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to close this thread I have found the old legacy tutorials and "adding borders"  "resize canvas" James Ritsons' demonstrations make things more understandable to me.

It is 2018 and still no way to change Guides color or thickness.  I find them hard to see in many cases

Is it possible to change the color of the guides?

@carl123 thank you! Your macro is amazing. 😁 It's absurd that we need a macro for such a basic feature, but... go figure.
What I don't like about this discussion is the way some users are putting it... Like:
you just need to do this (+ 10 steps of fiddling) you are using the wrong tool ... and other nonsense We all understand Affinity products are quite good. There is no need to reinforce that.
However, making jokes on other users or pretending not to understand that "crop to selection" must crop the picture to the bounding box of a selection is just silly. This feature is present in basically any image editor and has been there in the open source program GIMP for 20 years as well (with one click).
There is no technical issue for Affinity to create a shortcut for the non-destructive crop tool. It would just need to retrieve the coordinates of the active selection and apply those.

to both and apologies Walt. Indeed this does work. It seems I had the screen tolerance setting too low in the snap settings....increasing this to 10 in this case and the guide lines are much more prominent. did do a screenshot but didn't export at a high enough quality it seems. But I think you can get the gist of it

that's very neat. I like. not quite so sharp along the bottom and right corner, plus background top left and right on my 1920 x 1080 screen.

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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE split the forum into separate sections for each app. I only use APhoto and have to trawl through reams of posts relating to the other apps to find posts relating to AP. I know the argument is there are lots of similarities between the apps, but after the latest updates there is so much stuff about subjects and functions that simply have no relevance to me. I also use other firms apps where they have several different apps and they are split neatly into app specific sections, so it can’t be hard to do and would make life SO much easier to browse questions relating to AP. I just want to keep up to date and see what other folk are doing, using and problems and solutions to AP related matters.
Thanks...
 

Mine came yesterday so haven't had time to explore as yet. First impressions I'm pleased but agree it might be a problem having it open and trying to follow while using Photo on my desktop windows.

Can't be anything to do with the date can it?

A basic and free little tool can give quite good results https://fotosketcher.com/

Couldn't find a search on this but I find it frustrating browsing the Affinity on Desktop forum as people don't always put a good description in their title and I open questions relating to A/Designer which are no interest to me as I only use A/Photo. Would it be a good idea to have separate forums for Designer and Photo?

Couldn't find a search on this but I find it frustrating browsing the Affinity on Desktop forum as people don't always put a good description in their title and I open questions relating to A/Designer which are no interest to me as I only use A/Photo. Would it be a good idea to have separate forums for Designer and Photo?

Couldn't find a search on this but I find it frustrating browsing the Affinity on Desktop forum as people don't always put a good description in their title and I open questions relating to A/Designer which are no interest to me as I only use A/Photo. Would it be a good idea to have separate forums for Designer and Photo?