Quickstart · 01

Before your trial

The first screen is THE VIEWING DESK. Until you start a trial or subscribe, it offers three of our rolls to practise on. Everything you learn on them carries straight over to your own photos.

The viewing desk with the TRY A SAMPLE ROLL block and the recent rolls — **THE VIEWING DESK.** Sample rolls at the top, your recent rolls below, the QUICKSTART key at the right of the title.

1.1Download a sample roll

The TRY A SAMPLE ROLL block with a row reading DOWNLOAD — **TRY A SAMPLE ROLL.** Each row is one roll: its title, who shot it, a line about it, and its state on the action line.

One sample row, reading DOWNLOAD — **A row before download.** The action line reads DOWNLOAD; tap anywhere on the row.

Tap a row to fetch it. The frames come down from Apple's servers and are copied into Proof's own storage, so the roll's location reads INSIDE PROOF. The action line counts up (DOWNLOADING · 42%) and the roll opens by itself when it lands, as long as the desk is still on screen.
Once it has landed the line reads OPEN · 28 FRAMES · 65 MB. After the first open the row disappears: the sample has become an ordinary recent roll, tagged SAMPLE.
Three rolls to choose from, all by Mark Strayer: Phoenix, AZ (egrets on the water), Iceland (puffins and black churches) and Roxborough State Park, CO (red rock in the foothills).
No connection? The line says NO CONNECTION · TAP TO RETRY. Tap again when you are back online.
Long-press a sample row (or its recent card later) for Hide and Remove. Remove deletes the download from Proof only; nothing of yours is touched, and you can fetch it again any time.

1.2What you can do on a sample

A sample is a full roll. Open it, read it as a sheet, and use every tool on the bar:

Works on a sample	Held back on a sample
The five chinagraph pencils and the eraser · notes on a frame · the loupe, in every zoom · full resolution · SELECT and REJECT stamps · black & white viewing · the easel blades · undo and redo · Delete rejected (it is our film, so nothing of yours is at risk)	Printing · sharing · exporting a sheet or photos · marked JPEGs and Lightroom / Capture One flags · selects to Favorites or to an album · saving your marks to the card or to iCloud

The held-back controls stay on screen so you can see where they live; each shows a line such as Sample roll — printing is for your own film instead of acting. The two save-marks rows are simply hidden on a sample, because there is no card to write to.

1.3Where the trial begins

The NEW ROLL plate offering A FOLDER and PHOTOS LIBRARY — **NEW ROLL.** The first tile on the desk (and the folder key on the plate) asks where the roll is: a folder, or the Photos library.

Opening your photos is what the subscription covers: Open your own rolls, RAW and JPG · Unlimited contact sheets · Print, share and export your sheets. Tap New roll or any recent roll that is not a sample and the card comes up.
The trial is 14 days free, then a yearly subscription at the price shown on the card, billed to your Apple Account. Cancel any time; it renews unless cancelled 24 hours before the renewal date. Tick Remind me on day 12 and Proof sends one notification two days before it renews.
START FREE TRIAL finishes with a TRIAL STARTED stamp, and the desk is unchanged except that the sample rows fold away: a sample you had downloaded but not opened becomes a recent roll rather than vanishing, and one you had already opened stays exactly where it was, marks and all.
Already subscribed on another device? RESTORE on the card picks it up.