Operation Manual

You can have Aperture quickly identify the people in your images using its face detection
and face recognition technology, called Faces.
This chapter covers the following:
• An Overview of Faces (p. 343)
• Adding Names to Faces in Your Images (p. 347)
• Viewing Images in Faces View (p. 349)
• Searching for Images by Face (p. 352)
• Creating Smart Albums with Images of People (p. 353)
An Overview of Faces
As image libraries grow, it can be difficult to locate every image with a specific person in
it. Rather than painstakingly comb through your entire image library, adding keywords
to each image in order to identify all the people in it, you can use the Aperture face
detection and face recognition technology, called Faces, to help automate this process.
When you upgraded to Aperture 3, Aperture identified all the images in your library
containing faces. This process also occurs when you import images into Aperture 3. To
begin the process of having Aperture identify the people in your images, you select an
image with a face in it and click the Name button to assign a name to the subject in the
image.
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Organizing Images with Faces
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