welcome back everyone my name is joel Feld and today's topic is going to look at people
in photos on your Mac alright so let's go ahead and dive into photos now when we go into photos
you have a people category under the library on the left hand side and if we click on that it's
going to show you all of the people are all of the photos based off of a particular person now some
things to note whenever you're adding pictures into photos photos has to actually analyze every
single photo that you bring in to it and with people it's actually taking each picture and
saying ok there's a person in here I'll put it in this pile oh there's no person in this and
then this photograph I'll put it over here so it has to go one-by-one through every single photo
and either throw it in the pile with people or throw it in the pile with no people and that
can take some time depending on how many photos you have when you first open or go to people if
you never identified any person in any of your photos there will be a button that just says you
know click to find people and it's gonna take you to your photos and you'll click on their face and
you'll and you'll type in their name and I'll show you that here in a second but if we look at this I
have mine set up a little bit already and notice I have these people in the column albums so they're
people oblems and you can favorite people so that they move up to the top and that's represented
by the hearts here and then you can also add other people down here to your whole library
and they'll show up in your people album also now notice down here I've added photos over the past
couple nights so notice it says updating people people will finish updating when photos and it's
in the background so again it takes some time for it to go through and analyze the photos so that
it can tell you if there's a person in there and automatically recognize that so over here on the
left hand side in my albums we'll just take we'll take Ashley for example if I go ahead and double
click on her photo notice it pops up with as soon as I hover my cursor on top of her face it pops up
with the circle and it says unnamed now if I click in here I can start to type her name and when I do
that notice how it automatically populates because it's actually referencing the people that are in
my contacts book which is kind of nice so I can click on here and now I've added her name so if
I go back to people she will show up now in here now if I double click on Ashley notice there's
not a lot of other photos because I need to kind of have a base ground of here are 20 photos of
Ashley and then photos will start to pick up and and recognize that name to that face a little bit
better so I always recommend go in and manually name like 10 15 20 photos and so photos will start
to generate a better a better representation of who that person is so if I go back to that album
here we'll go back in double click on a photo I'll start to type Ashley and I'll just go to
the next photo here Ashley and thanks Ashley for letting me use your photos appreciate it
all right so I've identified a handful of photos let's go back to people and see if anything has
changed so notice here the screen looks a little bit different and it now has all of those photos
that I've identified this her it's got a few more options down here below confirm additional
favorite or photos favorite this person removed from people album add to memories and then also in
the top right there's a photos and a faces button and notice when I click between photos and faces
it's just how you're viewing the pictures here so for example you could have a group of a group
picture of 10 people that Ashley is in well if I have it selected two photos you're gonna see that
whole entire picture with all those people because she's in that photo but if I click on faces it's
gonna zoom in directly to her because it's her face a better representation or a better example
of that is if I go to one of the existing ones let's just take Bennett for example if I scroll
down notice I have it set to photos so here we can see my brothers in the picture his other brother
a whole family photo here but if I click on faces it's actually gonna zoom in directly to who photos
thinks or who I've identified as that particular photo so it's just zooming in so that you can
quickly see their face it's not really altering anything but your view so let's go back we'll
go back to Ashley and move on with the example so here now that I've identified a handful of photos
that are actually heard it gives us this option to confirm additional photos so if I click on
this it's gonna say ok there doesn't appear to be in the additional because it's still analyzing in
the background and that's okay so if I click done here what I want to do is just go back and start
adding a few more names and as I do that photos will get smarter and smarter and eventually have
more suggestions in there now what's gonna happen is it's gonna take a moment for again for people
to update now that we've given those names photos has to go back and reanalyze and put that name to
those that picture so let's go back to Bennett for example because notice up here at the top
it says hey there are additional photos to review so every time you're adding more photos you know
photos is analyzing the people so I can say ok and let's click on review and we'll go through here
and it's pretty much saying are these pictures this person and I can say yes yes they are and
choose done and now it's gonna add those photos to this this people album now if I also go way
back down to the bottom if I click on confirm additional photos it's going to go through and
pull up a phone or pull up a photo and ask me is this this person yes or no and this is where
you can say yes you can just click through it and say yep that's him yes that's him yes and you're
just going through and building this catalog and really specifying who these pictures and
people are so it's it's kind of time-consuming but in the end it's really a nice way to quickly
find photos based off of a particular person now depending on how many photos you have we could be
sitting here forever and clicking and clicking and clicking so I'm just gonna go ahead now and
click done and in the top right and now all of those photos are here for Bennett now what's
really neat is it's when I'm in here I can click on show more because right now it's only giving
me a summary of the the photos that he's in if I click on show more now it's showing me every
single photo that I've identified and we could be scrolling and scrolling and scrolling because
I got a lot of pictures but if I go back and do show summary now it is limiting just the some of
the recent photos there and it gives me other choices down here below it you know groups of
people so this is kind of automatically showing me these are all people that in some way shape
or form have shown up in some of these pictures with Bennett so that's why a lot of these people
are in there because you in a lot of pictures with other people as well underneath that it also shows
it links with places so it shows on the map where his pictures are that are associated with him and
then it also relates to or has the the related memories which is kind of fun where it's gonna
show all the pictures with that now it says Hudson's home because it pulls the address from
the contacts and I think I have my home address and Hudson's contact maybe not Bennett's but if
I click on here it's still gonna show that Bennett is a part of these photos and as we can see it's
pulling up all of the pictures with him there so let's go back to people now let's say I want to
add someone as a favorites so I can just click on this little heart down here and it's gonna
automatically push Ashlee up to that favorite let's say I don't want to add her or I don't
want her out all there if I right-click on there I can say unfavorite this person and it's gonna go
back down to the bottom or I can even say right click and say remove this person and it's gonna
take that person out of this photos out of the people album altogether now there's a couple
other ways to manually add photos or people to a face you know a lot of these pictures they have a
you know the picture is straight onto the camera we see a nice picture of their face so photos is
able to recognize that particular picture but what if you have a photo where you know it's
kind of a side or off to the side and you still want to identify that person in that photo but
photos isn't recognizing that particular person so let's find an example I'm going to photos here
No so here even even though the phone is blocking the face it still recognizes and
that's a person and puts face there but that's not a good example because I want
to find one where it doesn't show the face um let's scroll through here again it's gonna show
all these people and notice here unnamed so we can add people as we go along there you go
so it sees that face it sees this face photos does a really good job of identifying people
all right let's use the dog as an example so let's say that this is a person we want to identify them
so notice it's not popping up with the circle and the unnamed because it's hanging well it's not a
person so if we click the little eye the info tab that brings up the information about every single
photo and within here there's a category that says add faces if I click on this plus sign it
now gives me a circle that I can move around I'll move this off to the side I can move the circle
around I can expand the circle so I can position it around the face and then I can click inside
here and type in cocoa so now I've identified that person in that photo that wasn't previously there
because photos didn't recognize it and then if I go back to people cocoa will now be there now it's
not gonna analyze animals it's not gonna analyze pets all about people but I wanted to give you a
good example of how to manually add someone under people if photos does not recognize it so that is
people inside the photos of really really cool it's a really nice way to look at your pictures
not based off of time or location but just about the important people in your life so I hope you
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