Introduction

The Facetags plugin is a useful tool for group photos, especially for preserving a version of a photo with names for archival purposes. It places a label with the person’s name on each face.

The plugin runs on Adobe Photoshop and can take the Person rectangles metadata in the photo file generated by several programs, including Lightroom Classic.

Facetags has adjustments for the text color and a background border color drawn around the label. Also, there are sliders for moving the text up and down and changing the font size. There can be a layer for each person, or the layers can be all merged into one FaceTags layer.

The typical workflow is to find and annotate the people in Lightroom Classic, then run this plugin on the photo in Photoshop.

Getting Started

Download the .ccx file. Double click on it or open it to install it in Photoshop. The help button in the FaceTags plugin has instructions.

Source Code

https://github.com/rrlyman/FaceTags

Compatibility

Since Photoshop 25.0.0.

Metadata Suggestions

by richard lyman | February 22, 2024 | FaceTags Help | 0 Comments

There are two kinds of keywords in Lightroom Classic. These are People keywords and Things keywords. When a the face of a person is detected in Lightroom Classic, the program will draw a rectangle around the face and will put a question mark in the name field. The...

GIFs, Little Slide Shows

by richard lyman | December 7, 2023 | FaceTags Help | 0 Comments

GIF (Graphical Interchange Format) files are small slideshows that cycle through the frames showing one photo after another. The GIF maker in this program goes through all your photos, finding all those people who have been identified, then it constructs GIFs...

fileNames-labeled

by rrlyman_wolcyz | November 16, 2023 | FaceTags Help | 0 Comments

The directory tree built to hold the face labeled files is similar to the master photo directory tree except that "-labeled" has been added to all the file names of the labeled versions of the photos. This was done because it was too confusing to have files with the...

Folders Button

by rrlyman_wolcyz | October 30, 2023 | FaceTags Help | 0 Comments

The Folders button brings up a Dialog box for selecting the top level folder of your photo tree. It will then create a duplicate tree under the parent. For instance in the the UHS Smugmug folder tree was duplicated under the FaceTaggedPhotos_1 tree. When running the...

Portrait Mode

by rrlyman_wolcyz | October 29, 2023 | FaceTags Help | 0 Comments

The Portrait Mode makes a new photo that is twice as high as the original. The labels for each person are on the bottom half of the portrait. When the Portrait mode check box button is pressed, then the plugin immediately changes to a portrait representation.

Examples

by rrlyman_wolcyz | October 25, 2023 | FaceTags Help | 0 Comments

FaceTags Plugin for PhotoShop

by rrlyman_wolcyz | October 23, 2023 | FaceTags Help | 0 Comments

This is an example of a FaceTag labelled photo. The individuals were annotated in Lightroom Classic and then the Photoshop 2024 was run with the FaceTags Plugin