User manual

Getting started

iPhone and iPad

Open the app and tap + (or New case) to start a case. Cases are kept inside the app; each one is also visible as a folder in the Files app, under Veroptic. On an iPad the screen shows three columns: cases, the photos in the case, and the photo being edited.

Mac

The first time Veroptic opens it asks you to Choose Case Folder. Choose or create a folder just for your cases, for example Documents › Veroptic Cases. Choosing it is how macOS gives Veroptic permission to read and write there. Each case is a folder inside it, and photos you add are copied in, so your originals are never moved or changed.

The Mac window has the case list on the left, the case details across the top, the photo list, the editor with its tabs, and on the right the photo as it will export with the matching photo from the other session underneath.

Best practices

A way of working that keeps the originals safe and gives every export the same, predictable names.

Mac

A case can start in two ways. Opening the patient's existing folder is the better one: the photos are used where they already are.

1. Open the patient's folder (preferred). + Add Case › Open Case… (or File › Open Case…, ⌘O), then choose the folder that holds the patient's photos. Its photos are shown first, with any already in the case ticked: click the ones for this case (Shift-click for a range, or Select All) and click Open Case. Only those are in the case; the others stay in the folder untouched and can be added later with Add Photos…. Veroptic only reads them: the files are never renamed, moved or changed. The case then stays in File › Open Recent.
2. Or start a new case folder. + Add Case › New Case… makes an empty case folder. Add Photos…, or dragging files onto the photo list, copies photos into it from any other folder; the files you pick are not changed.
3. Case details first. Choose the procedure and type the case number, which make the case ID (such as RH0142), then the date of surgery, which sorts before from after and gives each after photo its interval.
4. Profile, then views and points. Choose the settings profile for the body area. Give each photo its view, then switch it to Before or After to make the pair, and place its two landmarks. Then crop, anonymize and annotate, and check the match in Overlay.
5. Export next to the originals. Export… opens in the folder the photos are in: keep it and click Export. Veroptic makes a folder named with the case ID there and names every file by your file name format, for example RH0142_front_post-06m.jpg, with case.json for the gallery. The originals stay as they are. Because the export folder and its files are named by case ID, not by patient, the folder can be copied to a website or a colleague as it is. Exporting again uses the same names and asks before replacing them.
6. Renaming. Renaming a case renames its folder in Finder. For a case opened from the patient's own folder, that is the folder the original photos are in, so Veroptic asks before renaming it.
7. Finished cases. Remove from List takes a case off the list without touching its folder; it stays in File › Open Recent until it is needed again.

iPhone and iPad

1. Start a case with + and enter the procedure, case number and date of surgery.
2. Take the photos with the in-app Camera, which shows an earlier photo of the case faintly over the camera to match the pose, or add them from Photos or Files. Either way the originals are kept unchanged in the case.
3. Set views and landmarks, edit, then Export, preferably To Files. The files go into a folder named with the case ID inside the case's folder in the Files app, named by your file name format, with case.json beside them. Exporting to Photos puts the images in your library but leaves case.json and the case's details behind in Files, so for keeping each case in one place, use To Files.

Cases

• New case: iPhone and iPad, + on the case list. Mac, + Add Case beside the Cases heading, or File › New Case (⌘N).
• Open an existing folder (Mac): + Add Case › Open Case…, or File › Open Recent.
• Rename: iPhone and iPad, swipe left on a case or press and hold it. Mac, click the name of the open case (in the list or at the top of the window), type, and press Return; Esc cancels. The folder on disk is renamed with it, and on a Mac Veroptic asks first, since the folder may be the one your original photos are kept in.
• Delete (iPhone and iPad): swipe left, Delete. This removes the case and its photos from the device and cannot be undone.
• Remove from list (Mac): right-click › Remove from List. Nothing on disk is touched. The case goes to File › Open Recent (also under + Add Case), so it can be opened again from there, or with Open Case….
• Several at once (Mac): Select beside the Cases heading, tick the cases, then Remove from List (the folders stay in Finder) or Move to Trash… (the folders and everything in them go to the Trash, where they can be restored until it is emptied). A case moved to the Trash, here or in Finder, is taken off Open Recent.
• Finder (Mac): the list follows Finder. A case folder renamed, moved, added or deleted there shows in Veroptic within a moment.

