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Hi, I'm finding use of the crop tool really frustrating, sorry! I've just used Affinity Photo whilst at an event. I was taking portraits and then customers immediately viewed their images and purchased their favourites. Invariably a few of the images needed extra cropping, for which I used Affinity Photo. i was printing 6x8 inches, so I set up a preset for a 3:4 ratio crop (why is there not one already? This is a standard print size). However, whenever I opened a new image in AP the crop tool had reset to the default option (freeform crop). I had to select the 3:4 preset everytime. Could there be an option for AP to remember the previously used crop option? Also, the crop interface overlayed the image boundaries outside of the image. The image was filling my screen, and I had to scroll up and out of the image to find the crop tool handles in order to bring them back into the image - this was REALLY annoying and took up a lot of time. Either: 1. Set the crop tool handles to fall within the boundaries of the image and let the user drag outside the image if required. Or 2. Once the crop tool and crop ration/preset has been selected, let the user drag the crop boundaries over the image so they can select the crop region straight away. I really liked the speed of AP, I need to adjust to the interface still but that is a matter of time. Having used PS for 20 years I'm very used to that way of working. I like the fact many of the shortcut keys are the same in AP and PS. Kind regards, Charles

Could we please have the ability to nudge the crop tool with the arrow keys? 1) Open image in APhoto 2) Select Crop tool 3) Create custom ratio eg. 16 x 9 4) try to nudge the selection up or down using the keyboard Nothing happens What I would like to see: The crop selection will nudge the crop selection by 1 pixel increments and when the shift key is held down it nudges by 10 pixel increments BTW the move crop still doesn't become active unless the crop selection is dragged out, using the context toolbar stops the crop from being movable unless the image off from the crop is clicked, I would expect the crop to be moveable as soon as it becomes active from the context tool.

Some changes and new features will help 1. It would be useful to drag rectangles from scratch somewhere in the picture with the crop tool 2. If I make a selection with the selection tool, it would ne nice to find a point in the menu like "crop to active selection" 3. I cannot use the arrow keys to change the position of the current crop before cropping 4. If i rotate the crop and get some transparent/ empty pixels in the corners, it would be nice when AP will have an option to automatically crop to a smaller crop ratio 5. If I hit ESCAPE key it should left the crop tool like I hit "cancel" with the mouse

1. Is there a way to crop the document/canvas/artboard to the exact rectangular area of the selected objects? In photoshop, you could cmd+click on the layer's thumbnail to select the entire object in the layer, then press C to switch to crop tool, and it automatically fits the crop area to the selection, so you get the minimum canvas size that fits the object. How do you achieve this in AD? While it's able to cmd+click on a layer to select the objects, I can't figure out a way to do the cropping for the canvas other than adjusting the document size with numbers. 2. when exporting, the "Area" dropdown menu is greyed out, how do I enable it? Thanks

I don't seem to be able to move a custom ratio crop until after I have set a custom preset. I expected to be able to set a custom ratio and move it to a desired place without the need for creating a custom ratio. 1) Open an image eg 1024 x 768 2) select the crop tool 3) choose a custom ratio eg 1024 x 350 Observe: Custom Ratio sits over centre (horizontally and vertically) of the image 4) Try to move this up or down Expected: The ability to move Actual: Unable to move 5) Add custom ratio to presets Observe: cursor changes to move tool and the crop can now be positioned. Or am I missing something?

Good morning, I posted yesterday and can't find my post, so Im trying again. I just downloaded Affinity Trial Version and the crop tool doesn't work, and it's so stripped down I can't seem to make it work intuitively, as a somewhat experienced Photoshop user. Are any of you willing to answer a question about the Trial? Or perhaps you will just tell me to go ahead and buy the whole version so I can just get started. Its a tad unnerving to get the Trial and not have it work, however. thank you!

