stingray

I suspect many users here frown upon such destructive edit methods since the 'raison d'etre' for Affinity Photo seems to be non-destructive editing. I agree much of the time non-destructive is desirable but sometimes I need destructive techniques. For anyone interested I worked out a very fast way of achieving a 'crop to selection' as follows: 1 - make a selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool 2 - select Copy flattened 3 - select New from Clipboard Done. I was hoping to put steps 2 and 3 in a macro but no go joe! If anyone knows how to put such commands in a Macro please let me know. TBH, after grappling with this, I should add also that 'Copy Flattened' when used alone actually fulfills a lot of what i was looking for. I'm often copying selections from an image in Affinity into other software and 'Copy Flattened' does the job in the one move i was looking for. So really all this to say that 'Copy Flattened' makes up for not having a 'crop to selection' and in some ways it's better.

Thanks @carl123. You're right two moves is better than nothing. That's the way I've been doing it. It just seems a little silly that we don't have a dedicated function for that. I use crop to selection very very very often in my workflow and in my opinion it would be convenient if the software was supplied with that function out of the box.

Agree 100%. I would like to see this in the Info panel too (after making a selection and releasing the mouse button, the values for the width and the height should be retained in the W and H fields of the Info panel).

+1000. Yes please I would like to see this too.

Please provide a dedicated 'crop to selection' function in the Edit menu (or elsewhere). Currently, I see no way of doing this in one move.

Please consider stopping the continuous dynamic updating of the x/y coordinates shown in the Info panel when the mouse is outside of the image display. It's annoying to see the mouse coordinates constantly updating wherever you move the mouse on the screen.

When making selections by dragging with the Rectangular Marquee tool (or any other selection tool) please retain the width and height values (W and H fields) in the Info panel after releasing the mouse. P.S. I know you can see the width and height in the Transform panel but it would help to see this in the Info panel too. Currently, the width and height values in the Info panel are well nigh useless since these values disappear when you release the mouse button after dragging a selection.

Please stop the Info panel x/y pixel coordinates updating when the mouse is dragged outside of image area. It's annoying to see this constantly updating when the Info panel is open. It is completely unnecessary to see the coordinates when the mouse is located outside of the image display.