# Automatically find faces for tagging

When you use the Find Faces For Tagging command, Photoshop Elements isolates and displays faces in photos so that you can quickly tag them. Thumbnails of individual faces appear in the Face Tagging dialog box, in which you can apply existing keyword tags or create and apply new tags. As you apply tags to faces in the Face Tagging dialog box, Photoshop Elements removes those faces, making it easier to find and tag the remaining faces. You can select Show Already Tagged Faces if you want the faces to remain after you tag them.

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The Face Tagging dialog box

A.
  Select to show faces already tagged or deselect to hide those faces
B.
  Keyword Tags and tag options
C.
  Recently used keyword tags
D.
  Full context image of the most recently selected face
E.
  Selected face thumbnail
F.
  Find status bar

1. In the Photo Browser, select the photos of people you want to tag.
2. Choose Find > Find Faces For Tagging, or click the Find Faces For Tagging icon in the Keyword Tags palette.
   If you press Ctrl as you choose Find > Find Faces For Tagging, Photoshop Elements will produce more accurate results (for example, it will find more faces in the background of a busy photo), but it will take longer for the faces to appear.

   Photoshop Elements processes the photos and searches for faces. Thumbnails of the faces display in the Face Tagging dialog box.

3. In the dialog box, do any of the following:

   - To apply a tag to a face, drag the tag onto the face or drag the face onto the tag. You can tag multiple selected photos at once.

     You don’t have to wait until all faces are identified before applying keyword tags.
     Applying a tag to selected faces while the search for faces is still in progress

   - To create a new tag, click the New button in the upper-right corner. Choose a category and type a name for the tag.

   - To view the entire photo thumbnail for a face, select the face and view the photo thumbnail in the lower-right corner of the window.

   - To select all the faces associated with a photo, select the photo thumbnail in the lower-right corner.

   - To remove a face from the Face Tagging dialog box without tagging it, select it and click Don’t Tag Selected Items. (If you later decide you want to tag it, select it in the Organizer and choose Find > Find Faces For Tagging again.)

     Removing a thumbnail of an image that is not a real face

   - Select Show Tagged Faces to view all the faces you’ve tagged. Deselect this option if you want to automatically hide faces after you tag them.

     If you want to change a tag that you’ve applied to a face, select Show Tagged Faces.
4. When you’re done tagging faces, click Done.

Related Information

- Change a tag’s icon

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