Case details

• Procedure and case number make the case ID: Rhinoplasty (prefix RH) and 142 give RH0142. A procedure and a case number are the only details an export needs.
• Date of surgery: decides which photos are before and which are after, and the interval since surgery written into file names. Optional, but needed for the gallery.
• After-photo date: overrides the date of the after session when the photos' own dates are wrong.
• Age: whole years, typed or stepped. 90 and over is kept as "90+", because an exact age above 89 can identify a patient.
• Sex, approach or technique and details (prior surgery, concern, what was done) are written into case.json for your website's gallery.

A case is marked ready for the gallery only when it has a date of surgery, a procedure, age, sex, details, and at least one view with both a before and an after. Missing items never stop an export; case.json simply says which one is missing.

Case details stay in the case folder on your device. They are not written into the exported photos.

Adding photos

iPhone and iPad

• Camera button: takes photos inside the app. An earlier photo of the case is shown faintly over the camera so the pose can be matched; choose which one from the strip of thumbnails and set how strong it is with the slider. Tap to focus, press and hold to lock focus and exposure, pinch or tap the lens buttons to zoom, and use the sun slider for brightness.
• Add photos button: From Photos, or From Files.
• Press and hold a photo in the list to Replace it or Delete it. Select deletes several at once.

Mac

• Add Photos… at the foot of the photo list (⇧⌘I), or drag files onto the list. The files are copied into the case; the originals you picked are not changed.
• Select above the list, then Remove, takes several photos out of the case. Photo › Remove Photo from Case does the same for the selected photo. Nothing is deleted: the files stay in the case folder. To bring a photo back, use Add Photos… and choose it again; it returns with its points and edits.

JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, TIFF and PDF (first page) can be added.

Before and after

Each photo is a before or an after, shown on the button in its row. Veroptic reads each photo's capture date from the photo itself (its EXIF data, written by the camera) and decides automatically:

• With a date of surgery, photos taken on or before that day are before; later photos are after.
• Without one, photos taken close together are grouped; the earliest group is before and the latest is after.

Each after photo shows its own time since surgery, counted from the date of surgery to the day it was taken, in whole months: a 3-month photo reads After · 03m and a 12-month photo After · 12m in the same case. The interval is used in file names, side-by-side labels and Overlay. After-photo date in the case details sets one date for every after photo when the cameras' dates are wrong.

Each photo's row has a Before | After switch: tap or click the side the photo belongs to. The line above the list counts before and after photos and turns orange when they differ.

How the date of a photo is found. Veroptic uses the capture date in the photo's EXIF data whenever it is available. When it is not (some apps, messaging services and websites remove EXIF data), the file's own date is used instead: the date the file was last modified, which may be the day it was saved or added rather than the day it was taken. If such a photo lands on the wrong side, switch it with its Before | After switch, or set an after-photo date.

Views

Give each photo a view from the menu in its row: frontal, smiling, eyes closed, oblique and lateral left and right, basal, trunk, upper extremity (volar, dorsal, radial and ulnar), lower extremity (anterior, posterior, lateral and medial), hands and feet. For dentistry there is the standard dental series: anterior, right and left smile; anterior, right and left retracted (teeth parted); anterior, right and left close-up; and upper and lower occlusal, with Frontal — smiling as the full-face view. Dental views align on tooth landmarks, such as the canine tips or the first molars, and usually suit a landscape crop such as 3:2. A new photo starts with no view and is shown greyed in the list, with Choose View in orange and neither Before nor After chosen, until both are set; it then shows in full color. Before | After counts as set once you click a side, or once a date of surgery is entered. A before and an after are matched when they have the same view. For anything else, choose New Custom View… at the bottom of the menu (see Custom views and landmarks).

Specialties (Mac: the Settings menu; iPhone and iPad: Settings, the gear) chooses the kinds of practice the app offers: Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics (face, trunk, arms, legs, hands and feet) and Dental. At first only the Default Specialty is on: Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics, unless you choose another under Specialties › Default Specialty. It is marked (Default) and is always on; tick any other specialty you also use. A specialty switched off has its views and their landmarks left out of the view menu, and its procedures left out of the Procedure menu and the procedure catalog. Custom views and procedures you made are always offered, and a photo keeps a view it already has. The choices follow you to your other devices through iCloud.

