Using the Auto-Crop Feature to Add a Portrait

If you want to display a photo of an individual in charts, reports, and the People workspace, you’ll need to select a portrait or profile photo for them. Family Tree Maker’s built-in facial recognition technology accurately identifies individual faces within a photo, even if there are multiple people in it. It can then crop the image around the face, eliminating the need for additional editing software—all without altering the original photo.

1. Click the People button on the main toolbar. Make sure the individual you want to add a portrait to is the one selected on the Tree tab or Person tab.
    
2. In the editing panel, right-click the person's silhouette and do one of the following:
    
   • If the photo is already in your tree, click Link to Existing Picture. The Find Media Item window appears. You can change which images from the tree’s media collection are shown by choosing from the View media by drop-down and then selecting a person, source, or category in the list. Find the image you want, click it to select it, and then click OK.
      

   • If you’re adding a new image, click Add New Picture. Use the file management window to navigate to the image file you want to use. Then click Open.

     

3. If the image is a new one, choose whether you want to copy it to the media folder for your tree or just make a link to the file. Then click OK.
    
4. In the Edit Profile Picture window that appears, click the Auto Zoom button to have Family Tree Maker^® automatically suggest the zoom level and the cropping area for the portrait.
   
   
5. If you want to adjust the cropping area and zoom level manually, drag the photo so that the person’s face is in the center of the view and then use the Zoom slider.
    
6. Click OK.

Note: If this tree is linked to an Ancestry tree, these changes will be synced.