, at Apple Feedback pages.
Or directly for Photos.

Applescript for sorting faces in iphoto

Hi,
I would really like for the Faces pane in iPhoto to sort the faces based on how many photos there are of that person, i.e., the person with the most photos would be first in the list, the person with the second most photos would be second, and so on. I feel sure that it is possible to write an applescript that would do this, but I have almost no experience with applescript. I have 688 faces, so sorting alphabetically mixes my loved ones in with people that have very few photos, while sorting manually is tedious and needs constant updating.
So my questions are: 1. Is it possible to do make iPhoto sort in the way I want, either with an applescript or by some other method? and 2. if it is possible, how do I find someone who can write the script for me?
Thanks so much!
Jennifer

A script won't help because you cannot arbitrarily set how the faces are displayed, you only get what the menus allow. You need to ask Apple to add this function:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html

Faces is not remembering names

I am using Faces in Aperture 3. I converted one of my libraries across. It contains photos of several hundred colleagues often taken in groups. I wanted to name them.
1 How can I switch off Address Book interference?
I want the Faces pinboard sorted by Surname. When Aperture recognises the name I am inputting, it replaces what I type with just a First Name!
Workaround -- I am putting Surname_First.
2 How can I fix the autoprompt for names?
Whenever I type in McKenna, it changes the M to a j and gives me a garbage name. Similarly for a few other names. Keyboard is not the issue -- have swapped -- both are apple aluminium.
Workaround -- finish off name, then go back and edit in the correct few letters.
3 How do I stop Aperture from forgetting names?
I have laboriously entered dozens of names and tagged dozens of instances of each in the photos. Then, two different behaviours can occur...
i) The name inexplicably knocks of the leading Surname and underscore!
This happens to only a few names but, the behaviour repeats itself after renaming -- but not at once, it may take another half an hour before doing so. One example: Atton_Kevin kept reverting to Kevin.
ii) Particular Faces disappear. e.g. I set up Bond_Brian and Ahearn_John and Cirino_Caroline -- add to dozens of photos -- move on to other names -- and then, suddenly, they are no longer there and I have to re-enter them and re-confirm all the tags!
Can anyone help with any of these very annoying issues?
ta
ben

j ben b wrote:
I want the Faces pinboard sorted by Surname. When Aperture recognises the name I am inputting, it replaces what I type with just a First Name!
You can change the displayed name (which is used to sort them) in the "Faces" view corkboard by clicking the little 'i' in the bottom-right of the face. It sort of sounds like you're already doing this? But maybe in an odd way...? If you're not familiar with this 'info' window then it might help you to understand the face/address book connection and solve all your probs at once... I hope!
j ben b wrote:
2 How can I fix the autoprompt for names?
Whenever I type in McKenna, it changes the M to a j and gives me a garbage name. Similarly for a few other names. Keyboard is not the issue -- have swapped -- both are apple aluminium.
Workaround -- finish off name, then go back and edit in the correct few letters.
This seems to be a bug when the "Full Name" and the "Display Name" don't match (again, in the little info window you get from pressing the 'i' on a face in the cork-board). It matches against Full Names, but types out the text from the display name... remove full names (or change them to match the display names) and it seems to go away.
j ben b wrote:
i) The name inexplicably knocks of the leading Surname and underscore!
This happens to only a few names but, the behaviour repeats itself after renaming -- but not at once, it may take another half an hour before doing so. One example: Atton_Kevin kept reverting to Kevin.
Not 100% sure but this sounds like you might be selecting the 'address book' entry from your auto-complete list, instead of the 'faces' entry. I've not experienced the behaviours you're talking about in #3 though so I"m not really sure what's going on...

Sort by FAMILY name in 'People'...

Am I going insane?.....For the life of me.... I cannot find a way, to sort my "People" photos, by FAMILY name.... ?? All of the faces are sorted by 'First' name, and so, family members are all over the place...
Surely?... In a program as 'sophisticated' as PSE12... this is an option?....
I don't want, a 'work around'... where by, I 'Tag' all of my family members, with 'family', and then do a search to find all family members... I want to see, ALL people I know, grouped together by their 'Surname'....
I have a really strange feeling, this really isn't possible...???.

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This syntax is working when we test from Local Desktop by loading xml data in rtf file and use preview output, But when rtf template is uploaded
to Oracle EBS and run Report it's not sorted by CF_CUSTOMER_NAME
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8.1 did not sort the sort order for events in photos app

With 7000 photos in more than 300 events You must have them in alphabetic order as before in 7.1 The pictures are synced from iMac iPhoto. How to do a search. The events are not found by names

When I drag albums into the correct order in Photos for Mac, they show up in reverse order on the iOS devices. Thus there seems to be a bug in either iOS 8.3, OS 10.10.3 or iCloud Photo Library.
The browser version of iCloud Photo Library (icloud.com) is currently updating. I am waiting to see which way my albums are sorted there.
There is no promise at all, or documented anywhere, how sorting of library items will sync across the devices. This has been haphazard when syncing iPhoto Libraries - synced faces not sorted, synced events not sorted, etc. So it is at least a step in the right direction, in Photos that the albums are sorted at all.

