Editing photos on canvas

Drag the lower part of a photo to move it inside its placeholder, and use the zoom slider to scale it.

Pinch on a Mac trackpad to zoom a photo inside its placeholder, zooming toward your cursor. Cmd or Ctrl plus scroll, or the middle mouse wheel, does the same with a mouse.

Right-click any image and choose Flip Horizontal. It works across a multi-selection, and the flip stays with the photo through template swaps and moves to a different spread.

Click the rotate button and drag. Rotation is freeform, so you can level a horizon by eye - hold Shift to snap to clean 15° increments, or Option for fine control when a degree or two is all you need. *The tutorial clip shows the older behavior, where snapping was the default and Shift gave the fine control that now lives on Option.

When you rotate a photo to straighten it, BookProofs zooms in just enough to keep the frame filled, and zooms back out as you rotate back toward level, so the background never peeks through at the corners. It's on by default and applies to photos that fill their frame (not Contain). To rotate freely and let the background show at the corners, turn off Keep Frame Filled When Rotating in Settings.

One button puts a photo back exactly how it landed, undoing any zoom, pan and rotation you have applied to it.

There's a basic exposure slider on the canvas for a quick lift or pull.

Convert one photo without touching the rest of the spread, from the controls on the photo itself.

Select a placed image or a color-filled placeholder and drag the corner pin. It works across a multi-selection, and image borders follow the curve.

Hold Option while you rotate an image on canvas and the drag slows right down, so a one or two degree correction is easy to adjust.

Settings has a project corner radius that applies to every photo and color-filled placeholder in the book, so you set it once instead of per image. Any corner you rounded individually keeps its own radius and ignores the project setting.

Settings can clear all individual corner rounding in one go, which drops every image and color fill back onto the project corner radius.

The black and white conversion inside any album designer will often not match the presets you edited the rest of the shoot with. Send the photo to Lightroom instead, apply the same preset, and export it back so it sits evenly with the rest of the spread.

Right-click a photo on the canvas or in the library and choose Edit in Photoshop. Save in Photoshop and the edit comes straight back into the same placeholder. Since 1.3.9 the editor gets a copy by default, so your original file is never changed.

The app finds Photoshop on its own in most cases. If it doesn't, or you use something else, set the application path in settings. Results with other applications vary - some work, some don't - so if there's one you want integrated and it isn't working, let us know and we'll take a look.

With non-destructive editing on, every save from Photoshop, Lightroom or another editor lands in an Edited Images folder inside your BookProofs project folder, and the project switches to that version. Right-click the photo and choose Reveal in Finder to see it. Your original stays wherever it came from, untouched.

Right-click a photo, or a group of photos, and choose Edit in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Edit with your own presets, then export to the BookProofs Return Folder with the file name unchanged and the edit drops back into the same placeholder, crop and spread placement intact.

Two things matter in the Lightroom export dialog: export to the BookProofs Return Folder, and leave Rename To unchecked. A renamed export still reaches BookProofs, but as a new photo in the library rather than back into the placeholder it left.

Select several photos, right-click and choose Edit in Lightroom or Photoshop and they all open together. Sync your settings in Lightroom, export the set to the Return Folder with the same file names, and each one updates in its own placeholder.

Cover fit is the default placement inside placeholders for BookProofs template design: the photo fills the placeholder. Contain fits the whole photo inside the placeholder instead, so nothing is cropped no matter what aspect ratio placeholder the image sits inside. Turn on the contain/cover toggle in settings if you want that choice per photo. It's highly recommended to leave Reset to cover on template change switched on: with it off, contained photos keep their fit when you change templates and the layout will almost certainly provide unexpected results on template swaps.

Finds faces so an off-ratio crop lands better on the subject. It's around 85% accurate and adds time to import, so it's off by default. As of 1.4.0 its settings only appear if you already have it turned on, and it will be removed in a future version - justified layouts now avoid most off-ratio crops in the first place.

A setting that shows a photo's file name as you hover it on the canvas. Alternatively, you can hover and press the spacebar for image information.