The crop tool is the one tool I use a lot and the biggest reason Affinity is not my main editing software. It's not user friendly if you edit large numbers of images at one time. I shoot sports events. I have a very efficient work flow to edit 40 to 100+ images from an event. Here's what I don't like about the crop tool... some of it mentioned above. BTW - I'm on a 2015 MacBook Pro running Mojave (but I'll be upgrading soon to the new OS) and version 1.7.3 of Affinity.
The crop tool doesn't have a preset for the size I use. I use a native camera sensor crop size... 16.32 x 10.88 inches. It divides down to basically a 6x4 at 300 dpi. Using the 4x6 setting in Affinity works, but resizes my image to 1/4 of what it really is, so that doesn't really work for me. I haven't found a way to add a preset unless I import it from somewhere else. Where? PS? That seems kind of weird. Also, the only way to keep the software from reverting to unconstrained for the next image I edit is to pick one of the presets from the little gear icon. Picking Original Ratio or Constrained, or what ever from the drop down will not keep the software from reverting to Unconstrained on the next image. I need for my selection to stick from image to image to image to image and from one session to the next. It needs to remember my last selection no matter what the circumstance.
Next is the tool bar that holds all the different editing icons. It doesn't stick either! When I save and close one image, the next image - even if already open - doesn't have any tool active. If I last used the crop tool, I want that tool to be active next image no matter the circumstance. Same as if I had the erase tool or any of the other tools active. It should be active next image no matter what the circumstance - next image, next session... even after an upgrade!
I know that those few mouse clicks don't sound like a lot, but if you are doing 100 images it adds up to several hundred extra clicks and countless minutes of processing time.
Please consider adjusting the toolbar and the crop tool to remember what the user was doing and make it immediately available for their next image. Till it gets fixed, I unfortunately can't use this software full time.
In landscape photography you are same way in hurry as in wildlife photography and bracketing shots or taking high speed sequences. Sports and wildlife ain't only area that benefits from 60 FPS. So does as well macro photography.
And street photography ain't only area where quick deciding moment goes in time of raising camera for shot, it happens as well in landscape photography, and even more in macro photography.
Wildlife and sports photography can be done very effectively with a single frame and using manual focus, it just requires more skill and talent. But same thing is applied for landscape, macro etc.
But one limitation many does have is that they set artificial restrictions by using some custom ratios, instead being free to compose by best of the content and situation, freely.
When browsing old photographs, one can see that prints comes in all kind various sizes and formats when done byself in darkroom. But so many got stuck to these specific sizes in quick development and services as well now the displays.
If there just would be a way to set parameter settings as default.... Right?
All settings should have profiles to be saved in drop down list, and set one of them as default, as well having the factory default to ever get back to Affinity default.