To make your own, choose Specialties › Edit Specialties…, then New Specialty: name it, for example Dermatology, and tick the views and the procedures from your list that belong to it. It gets its own switch in Specialties. A view or procedure is offered while any specialty holding it is on, so a Dermatology specialty with the frontal views keeps them offered when Plastic Surgery and Aesthetics is off. Your specialties follow you to your other devices through iCloud.

Landmarks

In the Landmarks tab, place two points on the photo. Until a photo has both points the other tabs are greyed, since the points come first; they open as soon as the second point is placed. Every photo of that view is scaled and moved so the two points land in the same place, which is what makes the before and after match.

• Points chooses which pair to use for this view, for example the pupils or the lateral canthi on a frontal photo. Profile views, smiling included, start with Canthus → Nasal tip, and oblique views with Canthus → Alar base; the same menu has the canthus and tragus, and Canthus → Oral commissure for when hair covers the tragus. Use the same pair on the before and the after.
• Click or tap the first point, then the second, in the order the app asks for (on a Mac, in the settings column; on iPhone and iPad, under the controls). Marker 1 is yellow and marker 2 is blue.
• Drag a marker to fine-tune it. Clicking elsewhere moves the nearer marker to that spot.
• Zoom for precision, with the slider or by pinching on a trackpad, iPhone or iPad. When zoomed, drag away from the markers (or scroll, on a Mac) to move around.
• Detect Pupils places both pupil points automatically. It is offered only on the frontal views (Frontal, Frontal — smiling, Dental — frontal smiling), where it is reliable. Check the markers afterwards. On a Mac, Photo › Detect Pupils in All Frontal Photos does the whole case.
• Clear removes both points.

Each photo's row has a light. Green: both of its points are set and the before or after of the same view has its points too, so the pair is aligned. Red: something is still missing, the view, a point, or the matching photo and its points. On a Mac, rest the pointer on the light to see what is missing. Details beside Select (Mac: also View › Show Full File Name Details) adds each photo's date and export file name under its file name.

Level and rotate

• Auto Level turns the photo so the line between the two points is horizontal. It is on by default for views whose points sit side by side, such as the pupils.
• Manual levels or straightens the aligned photo by hand, up to 20° either way, with the slider or the − and + buttons (0.1° each). The points stay where they are. Moving the slider or pressing − or + switches from Auto Level to Manual by itself.
• Anonymized areas and annotations turn with the photo whenever its level changes, Auto or Manual, so they stay on the spot they were placed on.
• On the Mac, Level is the button beside the tabs. On iPhone and iPad it is the round level button in the photo's top-right corner, beside Overlay, greyed until the photo has its two points. Both work from any tab, and the photo turns as you drag the slider.
• Rotate (Landmarks tab) turns the original photo by 90° steps or straightens it up to 45°, cropping to the largest area with no blank corners. Landmarks turn with the photo; anonymized areas and annotations are cleared. The file itself is not changed.

Crop

• Crop Ratio: 4:5 (the standard, 1600 × 2000 pixels), 1:1, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, or Custom for any shape. The ratio applies to every photo in the case, and crop boxes already set are reshaped to it at once.
• As in Pixelmator Pro and Photos, the photo outside the crop is dimmed and the crop shows a rule-of-thirds grid. Drag a corner or the middle of a side to resize it, or drag inside it to move it. With a fixed ratio, the ratio is kept as you resize. Each view's crop is shared by its before and after photo, so they stay matched.
• Reset returns to the crop worked out from the landmarks.
• Export size. The crop shapes are set to a standard high-quality size for websites: 2000 pixels on the long edge (1600 × 2000 for 4:5). That is sharp on any screen and keeps files from being unnecessarily large, so gallery pages load quickly. Full resolution is still there when you want it: it exports at the original photo's resolution instead, for example for print or records. The before and after of a view are always exported at the same size.
• Remove background replaces the backdrop behind the patient with a solid color, white unless you choose another, in the photo selected and its export. Each photo has its own switch and color, set in Crop while that photo is selected. It uses Apple's subject detection, on the device. Check the edges around hair and fine detail. Tighten Edge draws the kept area in from the detected edge, from 0% (as detected) to 100%, to remove hair fringes and shadows left beside the patient; the photo updates as you drag, and each photo keeps its own setting. A photo in which no subject stands out from the backdrop keeps its own background, and the Crop tab says so. Switch it off to bring the original background back; the photos themselves are never changed.

