This article covers the day-to-day mechanics of face placement: running Detect Face, what happens automatically around it, and how to fine-tune the on-canvas controls — including the behaviors that aren't obvious, like dragging past the frame edge and what survives a photo re-upload.
Detecting a face
With face placement enabled on a photo layer, the Detect Face button appears in the layer's properties whenever the layer has a photo.
- Select the photo layer and click Detect Face.
- Templified analyzes the photo and locates the face and the subject's overall content.
- On success you'll see a Face detected confirmation and the editor automatically enters face-placement editing so you can fine-tune immediately — no extra clicks.
In many cases you won't need the button at all: dropping a photo onto a face-placement layer detects automatically, and turning the Face placement checkbox on for a layer that already has a photo runs a first detection for you.
Saving happens automatically
Detection runs against the saved copy of your layer, so if the layer or its new photo hasn't been saved yet, Templified saves for you before detecting. You don't need to save manually first. If you replace the photo again while that save is still in flight, you may see a Photo not yet saved — try again message; just click Detect Face again.
If no face is found
If the photo has no visible face (or the face is too small or blurry to locate), you'll see a No face detected message. Your existing settings are left untouched. Try a photo where the face is clearly visible and reasonably large in the frame.
Tuning the face-target box
- Drag the box to move where the face lands in the frame. The photo follows live so you can judge the result.
- Resize the box to change face size — bigger box, bigger face, in every photo this layer ever receives.
- Dragging past the frame edge works. The box isn't clamped to the layer's boundary — drag beyond it and the photo's frame moves along with your cursor, so you can position freely instead of fighting a hard stop.
Tuning the max content line
- Drag the horizontal line (grab it anywhere along its translucent band) to set the ceiling for photo content — nothing in the photo will extend above it.
- The line can be dragged all the way up to the top of the canvas, even when that's well above the photo layer's own frame. Use this when tall poses (raised bats, gloves overhead) should be allowed to reach into space above the slot.
Re-uploading a photo keeps your tuning
The first successful detection on a layer seeds a sensible default face-target box and max content line. After that, they're yours: uploading a new photo re-detects the new face but preserves your tuned face-target box and max content line — it never resets them. Tune once on the template; swap photos as often as you like.
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