Help · Find a Person
Find a Person groups the faces in your own library so you can pull out every photo of one person — a grandparent, a child, a client — and copy them somewhere. The face work runs entirely on your computer. This page covers each control and answers the question people ask first, which is where the faces go.
Nothing leaves your computer. The screen says it plainly — Faces never leave this
Mac. Nothing is uploaded. The index lives on your own disk and Clear index deletes it
without touching a photo.
Searching is read-only. The only action available is Copy: the matches are copied to a folder you pick and the originals stay in place. There is no move and no delete on this screen.
Add folders to index…Elite
The folders to read faces from. Indexing is the slow part and it happens once; afterwards searching is immediate. You can add more folders later without starting over.
Check for New PhotosElite
Re-reads the indexed folders and picks up what has been added since. Existing work is kept, so this is cheap to run whenever you have imported a shoot.
Clear indexElite
Deletes the face data and nothing else. The screen confirms first — Clear the search index? — because rebuilding costs time, not because anything is at risk. Your photos are untouched.
Find PeopleElite
Shows everyone the index found, as a face per person. This is the view to start from when you do not have a particular photo in mind and just want to see who is in the library.
Find by Photo / Add reference photos…Elite
The other direction: give it one or more photos of the person and it finds the rest. More than one reference helps a lot when the person changes across the years — a child at three and at ten are hard for any matcher from a single face. Add another photo… keeps adding to the same query.
Find This PersonElite
Runs the search. The results are a list you scroll and select from; nothing is written until you copy.
Back to everyoneElite
Leaves the current person and returns to the full set of faces.
Add a nameElite
Names a face group so it is findable later by name instead of by picture. The name is yours and stays on your disk; it is not written into the photos unless you choose to write XMP sidecars.
Fix this photo's personElite
Moves one photo out of a group it does not belong in. Use it rather than distrusting the whole group: resemblance between siblings, and between a parent and a child at the same age, is exactly where face matching is weakest, and one correction usually fixes a cluster.
GroupsElite
Several people treated as one set — a household, a wedding party, a team. A search on the group returns photos of any of its members, and a copy can lay them out as a folder per person — or per group you made — under a folder you choose.
Copy to Folder…Elite
Copies the selected matches to a folder. The tooltip states the contract on the button itself — copy the selected photos to a folder (originals stay in place) — because this is the only button on the screen that writes anything.
Free allowanceFree
Free includes a lifetime allowance of 20 photos copied from person matches. It is deliberately small: it exists so you can check the matching is right on your own family before paying, which is the one thing no screenshot can tell you.
XMP sidecarsPro
Names can be written out as XMP sidecars for other software to read. Capture One uses one
.xmp per name whatever the extension, which the app accounts for. The photos themselves are
still not modified — a sidecar is a separate file alongside.
No matchesElite
The screen suggests the two things that are usually wrong — add the folders you were expecting to search, or try different words. A folder that was never indexed cannot return anything, and that is the most common cause by a distance.