In this frame
Where People is the library's faces, one circle a person, In this frame is this photograph's: every face the scan found in the frame on the Single canvas, as a close-up large enough to tell whether the eyes are open and the focus landed, without zooming. Reach for it on a group shot or a portrait, when the decision turns on one face.
Where it is
On Single, the Groups pane opens with a header reading IN THIS FRAME and the number of faces, then a row of close-ups, above the grouping line and everything else in the pane. When more faces than fit are in the frame, the row scrolls sideways.
It is drawn only on Single. On Frames, and while Compare (C) is showing two frames, there are no close-ups. To get them back, click Single on the views line or press ⌘1. From Compare, C again does it too, and so does Esc when nothing else is open; Leaving Compare has the rest. There are none on a frame with nobody in it, and none until the people scan has found the library's faces: the pane then begins with the grouping line exactly as before. It lives in the side panel rather than beside the photograph so that it can come and go with the faces without ever moving the picture.
The close-ups
One tile per face the scan recorded, left to right as the people stand in the picture. Each is about 120 points square and shows a square one and a half times the size of the face, the same framing a person's circle uses. Under a named person's face is their name; under an unnamed one, nothing. Until the picture has been decoded a tile is grey, and then it fills in without the row changing size.
A face that is very small in the frame, about a fiftieth of the frame's long side or less, was not recorded by the scan, so it has no tile and is not in People either. In a large group the back row can be missing.
The close-ups are cut from the plain photograph — a plain read of the file, before any develop settings — never from the developed version, so a crop or a straighten on the edit page cannot leave a tile showing a wall. A face you have put aside with Not a face — hide is not shown.
Zooming to a face
- Step to a frame with people in it (
←and→step the pass). - Click a close-up. The canvas zooms to that face, centred: to at least twice fit, and closer for a small face, until the face and a little around it fill the canvas. The tile takes an orange edge while the canvas is on it, and the button under the photograph reads Fit image.
- Decide the frame, or click another close-up to check the next face.
- Click the same tile again, or Fit image, to go back to fit. The edge goes with it.
Any other change to the zoom — a scroll, a drag, a double-click, stepping to another frame — takes the edge off the tile. Hover a tile and it reads Zoom the canvas to this face; hover the one the canvas is on and it reads Back to fit.
A face the crop leaves out
When the frame wears a crop from the edit page that leaves a face's centre outside the picture, its tile stays in the row, dimmed. Hover it and it reads Outside this frame's crop; a click does nothing. The face is in the photograph and not in the picture. Put the crop back to the whole frame and the tile is full again. A face the crop only cuts into, with its centre still inside, keeps a full tile and still zooms.
A zoom on a face still inside the crop lands on that face as it sits in the developed picture, with the frame's lens correction, straighten and crop accounted for.
What it does not do
Nothing here starts a scan, names anyone or changes a frame. The close-ups show the faces the people scan has already found, and never look for new ones. Naming and correcting are done in the People section and on the right-click menu of a frame in Frames.