Anonymize

• Choose Blur or Bar, and the shape: oval, rectangle, or freehand (trace around the area).
• Drag on the photo to cover an area: eyes, tattoos, jewellery, birthmarks. Covered areas show only as they will export, with no outline.
• Click an area to select it: a frame with handles at its corners and the middles of its sides appears, as in Preview. Drag inside it to move it, or drag a handle to resize it. Delete (the button, or the Delete key on a Mac) removes it. A click elsewhere on the photo ends the selection.
• Cover eyes places an oval over each eye. It works only on frontal views (Frontal, Frontal — smiling, Dental — frontal smiling) with Left pupil → Right pupil chosen in Points, and is greyed on every other view; there, draw the ovals by hand.
• Blur is either Gaussian (soft) or Pixelated (squares). Strength runs from 1 to 4: for Gaussian even 1 hides the iris and lids; for Pixelated the squares run from fine to medium.
• Bar covers the area with a solid color, black unless you choose another; Black sets it back.
• Anonymize exports turns all covered areas on or off for the case. Areas are applied to exports only.

Annotate

• Add Annotations turns marks on or off in exports.
• Objects (under Add Annotations and Zoom): arrow, double arrow, line, measurement, rectangle, ellipse, freehand and text.
• Arrows, lines and measurements: drag from one end to the other. Rectangles and ellipses: drag from corner to corner. Freehand: drag to draw. On a Mac, hold Shift for lines in steps of 45°, squares and circles.
• Measurements carry the label you type. Veroptic does not measure; it writes what you type.

Fill, stroke and color

• Fill and Stroke each have a switch, a color and an opacity slider. Fill is the inside of a shape, the heads of an arrow (off gives open heads) and the letters of a text. Stroke is the line, or the outline of a shape or of letters. A mark always keeps at least one of the two; lines and arrows always have a stroke.
• Click the color bar to open the system color picker, with its color wheel, sliders, hex code and eyedropper. On a Mac the Colors window closes when you go to another tab. On a Mac the eyedropper button beside the bar picks a color from anywhere on the screen.
• The stroke can be solid, dashed or dotted, and its thickness is set in pixels, measured on a standard export 1600 pixels wide, so marks look the same at any export size.
• A new mark takes the settings last used for its kind: lines, shapes and text each keep their own, on all your devices, and they are saved in the settings profile in use. On iPhone and iPad these settings are always shown for the chosen tool, so they can be set before drawing.

Text boxes and fonts

• With the Text tool, drag a box on the photo, or click for a box of standard size, then type. The text fills the box until you set a size.
• Aa beside the text field opens the font panel, the same everywhere a font can be set. It sets the font, weight, size in pixels, bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, the color, and (under the gear) the background (No Background or Dark Box Behind), a shadow and Fit Text to Box. For a text box it also sets the alignment across and up and down, and under Spacing the line height and the space before and after each paragraph.
• Special Characters inserts symbols such as ° ± → ½. Apply to All Labels on This Photo gives every label the same font settings.
• A text box left empty is removed when you select something else.