Hello and thank you I am new to Affinity and am just on the Trial version which seems like a Lite version when compared to the larger menu in the Tutorial Video. That aside, the crop function seems disabled for me. I click on the crop tool and the Tutorial tells me the handle bars will appear, but nothing appears and no amount of clicking or dragging, or anything is creating a response. Please help! I am helpless without Photoshop to run my business, and believe Affinity will be my new darling, but what is going on? hifire

Hi, Part of my job is to crop employees portraits to a specific size and resolution (2.7cm x 3.5 cm at 150 dpi) I do it in one move with the crop tool (in Photoshop) - It is so simple. attached screenshot. I have tried using Infinity photo’s crop tool, but I have to keep using Photoshop. With each update of Affinity I expect the crop tool’s capabilities to be extended, but it never happens, I have mentioned this on 3 updates, but to no avail. - I was trying to switch from Photoshop to Affinity, but because of this problem, I find myself using Photoshop for nearly all of my work. Is there any possibility that one day I will be able to do this task simply in Affinity? David

I like to change the measurements to inches when cropping in order to be able to size to a particular paper dimensions. This is not possible in the as the dimensions are limited to pixel (greyed out) However when I am in the Hand tool, changing the dimension type is easy. Any help with this issue would be great. I am running the new update Affinity Photo v 1.4

I am having trouble removing and adding crop presets. I know that you go to custom ratio type in the desired ratio and then save it as a preset. After doing this the preset doesn't work and reverts to an unconstrained ratio. At first I couldn't select the faulty presets but after restarting the program I can put a checkmark next to the names. Even though I can select the presets and click "delete preset" the preset doesn't disappear. Help is appreciated.

Please instruct me on how to crop a photo / illustration in Affinity Designer. I've tried everything I could and searched forums and videos for a long time. I'm sure it's something obvious that I will say, "ohhhhh...that's how." This is what I've done: With a working file (or a Jpeg that I open) I click on the rectangle tool to get the crop area I want. Then I click on crop tool and crop lines appear. What do I do next? I've read double clicking is the trick but where do I double click? On the crop tool? On the image I'm trying to crop? Crop lines disappear and I'm back to square one. I've also tried clicking only on crop tool to make crop marks appear and I get same results. I see crop lines but it doesn't crop. Single or double clicking on crop tool or image or hitting enter doesn't crop. Also, sometimes the crop lines are there and locked and I can only move the image moves around within the crop lines. But still no crop. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you :)

Hello, I cropped my vector object (text converted to curves) using the vector crop tool… now I want to further edit the cropped version of the vector object now based on it's cropped shape. How do I "flatten" that crop mask without resorting to rasterise to continue manipulating it's shape? Thanks

Hey guys, I'm having a big muscle memory issue with C being used for the Corner tool instead of the Crop tool. Is there any chance of renaming the Corner tool to something like Fillet and using the F key for that? Or perhaps it's don't rename the tool but use the letter K for Korner? Cropping is so much more ingrained than Corner, for me... 2 more cents. Thanks for everything you do.

I hope it isn't too long before the crop tool becomes fully functional. Without it, I'm just playing around with the program. For the most part I like what I see BUT please get the crop tool working. I need to be able to set a pre-set and drag out the window knowing the end result will be what I set. For example 6"x4" at 300 DPI. Will you be adding the dpi to this tool? Right now I can set it for absolute dimension 6"x4" but at what dpi. Then when I drag the window it is anything but 6x4. Huh?

It would be great to add the C shortcut to select the Crop tool in AD and AP...

Not sure if I am missing something but is there a way to specify the height and width in pixels or inches for the crop tool?

My first use of the crop tool to rotate and crop resulted in the image disappearing leaving a white screen. The only way to restore the image was to use C+Z a few times to return to the original. The lens blur filter doesn’t seem to do anything. There was no preview so I selected apply to see what would happen. After 5 long minutes working and freezing the computer it completed what ever it was doing without noticeable effect to the image. The depth of field blur seemed to work well and has some nice accessories, but after the first success with the DoF blur filter the entire blur filter set stopped doing anything. The sliders showed the math but nothing happened. Every time I used the crop tool the cropped image becomes a full screen image, which is irritating. On a personal level I find all the icons in colour distracting, pretty, but harder to instantly recognize than their b&w counterparts in P.S