Windows 照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)有许多很棒的功能。我们的最爱之一是人脸识别，它允许您识别和标记照片中的人。您标记的人越多，Windows 照片库(Windows Photo Gallery)就越容易建议标记并正确识别人员。另一个很棒的事情是，如果您在Facebook 上(Facebook)发布照片，您的标签也会在Facebook 上(Facebook)发布。标签也可以作为搜索条件，让您可以轻松找到您感兴趣的照片。在本指南中，我将展示标记和面部识别(face recognition work)在Windows Photo Gallery 2012中的工作原理。
照片库(Photo Gallery)- 使识别和社交媒体更容易(Identification and Social Media Easier)
当您标记照片时，您正在教照片库(Photo Gallery)如何进行非常基本的面部识别。您放入的标签越多，它就越能开始识别您正在看的是谁。而且，当然，如果您已经标记了每个人，那么查找任何特定人的照片会容易得多。一开始很费时间，但随着时间的推移会变得更容易。
Photo Gallery 2012的另一个重要功能是，它允许您直接上传到Facebook和Twitpic等社交媒体网站，如果您为照片添加标签，标签将与它们一起出现。此功能将在另一篇文章中介绍。
如何安装和运行照片库(Run Photo Gallery)
如果您尚未下载并安装照片库(Photo Gallery)，请阅读本教程：什么是Windows Essentials 以及如何(Windows Essentials & How)安装它们(Them)。
您可以选择下载并安装任何或所有组件程序。安装(Installation)快速简便，安装完成后程序应该可以立即使用。
照片库(Photo Gallery)在Windows 7和Windows 8中的工作方式相同。我在这里主要使用Windows(Windows 7) 7 的屏幕截图，因为我的Windows 7屏幕看起来更好。
照片库(Photo Gallery)中的标记入门
打开照片库(Photo Gallery)后，您可以看到存储在默认图片(Pictures)库中的照片。如果您像我一样将照片存储在其他文件夹中并希望将它们保留在那里，如果您想以任何方式使用它们，则需要将它们复制粘贴或拖放(copy-paste or drag)到照片库(Photo Gallery)中. 一个更简单的方法(simpler method)是将该文件夹包含到您的图片(Pictures)库中。这样，您就可以保持文件夹结构完整，并使(folder structure)照片库(Photo Gallery)可以轻松索引和管理您的图片集。
在这里，我将一堆图片复制到Photo Gallery中。出于本文的目的，因为我不想得到家人和朋友(family and friends)的许可才能使用他们的照片，所以我使用了几位美国总统的公共领域肖像。
如果您想从各种社交媒体网站导入您的联系人，您可以单击功能区(ribbon)右侧的相应图标。您可以选择SkyDrive、Facebook、YouTube、Flickr和Vimeo。
单击(Click)您要连接到照片库(Photo Gallery)的服务的图标，将弹出一个屏幕让您允许此操作发生。
如果您想将更多社交媒体网站与您的Microsoft 帐户(Microsoft account)连接，请单击底部的管理您的服务。(Manage Your Services)这将打开一个网站，您可以在其中授予您的Microsoft 帐户(Microsoft account)访问这些网站的权限。
如何在照片库中标记人物
打开照片库(Photo Gallery)并显示您要使用的图片后，单击一张照片，或按住 ctrl 单击或按住 shift 单击以获取一组照片，或单击全选(Select All)，然后单击功能区中的人物标签(People Tag).
这将打开屏幕右侧的(hand side)标签菜单。(Tag)如果您选择导入联系人，这些人的姓名将显示在您的列表中。
注意：(NOTE:)我没有选择导入联系人。我不希望我所有的社交媒体都连接在一起。这并不意味着它不安全，只是我更喜欢将它们分开。
单击“添加人员标签”("Add people tags")开始。
在这里，如果未显示人员姓名，或者您选择不导入联系人列表，系统会要求您输入要在照片中添加标签的人员姓名。我一开始就输入了几位总统的名字。
添加名称后，将鼠标悬停在每个名称上，您会在右侧看到一个下拉菜单。如果您想标记自己，请单击That's me!.
