Turning the other cheek on Aperture’s Faces

At this point, I’ve lost track of how many hours I’ve spent trying to get the face recognition built into Aperture 3 to work.  I realized something today, that the software has not asked in days if it had correctly identified a person.  Sure, it went and found a bunch of faces and although I’ve now tagged thousands and thousands of pictures, it doesn’t seem to have any functionality to actually learn what those people look like.

Let me say without reservations that I fully regret investing time and money in this software.

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Aperture 3 – Adventures in Faces

After a few days of struggling with Aperture 3, I’ve come to discover some more of the quirks in the program.  For me, one of the most vexing quriks is the general functionality of the “Faces” feature.

For those who haven’t tried out a demo or used iPhoto ’09 or Google’s Picasa, “Faces” is a facial recognition feature designed to find and identify all the people in your photographs.  The idea is that Ap3 will search your shots and find faces first, then ask you to identify the faces it has found.  After a face has been identified enough times, Ap3 will start to identify a given person in all your pictures and ask you for confirmation.

At least…that’s the way it’s supposed to work. 

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