createsean

So I'm trying to crop a photo using Affinity designer and it's pretty much impossible to figure out. In Photoshop I grab the crop tool and crop so simple. With affinity I can't figure it out at all. I tried this tutorial but it's not working and is overly complicated for something that should be a simple task.
 
How can I easily crop a photo with affinity designer?
 

Thanks for all the options everyone. I still feel like cropping is more difficult than it should be. I will however buy a copy of Affinity photo as soon as business picks up. Currently in a slump with no disposable cash.

So I'm trying to crop a photo using Affinity designer and it's pretty much impossible to figure out. In Photoshop I grab the crop tool and crop so simple. With affinity I can't figure it out at all. I tried this tutorial but it's not working and is overly complicated for something that should be a simple task.
 
How can I easily crop a photo with affinity designer?
 

That works but is a major PITA and completely unintuitive. In this case Photoshop wins for being simple and intuitive.

In photoshop when I had the move tool activated by default i had it set to select layer. In Affinity I cannot seem to find this setting. When clicking on a design it always selects the top level group, but I would much rather have it select the layer I've clicked. 
 
Is this possible?

In photoshop when I had the move tool activated by default i had it set to select layer. In Affinity I cannot seem to find this setting. When clicking on a design it always selects the top level group, but I would much rather have it select the layer I've clicked. 
 
Is this possible?

That works but is a major PITA and completely unintuitive. In this case Photoshop wins for being simple and intuitive.

That works but is a major PITA and completely unintuitive. In this case Photoshop wins for being simple and intuitive.

So I'm trying to crop a photo using Affinity designer and it's pretty much impossible to figure out. In Photoshop I grab the crop tool and crop so simple. With affinity I can't figure it out at all. I tried this tutorial but it's not working and is overly complicated for something that should be a simple task.
 
How can I easily crop a photo with affinity designer?
 

@Lee D and @MEB Thank you that works perfectly. 
 
IMO that should be turned on by default, but at least I know about it now.

Yeah, where is the ruler tool?

In photoshop when I had the move tool activated by default i had it set to select layer. In Affinity I cannot seem to find this setting. When clicking on a design it always selects the top level group, but I would much rather have it select the layer I've clicked. 
 
Is this possible?

So I'm trying to crop a photo using Affinity designer and it's pretty much impossible to figure out. In Photoshop I grab the crop tool and crop so simple. With affinity I can't figure it out at all. I tried this tutorial but it's not working and is overly complicated for something that should be a simple task.
 
How can I easily crop a photo with affinity designer?
 

Me too.. would love to have a simple tables.. I'm working on a web design where one sectoin will have a long table with several columns.

@Lee D and @MEB Thank you that works perfectly. 
 
IMO that should be turned on by default, but at least I know about it now.

That works but is a major PITA and completely unintuitive. In this case Photoshop wins for being simple and intuitive.

So I'm trying to crop a photo using Affinity designer and it's pretty much impossible to figure out. In Photoshop I grab the crop tool and crop so simple. With affinity I can't figure it out at all. I tried this tutorial but it's not working and is overly complicated for something that should be a simple task.
 
How can I easily crop a photo with affinity designer?
 

That works but is a major PITA and completely unintuitive. In this case Photoshop wins for being simple and intuitive.

The artboard at the bottom of the layers panel is page one and so on UP the layers panel. Sounds like you may need to drag one artboard below the other.
Mike

Thank you that worked perfectly

Thank you that worked perfectly

Helpful in that I got an answer. So all good.
 
And for the feature request the constraining the movement should work vertically and horizontally. So if I move the crop box horizontally shift + click/drag restricts vertical movement.

I have a photo that I'm cropping to a 6:2 ratio which is fine. However when I move the crop tool vertically I can't figure out how to constrain it so it only moves vertically and not horizontally. I would expect holding shift while dragging would restrict movement to one direction only.
 
What happens is that I move it vertically to where I want but inevitably I have shifted 1-2 pixels to the side and now have an white bar on the side after cropping.
 
How can I do what I want?

Symbols - perfect. Thank you @MBd and @MEB

That works but is a major PITA and completely unintuitive. In this case Photoshop wins for being simple and intuitive.