Tips For Improving Face Detection Accuracy

These are some rules I have slowly discovered that have helped improve the accuracy of iPhotos' face detection.
a. Don't force iPhoto to recognize *+every single+* instance of an individuals face. (If you need to create a location containing every instance of an individual, then you need to setup a Smart Folder using the persons' name as a Description or Keyword. "Faces" is not the section to do this. See a suggestion below for using "Faces" to do this.)
b. Avoid confirming really poor quality examples of a persons face (low light, pixelated, off in the distance, etc)
c. Avoid confirming only partially visible faces (hair covering half the face, head turned away to a profile, extreme angles too high or too low, etc)
d. Avoid too many instances in which the person's eyes are closed. (Obviously, sunglasses are a real problem here as well)
e. Avoid instances where the persons head is tilted 45 degrees or more, unless the software recognizes the face on it's own.
f. Avoid instances where the face has areas of heavy shadow, and the light source is at right angles to the face. (Outdoors with Sun directly overhead or near horizon.) If face is in an "even" shadow that seems to be OK.
g. Clearly, the more full frontal, clearly lit views of an individuals' face you can include, the better the face detection will be.
h. If you do use the "Add Missing Face" button, then restrict the selection box to just around the eyebrows, nose and mouth. Avoid selecting the whole head since the face detection software concentrates on the features in the center of the face. No need to include the hair as it does not appear to be a factor.
*Gathering Every Instance of a Persons' Face*
Here is how you could use "Faces" to gather every photo of an individual, yet maintain its' face detection accuracy. Mind you, this may only be practical with relatively small libraries, not libraries with 10's of thousands of photos.
1. First, go ahead and name *+every instance+* of an individuals' face (Even poor quality examples).
2. Then, within the "Faces" corkboard section, open that persons' album and "Select All" of their photos (Do this before the Faces scan is complete or you will also select all of the suggested faces under "So-and_So may also be in the photos below")
3. Next, create "New Album from selection..." and give it the name of the person. (Alternatively, you could "Batch Change..." all the selected photos with a "Description" using the persons' name and then use a "Smart Album" to gather all of the persons' photos. This could be handy for adding future photos of the person automatically to the Smart Album.)
4. Once that is complete, now "Reject" all poor quality, or partially visible examples of the persons' face within Faces. This will improve the software's future accuracy at detecting the persons' face in new photos added to the library.
If, at a future date, you add another large group of photos containing that persons' face, you can repeat steps 1 & 2 and simply drag all the photos to the persons' Album. Or "Batch Change..." the Description again to automatically include the newly added photos to the Smart Album you created earlier.
In the end I have discovered that the Faces section of iPhoto is really more a "tool" for creating Albums, rather than a destination for viewing photos.
Hope this helps. Feel free to add any suggestions you have discovered for improving the face detection accuracy.
Cheers

Glenn Carter wrote:
h. If you do use the "Add Missing Face" button, then restrict the selection box to just around the eyebrows, nose and mouth. Avoid selecting the whole head since the face detection software concentrates on the features in the center of the face. No need to include the hair as it does not appear to be a factor.
Apparently you shouldn't worry too much about what you select for the face area when using "Add Missing Face"... From Apple's knowledgebase at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3427:
Note: Only faces that have been automatically detected in your photo library will help iPhoto match faces. Manually identified faces will not aid iPhoto's face-matching ability.
So, unless they later come out with an update that actually uses that data, any effort you make in selecting especially accurate face regions is going to waste. (Though I'll admit I'm still putting in the effort in the hope that the data will someday be used for something in a future version of iPhoto...)

Batch confirm Faces-- possible?

I'm finding "Faces" to be potentially very useful, but frustrating to implement because of the apparent necessity to click "Confirm" again and again with all of the instances of "Johnny Jones may also be in the photos below" where, yes, Johnny is the one pictured for the first 357 pictures, but then isn't consistently in many of those that follow.
It would be useful to at the least be able to select an entire row and say "Yes, this is Johnny" or "No, this isn't" ... I have no problem where a row is split doing them one-by-one, but this seems ideal for being able to do some selecting of a group of photos and then mass or batch processing the confirmation or denial.
Am I just missing something in front of my nose, or is this capability truly missing?

AS Kirby stated it is also documented in the manual.
• goto FACES corkboard
• select the FACES tab at bottom left (not photos)
• and click on the existing FACE you want to work on
• for this face, existing faces will come up and "these other faces"MAY" come up below this
1) Now click on 'confirm faces' at bottom of pane
2) use a marquee/selection/select/click or select with command() key those you want to confirm (or reject)
3) all faces go GREEN with confirm label
4) OR *hold the option key down* then then those you select will all go RED for reject.
5) or double click on each one to toggle CONFIRM (green) or REJECT (red) for each photo/face
6) when complete or as you like click on "Done" (bad English BTW) button on bottom corner RHS.
Also list will apear at bottom of this for other faces or UNNAMED faces.
AS Kirby stated if you cntl+click / RMB over one of these faces you have the option to state that the "face" is "*NOT A FACE*"
You just have to persevere with this as Aperture V3 seems to learn quite well about the faces.
FWIW I learned all this over the past few months organising 6900 photos from a wedding. Takes ages but is really worth it.
TIP: I have found if you go through and REJECT (red) the faces as NOT { a FACE of } xxxx then the Aperture will learn faster about a specific set of faces. Do this rather than SKIP or IGNORE the face.
hth

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