Oversized Crop

Using a preset, you produce uniform images with the person’s head in a defined position within the image and consistent margins around it. However, it may happen that the original image is too small, or the person’s face is too large for the preset, causing the cropping box to become oversized and extend outside the image bounds.

By default, the program shrinks the cropping box to fit within the image borders while keeping the center point of the face in the position defined by the preset.

If you want to maintain consistent face sizes and are less concerned about the background quality (e.g., when creating green screen photos for later background removal), you may prefer to keep the face size by expanding the image bounds.

The areas outside the image will be filled with the color of the top-right point of the cropped rectangle. If you shoot your models against a plain color background (like a green screen for future background removal), you’ll get quite good results suitable for further work.

You can define this behavior in program preferences for all images. There’s a checkbox named If Oversized Crop - Shrink To Fit Image Bounds.

Alternatively, you can specify this behavior for particular presets. The option can be set when you edit presets as a text file. It is named OversizeMode.

There are three modes:

OversizeMode:0 - Uses the default mode defined in preferences
OversizeMode:1 - Overrides the default and allows oversize
OversizeMode:2 - Overrides the default and shrinks to fit

Below are examples of images with oversized crops. Please keep in mind that oversize can occur when you straighten or tilt the picture.

Image shrunk by default:

Oversized crop—note the extended band at the top:

Tilted image shrunk by default:

Oversized shrunk image—note the background added at the top right corner: