How Do I Sync Faces With Contacts in Picasa?

Contact thumbnails help you remember which names go with which faces.

Picasa is a Google-owned photo management software product. It's designed to work in tandem with Google's other products, such as Google Contacts. Picasa's face recognition feature automatically detects faces in your photos and lets you tag them with names and contact information, which are then stored to your Google contacts. Your Google contacts feature thumbnails of their faces for visual reference. A quick way to populate all of your Google contacts with thumbnails is to sync the thumbnails of the people you've tagged in Picasa.

Instructions

1. Launch Picasa on your computer.

2. Click "Tools" in the top menu bar of Picasa and click "Options" from the drop-down menu.

3. Click the "Name Tags" tab in the Options window, and then click to select the check box labeled "Upload People Album Thumbnails to Google Contacts." Click "OK."

4. Click "Tools" again. Click "Upload" from the drop-down menu and click "Upload People Thumbnails" from the context menu that appears.

5. Click "Upload" to confirm you want to sync the people thumbnails in Picasa to your Gmail contacts.

References

• Google; Tags and Google Account Contacts; June 2011