PSE8: Find people doesn't work

Hi,
I imported all my pictures in a catalog and then selected "Find->Find People for Tagging"
It worked out a bit and then opened the People Recognition window.
Problem is that what I understood from the help file, it's supposed to show only pictures
with people on them, isn't it?
The resulting window starts at the very first picture of my +10,000 ones and wants me
to browse through them one by one even when they don't have any people (landscape
etc...)
Isn't there a way to tell PSE8 to display only the ones recognized for people tagging?
Those landscape pictures PSE8 wants me to go through do not display any selections
to be recognized by a "Who is this?" or whatever. It looks like for a strange reason
it shows ALL pictures... I don't want to flip through all of them.
Thanks for any help.

Yes, that can be annoying -- overall, the Find People For Tagging command isn't very well designed or implemented.
But the core problem is that face tagging isn't perfect, and it can often miss people entirely, especially if they're not facing the camera, in shade, too small, etc. In those cases, most people would want the chance to click the Add Missing Person button to identify and tag the face. Once you've tagged enough instances of a given person (perhaps 6 or more), you can hit the Name More People button, which will let you review much more quickly the faces that PSE has identified.
Another suggestion: View your thumbnails at a small size and select just those (using control-click) before invoking Find People For Tagging.
In general, I've never found face identification or tagging worthwhile, because I want a high degree of accurracy. After finishing with the automatic tagging, I still have to go back to review all the pics to ensure that PSE hasn't missed any. It's faster simply to tag them the manual way from the Organizer.

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