Selecting Key Photo in Faces

Is there a way to make a photo a key photo in Faces similar to the way you can make a key photo in events? For some of the people in faces, the pictures appearing are years old, even baby pictures.

Yes, and pretty much the same way. Move your mouse across the Face icon to scrub through the pics and when you see one you want then right click and choose 'Make key Photo'.
Regards
TD

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Setting 'key photo' for Faces?

On an iPhoto event, you can select one photo and set it as a 'key photo'.
Can the same be done with Faces? How?
Dave

in faces view skim across the person you want until you see the photo you want for a key photo and hit the space bar to set it (this works for events too)
You really should take 2 1/2 minutes to watch the iPhoto tutorial - http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/#faces
LN

Change Key Photo on Faces?

How can I change the Key Picture on a person in Faces? It is possible in Events to change the Key Picture but not in Faces - why isn't this possible or will it be in the future?

Joe
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scroll across the Faces in the cork board display until you see the one you want and hit the space bar (just like in events) or display all the faces and right click (control click) on the one you want and select "make key photo" from the contextual menu (just like events)
LN

Select key photo for iOS albums synced with iPhoto on Mac

In iOS 7, if a user was syncing photos from iPhoto on a Mac to an iOS device, it was possible to choose what key photo would be displayed for each synced album in the Photos app on the iOS device. In iOS 8, this seems to have been removed, and when syncing, a random photo is now selected for each album instead, which doesn't seem possible to change.
Has anyone been able to find a solution/workaround to this?
I'm guessing/hoping control will be restored to the user when the new Photos app is released for Mac OS X Yosemite, but any feedback will be useful.
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Same issue. Ever since upgrading to iPhoto on my retina MBP to 9.4.2. Problem seen with BOTH my iPhone 5 on iOS 6.0.1 AND iPhone 4S on 5.1.1, so not an iOS issue. For me, it impacts both albums and events. In fact, sometimes you can't even see the event under iTunes->device->photo tab, until you exit iPhoto & iTunes and restart both with phone plugged in. There is a workaround for the album's mis-order: by manually sorting photos through dragging a photo to a new location within the album and then placing it back. However, this doesn't work for mis-ordered photos under events. Right now, I just have to live with it.... I have even tried removing all photos, deleting iPod photo cache, and starting anew. Even 1 event with 30 photos have the same problem.....
Really annoying as I like to see my event photos sorted by date.
Somehow, such syncing problems always seem to occur EVERYTIME there's an iPhoto upgrade. Are apple's departments so siloed? Do they not work with one another to test a software before releasing it?
Apple, please investigate and fix the issue ASAP!

How can I more easily set the Key Photo for a face?

I know I can scrub across the face on the cork board to select, but this is completely unusable if you have more than 20 or 30 photos. By way of example: I have 1,700 photos of a person going back more than ten years. I want to choose a recent photo as the key. The order of the photos when you scrub is totally different than the order when you open the face. I can't right click -> set key photo or Photos -> Set Key Photo when I'm looking at the individual photos of that person.
Is scrub-and-select really the only way to do this? I know iPhoto lets you right-click -> set key photo after opening a specific face.

I'm replying only in case no-one else does. To the best of my knowledge, as you have found, the only way to select the face shown on the corkboard in Faces view is via the "skim-and-spacebar" method.
(Well, there is a second identical way: click the info button ("i") and skim-and-click.)
There is no parallel in Faces to the "Set key photo" command available for Projects.
Fwiw, the User Manual refers to the Faces key photo as the "Snapshot".
Feedback might be worthwhile: "Aperture→Provide Aperture Feedback".

When syncing faces: names do not appear and key photo is distorted on iPad

I'm syncing from Aperture 3.0.3 to an iPad. I select a number of projects to sync, and some faces.
Most faces appear fine. However, there are a handful of faces with distorted key photos / thumbnails, and no name appears below them. Each key photo contains photos from an individual I selected, and appears in the correct alphabetical order, it just does not have the name.
With the exception of one face, these photos are of friends, of which I have not selected projects above. So I'm certain this is an issue where the iPad or iTunes has grabbed all photos for that person, and few if any of these photos are in the projects I selected above.
The other face that is distorted is my newborn daughter! I definitely have several albums selected with her in them.
Any ideas?

