Picasa seems to 'see' old face tags that I had ammended (originally labelled tag as '''Ally" but then changed to "Alexandra"). Not smart enough to run exiftool to see what's wrong. It's as if there's something about these particular photos that doesn't let this happen. Deleting and redoing face tags doesn't work.
Have done this via Dropbox and opened in another copy of LR. People keywords all present but in some photos, the squares assigned to them not there. All data good but faces randomly do and don't appear.
Save to XMP checked and have also manual saved (Ctrl +S).Įssentially I wanted to check that all my metadata was saved so copy and pasted photos to new folder in file explorer (not LR) and added new folder to LR.
First run using auto face detection and then manually add those missed out. Hi.long shot but I think my problem relates to this thread. The core issue here is that LR and Picasa use the metadata fields in different ways to represent faces and people, and the MWG standard doesn't have anything to say about that (unfortunately). This behavior is entirely consistent with the MWG standard, but it clearly isn't desirable for people trying to import Picasa photos, since Picasa doesn't put the face names into XMP:Subject or IPTC:Keywords. When LR encounters a keyword in the XMP:Subject or IPTC:Keywords fields in an imported photo, it assigns that keyword to the photo. When LR encounters a Metadata Working Group region with a face name, it creates the face rectangle in the LR catalog and a keyword for the face name, associated with that face rectangle. To be consistent with your explanation, it seems like Lr should not create a keyword at all. It would be straightforward to implement: LR is already creating the keyword for an imported face name, and it would be simple to also assign that keyword to the photo, regardless of whether the keyword appears in the XMP:Subject or IPTC:Keywords fields. You might wish to add your me-too vote and detailed opinion to this existing feature request in the official Adobe feedback forum: Lightroom feature request - Import Picasa face recognition data | Photoshop Family Customer Communit. What you and the others have requested - for LR to be able to read Picasa's face metadata - is an entirely reasonable feature request. Seems like they went halfway which is causing this confusion. create the keyword AND associate it with the photo. IMO, Lr should either not create a keyword at all, or. However I would prefer it create the keyword AND associate it to the photo If Picasa didn't record a keyword for that person, then why does Lr create a keyword for that person? As shown in the screenshot above, Lr created a Person Keyword for Nicoletta Stanescu, but didn't associate the keyword to the photo from which it got the metadata for the keyword.
I don't see anything in the MWG Guidance that prefers the behavior of one program over the other in this situation. But because Picasa didn't also record a keyword for that person, LR didn't attach any keyword to the photo on import. When LR imports a Picasa photo, it correctly imports the region and the name attached to the region. The core issue is that LR represents named faces using both MWG regions and keywords, whereas Picasa apparently just uses MWG regions.