The facial recognition feature within Lightroom’s Library module enables you to organise your photos by person, and keep track of family, friends and clients. It works by detecting faces in a group of images, then allows you to tag them with the person’s name. The clever part is, as you add more names, the feature gets smarter, seeking out similar faces and suggesting names for you. So it takes less time than you’d think to tag faces in a large collection of images. As such, it’s a handy feature for organising family photos, snapshots, weddings and the like.
Once a face is tagged, it appears in a list of named people, so that you can quickly find images featuring that person whenever you like. The tag is stored in the…