DarienGS

Still broken in 2.3.0. What a joke.

I keep optimistically downloading each new beta build as it comes out, but this bug still isn't fixed. It's incredible to me that the developers are prioritising things like building new a spiral tool ahead of basic workflow issues.

I'm running Affinity Photo 2.2.0.1986 on MacOS Ventura 13.4 and tabbing still doesn't work correctly in the Crop tool. When I type a value into the X field and hit Tab, the cursor still vanishes rather than moving to the Y field as it should.

Brilliant, thanks!

Many tools in Affinity Photo 2 show numeric values along the top toolbar – for example, the Paint Brush Tool has settings for Width, Opacity, Flow, Hardness, Length, Stabiliser length and Symmetry. When I click into one of these numeric fields, I can increase or decrease the value by 1 by pressing the up or down cursor key. If I hold down Shift, the value increases or decreases by 10. Unfortunately, once I've done this once the focus vanishes from the field. If I want to reduce a value by (say) 2% I therefore have to press the down arrow, then click back into the value field before I can press down again. This surely can't be correct behaviour. The focus ought to stay in the value field to receive multiple presses. I've searched around but can't find a previous report of this in this forum. I've confirmed that it happens in the latest stable release and in the latest beta (v2.1.0, build 1790).

Alas, that doesn't work for me. I'm moving items between the out-of-bounds and in-bounds areas of the image, so I want to be able to see the whole image, and I certainly don't want the boundaries to be shifting. Really, I just want a simple way to create guides like this, that demarcate a custom-shaped crop area without applying it:

I do see that the crop tool doesn't permanently delete content that's outside of the crop frame, and that's great. Being able to review off-edge content by ticking the Reveal tickbox is a definite advantage over Photoshop. However, what I'm doing here is editing images to ensure that all the key elements are inside the frame. So I want to be able to manipulate content that's outside of the crop area, not just view it. In Photoshop this is very easily accomplished: I use the Marquee tool with the "Fixed ratio" option, pick a crop area and then mark its boundaries with guides. I can then edit to my heart's content, and apply the crop as the last step. I can't see a way to do this in AP2 that's anything like as easy, without the addition of a "Custom ratio" option from the Marquee tool. But I'm appreciative of any suggestions!

Sadly I work with image frames of all shapes and sizes, so if I tried to work this way I think I'd have to create a new custom shape asset for almost every image?

Seems like it would be quicker and easier to just drag out the shape you want, no?

We have a "Custom ratio" mode for the Crop tool. Can we have one for the Marquee tool too, please?

In Affinity Photo 2, when entering a custom Crop ratio, you should be able to press Tab to move from the X value to the Y value field. Currently hitting Tab in the X field makes the focus vanish altogether. I think this must be a bug, as other sets of fields (e.g. in the Transform pane) interpret Tab as expected. I'm using macOS 13.3.1; I've tried both the latest full release and the latest Beta and the behaviour is the same on both. While I'm here, may I note that when the user selects "Mode: Custom ratio", it's very likely that the next thing they're going to want to do is specify the ratio. So perhaps choosing that menu option should automatically put the text cusor in the X field, or at least make it available via Tab?