Face Detection
Finding people in photos, closed-eyes filter, grouping by face.
How it works
When you open a folder, PhotoWorker automatically detects faces, identifies closed eyes, and groups images by person. Everything runs on your Mac — photos are never sent anywhere.
You can start working with the gallery right away, without waiting for analysis to finish. Cards of photos not yet analyzed are marked with a badge. To re-analyze, use the context menu → Reindex.
FaceBrowse
Press F — face crops of the current photo appear on the right. Browse through photos — faces update instantly. The panel shows the number of detected faces and hides overly blurry ones based on a sharpness threshold.
FaceBrowse works in the gallery, viewer, and comparison mode.
If the photo has no faces, the panel shows a 1:1 zoom of the photo center — handy for checking sharpness.
Hold ⌘ — face bounding boxes appear directly over the photo.
People panel
The people button in the toolbar opens the groups panel. Click a person — only photos with that person remain in the gallery.
"Similarity" controls the strictness: higher — only exact matches, lower — different angles and lighting.
Global search results are refreshed when you switch to the results tab (if indexing has added new data). If the source files have been deleted — stale results are cleaned up.
Min hides small groups — removes incidental bystanders.
Search across all folders
After filtering by a person, a "All in new tab" button appears — it opens results from all previously indexed folders in a separate tab.
Filters and settings
Available filters in the toolbar:
- All — no filter
- With faces — only photos with people
- Without faces — landscapes, details, objects
- Closed eyes — photos where someone blinked
In settings → Faces: minimum face size, closed-eyes threshold, sharpness filter for FaceBrowse.