Dakacha

I just wanted to add my +1 for plugin support.
Affinity Photo's support for 8bf plugins has made it exponentially more useful - for example, with the G'MIC plugin alone, I essentially have all of the filters I would ever need without relying on Photoshop. As others have said, I'm sure adding plugin support would snowball the popularity of Affinity Designer (just look at how popular Blender's add-on support is). The sooner it's implemented the sooner people can begin developing plugins for the software - I see it as a win-win for both the developers from a business standpoint (new features without any additional effort from the developers aside from enabling plugin support) and for the community.

I definitely would want Affinity Photo to have exactly this function (I proposed it in 
Don't know if it would make much sense in Designer.

Another sign up just for a basic crop tool. It's been years and I'm about to jump back to Elements. Serif, please address this. 

Registered to ask that the one-click crop tool be prioritized for Affinity Photo. It is the only thing stopping me from using this every day instead of Photoshop. 

I also registered to say I'd appreciate a "Crop to selection" option. Maybe it's just ingrained workflow coming from Photoshop, but it seems clunky to have to switch tool just for cropping.

So to add my voice into the wind that is this 2-year old topic, it's a bit strange to not have this feature that is "standard" in every image tool I can recall. I literally downloaded this trial, pulled in a screen grab that I needed to trim, and not having an obvious crop option was the first issue I ran into. The crop tool "works" but is not the same thing. I don't need to preserve the cropped image non-destructively. I don't want to choose a tool, then pull down from one corner, then pull up from another corner, then click Apply. I want to do what I always do in PS: M -> draw a box -> crop. Bang, done. It's really not that hard!
 
As I'm sure you know, it's all about efficient workflow, and for you, also attracting PS and other tool users. This is such a simple and common action it's a bit mind-boggling to me that it's missing after all this time. As a trial user new to this tool it also makes me wonder what other little bits of weirdness I might run into.

Hi DeeT,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
I agree that it's an useful addition but like this one there was also several other useful requests or planned features that have have already been added to the program. We simply cannot add them all at once (the dev team is relatively small and are already doing their best). Sometimes even some requests that may look simple to implement at first from an user's perspective may pose a few challenges/issues to solve (not necessarily this one but still). Please bear with us while we work to improve things.

I just registered an account to ask why this is still not programmed?

Seems like such a basic thing.... Makes me think twice about buying any more software from Affinity to be honest

I'll join in and say I need crop to selection. I generally work with low resolution sprites for game development, and I crop a lot. There are so many ways to make a selection and I don't see a reason I should use another tool to crop to it.

This - and the other comment elsewhere that using the help for "crop" has no results - figured I can use the crop tool although not as obvious or efficient as crop from selection - especially coming from Photoshop. Otherwise I rather like Affinity so far - especially with the price.
 
If the help just explained what crop options exist (rather than no results for the word crop!) it'd be half the issue solved.

Yeah, Serif, you're saying you are making 
Professional photo editing and graphic design softwarewe deserve a simple Document > Crop function.

We definitely need and want Image > "Crop from selection". It's not so difficult to code up, come on!

@jmac: I was already pretty angry, but I would have been pissed as hell if I didn't work with vectors often enough to enjoy my $50 Designer purchase. But as it stands, I am pretty happy about it since it allows me to create even better logos and websites without being restricted by document resolution/pixels. It was a joy to see my designs in total non-pixelated clarity for the first time.
 
It just seems like they're trying way too hard to differentiate the apps, when they're already very different and both worth owning. You are correct that photographers need attractive text, and that's why even Photoshop *ELEMENTS* has Text on a Shape (live-editable smart object), Text on a Curve (vectors), and Text on Selection Outline. Elements is more powerful than even Affinity Designer at creating text... let that sink in for a moment.
 
Anyway...
 
Affinity Photo: Extremely powerful photo editing features (loads of filters, live fx and adjustment layers, correction tools, etc), some powerful vector features but none of the Designer niceties that make vectors easy and attractive to work with.
Affinity Designer: Extremely powerful vector features that make it vital if you want to *enjoy* working with vectors the way they're meant to be seen: Infinitely zoomable without pixelation, letting you make every little detail perfect. Also has some good pixel editing features but lacks the ultra-powerful ones from Photo.
 
Bim bam bom. They're already unique apps. No reason to wall off creative and attractive text as a $50 extra. It looks kinda desperate and pathetic.
 
My heart goes out to all photographers who don't care about vectors, and who are forced to flat, boring text that's even worse than what the newbie-app Photoshop Elements would have given them.

