Click Me!
I’ve downloaded the 500+ images I took over the weekend into Picasa, and I’ve started to go through them all, separating the wheat from the chaff.
But I’ve also encountered a problem.
Recently Google updated the Picasa desktop software. Among other things, this update included a feature that had been added to the web albums hosted by Google, but had been left out of the desktop software application.
Facial recognition. Picasa now allows you to identify the people in pictures. Furthermore, once you’ve added a few new people from the pictures, the software will attempt to guess where those people are showing up in your collection. And it gets better the more pictures of a person you add.
On its initial scan, Picasa found over 10,000 faces in my picture collection.
I’m now addicted to refining its search procedures And I’ve found that I myself have become rather good at identifying people. I can spot my daughter from clips of pictures that feature only her eyes or the curve of her cheek.
It’s actually hard to concentrate on other things…
Like uploading pictures.
