How to add Face tags

Starting with XnView MP 0.99.4 x64, a plugin for face recognition is available. You can download the plug-in here and decompress it in Addons folder of XnView MP.

Notes:

• XnView's face recognition can recognize areas with faces. Then, user can assign names to the recognized face areas manually.
• XnView does not assign names to faces automatically.
• All the process is local, your photos are not uploaded on online services.

1. In XnView Browser, select an image. Then select menu "Tools >> Tag face". If your image file hasn't got already XMP MWG metadata, XnView will start and recognize areas with faces. This might take a short while.
   
   
   
2. On the left, you can see all face areas recognized by XnView. Now you can enter a name for each face by double-clicking on a face or selecting it and pressing "F2" key.
   
   
   
3. You can remove a face area by right clicking and then selecting "Remove". If you removed a face area by accident, you can use "Search face". Please note that you will start from scratch, then.
   
   
   
4. When you assigned names to all face areas, please choose "Write.." to save face areas and names. The face areas (regions) will be written in the MWG section of XMP's metadata.
5. Use "Previous file/Next file" buttons to process another image or "Close" button to exit face tagging.