How to Edit Photos in Photo Center

If you click on the pencil icon, either by hovering over the image or on the image details page, you will pull up that image’s edit screen. Here you can edit most of the meta fields associated with that image; some fields lock once the image is saved and will appeared grayed out. From this screen you can also publish or unpublish the image.

You may also bulk edit images by hovering over each image you wish to edit and clicking the white check box. A blue menu bar, featuring options to delete, publish, edit, or add to a Gallery or Lightbox, will appear at the bottom of the page. To bulk edit the metadata for the images you’ve selected, click on the pencil icon and you will be taken to the “Edit image details” screen to make your changes.

Photo Center gives you the ability to crop photos. From the “Edit image detail” screen, click the crop icon to pull up the cropping window. This screen will present you with a visual representation of what the crop will look like. From here, you can change the aspect ratio, rotate the image, or zoom in or out. Once you have the crop you like, click the green “Crop” button in the bottom right corner. This will create a separate, cropped version of the original image. The crop will inherit the key metadata from the original image, which you may edit as needed. You will also see a clickable link to the original image for your reference.

Arc depends upon an automatic resizer tool to serve a particular image's appropriate size and resolution, depending on where it is being used. Occasionally, the resizer tool must auto-crop an image to use it in a particular destination. You need to establish a focal point to ensure that the key imagery doesn’t get auto-cropped out of the image. This focal point will serve as the center point for any resizing actions that the system takes.

To add a focal point to an image, click on the pencil icon to enter the “Edit image details” page and select the “Set focal point” icon. A modal will open for you to click on the image to determine where you want the focal point to be. You may either “Remove focal point” or “Set focal point” from here and then click “Save.” You’ve now established the focal point for your image.

Occasionally, when you are adding an image to your article in Composer, you may wish to set a focal point or an alternate focal point for the image. If the image already has a focal point established and you add a focal point from within Composer, this will override the original focal point for this particular use of the image in your article. The original focal point associated with it remains intact.

To achieve this, select the image in the body copy and look for the focal point icon in the top toolbar. This will pull up a new modal where you can drop a pin to establish your focal point. If the image you’ve selected is large, you may need to use the drop down menu in the top left corner to scale the image to a more manageable size. This will not change the size of the image.