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Hey @Wosven, Thanks for taking this forward. Hopefully this gets resolved soon. A workaround for now is to paint black instead of white in the expanded area. I have shared a method below, to do the same. In case of gradients, you might have to redo the gradient once the crop has been expanded. Hope this is helpful. Hey @Lisbon, The said technique, of painting black or filling black using a rectangular marquee in the expanded area could cost some valuable time if we have portions in the boundary that were masked previously. I figured out another workaround. This seems to be efficient and less error prone than the said methods. Appreciate your view on this. Thank you. Step 1: Invert the mask before expanding the cropping. Step 2: Expand the crop. Step 3: Invert the mask back to normal. This automatically expands the mask. Hey @Dan C, Thank you for the explanation. It is definitely a lot clearer now. Yes, as per your response to Question #2, this happens when I have partial transparency in the mask. But as I said the position of the mask at the bottom seems more appropriate rather than at the top as it applies the effects of the adjustments properly to the partial transparent areas in the mask. I am attaching the Affinity Document for your reference. Here is what I did. Step 1: Create a rectangle with some color. Step 2: Select a portion of the rectangle as "Mask". Step 3: In the mask, create transparency by painting gray in some area. Step 4: Group the mask. Step 5: Add the adjustment layer to the mask group and adjust the values. Step 6: Toggle the position of the mask to the top or bottom of the group. Step 7: The difference should be evident. example.afphoto Kindly have a look at the document and please share your views on this. Thanks for all the help folks. Regards, Gokul PM

Hey @Wosven, I’m totally on your side with this one. This feature of expanding the mask with the crop already works good with the iPad version of Affinity Photo. I’m new to this forum. Is there a way in which we can request for features of suggest changes? If you are comfortable with the procedure, kindly take this forward as a feature request/suggestion. If it’s much, kindly direct me, so that I request for the same. Thank you. Regards, Gokul PM

Hey @Dan C, You are awesome. Thanks for sharing this technique. I’m very new to layer based editing and this method is an absolute gem to use. Previously I used to create a mask and nest it to an adjustment layer. If I need more adjustment layers to apply on an object, I add new adjustment layers and copy paste the mask as a nested mask for each one of them. It worked for me, but now it feels a bit stupid after seeing the method you shared. If you don’t mind, I have a few questions that would help me understand this technique better. 1. Why does a mask behave differently inside and outside a group? 2. When I place the mask at the bottom of the group it yields a result similar to the technique I was using earlier and that seems more appropriate. When the mask is at the top of the group, the effect is a little different and the adjustment layers are more abrupt (it’s not gradual). Any reason for this? 3. How is nesting a layer different from placing it at the top of a layer? Any directions are appreciated. Thank you. Regards, Gokul PM

Yea, this method is definitely faster. Thanks for the tip. Have a great day! I create a mask of an object, then duplicate it incase I want to edit that object with more than 1 adjustment layer. Let's say you have a landscape with a boat in it. Now when you want to apply multiple adjustment layers to that boat. What do you do? If it was just 1 adjustment layer, then directly adjust the mask present in the adjustment layers makes sense, if it was multiple, how to duplicate that mask to multiple adjustment layers? Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Regards, Gokul PM

Hi, I imported an image, cropped it. Then applied curves adjustment with a mask to apply the adjustment on a specific area. I re-cropped the photograph to include more area. The adjustment layer is incorrectly applied on the newly accommodated area, because it was never included in the mask. So when I'm cropping out, the adjustment is automatically getting applied to the accomodated area. Steps to reproduce: Step 1 : Import image Step 2: Crop the image Step 3: Create an adjustment layer with a mask Step 4: Edit the adjustment layer Step 5: Re-crop to include more area Step 6: Check if the adjustment layer is not applied on the additional area included in Step 5 I want the mask to remain the same and not allow the adjustment layer in the newly accommodated area. Any help or directions in this regard is appreciated. Edit: If I select the mask and paint black over the unapplied area, the adjustment layers vanishes from that region. But are there any other ways to do this automatically when we expand the crop? Regards Gokul

Thanks for the help people. Glad that a bug has been reported for this issue. Yes, this indeed works fine in the desktop version but does not in the iPad version. Not sure if unclipping the canvas is what I'm looking for, as it resets the crop in my case. I'll keep it in mind if I want to start crop fresh, it's a nice workaround that way. Regards, Gokul

Yea, when I re-crop the image, only the output of the previous crop is visible, not the entire image. I cannot see the discarded portion from the previous crop. Attaching screenshots for your reference. Thanks!

Hi there! So here is what I did, Steps to reproduce: Step 1: Use the <CROP> tool to crop an image Step 2: Click <APPLY> Step 3: Again click on the <CROP> tool Expected: Step 1: Cropped the image Step 2: Crop applied successfully Step 3: See the entire image. including the cropped out region during Step 1, so that the crop can be positioned better. Actual: Step 1: Cropped the image Step 2: Crop applied successfully Step 3: Only the region that was the output of Step 1 is visible. The cropped out region is not visible, but is available when I drag the crop box outside. Question: How can I see the entire image while cropping multiple times? Right now I'm able to see only the output of the previous crop. Also, when I perform edits and then re-crop the image to include more area, the layers are not applying on the extra region. How to apply the edits to the extra region that is included in the later stage of editing? Any help or direction is appreciated. Thank you. Regards, Gokul

This is indeed right. When I change the units from pt to px and input a number in px, the value shown is half of that number in pts. It's the conversion at play here I suppose.

Although that’s a possibility, the problem I facing was quite different. When I click on the numerical value and set it as 300. The value that was displayed there was 150. But during a pressure profile adjustment, the value of the width remains constant while adjusting the curve right? If I set the brush width as 400 and bring down a end point to 50 percent, the width still stays the same. I couldn’t get a chance to record my screen and once I restarted the software it started working fine. I’ll be sure to add a video or screenshots to reproduce this issue if I face it again. Thanks!

It’s a glitch I guess. I restarted the software and it works fine now. Appreciate the help and sorry for bothering you. Thanks!

Thank you! Yup, that worked fine. Also when I adjust the number, the resultant value is being set as half the input value I entered. Say I enter 300, the value is getting set as 150. 200 when I set it as 400. Any particular logic behind that, you might be aware of? Thanks for the welcome! I’m totally enjoying the Affinity Designer.

Hi there, I drew my outline with the pen tool. Then selected the stroke type to be a brush stroke. The maximum stroke with is given as 100. If there any work around to increase the stroke width beyond that limit (effect wise)? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.