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Hi! Does anyone know how to create a Phi Grid (based on the Golden Ratio) overlay in Affinity Photo? (The Golden Ratio is divides the frame into sections resulting in a grid that is 1:0.618:1). I want to use that overlay for composition and cropping. I know we already have a Golden Spiral, but I like the Phi Grid for landscapes and other types of images. For more basic info on the Golden Ratio you can check this article, specifically for photography: https://www.apogeephoto.com/how-to-use-the-golden-ratio-to-improve-your-photography/ Thanks!

Hi, I would love you to consider adding a Phi Grid as an additional option to the existing cropping overlays. As you probably know, it is based on the Golden Mean just like the Golden Spiral but I find it more useful than the later for landscapes and other types of images. Thanks for all the outstanding work you are doing!

Each time the Crop Tool is selected, the Mode menu always opens with Unconstrained. If I am cropping a number of open photographs to, say, 6x4, I need to re-select the required ratio for each photograph. I would love to see a feature that allows the selected Crop Ratio to be remembered - each time another photograph is selected. I would also love to see the selected Crop Ratio to be remembered between each Affinity Photo session. Such a feature would significantly improve workflow when the same crop ratio is applied to a series of photographs.

The Place Image Tool is very handy but it lacks one essential thing: to be able to CROP the image by holding a modifier key, say ⌘-Shift I know this is possible with the Picture Image Tool but that is too much workaround

First of all, you guys are amazing. Your programmers and designers have done an incredible job on building Affinity. Look like after 15 years of retouching in Photoshop I am finally going to switch because you have the tools I wanted Photoshop to have but never had, more humane and thoughtful approach to the overall design and much better performance. Now onto important requests. All these are not just vanity features but those that I came across using very often during my retouching works. - add an aspect ratio shortcut Alt or Ctrl to image cropping. I know you have a dropdown, but it doesn't help much. Choosing the right crop and composition is often a multistep process, adjusting it with an aspect ration, then correction a bit without it the on/off etc. It has to be easy to use shortcut to make it flexible. - Path blur. A complex feature, I know. something that blurs along a curve or several parallel or converging curves with adjustable speed setting on ends and along the curve. Very important for automotive photography retouching. - Same but an elliptic curve with multiple adjustable ellipses. - please add blending to dust and scratches. Right now the results are pretty rough just like in photoshop. Could be something similar to the healing algorithm, where the texture is taken from the surrounding areas, or at least some simple pixel blend to remove the rough edges and artifacts around the remove dust/scratches. - Basic metadata edit. Title, description, keywords, copyright. It's important to have it within the same software. I tried to use separate software for that but that makes it a two step process. Photoshop's metadata editor is fine but is missing spellchecking. Opening the GPS location with google maps in a browser would be handy too. Easy to implement I think. Please consider. - an option to have the layer on/off checkbox on left Thanks a lot. Keep up the great work. Will recommend you to all my colleagues. Alex

Have been a loyal Photoshop fan since version 1, but now that I'm retired but active, the price is out of reach. In searching for alternative tools, found Affinity Photo and I love many aspects of it. HOWEVER, I've run into a couple of peculiarities that I cannot seem to work around. What I'm trying to do is create .png elements that I can combine as web elements to build up a composite image for customers to create their own version of my product. (Think, changing colors on a car image - sort of like that.) Problem is some of these elements are ovals of differing sizes that must come together concentrically on the website. So, I am attempting to use the crop tool to create transparent background .PNG files and it ain't working as (I think) it should. Here goes: 1. Cropping leaves a ghost line around the cropped area unless I find a way to make that area transparent first. 2. Using the crop preset - I create a crop area and save that as a preset. The area is in the center of the drawing. When I recall the preset, it is justified to the upper left corner. Getting it back to dead center is nearly impossible and my images never align. 3. Aside for the misalignment issue from #2, if I use the preset on two different .bmp images, then export them as .png, they do not retain the relative size - one is larger than it should be. Here are 3 bitmap images produced by my CAD. They are exactly the same size, 1387x983 px. The first one is an oval board with blue place holders for two overlay tracks, the 2nd and 3rd files. BTW, on the toolbar it says that all 3 are represented at 84 - shown here. So, I remove all but the tracks on the 2nd and 3rd files to create the overlays as .png files, attached. Then, when I "place" these two back onto the board graphic, it seems to work. Here's the problem. When I crop these 3, I must recenter the crop tool each time and cannot make it exact with my eye. The result is that the .png files I create for each is slightly on a different center and the overlays don't line up properly, as shown in Sample Board - Cherry with 2 tracks Thoughts? Sample Board - cherry.bmp Sample Inner Track.bmp Sample Outer Track Maple.bmp

