{"id":727,"date":"2008-09-03T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2008-09-04T06:22:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:22:47","slug":"picasa-name-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/09\/03\/picasa-name-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasa Name Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google continues to crank out innovative features in their products.\u00a0 Today the web version of <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/features-nametags.html\" target=\"_blank\">Picasa<\/a> added face recognition.\u00a0 The way it works is intriguing.\u00a0 After you activate the feature, Picasa goes through all your photos and groups them based on who is in each picture.\u00a0 All the pictures identified with the same person are then presented together.\u00a0 Picasa asks once &#8211; who is this?\u00a0 You type the name and all the pictures are tagged with that person&#8217;s name.\u00a0 If a list of photos contains extra pictures (a couple of my kids were identified as the same person), the mis-identified pictures can be dropped from the list.\u00a0 If a picture contains more than one person, it will show up in several lists as Picasa asks you to identify each person in each photo.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where it gets interesting.\u00a0 After names are associated with faces, any picture that is opened will list the people in the photo.\u00a0 Mouse-over a face and Picasa identifies the person.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Kayla\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3021\/2827778966_c9236ba33e_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This adds a new dimension to searching.\u00a0 I did a query on all the pictures with Me and Kayla.\u00a0 This photo came to the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Me\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3211\/2826941805_0387b5045d_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before you add names to all your pictures, consider the privacy settings.\u00a0 When you enter information about a person, the data includes nickname, full name and email address.\u00a0 By default, only the nickname associated with a photo shows up on the public side.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the way pictures are identified by current search engines, this new feature of Picasa is a potential game-changer.\u00a0 I cannot wait for this feature to be added to the desktop version of Picasa.\u00a0 I have about 50,000 pictures that it can tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google continues to crank out innovative features in their products.\u00a0 Today the web version of Picasa added face recognition.\u00a0 The way it works is intriguing.\u00a0 After you activate the feature, Picasa goes through all your photos and groups them based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/09\/03\/picasa-name-tags\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,82,67],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-google","tag-picasa","tag-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}