I have to say this mind set seems oddly rigid and unsupported by the nature of the 2 applications. While they each do have "features that the other doesn't have" they clearly share many, many others, some of which you would not expect. Like being able to "create a feature in one app and then edit it in the other." This does not set them apart from each other. It sets them apart from Adobe. This feature compatibility between the two apps and the pixel persona in Designer specifically, is much more advantageous to designers who often work with photos and vectors than it is to photographers who I image rarely need the design capabilities of a vector app. There is clearly a need, even if only now and then, by photographers, and I would imagine digital painters as well, to make attractive text within their images. This is a feature that makes sense to include in Affinity Photo. If you not going to allow text on a path because "Photo and Designer are different apps" then why include text in Photo at all? I really don't understand the logic here and forcing photographers to buy (even at a very reasonable cost) an additional application to access this one feature doesn't seem reasonable.

Very poor of Serif to not address this shortcoming and preferring to stay silent. Many people have asked for this feature in Photo in the past and half a dozen people in this thread have asked for it via posts or likes, not to mention all the lazy people who agree but didn't take the time to post.
 
I decided to buy Designer to get this basic photo editing feature. I am happy with the ability to work on my vectors in a better program for that task, and only use photo for doing photo editing.
 
But the list of reasons to buy designer is huge so why the f}## restrict "text on a curve" to only designer?!
 
Here is my own list of Designer features that ultimately made it worth owning in addition to photo, and you can draw your own conclusions about whether "text on a curve" really needs to be walled off as a $50 extra on top of affinity photo's price.
 
Great designer features:
 
Transparency tool
- drag gradient-like transparency on layers without using pixel-based masking
 
infinite non pixelated zoom
- awesome when drawing logos, icons and symbols
- great for real-world object designs etc; no constraints to artwork size based on pixels, easy to zoom in and see all the details
 
Incoming ability to apply multiple fx/strokes per layer
- very useful since you can create staggered outlines without duplicating layers
 
draw vector paths with a pen or mouse, instead of clicking control points
- useless to me, but great for people with drawing tablets
 
text on a path
- vital to be able to create eye popping photo captions
 
Tool for smoothly rounding vector corners
- useful to have when designing; really nice to be able to round off sharp corners
 
pixel and retina preview
- great; seeing vectors when zooming and still being able to preview what pixels will look like
 
wireframe view
- incredible when refining finished vector designs; lets you focus on the curves instead of being distracted by shading
 
Incoming tool to automatically vectorize pixel art
- can be great; hopefully rivals vectormagic
 
Incoming tool to mesh-warp vectors nondestructively
- SO DAMN USEFUL
 
Incoming knife tool to cut vector shapes in half
- ultra useful
 
Incoming artboards to let you have multiple designs in one file where each design will be independently exported
- kinda cool
 
Text features like text styles (ability to save presets of all attributes common to text like choosing fonts and kerning and outline and gradient and easily reusing that), bullets, numbering
- very nice
 
 
And those are just the exclusive features that I cared about in designer. There are other exclusive ones.
 
So why the %{%{% is basic "curved text" abilities locked to a $50 photo addon?! :/ There are lots of reasons for people to buy designer without crippling a basic photo editing feature: The ability to create non-boring text.

Yes, Photographers have to buy a freaking vector design program to be able to do something as basic as curving text. Meanwhile Adobe's baby-app for newbies, Adobe Photoshop Elements, has curved text and lots of other built-in modes. What is the most professional app in this case? Unfortunately not Affinity. :-( Flat text on a straight line..........

So you have to buy Designer for just one function ?

Pleeeease reconsider this. Why not make Affinity Photo better than Photoshop in *every* way?
 
Even Photoshop Elements, the cheap baby-version of Photoshop, has:
 
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/add-text.html
 
* Text on Shape
* Text on Selection
* Text on Path
 
They're extremely useful tools and the lack of them is a huge limitation for adding creative text to photos in Affinity Photo. :-( Every time I go to add text in Photos, I wish the feature existed... And ironically, Photos is a place where creative text matters a lot. Imagine you're making a wallpaper from a family vacation or wedding, and you want to add a headline title to it. Do you really want the letters to be on a flat, boring, straight line, or do you want the text to have some fun flair? Or just look at the dog-example in the above Photoshop link, which shows a really fun use for text in creative photo editing, where they've wrapped the text around the dog. Creative text is insanely useful in photo editing to set the right mood. This is why Photoshop includes the feature in its photo editor (even in Elements), instead of just having it in Illustrator... Please don't artificially hold back an essential core text feature of Photo editing just to differentiate Designer and Photo. You can differentiate Designer in non-text-related ways (more smart shapes, bitmap to vector auto-conversion, being able to draw vectors as a paintbrush instead of just a pen tool, infinite zoom, vector outline "xray" view mode, pixel preview of vectors, etc)... Creative text is a basic feature of any editor out there except Affinity Photo...
 
I'm sad now, and it's the first time I've been sad about Affinity... :-( Heh...
 
 
edit: Hi to everyone giving this post a "like"! But it's probably better if you also post your opinions in the thread for more visibility.