In all you may have devoted a lot of time in manually including People Tags in your photo collection, so here are some ways to ensure that effort has effort was not in vain. I will try to highlight some these options with this post. There are various options to storing People/Face information, either by storing within the file metadata or in an external file or database. The People Tags schema never gained much support with other photo organizing apps as many opted to use the more industry accepted Metadata Working Group Face Regions schema, which interestingly Microsoft worked on as well, but never embraced it in Windows. Microsoft’s People Tags can be read by Windows Explorer and some third party applications such as Google’s Picasa, Digikam, Photo Supreme, Photo Station, GeoSetter. Sadly, this particular functionality was shut down when Facebook decided to pull the plug on Facebook Connect. Quite useful for class reunions or large family gatherings and you wanted others to do the heavy lifting of identifying people in photos. In a way, you could leverage Facebook to crowd source your people tagging efforts.

If any of the faces in the uploaded photos were tagged in Facebook by you or others, it would be then also tagged back to the original photo on your PC via Windows Photo Gallery. Windows Photo Gallery would maintain a link from the photos on your PC to the copy in Facebook. This is a plus for archivists which would like to preserve this information within the file, but also comes with certain privacy issues.Īn amazing additional feature is that you could optionally connect your Facebook account to Windows Photo Gallery and upload photos to that social networking service from the app.

This means that the Face recognition information was saved within file instead of being kept seperate in the app’s database. The face information would be saved back to the file as XMP metadata using the Microsoft People Tags Schema. Windows Photo Gallery would detect and recognize faces which you could then tag with the names of your contacts. Some time ago, Windows Photo Gallery introduced a nifty face recognition feature dubbed People Tags.

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