现在，是时候实际标记照片了。在这里，我点击了George Washington。现在我点击“添加人员标签”("Add people tags")，我的可能性列表打开了。
首先，我点击George Washington来标记照片，但我还没有完成。为确保照片库(Photo Gallery)知道哪个名字与哪个面孔相配以帮助将来进行面部识别，请单击下拉菜单，然后单击“定位照片中的人”("Locate person in photo")。
照片库(Photo Gallery)会将您选择的照片(chosen photo)放大到全尺寸。单击(Click)要标记的人。对您要放置的每个标签重复此操作。除非照片真的很拥挤，否则您不必将标签直接放在拍摄对象的脸上。如果您在照片中发现姓名不在列表中的人，请单击“添加新人”。("Add new person".)
从这里开始，为照片添加标签所需要做的就是选择您的照片，在功能区中选择人物标签(People Tag)，然后单击右侧信息面板(information panel)中的名称，然后单击照片中的相应主题. 就这么容易。
如何使用批量人员标签放置多个标签(Multiple Tags Using Batch People Tag)
如果您不想一张一张地浏览照片怎么办？您可以使用“批量人员标签”("Batch People Tag")。转到功能区上的主页(Home)选项卡，然后单击“批量人员标签”("Batch people tag")开始。
在照片库(Photo Gallery)找到所有图片时，可能需要短暂等待。
单击每张照片，然后单击功能区中的“标记为”("Tag As")。键入适当的标签或标签(tag or tags)。
完成后，按 enter(press enter)，照片将从批处理标签(Batch Tag)窗口中消失。对每个剩余的标签重复此操作。完成所有标签后，单击Close。
如何删除或编辑照片库(Photo Gallery)中的标签(Tag)
如果您发现自己错误地标记了某人，或者出于某种原因想要删除标签，请单击包含该标签的照片。然后单击右侧信息窗格(information pane)中人员姓名旁边的下拉菜单。
从那里您可以轻松地编辑或删除您的标签，或将此人重命名为其他人。
结论
如您所见，照片库(Photo Gallery)可以很容易地标记您的照片并确保标记正确。您可以自己输入姓名，也可以轻松地从您选择的社交媒体中导入您的联系人。刚开始标记照片可能看起来需要做很多工作，但照片库(Photo Gallery)很快就会开始了解哪些面孔是哪些面孔，并且它会在未来向您建议标记。
照片库(Photo Gallery)功能齐全，很可能是您需要使用的唯一照片编辑工具，尤其是在您处理家人和朋友(family and friends)的照片时。我在写这篇文章的过程中发现，Photo Gallery识别猫的方式与识别人脸的方式不同，但话说回来，有多少人拥有和我一样多的猫照片呢？🙂
你用过相册(Photo Gallery)的标签功能吗？请在评论中告诉我们您对此的看法。我很想听听你的经历。
How to Tag People in Photos with Windows Photo Gallery
Windows Photo Gallery has many great features. One of our favorites is face recognition, which allows you to identify and tag people in your photos. The more people you tag, the easier it is for Windows Photo Gallery to suggest tags and correctly identify people. Another great thing is that, if you publish your photos on Facebook, your tags will be published on Facebook as well. Tags can also be used as search criteria, so that you can easily find the photos the interest you. In this guide, I will show how tagging and face recognition work in Windows Photo Gallery 2012.
Photo Gallery - Making Identification and Social Media Easier
When you tag your photos, you're teaching Photo Gallery how to do very basic facial recognition. The more tags you put in, the better it begins to recognize who it is you're looking at. And, of course, if you've tagged everyone, finding a picture of any specific person is much, much easier. It's time consuming at first, but it gets easier with time.
Another great feature of Photo Gallery 2012 is that it allows you to upload directly to social media sites like Facebook and Twitpic, and if you tag your photos, the tags go right along with them. This feature will be covered in a separate article.
How to Install and Run Photo Gallery
If you have not yet downloaded and installed Photo Gallery, read this tutorial: What are Windows Essentials & How to Install Them.
You can choose to download and install any or all of the component programs. Installation is quick and easy, and the program should be ready to use as soon as the installation is finished.
Photo Gallery works the same way in both Windows 7 and Windows 8. I am primarily using screenshots from Windows 7 here, because my Windows 7 screen looks better.
