Right-click on any photo and select "Reset Faces"Īfter faces are reset, click the green "Back to View All" button in the green bar at the top of the thumbnail library. Select all photos by left-clicking any photo thumbnail in the library then press Ctrl + A on the keyboard (hold the Ctrl key and press the A key) Select the green album called "Search results for "-xyzzyz" (This displays all your photos) In the left panel, go to the "Albums" collection and scroll to the top. In other words, this will find all your photos. This text finds any photos that do not have "xyzzyx" in their tags or data. Go to the search bar at the top of Picasa and enter the string: -xyzzyz Make sure Face Detection is on for any other folders being watched by Picasa that have photos with faces. Make sure Face Detection is on for all of it's subfolders with photos.
Go to the top level Folder (usually My Pictures) and check that Face Detection is on. On the right side of the Folder Manager under "For the current folder" you'll see either "Face Detection On" and a green check mark, or "Face Detection Off" and a red circle with slash. Go to the Tools menu > Folder Manager and make sure face detection is ON for all folders you want to clean out.
"Store name tags in photo" is ON (check marked) "Enable face detection" is OFF (unchecked) Go to the Tools menu > Options, then Name Tags tab and verify that: Start Picasa and make sure it is done scanning for photos and folders.
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How to remove all face tags and People Albums including Unnamed and Ignored: This method removes the face tags from both Picasa and the photo metadata. If you don't want face tags in your Picasa photos, the following steps will remove all face tags and people. Just right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) the face you'd like to use and select Set as Album Thumbnail. There you can add a tag by clicking the " Add a person manually" button at the bottom of the panel.Ĭhange profile photos: You can change the photo displayed next to each album in the People collection. If a face ends up in the wrong people album, select the photo and click the Remove button at the top (or press the Delete key on your keyboard) to send it back to the "Unnamed People" album.Īdd name tags manually: If Picasa misses a face in your photo, when viewing a photo click the "Show/Hide People Panel" button ToggleĬlick at the top to see just the suggested faces.ĭon't worry if you make a mistake when adding name tags. If there are multiple suggestions, you can click Confirm all at the top of the album to mark all the suggestions as correct. If you see an orange question mark next to a people album, go to the album and confirm these suggestions.Ĭlick to keep the photo or to remove the photo from the album. Picasa uses the names you add to automatically add face suggestions to your albums. You can view the photos you've ignored at any time by clicking Show ignored faces at the top of the 'Unnamed People' album. Deleting an unnamed face or clicking the icon on a photo will place that photo in the 'Ignored' album.
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Over the thumbnail images of the People album, toggle the button to zoom in on faces or zoom back out to view the full photo.
Picasa will create an album for each person you tag in your 'People' collection.