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Thanks for the ideas! I'll try these solutions and see if I can make something work for my use case.

I was wondering if there is a way to rapidly shrink an artboard to the size of the bounding box of its contents? I'm a scientist, and I frequently use Affinity Designer for making and processing figures. My general workflow is: Affinity Designer -> Export Artboard as PNG -> LaTeX Because my artboards are usually a little off-size of their contents, I can get some small shifts in my LaTeX documents that aren't visually pleasing. Is there a quick way to resize the artboard to its contents? In my mind, I would call this a shrinkwrap feature, but I wasn't able to find any documentation for a feature like that in Affinity.

Is it possible to specify interleaved vs non-interleaved when exporting to .tif in Affinity Photo? I use Affinity Photo and Designer for scientific work, and many of the image analysis programs I use only accept non-interleaved .tifs. I've got a workaround for now, where I ingest the desired image into mathematica, and then change it to non-interleaved, but it's a clunky solution. Any insight on whether this is possible would be great.

@qwz I'm not sure what you mean by paste the image inside a rectangle? I've tried using the place image tool with a properly sized rectangle selected. It doesn't seem possible to change the fill of a rectangle to be an image. Is there another way that I'm missing to do what you've suggested?

@stokerg Thanks for the reply. I realize this software is primarily focused on "proper" graphic designers, but these features would greatly facilitate my workflow. Even just allowing the modification of the crop mask in the transform panel in Designer (which should be as "simple" as passing the XY coords of the bounds which are already stored in a vector somewhere to the transform panel) would be useful. Even if the tools are different, the ability to "look under the hood" and modify them in a precise manner would be invaluable. When I'm cropping microscope images, and I want to maintain the same scale between several different images in a figure, it's useful to be able to crop all images to the same dimensions, and then scale them to the same size in Designer. Currently the workflow is: 1. Open microscope image in Photo and crop to specified # of pixels x and y (which does behave in a centered manner thankfully) 2. Export cropped image from Photo (As "open in designer" opens the original photo, not the photo with the crop applied, even if you save the cropped photo as a new Photo file. I would argue that this is not the expected behavior by most users, even with the "non-destructive" nature of editing in Photo) 3. Open cropped photo in Designer 4. Resize to fixed size using the transform panel, and manual size entry 5. Position image, and apply new scale bar This could be shortened to: 1. Drop image into Designer 2. Apply constrained ratio center crop to desired size 3. Resize to fixed size using the transform panel, and manual size entry if necessary 4. Position image and apply new scale bar While the number of steps is not that different, the difference in number of clicks is massive, especially for a case like mine where I'm processing on the order of 20-30 microscope images for a publication. Again, I know I'm not the primary user type for your software (though a few of my colleagues do use Illustrator, most use ... Powerpoint ... to lay out their figures), so I don't expect my feedback to make it into the featureset for a long time. Thanks for taking the time to respond, and if you have any ideas of how this workflow could be improved, I would welcome it.

Hi, I'm a scientist and I used Illustrator to make figures until jumping ship to Affinity. I would like to be able to perform an aspect-ratio crop within Affinity easily. Thus far the only way I've found to do this is to simply look at the rulers, and hope that I'm getting close to a square or a 1x2 crop, depending on the scenario. The ability to manipulate the crop area in the transform panel would be sufficient to get the desired result, though a true aspect ratio control widget would be better in my opinion. This would save me from having to crop all of my microscope images in Photo just to move them into Designer so that I can arrange them how I would like. Additionally, I'm not able to find a way to resize the crop while keeping it centered on my subject, which was possible in my previous photo editing software, I think by holding Alt(?). I would make the case that it's inconsistent for you to be able to resize an object in Designer, with the Ctrl key depressed in order to keep it centered, but not be able to do the same thing with the crop tool in photo. This may be an edge use case for many photographers, but for me, I frequently want to center the crop on the particle/anomaly I want to highlight. Please advise if there is a way to do this that I simply haven't found.