I had something similar happen, albeit with a few differences. I'm syncing from iPhoto and I discovered that when viewing the list of faces one of the names was missing. All of the photos were there and the group was in the correct alphabetical order, but the name was missing.
I tried a bunch of things. I removed all photos from the iPad and resynced-- no joy. I renamed the face in iPhoto and resynced-- no joy.
Here is what did finally work for me, although it is such a kludge I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work for everyone. First I went to the Photos tab in iTunes switched from 'All photos..' to 'selected..'. Then I unselected all albums, all events, and all faces except for the checkbox next to the name that was "missing" from the iPad's faces label for that person. I allowed it to sync, removing all of the photos except for the faces for that person. To my surprise, it was now properly named on the iPad.
Then I went back to iTunes, switched back to 'all photos..', synced again, and the face label was still present.

The problem is with the new operating system and sending photo via email when used in my iPad. From photo I selected 3 photos to send via email. I choose the upload key and choose to send by email. Typing text on the email is very slow.

The problem is with the new operating system and sending photo via email when used in my iPad.
From photo I selected 3 photos to send via email. I choose the upload key and choose to send by email. Typing text on the email is very slow. This is solved by saving the email as a draft and opening the email again from mail.
Can you amend he system to allow emails to be sent from photo as previously.

Have you tried restarting or resetting your iPad?
Restart: Press On/Off button until the Slide to Power Off slider appears, select Slide to Power Off and, after the iPad shuts down, then press the On/Off button until the Apple logo appears.
Reset: Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time and hold them until the Apple logo appears (about 10 seconds). Ignore the "Slide to power off"

Is there a way to change the key photo on iPhoto Faces?

Hi
The picture on the corkboard for each person appears to be the first photo you identify for that person.
Is there any way to change the key photo, like you can do with Events?
Thanks
Dave

Thanks very much!
I hadn't realised you can do that on Events, I have always right clicked on it and brought up the option to Change key Photo. That doesn't work the same way n Faces, so thanks for the Space Bar trick.
All the best
Dave

IOS6 Faces Key Photo Issue. Key Photos not working

Hi, I recently bought a new iPhone 5 and when I did my update and went to Photos/Faces/ I noticed that my Key Photos for my Faces were not showing and it chose random images. This used to work with iOS6 and my iPhone 4. Please provide a timeframe for when this issue will be fixed. Thanks.

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Control key not working when selecting multiple photos for email

Okay, I can't seem to send more than one photo through email no matter how I try to "select them." I am able to select the photos from the photo library. I see the little scrolling screen at the top of the page and then use the control key to select the photos which appear in the larger screen beneath. The problem is, is that I can't send all of the pictures through email, it thinks I am only trying to send one. When I look at the big screen with the pictures I have selected it looks like only one is highlighted and no matter what I try (the control key, shift key) it won't select them, it pops up with an picture editing function. Is my iphoto screwed up? Help!

Okay, I tried both. I clicked <done> at the bottom of the screen and the scroll bar at the top disappeared and then I just see one large photo. The only thing that happens when I double click on the large photo is that it comes back to the scroll bar at the top again, or vice versa. Does that make sense? I'm seriously wondering if my software is screwed up. My husband finally was able to send multiple pictures via email by creating a slideshow and selecting the pictures that way. (iphoto help says you are not able to select pictures to send through email through a slide show....go figure.) I still need to get out of this mode and don't know what to do! Any other suggestions?

Faces and Address Book - can you sync key photos?

