Help: People & Faces

LrGeniusAI provides two face-related workflows:

• People — browse face clusters (persons), assign names, and jump to Lightroom collections per person.
• Find Similar Faces — select a photo containing a face and find other photos featuring the same person.

Prerequisites

Face data is generated during Analyze & Index Photos. Make sure face detection is enabled when you run indexing. Without indexed face data neither workflow will find anything.

People

Library → Plug-in Extras → People...

What it shows

The People dialog lists all detected persons from your indexed photos. Each entry shows:

• A thumbnail of the representative face cluster.
• The person’s name (if assigned) or Unknown if not yet named.
• The number of photos in which this person appears.

Named persons are shown first, sorted by photo count. Unnamed clusters follow in the same order.

Assigning names

Click a person entry to assign or edit the name. Names are stored on the backend and used for future face clustering and search context.

Jumping to a Lightroom collection

Each person can be opened as a Lightroom collection — the collection contains all photos in which that person was detected. This lets you browse a person’s photos directly in the Library grid without creating a manual filter.

Find Similar Faces

Library → Plug-in Extras → Find Similar Faces...

How to use it

1. Select a single photo in the Library grid that contains a face you want to search for.
2. Open Find Similar Faces from the menu.
3. Adjust search options if needed (scope, result limit).
4. The plugin queries the backend for photos with matching face embeddings.
5. Results are placed into a new Lightroom collection, sorted by similarity.

Search scope

• All indexed photos — searches the entire backend.
• Current view — restricts search to the currently visible folder or collection.

Tips

• Better names = better workflow. Naming persons early makes it easy to find all photos of a specific subject across your entire catalog.
• Run indexing with face detection on all portrait-heavy shoots before using the People workflow.
• Face clustering works by visual similarity — identical twins or people who look very similar may end up in the same cluster. Review and correct clusters manually via the People dialog.
• For culling portrait sessions, face data also feeds into the Cull Photos scoring (eye openness, blink detection, face sharpness). See Help: Cull Photos.