What seems to be lost in translation, is that the word "crop", wait for it... means _cut_.
Not sure how any of the explanations and comparison, for example the Designer advantages over Quark (how is that a respectable comparison after the garbage that app turned into boggles the mind?), but if the tool is called crop, then why on earth, does it not crop??
Forget the off topic comparisons, it seems the crop tool does not do what it is incorrectly named to do, crop. If I want to _crop_ in Affinity Designer, with the tool named "Crop", then why should I not expect it to crop? What is the advantage, use, purpose, benefit, need to drag an image around the screen or pasteboard, or artboard, when there is an aptly named Move tool for that expected and well understood purpose?
Really trying to avid Adobe products, and support Affinity.
Can I have a functioning tool that crops and not some function I am still not clear on when I don't care if its vector, raster, or whatever. There is a tool in Affinity Designer named Crop. What it does is not what I expect, because, crop, by definition, means _cut_.
I did not purchase every Affinity product and the books, because I was looking for a cheap solution. I purchased because I want choices, and not to choose Adobe.
Apologies for the rant, just frustrated with a supposedly simple task that I still am not clear how to accomplish.