I really liked it how the new iPhoto uses address book to get the details of people when you identified them with faces. I thought it would be really useful if Address Book could sync the identified contacts with the 'key photos' used in iPhoto, but annoyingly this does not seem to be possible, unless you manually drag and drop each image you want into each individual card.
Does anyone know if there an easy way of doing this - or - have Apple uncharacteristically overlooked an opportunity for cross-application information sharing?
Thanks,
Madsen

Madsen
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This is not currently a feature of iPhoto - request from Apple -- iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
Since this is version one of faces I would expect to see additional functionality in future versions - the address book feed to faces was added in update 2 I believe it was
LN

Unable to choose "Selected albums, events and faces..." when Syncing photo

I am unable to choose "Selected albums, events and faces ..." from the Photos tab when syncing my iPhone. There are several albums set up in my iPhoto but the only choice I am allowed to make is "All photos, albums and faces". The other choice is grayed out.
My iPhoto version is 8.1.1 and my iTunes version is 9.0.2 and OSX is 10.6.2.
Does anyone have any ideas why this would be happening?
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Hello - I had the exact same problem that you had. Looking through various discussion sites, the problem seems to be in the Albumdata.xml file in my iPhoto Library. (Visible through Pictures/iPhoto_LIbrary then by selecting "show package contents" through the right click.) When that file is corrupted, iTunes is unable to see albums, events, etc.
I'm guessing that the song for one of my slideshows in iPhoto had a song that had an "&" in it, because when I deleted the slideshow, the problem was solved. This also happened with another user in another discussion forum that I looked through - in his case, he just changed the song. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=355813) Hope this helps.

I use iPhoto and want to know how to get the 'key photo' i select on my MacBook Pro to be the one that gets used on my iPhone when i sync them. Any ideas? also, i want the events to appear in the order i choose on my MacBook too

I use iPhoto and want to know how to get the 'key photo' i select on my McBook Pro to be the same one that gets used on my iPhone 5s when i sync. i also want the events to appear on the iPhone in the same order i have them on my macbook. any ideas there too?

Killerfinch wrote:
My new yahoo account nestles comfortably in iCloud on the mine iPad.
No, your Yahoo account is not in iCloud (which only handles iCloud mail), it is in Yahoo, and the Yahoo mail account is on your iPad.
But the MacBook Pro will have none of it! I write this question now as I fear that I will be totally demented very soon and unable to formulate my thoughts clearly!
Get the correct settings for your account from Yahoo and set it up manually.
By the way, I also find the "password" issue problematical. It seems Apple want my Apple password rather than my eMail password. All very confusing.
That would depend on what you are trying to do.

Contact photos from faces?

Hi,
When i try to import faces from the Photos.app into my contacts, i am presented with an old message that tells me to manage the faces in my iPhoto or Aperture - but there is no way to directly select a face.
This wouldn't be so dramatic, because i could select a photo in Photos.app and drag it into the contacts. However, even this isn't possible.
The only way to import a face into Contacts from Photos.app seems to be to drag the Photo containing the face on the desktop (or export it), and then drag the exported photo into the contacts. Ugh! Now that's really annoying.
From an end-user perspective i'd expect that either Photos.app automatically assigns the key photo for the face to contacts - or that i could select one of the faces from Photos.app out of the Contacts.app
Anyone has an answer to this problem? Or a valid workaround?

Leave the contact name open.
A bad typo - sorry! I meant to write "Leave the contact Face open." Just create the card and put not yet a faces picture into the faces well on the card.
I always select this suggestion - assuming what you said, that Photos.app assigns this stack of photos to this special contact. And some of my contacts are assigned correctly, but some are not.
Do you have duplicate contact cards? Do you see sometimes the correct name twice in the drop-down list, when you assign a Faces name? If you are seeing the name twice in the suggestions, it means, that you have either two contact cards or have labelled a face manually, not based on the suggestion from the card.

Iphoto - key photo won't set for an event on my iPad

I have placed my photos into "Events". I have assigned a "key photo" to my events. For some reason some key photos will show up as the key photo in iPhoto but when I sync with iTunes the key photo isn't the one I assigned or want on my iPad. First I rebooted my Mac and my iPad and I even changed almost all the key photos successfully but a select few refuse to change on my iPad after being synced.
The key photo for one of the events WAS NEVER set as a key photo.
Very frustrated with my Mac products lately.
Thank you,
Terry
IOS 10.9.3
iTunes 11.2.1
iPhoto 9.5.1
iPad Air 7.1.1

One for the iPad forum, I think. iPhoto for Mac has no control over what happens on the iPad.

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