Recently, Google’s photo sharing app, Picasa, was updated to a new version that now does facial recognition and tagging. There are also rumors that the soon-to-launch next version of Windows Live Photo Gallery will do the same. Today at DEMO08, new Mac software, iLovePhotos, claims to do the same. Unfortunately, their interpretation of “automatic facial recognition” leaves a little something to be desired. However, some of their other features like automatic sharing and slideshows look pretty great.

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Recognition…Not All That Automatic

iLovePhotos is desktop software for the Mac only (Windows version coming…well…maybe one day). Designed to compete primarily with iPhoto , iLovePhotos aims to make it easier to organize and share your photos with family and friends.

According to the company, the software “automatically detects the faces of individuals in each picture.” That’s true to a point, but that statement implies that the software is recognizing faces and associating names to go along with them after an initial bit of training. At least, that’s what we think “facial recognition” should mean. But that is not the case with iLovePhotos.      Read more on Readwriteweb

by Sarah Perez