Getting Started with Tagging in Photo Gallery
Once Photo Gallery is open, you can see the photos stored in the default Pictures library. If you're like me and you store your photos in some other folder(s) and want to keep them there, you will need to copy-paste or drag and drop them into Photo Gallery if you want to work with them in any way. A simpler method is to include that folder into your Pictures library. This way, you keep your folder structure intact and make it easy for Photo Gallery to index and manage your collection of pictures.
Here, I have copied a bunch of pictures into Photo Gallery. For the purpose of the article, because I would rather not have to go get permission from my family and friends to use their pictures, I am using public domain portraits of several American presidents.
If you want to import your contacts from various social media sites, you can click on the appropriate icon on the right of the ribbon. You've got a selection of SkyDrive, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Vimeo to start.
Click on the icon for the service you'd like to connect to Photo Gallery, and a screen will pop up for you to permit this to happen.
If you want to connect more social media sites with your Microsoft account, click on Manage Your Services at the bottom. This will open up a website where you can give your Microsoft account permission to access those sites.
How to Tag People in Photo Gallery
Once Photo Gallery is open and displaying the pictures you want to work with, click on one photo, or ctrl-click or shift-click to get a group of photos, or click on Select All, and then click on People Tag in the ribbon.
This will open up the Tag menu on the right hand side of the screen. If you've chosen to import contacts, those people's names will show up in your list.
NOTE: I have not chosen to import contacts. I do not want all my social media connected together. It doesn't mean it's not secure, it's just that I prefer to keep them separate.
Click on "Add people tags" to begin.
Here, if people's names don't show up, or if you've chosen not to import your contact list, you'll be asked to type in the names of people you'd like to tag in your photos. I've typed in the names of a few presidents to begin with.
After you've added the names, hover over each name and you'll see a drop-down menu on the right. If you want to tag yourself, click on That's me!.
Now, it's time to actually tag the photos. Here, I've clicked on George Washington. Now I click on "Add people tags", and my list of possibilities opens up.
First I click on George Washington to tag the photo, but I'm not quite done. To make sure that Photo Gallery knows which name goes with which face to aid in future facial recognition, click on the drop-down menu and then click on "Locate person in photo".
Photo Gallery will enlarge your chosen photo to full size. Click on the person you want to tag. Repeat this for each tag you want to place. You don't have to place the tag directly on the subject's face unless the photo is really crowded. If you find someone in a photo whose name is not on the list, click "Add new person".
From here on, all you need to do to tag a photo is to choose your photo, select People Tag in the ribbon, and then click on the names in the information panel on the right, followed by clicking on the appropriate subject in the photo. It's that easy.
How to Place Multiple Tags Using Batch People Tag
What if you don't want to go through the photos one by one by one? You can use "Batch People Tag". Go to the Home tab on the ribbon and click on "Batch people tag" to begin.
There may be a brief wait while Photo Gallery locates all the pictures.
Click on each photo, then click "Tag As" in the ribbon. Type in the appropriate tag or tags.
When you're done, press enter, and the photo will disappear from the Batch Tag window. Repeat this for each remaining tag. When you're finished with all the tags, click Close.
How to Remove or Edit a Tag in Photo Gallery
If you find that you've mis-tagged someone, or you want to remove a tag for some reason, click on the photo containing the tag. Then click on the drop-down menu next to the person's name in the information pane on the right.
From there you can easily edit or remove your tag, or rename this person as someone else.
Conclusion
As you can see, Photo Gallery makes it very easy to tag your photos and make sure the tags are correct. You can either type in the names yourself, or easily import your contacts from social media you choose. Tagging photos may seem like a lot of work in the beginning, but Photo Gallery soon starts learning which faces are which and it will suggest tags to you in the future.
Photo Gallery is full featured and may well be the only photo editing tool you need to use, especially if you're working with a collection of photos of family and friends. I found out in the course of writing this article that Photo Gallery does not recognize cats the same way it recognizes human faces, but then again, how many people have as many cat photos as I do? 🙂
Have you used the tagging feature of Photo Gallery? Let us know what you thought about it in the comments. I'll be very interested to hear about your experiences.
