Be forewarned that there are grumblings on message boards about corrupted backups, so don't put all your proverbial eggs in this basket also make sure your hard drive where Picasa stores data locally is being backed up.) The first backup takes a while, but subsequent backups using that same backup set are faster. Name your backup set something useful in Box 1, then choose "Select All" in box 2, then select "Backup". In the Picasa Library view, use Tools>Backup Pictures. (After doing that, this is a good opportunity to backup your Picasa data.
You *must* use the "Write Faces to XMP" method to embed the names in the photo metadata. If you do not do this step, the names are only stored in the picasa.ini file that resides in each folder with the images. In the dialog box, I choose "Write Faces" or "Write All". Once I tag a group of photos, I use Tools>Experimental>Write Faces to XMP. I also use the caption field in Picasa to record captions for each photo. I want to identify as many people in the images as possible, and I'm taking advantage of Picasa to do face tagging. Our museum just had its re-opening after a major renovation, and this resulted in an avalanche of events photography. Secondly, this requires that you have Exiftool ( ) installed with ResourceSpace. (See the end for more details on Picasa face tagging, XMP, and other issues.) My first caveat is that this has only been tested with jpegs so far. I discuss technical issues (and workarounds), tools, and metadata.
tl dr: I explain how I tag faces in Picasa and then extract that information in ResourceSpace. This is a long one, but I'm providing a lot of detail so others can try this out.
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