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
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This one's confusing me a little. I'm trying to select a key photo for my album in iWeb, but it keeps defaulting to the first photo in the album. I would've thought it would be similar to selecting a key photo for an event in iPhoto (i.e. just scrolling to the desired photo and hitting the space bar), but no go. Just wondering if anybody has figured out how to do it. Thanks

I think the iWeb programmers thought we would be excited enough by the mouse over feature of the albums.
You could send them feedback suggesting this feature for a future update as others have asked the same question.
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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.
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Dear Common Wisdom:
I have created a web site of photo galleries with an index page at http://www.byzantineaegina.org
How can I choose a key photo to represent each gallery on the first page?
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have a look: http://temp.cyclosaurus.com/revolving/keyImageAlbums/keyImageAlbums.html
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I'm new to this version of iPhoto, so there must be a setting I have missed.
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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.

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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?

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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)
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