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Photo-shuffle
Sep. 13th, 2010 09:22 pmI spent the afternoon re-sorting all the unidentified faces in Picasa from one huge set (~2500 non-unique faces) to several smaller sets related to context like KAOS, SAGA, Family, (and one for the few years I attended Kapcon which has over 1000 unidentified faces all by itself. I remain puzzled by the way Picasa picks out faces from lower-resolution images far better than it does from high-resolution ones).
I also [Ignore]d quite a few which really didn't need to be there at all - passers-by and bystanders at stunts, etc.
This with actually appending names to the 900+ backlog of unnamed faces, as I haven't been keeping up. To be honest I remain pretty sure that it's wasted effort because of the data being stored in a central location external to the photos, and photos from about two years back get removed permanently to the external drive and out of Picasa just to keep the amount manageable.
If tomorrow is as quiet as today I may get around to installing and testing the latest version of Fotobounce - which has previously been far less useful for photo management than Picasa but can at least be set to store data files in the same directory as the photos.
Captions get stored internally in the meta-data in both cases. I think. This is a good thing and why I prioritise captioning over face-tagging. That and all the facial recognition applications I've tried are very hit and miss about picking faces in the first place, and manually adding them is too time consuming.
I also [Ignore]d quite a few which really didn't need to be there at all - passers-by and bystanders at stunts, etc.
This with actually appending names to the 900+ backlog of unnamed faces, as I haven't been keeping up. To be honest I remain pretty sure that it's wasted effort because of the data being stored in a central location external to the photos, and photos from about two years back get removed permanently to the external drive and out of Picasa just to keep the amount manageable.
If tomorrow is as quiet as today I may get around to installing and testing the latest version of Fotobounce - which has previously been far less useful for photo management than Picasa but can at least be set to store data files in the same directory as the photos.
Captions get stored internally in the meta-data in both cases. I think. This is a good thing and why I prioritise captioning over face-tagging. That and all the facial recognition applications I've tried are very hit and miss about picking faces in the first place, and manually adding them is too time consuming.