Selecting, changing and deleting marks

• A new mark is selected as soon as it is drawn: its frame and handles show, its settings (text, fill and stroke) appear under Objects, and Arrange works on it at once. A click elsewhere on the photo ends the selection; the mark then shows no frame until it is clicked again. On a Mac, with no mark selected, only Objects shows. On iPhone and iPad the tool's settings stay in view, and Arrange stays at the foot of the panel, greyed until a mark is selected. Undo and Delete sit at the bottom left, Clear on its own at the right.
• Drag a selected mark to move it. Drag a corner handle to resize it, or a handle in the middle of a side to stretch it one way; hold Shift on a Mac to keep its proportions. Drag either end of a line or arrow to lengthen, shorten or turn it.
• To turn a rectangle, ellipse or text box: on a Mac, drag just outside one of its corners; on iPhone and iPad, drag the round handle above it. Turning snaps to every 15°; with Shift on a Mac it moves only in 15° steps.
• Arrange sets where the selected mark sits where marks overlap: Back and Front send it behind or in front of all the others, Backward and Forward one step. Marks drawn later start on top.
• Delete, or on a Mac the Delete or Backspace key, removes the selected mark. Clear removes them all. Undo steps back through every change, bringing back marks removed by Clear or Delete. Anonymize has the same Undo for its areas.
• On a Mac, Edit › Undo (⌘Z) and Redo (⇧⌘Z) step back and forward through every change to the case: points, crops, levels, rotation, anonymized areas and marks. While you type in a field, they undo your typing.
• Zoom to place marks precisely, with the slider or by pinching. Zooming in turns on Move (the hand), so a drag moves the photo; turn Move off to draw. Fit zooms back out.

Watermark

• Choose Watermark… picks your practice's logo. A PNG with a transparent background works best. On iPhone and iPad it can come from Photos, from Files, or be pasted. Replace Watermark… (Mac) or Change Watermark (iPhone and iPad) swaps it for another logo everywhere at once, for example after a rebrand. Pro is made for one practice's logo, so a different logo can be chosen once every 14 days; the 14 days are shared by your devices signed in to iCloud. For an hour after choosing a new logo you can still swap it freely, to correct a wrong pick, and choosing the logo already in use never counts. The watermark is named after the file it came from.
• Add Watermark turns it on; Add To chooses the before photos, the after photos or both.
• Layout: Single places the logo once, at the Position you choose, with Padding from the edges. Repeated covers the whole photo with the logo in staggered rows, with Spacing between copies.
• Rotation turns the logo to any angle from −180° to 180°. Angles offers the common ones; Reset sets it back to 0°.
• Size is a share of the photo's width; Opacity runs from faint to solid.
• The Watermark tab shows the photo with the watermark as it will export, and updates as you change any setting.
• Reset to Default: bottom right, single, 11% wide, 35% opacity, 4% padding, on both before and after photos.
• Your logo and settings are kept for every case until you change them, and follow you to your other devices.

This is your own watermark. The Veroptic watermark on free-trial exports is separate and is removed by subscribing.

Overlay

Overlay lays the before and the after of a view on top of each other, aligned and cropped exactly as they will export, to check the match. Fade blends the after over the before; Wipe shows the before left of a divider and the after right of it. Grid adds guide lines. Anything that shifts between the two is a landmark or crop difference. On the Mac it is the tab after Crop; on iPhone and iPad it is the round Overlay button in the photo's top-right corner, beside Level.

Side-by-side

A side-by-side is one image with the before on the left and the after on the right. Open Side-by-Side… (Mac: beside Export…, or File › Export Side-by-Sides…, ⌥⌘E; iPhone and iPad: Export › Side-by-Side). Every view that has a before and an after with both points set is previewed. Click the ones you want and set Labels (with Aa for their font), White Divider, and Add Watermark with the halves it goes on (Before, After or Both), choose Export As (the file type, separate from the one set for photos in Export), then Export Selected. Veroptic asks where to export. The panel stays open until you click Done. Side-by-sides are written to a folder named with the case ID and "_side-by-side".

Exporting

• Mac: Export… (⌘E) shows each view with its before and after. Every view with a complete before and after is already selected; click a view to untick or tick it (or use Select All and Select None), choose the file type in Export As, then Export… and choose where in Finder.
• iPhone and iPad: Export at the top right of the photo editor. Choose the file type under Export As, then Export…. Every view with a complete before and after is already selected; untick any you do not want. Then export To Files, To Photos or Share. Preview shows the exact file before exporting.
• Where exports go on iPhone and iPad. Every export is saved in the Files app, whichever of the three you choose: in a folder named with the case ID inside the case's own folder, On My iPhone (or On My iPad) › Veroptic › the case › for example RH0142. That folder holds the exported photos and case.json. To Photos also adds the images to your photo library, and Share sends them on, but case.json stays in Files.
• To Files is the better choice. It keeps the photos, their names and the case details together in one place, ready to copy to a computer or a website. Photos in the photo library lose their file names and are separated from case.json.
• The case's own folder in Files also holds the original photos you added, beside the export folder. A photo taken in the app or added from your photo library is named when it is added: photo-, the date and time, and a short random code, for example photo-2026-10-23T095612-251BA6.jpg. A photo added from Files keeps its own name. Exports never change or rename them.
• File types: JPEG (websites and email), PNG (no compression loss), WebP (smaller web files), PDF (one page per photo, for documents). Photos accepts JPEG and PNG.
• The photos go into a folder named with the case ID, with case.json describing the views exported: procedure, dates, intervals, patient age and sex, details, and which before and after pair belongs to each view. Exporting again uses the same names, and Veroptic asks before replacing files already there.
• Exported files contain no location, camera or date information. Originals are never changed.

