Using People Mode

People mode is a dedicated space for managing all images of people.

People mode can be accessed by selecting the People mode icon in the mode bar, or by selecting View | People Mode from the main menu, or press Options + Cmd + O.

There are three views in People mode:

  • Named
  • Unnamed
  • Person

The Named and Unnamed views can be accessed from the Named and Unnamed buttons directly above the results grid in the button bar. To access the Person view, double-click a person's facial image in Named view only.

In Unnamed and Person view, select faces by clicking the face, or multi-select with Cmd + click, Shift + click. Click the mode switch toolbar to take your selected thumbnails directly to View or Develop mode. Double-clicking on a single thumbnail will bring the image into View mode.

For both the Unnamed and Person views, toggle the Show Face Thumbnails icon and the Source Image Thumbnails icon to view the face thumbnail or the entire source image.

Named View

The Named view in People mode is populated with images of all the people that have been assigned a name in the ACDSee photo database. Images of identified people can be merged (for people with many like-sounding names such as "Rob", "Robby", "Bobby"), renamed, or removed. Double-clicking a person opens that person's Person view where all of the person's assigned faces reside and AI-prepared suggestions can be confirmed or denied.

The Named view will display the number of faces assigned to each person. More faces can still be assigned beyond 9999.

Unnamed View

The Unnamed view in People mode is populated with faces that haven't been assigned a name.

The Unnamed view can be filtered between Grouped and Ungrouped faces by toggling the drop down list located at the far right of the button bar above the facial images.

In Grouped, the view is split between a top pane displaying groups, and a bottom pane which displays the faces associated with the selected group(s). Grouped faces are similar enough in structure that the AI in People mode suggests that they should be grouped together.

In Ungrouped, the view displays a flat grid of all of the unnamed faces in the database. Ungrouped images are all of the single facial images without AI-generated groups applied.

The Unnamed view is used to manage the unnamed faces by assigning them to a name, or deleting the face.

Person View

In People mode, the Person view is a display of all faces associated with one person.

The Person view is comprised of two separate areas:

  • The Assigned Faces pane, a collection of facial images previously assigned with the person's name.
  • The Suggested Faces pane, a collection of faces that AI considers a possible match with the person.

Person view can only be accessed from the Named view.

Folders Pane

The Folders pane is used for filtering results by folder. Click to select a single folder, or multi-select with Cmd + click, Shift + click, or by clicking the Easy-Select arrows to the left of the folder names.

The Folders pane is located to the left of the results grid and has two views:

  • Tree view, for an expanded view of folders visited in Manage mode that contain faces.
  • List view, for a flat list of folders containing faces.

Use the View button to the right of the Folders label to toggle between the Tree view and the List view.

Use the Folders Refresh icon below the Folders label to clear the current folder selection.

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