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Aperture 3 now includes face recognition technology like its younger sibling iPhoto and many photographers who use face recognition still don’t need to identify every face in an album. Fortunately Aperture 3 lets you skip a face easily while in Faces mode. Simply mouse-over the face on the row of faces at the bottom and ... read more
In the Confirm Faces mode of the Faces feature in Aperture 3 the program presents all the faces it thinks are the same person and allows you to accept or reject the tagging in order to help improve the face recognition. To confirm a face simply Click on an image, to reject a face Double-Click ... read more
I’ve just been tagging images from a recent shoot with photographer Jim Richardson. I’ve tagged jim a few times from standard and from three-quarters portraits, but I’m totally blown away that Faces realized that this shot is of Jim. Maybe the feature should change its name to Faces, Ears and Fedoras.read more
I’m pretty fascinated with the way that Faces works. The fact that a piece of software can look at the shading and texture in an image and figure out who a person is just sort of blows my mind. I’m also interested in what the program sees as being a face when it’s not technically ... read more
Here’s what he says, "…Tagging a batch of photos in the facebook UI is an arduous web based process when you’re uploading more than 20 photos. Fortunately, Aperture 3 lets you assign a “facebook id” for each face, so that you can post an album from aperture straight into facebook with “face” tags in tact. ... read more
While tagging people in my Faces database today in Aperture 3 I noticed that TV’s Neil Patrick Harris was staring at me. How exactly did NPH end up there?He’s On a BikeFaces pulled Doogie Howser/Barney/Dr. Terrible off of a photo of him that one of my friends at Specialized bikes put on the front ... read more
If you want to move quickly between faces while tagging people in Faces mode, there’s a quick shortcut key that’ll make the process faster.Start FacesThe first step is to bring up the Faces mode by clicking the Faces button on the toolbar.Press ReturnEach time you name someone in Faces (and keep in mind ... read more
Aperture 3 provides built-in facial recognition akin to the tools in iPhoto (only more effective), however this feature can be disabled if you prefer to do this manually, or not have facial recognition active. Personally I love it, it can even pick people’s faces out of crowds in sporting events, but for someone who shoots ... read more
In a slightly-surprising feature in Aperture, the Faces tool can search for matching Faces based on MobileMe albums. That means that Faces can detect names from Faces that aren’t even loaded on your machine.Find Some FacesAll three of these people’s pictures live only inside a MobileMe gallery, yet I could tag them.Getting InfoThe ... read more
Two of the new big features in Aperture 3 are the Faces and Places features. While these evolved from the versions in iPhoto, they’re really welcome additions to Aperture. A commenter on one of our articles referred to them as being "gimmicks," and that just struck me as incredibly shortsighted. That, of course, is likely ... read more
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