File names

Settings › File Name Format sets how exported files are named, for every case or for one case only. A new install starts with the standard format; a format you set stays on that device, through restarts, until you change it. The standard format is {case}_{view}_{phase}, which gives names such as RH0142_front_preop.jpg and RH0142_front_post-06m.jpg. Tap a token to add it: case ID, procedure prefix, case number, procedure, view code, view name, phase, before or after, interval, and photo date. Any other text is kept as typed. Photos that would get the same name are numbered -2, -3 and so on.

Procedure list

Settings › Procedure List. The list starts with ten common procedures. Rename any of them, change a case-ID prefix, reorder, delete, add your own, or add more from the procedure catalog. Renaming never changes which cases are filed under a procedure; changing a prefix changes the case IDs of its cases. Export saves the list as a spreadsheet file (CSV) that opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets; Import reads one back, replacing your list or adding to it. A list typed in a spreadsheet needs only a Procedure column.

Custom views and landmarks

For anything the standard views do not cover, such as a scar, a lesion or an unusual angle, make a custom view: choose New Custom View… from a photo's view menu, or Settings › Custom Views and Landmarks. Name the view and its two points, then click the two points on the open photo. The box drawn on the photo is the export's shape: every photo aligned with these points is moved and scaled so they sit where you clicked them. Drag a point to fine-tune it. Turn on Level the line between the points when the points sit side by side.

To add your own pair of points to a view, standard or custom, use Add Custom Points… in the Points menu of the Landmarks tab, or Settings › Custom Views and Landmarks › Add Points to a Standard View. The pair is named after its two points, for example "Upper end of scar → Lower end of scar", and is offered after the standard pairs. Cases that use a custom view or custom points keep them even if they are later deleted from the list. While such a case is open, Custom Views and Landmarks lists them under Only in This Case, where they can be removed from it.

Settings profiles

A profile keeps crop, anonymize, annotate, landmark and watermark settings under a name, for example one for faces and one for breast or body photos. Every change is saved into the profile in use as you work, Default included; there is no Save command and no message to answer.

Everything done with profiles is in the Profile: pop-up: on a Mac, beside the case name at the top of the window; on iPhone and iPad, in the bar at the top of the case and of the photo editor, which stays in place while the list scrolls.

• Make a profile: Profile: › New Profile from Current Settings… saves the settings in use now under a name.
• Back to the original settings: Profile: › Reset Default Profile to Original Settings puts Default back to the app's own settings. Your watermark logo and your other profiles are kept.
• Each device keeps its own profile: profiles sync between your devices, but choosing or changing one on one device never changes what another device shows. If a profile was updated on another device, choose it again in the Profile: pop-up to bring in the new version.
• Switch, rename or delete: choose a profile in the Profile: pop-up to switch to it. Below the profiles, on a Mac, Rename and Delete act on the profile in use; on iPhone and iPad, Rename or Delete Profiles lists every profile. Cases that used a deleted profile go back to Default and keep their own settings.
• A new case starts with the profile of the case open before it.
• Each case keeps its own: its profile and every setting in it, the watermark included, are saved in the case folder with each change. Reopening the case brings them all back. There is no Save command to remember.

