How to Capture / Extract Human Faces from Photos Quickly
June 4, 2008 – 12:49 pmTake another look back at the title. If you are looking for a quick way to capture / extract human(s) faces from a photo, don’t miss this how-to. Quickly means that you can extract those human faces from a batch of photos in one shot. If you are thinking that I am pulling your leg, skip this tutorial and do it the slow way - cropping and resizing human faces with Microsoft Paint (ugh!)
How to Capture / Extract Human Faces From A Single Photo
This tutorial works best with portrait photos with all the human faces are facing towards you (frontal-taken photoss). If you don’t have photos to work on with this tutorial, use the ones that I’ve used here by downloading them from here.
1- Download and install STOIK Imagic 4 Free Browser for free. [ Review ]
2- Run Stoik Imagic 4 Free Browser and using the Browse Panel, browse for the folder that contains the photo. The photo will be displayed on the right pane of the program.
3- Select the photo to highlight it.
4- From the menu bar, choose Tools and then, Extract Faces.
5- Human faces will be auto-extracted and stored in a “Faces” subfolder beneath the original photo folder. If there are more than one human face in a photo, it will be captured too!
How to Capture / Extract Human Faces From Multiple Photos
Follow exactly the same steps above except for step 3. Instead of selecting a photo, select multiple photos by pressing CTRL and click on each of them.
Now compare the time you need to capture / extract human faces from photos with the normal crop and resize method. This method is definitely much faster right? 
Tags: crop, capture, extract face, extract faces, crop faces, extract photos, photography, portrait
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10 Responses to “How to Capture / Extract Human Faces from Photos Quickly”
Wow thats a good tool, i am going to try it with few pics
By Ram on Jun 5, 2008
It is good. Will save me a lot of time. Earlier i used to extract a face manually using cropping
By Madhur Kapoor on Jun 5, 2008
Nice little tool bro (stumbled)
By Ashwin on Jun 5, 2008
Rubbish. What good is this when I can easily crop a picture without all that overhead by using paint ?
I expected by the headline that it would actually cut out JUST the head, not a square crop of the head.
FAIL!!!!
By workablob on Jun 5, 2008
@Ram: Try it! Very easy!
@Ashwin: Thanks for the stumble man.
@Madhur: Of course it will save you some time!
By Syahid A. on Jun 5, 2008
Even I’m going to try it, nice find.
By Nirmal on Jun 6, 2008
Wow, nice. Next time if I need some faces I will use this program.
By Kitkat on Jun 7, 2008
good software. great work.
By venkata on Jul 20, 2008
Thanks a lot!
I can extract all faces from a pictue easily.
This is a wonferful software.
By Hungcan on Jun 5, 2009