Are Windows Live Photo Gallery people tags stored in the photo file?
Asked 3/13/2011
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Windows Live Photo Gallery writes normal tags into image metadata. Does it also store "people tags" inside the photo file itself, and if so, where are they stored and are they readable by other software?
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Yes, they are stored in the XMP data on the image.
See for reference this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee719905(v=vs.85).aspx
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Yes. Windows Live Photo Gallery stores people tags in the image’s metadata using XMP, typically as face/region information.
However, compatibility is limited: while the data is embedded in the file, face-recognition metadata has not been handled consistently across different apps. In practice, people tags written by WLPG may be visible only in WLPG and not recognized by other programs.
A good workaround is to also add standard keyword tags with each person’s name. Those are commonly stored in widely supported metadata fields such as IPTC keywords or XMP subject fields, making them much more portable between applications.
So the short version is:
- yes, people tags are stored in the file
- they are stored as XMP face/region metadata
- other software may not reliably read them
- use normal keyword tags too if you want cross-application compatibility
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