akweteco01: Quickly tag faces in iPhoto

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Quickly tag faces in iPhoto

I love the Faces part of iPhoto but I got tired of clicking 'Accept' on the hundreds of photos it found for each person in my family.

Because the face recognition is pretty accurate, there are usually pages and pages of photos to 'Accept.' Instead of clicking each one, click in an empty space near the corner of the Confirm Faces page and drag select to mark 'Accept' on all of them.

Now, it's easier to fix the mistakes that iPhoto made; all you have to do is click the image thumbnails once to change 'Accept' to 'Reject.' It's much faster to do it this way because the face recognition system makes so few mistakes.

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. It's an annoying thing in iPhoto that 'Select All' from the Edit Menu doesn't do the same thing as drag selecting in this process.]