Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Using Faces
Faces is designed to make it easy for you to assign names to people in your photos and then to
find photos of each person with a minimum of fuss. If you take advantage of Faces, years from now
you'll be able to look at these photos and still know who's who. When you assign a name (or place)
to a photo, Aperture automatically adds it to the keywords that are exported. If you've ever looked
at old photos and wondered who you were looking at, it's easy to see why this feature is a huge
advantage. In this section, we cover enabling Faces, using the interface, searching for photos of
certain people, and changing names.
Enabling Faces
Aperture is set to scan every photo that you import as well as every image in your library if you
update a library from an earlier version of Aperture for any and all potential faces. This is because
the preference to enable faces is selected by default. This search runs in the background but may
slow some operations such as the initial import as well as the processing for extensive
adjustments.
If you don't need to identify the people in your photos, or want to speed up your import or adjust-
ments, you can turn off Faces. Your downloads will be faster, and you can turn on Faces whenever
you want to use it. To turn off Faces (or to turn it back on) follow these steps:
1.
Choose Aperture
➪
Preferences.
The Preferences dialog opens.
2.
Click the General tab and select or deselect the Enable Faces check box.
3.
Click the Appearance tab and select or deselect the Show corkboard background
for Faces check box as desired.
This is completely a matter of personal preference, but
we like the corkboard because it makes it obvious that we're in the Faces view.
4.
Close the Preferences dialog.
If you enable Faces after a period of having it disabled, Aperture automatically scans
all your projects looking for faces. This occurs as a background task with minimal
interruption to your activities unless you're trying to make image adjustments at the
same time.
Caution
