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I have been happy to use AffinityPhoto now for some time. But with 2.1, all my standard workflows have been made harder, longer, aggravating. E.g. the Crop/Rotate tool with the new auto-size, which is wrong for me in 99% of all cases. But it seems to be great, since I'm shown how to get the old behavior with at least 6 additional steps. But now, I just wanted to do a 1-minute fix of one JPEG, just copying one section and then cropping it. But the copy part always insisted to paste the copied part behind the current image, regardless of what I did. I spent 15 minutes without any success. Then I started the old AffinityPhoto 1, and after 30 seconds, the task was done. And it seems to be that way with about everything I do. While some things, especially some filters, are really improved, the whole new workflow needed for that is just a no-go. I want to work on my pictures efficiently, not take 1000 detours to reach the desired result. So while in the beginning, AffinityPhoto was a great tool for me, it now has taken a way I just won't go along with it any more. So I'm searching now for a working alternative, where I can continue working for my pictures, not for the program.

While this works great when rotating a full image, I have some issues with that if I try to rotate after cropping. As the cropped away part still exists, I sometimes want to re-adjust the rotation after cropping, e.g. when I didn't see it before, or didn't get it exactly. Now rotating re-crops the image, even though it is not needed, since enough of the previous image exists to perform the rotation without additional cropping. Could that autocrop on rotation be made optional?

Hi, thanks for your reply. I haven't enabled the "Save with History", and I am working on a local hard drive. Saving an image with just some random drawings went too fast for my feeling. So I have tried it with copying one of the images, and then create new pictures from clipboard, and save them to new files, and till now got no lockup. BUT I tried making random changes to those pictures and saving them again, and didn't get a lockup either. I even made sure to use the folder containing the 1300 files to save them, and have that folder open in the windows explorer. I tried many things, but couldn't get a lockup. So whatever leads to the problem, must be some weird timing that is not often met, but when it is... I know that doesn't help much, I'm a software developer myself, but even strange issues might get caught every now and again. I will try some more to see if I can get some hints on what is needed for it to appear.

The last days, whenever I open an existing .aphoto file, edit it, and try to save it, I have a very high chance of AP not responding any more. The save file progress bar is at seemingly 100%, but the dialog doesn't close. In the task manager, I see that AP takes one whole CPU core, but has seemingly no activity regarding HDD or memory. As there also is a windows explorer window open containing the edited file, and that file icon has changed from the previous preview image to the "generic picture" icon, I assume that Windows might have started a request to AP to updated that preview icon again, and maybe that might lead under some timing circumstances to a deadlock. The image seems to be saved completely, but even waiting 20 minutes did not resolve anything, so closing the program by task manager was the last remaining option. The saved file seems to be complete and undamanged and can be opened again afterwards, containing all the changeds done before saving It must be some strange timing issue anyway, because the last days, I was editing a set of 1300 images, and had absolutely no issue with that at first. Only during the last 200 pictures that started to happen, but then it happened every 2nd or 3rd picture, so it was more than annoying to get through the last files. I tried several things, including a computer restart, but nothing helped here. I am using AP V 1.10.5.1342 and Windows 10@64 21H2, with a Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB RAM, .and a Radeon RX 590.

Probably you did, but I am still struggling with the Affinity Photo terms and the way of thinking needed for it. It's exacly this other way of thinking which led to me abandonning the Affinity Photo beta test in those days, because it seemed too much effort to learn. Gladly the functionality of the program as improved since then, so now I give it an earnest "re-try". So yes, it seems the image is not cropped, but rotated inside the canvas. And yes, it seems I can either "uncrop" the image, or use the canvas size change. And now I understand the issue everybody is having with the standard settings of the canvas change tool. But, as it is with the perspective tool, a lot is left then to "guess work" and several retries, as the un-crop doesn't show a hint of the image parts that are gowing to reappear. So in terms of Affinity Photo, it seems what I would like to have is an option of a canvas "auto-grow" on certain operations. With the new insight you gave me here to the correlation of the image parts to the canvas, which can basically be handled like a layer below all other layers, I can better work around that issue.

Sometimes I have photos from whiteboards or something like that, and for better usage, would like to get the perspecitve distortion removed. While I can do that when using the perspective tool and setting it to source mode, the tool enforces automatic crop, because the crop box is checked and grayed out. If that was not grayed out, but could be checked out, I could use the tool to mark any clearly visible rectangle in the picture, use it to set up the perspecitve correction, and manually crop the image to the part I really need. While I can use the target mode to try and move the corner points until the image looks like it is straight, the other way would be easier. Similar to that, in the "straighten" tool or other transformation tools, I would sometimes like the opposite of the crop: grow the image so the transformed image is completely visible! By now the straighten tool without cropping turns the image inside the current image size, so some transparent parts are added, but the same amount of image is lost, because it is rotated outside the current borders.

I'm fairly new to Affinity under Windows, while not to photo processing (analog and digital). I am trying to develop a workflow for my standard basic processings. I like Affinity by now, and the tutorial videos helped a lot. But on some points, Affinity lacks some things. Batch processing is one of those. Predefined settings for a batch processing would help a lot, including the file format options, especially if I could create several of them and simply select them instead of setting them up from scratch every time. So I don't have to re-do it every now and again if I forgot one step. Why do I have to select the photos from the select button in the dialog, and can't just drag/drop photos in from an external source? And why does the folder selected for importing photos change the startup folder for the destination? If I had wanted to use the same folder, I could use the standard option. Either way I do it, it gets wrong. If I select the input files first, the output folder is set to the input folder on opening the folder browser. And if I select it first, and then the input files, the next time I use the dialog the staring point for the output folder is the last input selection folder.