Use the already-tagged face during portrait selection.

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Randy Wilson - Employee said: If a person's face has already been tagged on a memory, and associated with a person in Family Tree, then when using that photo to select a portrait for that same person, why not start you off with a circle around the already-chosen rectangle for that face?

As it is, I get dropped into a photo that may have several people in it, and I'm left to (a) guess which of those faces is my ancestor [sometimes I don't know without reviewing the tagged faces], and then (b) pan and scale the image to get that face to show up in the circle.

I already identified where this ancestor's face is in the image. The UI should start with that, and let me adjust it if needed (which might be often, as the circle and rectangle may not frame the same face quite the same).

Furthermore, the tags on the image should be visible during this process--or at least the tags for the ancestor I'm selecting a portrait for.

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gasmodels said: Not sure I understand how that would work if there are say 20 pictures of the person tagged in memories. Which one would the system choose to start with? I really do not find the current methodology to be an issue. I believe you suggestion would only work if no portrait showed and there were tagged pictures in memories. Seems like a big effort to program for a very small gain. Maybe I am not understanding

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Tom Huber said: Unless something has changed, the portrait does not have to be a tagged memory, but can be uploaded as part of the selection process.

In addition, an uploaded memory may not be ideally suited for a portrait

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Randy Wilson - Employee said: When you choose a portrait, the first step is to select which picture you want to use for the portrait. That would stay the same, so the user is choosing the picture.

But once you've chosen the picture, it currently brings up the picture with the circle placed somewhere random on it, and none of the existing face tags displayed. So if you don't happen to remember which of those faces is the one you're choosing a portrait for, you have to pull up a different window and look at the memory elsewhere or something, which is awkward. This isn't a huge issue if it's a relative you know well, but often I'm dealing with distant relatives who don't have a portrait. This has happened three times to me in the last week.

I don't think it is much effort at all to set the initial position of the circle where there's already a tagged face instead of in a completely random position.

It would be a bit more effort (but not too much, it seems) to also draw the existing boxes and allow hovering to display the names, just like the main memory viewer already does.

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Randy Wilson - Employee said: If you're uploading a new picture, then this suggestion may not apply. But in the case where you're selecting an existing memory that's already tagged (which for me has been most of the time), it would make sense to take advantage of the existing tags.

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Tom Huber said: Note my last comment that the tagged memory may not be ideally suited for a portrait. I’ve found this to be true in at le ast one instance. The problem has to do with position and size.