[Merging layers without cropping]

11 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Then why not just start with a canvas large enough for all the layers to begin with, or if needed enlarge it to enclose all of them? That could be done as @carl123 suggested by unclipping the canvas or with the Crop Tool.

I guess what I don't understand is what benefit there is to having layers that are fully or partially off-canvas.

How can I keep composition if I enlarge the canvas?

[Merging layers without cropping]

1 minute ago, RNKLN said:

Well, apparently it took Photoshop about 6 years to come with this feature. Affinity Photo has been on the market less than 4 years...

haha... this is called evolution, Affinity doesn't need to invent wheel. And I used PS since 1996, that's why I mentioned this year, but I believe it was there even before. 

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5 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do but...

If you have...

"selected layers that extend outside the current canvas"

why not unclip the canvas first (Document > Unclip Canvas) then do the Merging?

Yes it's an option, but it seems to me complicated. I used Photoshop for 20 years and this is normal there since 1996 :)))) Would be nice to have the same in AP, when I merge layers, nothing is cropped to document size. And if I want to crop the layer to document size, there can be function "Crop to document size" and that's it.

[Copy layer to specific channel; K in this case.]

On 2/3/2019 at 8:43 PM, v_kyr said:

Hi, see:

• Using channels
• ...I just want to copy the blacks in my image
• Channels

Thanks..

[Merging layers without cropping]

5 minutes ago, >|< said:

You've missed the whole point of the opening question, it would seem.

radimkacer wants to merge selected layers that extend outside the current canvas without the result being restricted to the canvas area.

(By the way, Rasterise is redundant after Merge Visible unless I'm missing something.)

yes you are right. And rasterizing after "merge" is redundant, each "merge" is rasterized.

[Merging layers without cropping]

13 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Probably NO, in order to keep their sizes grouping or compounding preserves initial layer sizes.

thanks.. 

[Merging layers without cropping]

1 minute ago, >|< said:

You could have a non-destructively cropped document and wish to merge layers without destructively cropping.

In Photoshop is this normal function when you want to merge layers. Would be nice to have it in Affinity Photo too.

[Merging layers without cropping]

Is there an option how to merge selected layers and don't crop them to document size? (Desktop Mac, same is for iPad)

 

Thank
Radim

[Copy layer to specific channel; K in this case.]

I merged from Adobe platform to Affinity and I have one question. Is there a way how to copy whole layer to "K" channel only, in CMYK document? I was used to do that in Photoshop where this function was just by copy/paste. I would like to have CMYK document with BLACK channel only for black and white print, but I need to make the "K" channel from composing all other channels. 

Thanks for advise.

Radim Kacer