Because Lightroom doesn’t do faces, the recognised best outcome that could be achieved was that the face names would be imported as keywords, adding them if necessary, and that the rectangle information and association between the face and that area would be preserved. This post describes my evaluation of alternatives to get Lightroom to make use of all that hard work done in tagging faces. I would be pleased to re-evaluate and modify procedures and applications to finally migrate everything into one schema! Evaluating Alternatives
Perhaps Lightroom 6 will have face recognition? (Are you listening Adobe? Even a cursory review of various forums reveals a significant user base that wants this feature, although to be sure there are also many who would not find it useful.) If so this might all become redundant.
ADDING FACES FROM PICASA 3.9 TO CONTACTS PORTABLE
The face metadata therefore is not portable should the image file be moved (outside of Picasa), uploaded to the web (except to Picasa Web Albums) or emailed to someone else, which undoes all the work done in recording the faces. Picasa does a very good job of that, but by default doesn’t save the face rectangles or names to the image file itself, rather it uses a proprietary database and folder-based text files (picasa.ini) to store the data. As at version 5 however, it doesn’t provide face recognition, which I want.
Adobe Lightroom is my image processing and asset management application of choice.
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