Debra35

As I've posted elsewhere, I don't understand the pushback against this feature request. This is useful and speeds up the workflow for many people. 
1. "But it's a destructive workflow".
Maybe, but it's what I need for my workflow to be productive. You can still have your 'non-destructive' workflow if this feature is added.
2. "But you can just copy the layer to a new document"
I'm cropping to selection 1000 times in a day and your workflow will add hours to my project.
3. "Add talking point here"
Why are you so opposed to adding this feature when it clearly will benefit a lot of people, while taking away nothing from your workflow?
Please stop trying to convince the people who are requesting this feature that they don't really need it, or can just use some alternative workflow. It's condescending of you to assume that just because you don't find a use for it, no one else will. This is a basic feature that is present in most other serious Photo editing apps, and having it in Affinity Photo will just make a great tool better and more versatile. 

Oh, wow lol. 4+ years later and this hasn't been fixed yet?
The tone of this thread and the condescending answers is disappointing. Good tools are supposed to give people the maximum number of options to create content with the minimum amount of resistance.
Just because someone is locked into a certain kind of workflow, doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. It's arrogant - and ignorant - to assume that INSERT FEATURE HERE is of no use, just because you don't personally need it. While most people are okay with a few missing features and a bit of a learning curve when switching from Photoshop to Affinity Photo, it’s not expected that something as basic and popular as cropping the selection is missing in Affinity Photo.
Answers and excuses range from 'non-destructive workflow' to various workarounds, like copying the selection into a new document. This all misses the fundamental point of good tools providing more options, not less, to work how the user wants to work, and not forcing or limiting them. Common sense dictates that if Photoshop does something two, three or four times faster than Affinity Photo then the latter is doing something wrong.

As I've posted elsewhere, I don't understand the pushback against this feature request. This is useful and speeds up the workflow for many people. 
1. "But it's a destructive workflow".
Maybe, but it's what I need for my workflow to be productive. You can still have your 'non-destructive' workflow if this feature is added.
2. "But you can just copy the layer to a new document"
I'm cropping to selection 1000 times in a day and your workflow will add hours to my project.
3. "Add talking point here"
Why are you so opposed to adding this feature when it clearly will benefit a lot of people, while taking away nothing from your workflow?
Please stop trying to convince the people who are requesting this feature that they don't really need it, or can just use some alternative workflow. It's condescending of you to assume that just because you don't find a use for it, no one else will. This is a basic feature that is present in most other serious Photo editing apps, and having it in Affinity Photo will just make a great tool better and more versatile. 

Wow, this thread is something else.  For the people defending this feature not being in the program, there are FREE photo editors that have this feature.  No excuses, especially when there's a thread with people still commenting after 4 years.

Oh, wow lol. 4+ years later and this hasn't been fixed yet?
The tone of this thread and the condescending answers is disappointing. Good tools are supposed to give people the maximum number of options to create content with the minimum amount of resistance.
Just because someone is locked into a certain kind of workflow, doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. It's arrogant - and ignorant - to assume that INSERT FEATURE HERE is of no use, just because you don't personally need it. While most people are okay with a few missing features and a bit of a learning curve when switching from Photoshop to Affinity Photo, it’s not expected that something as basic and popular as cropping the selection is missing in Affinity Photo.
Answers and excuses range from 'non-destructive workflow' to various workarounds, like copying the selection into a new document. This all misses the fundamental point of good tools providing more options, not less, to work how the user wants to work, and not forcing or limiting them. Common sense dictates that if Photoshop does something two, three or four times faster than Affinity Photo then the latter is doing something wrong.

You will laugh, but I bought this shitty software.

I'm very, very confused.   I downloaded Affinity Photo last week (trial) and today I went to crop a photo by selection.   To my surprise, it was not possible.  Ive been doing this for years in MS Paint, Paint.net, GIMP, Photoshop, and any other image editor that I can remember.    Why is this not an option in Affinity Photo?    Its very odd.  I was hoping that Affinity Photo was the software Ive been looking for (great price) but its missing such a basic feature, I'm worried its missing other features as I learn this software.
Why would is this feature missing?   Its been 3 years since this thread was started.   

Such a bureaucratic and surly core community here!
I've noticed that "New from Selection" from Telegram Messenger didn't work and asked for a help, @Old Bruce just started to troll on me.

That's really embarrassing. Looks like they live in kind of previous century.

What is wrong with this software? They just cannot create this simple feature for three years? 

every week throughout the winter I take and then process about 100 pictures of the ice cliffs in my area. one of the things I do is to select the area I want to focus on and crop appropriately. I have been using PS to do this for years. I'd like to make the switch to Affinity, but this lack of a Crop To Selection functionality is a real workflow deal-breaker. Get on it folks...