Delivery

Portrait Crop

Batch crop portraits with automatic centering on the face.

What it is

A batch portrait cropping tool. PhotoWorker finds the face in each photo and centers the crop; you set the paddings and aspect ratio — every selected photo is cropped consistently.

Useful for preparing portrait sets for clients, social media covers, and avatars.

How to open

Select photos in the gallery and click the PORTRAIT button in the toolbar. A separate window opens with a preview and the settings panel on the right.

Navigating selected photos

← / → on the preview switch between photos in the set. Below the preview you'll see the file name, output dimensions (W×H in pixels) and the percentage of the original area that will remain.

If no face is detected on the current preview, you'll see a hint — the settings still apply to every other photo when you run the crop.

Aspect ratio

Original (default) — each photo keeps its source aspect ratio
1:1, 2:3, 3:4 — fixed ratios

Paddings

The Top, Bottom, Left, Right fields set the distance from the face to the crop edges, measured in face-size units. 1.0 = one face height. Typical values: 1.0 / 2.0 / 0.5 / 0.5 — face placed toward the top of the frame.

Zoom

The Zoom slider proportionally scales all four paddings at once — a quick way to enlarge or shrink the crop without recalculating each field.

Drag to nudge per photo

Drag the face directly in the preview to shift the crop for just this photo. By default movement snaps to the nearest axis (vertical or horizontal); hold Shift for free 2-axis movement. Double-click the preview to reset.

Edge fill

When paddings push the crop beyond the photo's edges, PhotoWorker offers options:

Fit (default) — shift the crop inside the photo so no empty strips appear
Red — fill missing edges with red (instant visual feedback that the crop went off-photo)
Outpaint — extend the missing edges algorithmically

Destination

Create subfolder — with template variables (the same ones as in import), portraits by default
This folder — a specific path, picked via Browse
Same folder as original — saved next to the source. Choosing "Overwrite" on a name conflict triggers a warning before any source JPEG is replaced
Ask each time — a dialog per photo

Quality and metadata

JPEG quality — 1–100 (default 90)
Keep EXIF — carry shooting metadata into the output
Convert to sRGB — for web delivery

Lossless export

For simple JPEG crops (no scaling, no quality change), PhotoWorker keeps the original pixels as they are and copies metadata across. It's faster and the source quality stays untouched.

Run

The "Crop N" button starts processing. A progress bar shows progress; once it finishes the bar stays visible with the totals "Saved N, skipped M". The button becomes active again — you can re-run with different settings without closing the window.