1. A method for implementing facial recognition on a digital image that contains image data representative of at least a portion of a human face, comprising: determining that an edge area of the digital image includes image data representative of a portion of a human face; adding a specified numeric pixels to the edge area of the digital image, the specified numeric pixels each having a pixel value within a colorspace; generating an enhanced digital image based on adding the specified numeric pixels to the edge area of the digital image; implementing a facial recognition process on the enhanced digital image; and determining an identity of a human face in the new digital image according to a result of the facial recognition process.