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dreamsharkI'm trying to find a better way of posting photos online and decided to give Picasa a try, since I'm already in the Google-verse. I was really just looking for a free place to upload pictures so I could link to them from other places, but Picasa wanted me to download their photo-manager, so I did. I'm not sure, but I think the idea is that I can sort and label my pics on my desktop machine and then upload the whole album when I'm done with it. That sounds promising. I kinda hate working on things online through a browser - sooooo tedious.
I haven't gotten that far though. I started up Picasa and it asked if it could go looking for pictures on my puter, so I let it go find them all. Now I'm trying to figure out how I can access them through this new interface. I was actually looking for the view that would let me see my pictures in the hierarchical folders I have them stored in. Haven't found that yet. I tripped over the facial recognition feature and I'm stuck on that now.
I don't know about you, but the very concept of computerized facial recognition seems deeply creepy to me. I know it's coming and pretty soon no one will find it surprising when department store mannequins start greeting us by name, but I don't like it. On the other hand, refusing to use the feature to sort my photo collection won't make it go away, so... why not?
OMG, this is amazing! Picasa went through every one of my photos and pulled perfectly centered head shots out of every photo with faces. It wants me to start labeling them with names, so I label my mother's wedding picture. A bunch more pictures of my mother pop up, ages ranging from 1 - 86, and on EVERY SINGLE ONE, Picasa's first guess is right. I start labeling other family pictures, and pretty much the same thing happens. Occasionally Picasa mixes me up with my sister in childhood pictures. Oddly, it also mixes up my sister with one of my brothers (but never with the other two). This is odd because I never thought of the two of them as looking alike, but I guess they do. But for the most part, give it a couple of data points to work off and it's right almost every time. It's apparently learning as it goes, because when I confirm Picasa's guess on one picture, 3 or 4 more appear with the same label. How is it doing this?
I still haven't figured out how to do what I was originally trying to do - make an album of my trip to St. John, label and order the pictures, and post it online. Anybody have any quick tips?
Back to labeling faces!
I haven't gotten that far though. I started up Picasa and it asked if it could go looking for pictures on my puter, so I let it go find them all. Now I'm trying to figure out how I can access them through this new interface. I was actually looking for the view that would let me see my pictures in the hierarchical folders I have them stored in. Haven't found that yet. I tripped over the facial recognition feature and I'm stuck on that now.
I don't know about you, but the very concept of computerized facial recognition seems deeply creepy to me. I know it's coming and pretty soon no one will find it surprising when department store mannequins start greeting us by name, but I don't like it. On the other hand, refusing to use the feature to sort my photo collection won't make it go away, so... why not?
OMG, this is amazing! Picasa went through every one of my photos and pulled perfectly centered head shots out of every photo with faces. It wants me to start labeling them with names, so I label my mother's wedding picture. A bunch more pictures of my mother pop up, ages ranging from 1 - 86, and on EVERY SINGLE ONE, Picasa's first guess is right. I start labeling other family pictures, and pretty much the same thing happens. Occasionally Picasa mixes me up with my sister in childhood pictures. Oddly, it also mixes up my sister with one of my brothers (but never with the other two). This is odd because I never thought of the two of them as looking alike, but I guess they do. But for the most part, give it a couple of data points to work off and it's right almost every time. It's apparently learning as it goes, because when I confirm Picasa's guess on one picture, 3 or 4 more appear with the same label. How is it doing this?
I still haven't figured out how to do what I was originally trying to do - make an album of my trip to St. John, label and order the pictures, and post it online. Anybody have any quick tips?
Back to labeling faces!
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Date: 2012-11-04 06:50 am (UTC)Isn't the facial recognition stuff amazing. My small genealogy group was blown away. And for free!
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Date: 2012-11-04 07:50 pm (UTC)I have 4 sibs. The conventional wisdom in our family was that Brian and I look like my father's side of the family; Sandra, Ricky and Danny look like my mother's side. But the sibs that Picasa mixes up most often are: me/Sandra and Sandra/Brian.
I think that both of my kids resemble my husband's side of the family more than mine, but the relatives most often confused with my daughter are: me, my mother, and my mother's sister.