| After uploading your photos to a Gallery, you can then have the system automatically detect different people within the photos through face recognition*. This allows you to easily locate all the photos containing a particular individual by filtering by the faces appearing in photos. |
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Effective October 28, 2025, the People Filter will no longer be visible to clients in all newly created Galleries. Access to the People Filter in these Galleries will be restricted exclusively to you, the account owner, via the backend administrative dashboard view of your Galleries. Existing Galleries will retain temporary access to the People Filter until the full implementation of Face Finder for these Galleries in January. You may, however, enable Face Finder in existing Galleries at any time prior to the automatic transition. Beginning January 7, 2026, this guide will apply solely to the backend photographer view of a Gallery, as the People Filter will no longer be available on the client-facing side. Should you wish for clients to locate photos through facial recognition, you may activate Face Finder. |
Identifying People in a Gallery
To set up People Filter in a Gallery, follow these steps to use a Facial Scan:
- Click on the People feature icon
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- Choose Click here to begin scanning. If you've not already agreed to the Facial Scan update Terms of Service, you will need to agree to these terms before continuing.
- Once the scan begins, you will be able to see the progress of the system detecting different faces in the Gallery.
- You will then see all the different individual faces seen in the photos, across the top of the Gallery.
Note: If you upload any new photos to the same Gallery, in the future, you will need to run the People feature's face recognition again to detect the newly uploaded photos.
Filtering by People
To filter the Gallery by a specific individual, click on the circle with their recognized face. You can also select multiple faces to see their recognized photos – click each recognized face you want to add to the filter.
To remove someone from the filter, just click on their face again to deselect them.
What Shoot Types Allow People Filtering
At this time, not all shoot types will include the People Filter feature. Below is a list of Shoot Types that DO include People Filtering.
- Commercial (excluding Architecture, Automotive, Food, Fine Art, Landscape, and Product).
- Corporate
- Event (excluding School and Theater)
- Portrait (excluding Pet and Boudoir)
- Wedding
If you've uploaded a Gallery to your Zenfolio account that you would like to use the People Filter with, but the current Shoot Type does not offer this feature, you can always change the Shoot Type of the Gallery at any time and the People Filter will become immediately available.
- To change the Shoot Type of an existing Gallery, go to the
Galleries area of your account.
- Locate and open the Gallery you want to change the Shoot Type for.
- With that Gallery open, click on More and choose Edit Gallery Info.
- In the panel that appears on the right-hand side, adjust the Shoot Type to one of the types that include the People Filter.
*Per legal requirements, facial recognition features may show as disabled due to specific location laws (e.g., Illinois).