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@oO5Dynasty we all appreciate the fact that you are trying to help, so thank you for spending the time.
However, I think there must be some misunderstanding... "Crop to selection" is not about background removal and is not about masking. The only thing we care is to find the bounding box of a selection.
Here's an example of a picture cropped with GIMP. So, first here's the original picture:

Now here's how we crop with GIMP. Notice the step from having a selection to cropping with a single click...

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For those that keep talking about vector brushes, please create a new thread.  You are derailing this thread...

@oO5Dynasty we all appreciate the fact that you are trying to help, so thank you for spending the time.
However, I think there must be some misunderstanding... "Crop to selection" is not about background removal and is not about masking. The only thing we care is to find the bounding box of a selection.
Here's an example of a picture cropped with GIMP. So, first here's the original picture:

Now here's how we crop with GIMP. Notice the step from having a selection to cropping with a single click...

Registrazione schermata 2020-04-28 alle 00.15.03.mov

That's only because you are starting with a rectangular selection, not parts of the corners.

Tropilio is probably surprised by you mentioning the crop tool, given there is totally no way of snapping the crop to the current selection. Which is what we are trying to do.

@oO5Dynasty we all appreciate the fact that you are trying to help, so thank you for spending the time.
However, I think there must be some misunderstanding... "Crop to selection" is not about background removal and is not about masking. The only thing we care is to find the bounding box of a selection.
Here's an example of a picture cropped with GIMP. So, first here's the original picture:

Now here's how we crop with GIMP. Notice the step from having a selection to cropping with a single click...

Registrazione schermata 2020-04-28 alle 00.15.03.mov

Nice videotutorial, but that has nothing to do with "crop to selection".

@carl123 thank you! Your macro is amazing. 😁 It's absurd that we need a macro for such a basic feature, but... go figure.
What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like:
you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that.
However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click).
There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those.

@carl123 thank you! Your macro is amazing. 😁 It's absurd that we need a macro for such a basic feature, but... go figure.
What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like:
you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that.
However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click).
There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those.

@carl123 thank you! Your macro is amazing. 😁 It's absurd that we need a macro for such a basic feature, but... go figure.
What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like:
you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that.
However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click).
There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those.

@carl123 thank you! Your macro is amazing. 😁 It's absurd that we need a macro for such a basic feature, but... go figure.
What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like:
you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that.
However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click).
There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those.