Settings on all your devices

When your devices are signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud on, your settings follow you between iPhone, iPad and Mac: profiles, procedure list, custom views and landmarks, watermark logo, and export file type. Each device keeps its own cases, its own file name format and its own choice of profile; photos, cases and patient details do not sync.

iCloud is optional. Every feature works without it; without iCloud, settings simply stay on each device, and on iPhone and iPad they are deleted with the app, except your custom views and landmarks and your specialties: a copy of those is kept in the device's keychain and comes back if the app is installed again on the same device. To keep custom views and landmarks the same on every device, so photos are aligned to the same points everywhere, and to have your settings back after reinstalling the app, turn iCloud on: Settings › your name › iCloud on iPhone and iPad, System Settings › your name › iCloud on a Mac.

Free trial and subscription

• The free trial is 3 cases. A case counts when its first photo is added. Each trial case can export up to 24 different photos, and can be exported again as often as you like.
• Trial exports carry the Veroptic watermark across the whole photo. The export preview shows exactly what you will get.
• Subscribe: the card at the foot of the case list, the plan chip beside the case name, Settings (the gear) › Subscription on iPhone and iPad, or on the Mac, Veroptic › Subscription…. Payment is handled by Apple and charged when you subscribe. Subscribing ends the trial on that device.
• Change between annual and monthly, or cancel: in the app, open the subscription screen (iPhone and iPad: Settings (the gear) › Subscription; Mac: Veroptic › Subscription…) and choose Manage subscription. This opens Apple's subscription settings. Or open Settings › your name › Subscriptions on iPhone or iPad, or the App Store › your account › Subscriptions on a Mac. A change between annual and monthly takes effect at your next renewal date. After cancelling, the subscription stays active until the end of the period already paid for.
• Restore Purchases on the subscription screen finds a subscription bought on another device.

Help and appearance

• Mac: Help › Veroptic Help (⇧⌘/, which the Help menu shows as ⌘?) opens this manual. Type in the Help menu's search field to list matching manual topics under the menu items; choose one to open the manual at that topic.
• iPhone and iPad: Settings (the gear) › Veroptic Help.
• The ? buttons in Procedure List, File Name Format and Custom Views and Landmarks open this manual at that topic.
• Typing on iPhone and iPad: Done on the keyboard finishes. Swipe down on the short line above the keyboard, or on the list or settings, to put the keyboard away.
• The search box at the top of this page finds topics too.
• Appearance: Match System (the standard), Light or Dark. Mac: View › Appearance. iPhone and iPad: Settings › Appearance.

Troubleshooting

The crop is off-center after the landmarks are placed

The first crop is worked out from the two points, so the subject can sit off-center. Open Crop and drag inside the crop box to move it, or drag a corner or side to resize it, until the subject is centered. The points are not cleared. The crop belongs to the view, so the matching before or after photo gets the same crop at once and the pair stays matched. Reset goes back to the crop worked out from the points.

The before and after do not line up in Overlay

Check that both photos use the same pair in Points, then zoom in and drag each marker onto the landmark exactly. Check Level on both photos as well: a photo levelled by hand turns differently from one on Auto Level.

A photo is on the wrong side, before or after

The side comes from the date inside the photo, or the file's date when the photo has none. Tap or click its Before | After switch to switch it, or set an After-photo date in the case details. See Before and after.

Detect Pupils is greyed

It works only when Left pupil → Right pupil is chosen in Points, as on the frontal views.

Level or Overlay is greyed (iPhone and iPad)

Level needs both points on the photo. Overlay also needs the photo of the same view in the other session to have both of its points.

Export says something is missing

Export lists what it needs when you tap or click it: a procedure from your procedure list, a case number, and at least one photo with a view and both points.

Exports still carry the Veroptic watermark after subscribing

Files exported during the trial keep it. Export the case again. If the app still shows the free trial, open the subscription screen and choose Restore Purchases.

The watermark logo cannot be changed

Pro allows a different logo once every 14 days; the app says when the next change is possible. See Watermark.

Settings differ on another device

Settings follow you only between devices signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud on. Each device keeps its own choice of profile: choose the profile again in the Profile: pop-up to bring in changes made on another device.

Custom points deleted from the list still appear

A case whose photos use them keeps its own copy, so those photos stay aligned. While that case is open, Settings › Custom Views and Landmarks lists them under Only in This Case; remove them there. The photos that used them lose their points.

The Mac cannot rename a case

Veroptic needs permission for the folder that holds your cases. Turn it on in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Files and Folders › Veroptic.

Mac keyboard shortcuts