Newbie here. I notice that when I use the crop tool to straighten an image or remove parts of an image, it lists in the history the various steps that I have taken. For example, I perform the following using the crop tool, and the corresponding data is shown in the history. Change mode of crop (to 16:9) Constrain Crop Pan around Pan Crop Resize Resize Crop Rotate Rotate Crop etc. Then, when I click apply, all of that history is erased and replaced by "Raster Crop." It appears that only one action has been take on the image. Is it possible to undo each of the steps that make up that change. If I click Undo (or go back a step), I have to start from scratch. I would rather be able to back up a step or two, like to after I did the Pan Crop (in the above example), and then do the Resize and Rotate again. Thanks for your help.

When I have rotated a shape - or whatever - I sometimes want to crop it in relation to the page but can't find a way of doing it. (Think of the scalpel blade going down or across the page rather than at the same angle as the object.) I can reset the selection box so I can manipulate the shape that way but it would be nice if I could reset the crop box in the same way. Consider the attached image: A. Draw a rectangle. B. Rotate it - the selection handles "follow" the shape. C. Press "Reset Selection Box" and the selection handles move to a box that surrounds the rectangle in the same orientation as the page rather than the rectangle. D. Use the Crop tool but I can't find a similar way to reset the crop tool - to the dotted red line - so I could, for instance, cut off a corner of the rectangle. Is there a function I don't know about or, if it's not currently possible, a way to reset the rotation of an object without actually rotating it back? I know I can put the rotated object inside an 'invisible' shape but then I can't easily move the 'crop'. I found a way of doing what I want by adding a small non-rotated object to the rotated object but this seems like a bit of a hack. These posts are similar to my situation but not quite the same: * https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/64166-feature-request-crop-by-bounding-box * https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/61346-crop-tool-problem This thread mentions up-coming improvements to the "vector crop tool" in the first post but doesn't give any details: * https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/52300-sneak-peeks-for-17

Hello, after converting from Illustrator to Designer, I am taking the next step now: Photoshop >> Photo! I found already most of the feature equivalents, but as I edit a lot of screen shots, I need an easy way to crop images based on a selection. In Adobe Photoshop I would select the part I need to crop with the selection Rectangular Marquee Tool and the I select Image: Crop. Searched the help system, I searched the forum, but did not find anything. And no, the crop tool does not help. Looking forward to getting help.

I’m making a webtoon on an iPad and put texts on Affinity Photo. However, the length of my Webtoon is very long and I want to be able to cut the photo in to 3 so that it can fit the size requirements for Webtoon. I was doing this in Photoshop using the slice tool, but it would be REALLY cool if Affinity photo can do this as well! I know that it might be a very minor tool for most other users, but it would make Affinity Photo feel even more professional too! Thank for reading

Hi, Am new to AP and using the trial. My first stumbling block is cropping. I have pasted in an image to a layer but it has a border I want to remove. How can I do this using the cropping tool on just that layer? When I select the layer and the cropping tool I am seeing a grid but when I apply the crop it crops to the entire document not the layer. Many thanks TT

When I scan a series of drawings I like to select and export parts of that drawing into seperate jpg files Is there a fast function in AP to cut and copy a selection into a new file? Now cut copy a selection but then the new file is either to small or large for the selection. Furthermore I cannot crop to selection

When I scan a series of drawings I like to select and export parts of that drawing into seperate jpg files Is there a fast function in AP to cut and copy a selection into a new file? Now cut copy a selection but then the new file is either to small or large for the selection. Furthermore I cannot crop to selection AP is nog crashing. It is just that AP takes so many handling to perform such an easy job Is there for example an option to create a new file in exact the right amount of pixels. And then paste the copied picture right in the middle of that new file? So that I do not have to move and crop all the time

Missing in Photo: more options for output format in export (important for TIFF - more compatibility with old software) BMP export on/off dither for rasterizing tolerance option for "Selection brush tool" user presets for all filters snapping for "Crop tool" circle overlay in "Crop tool" "Mesh warp tool" for curves (without rasterizing) "Warp text" like in Photoshop "Invert mask" function base RGB adjustment (3 trackbars with range -255 - + 255 (in 8 bit)) adjustment presets in DESIGNER Thanks for considering proposals.

When editing an image in Develop Persona the Crop tool does not offer an accept/reject (tick/x) option. How do I 'initiate' the crop while remaining in Develop persona? Solved. After setting up a crop how do I cancel it?

Dear team, sorry - I'm never really satisfied with crop tool (some apps worse, some better). 1. would be great if it snaps - I like to crop images from center not to destroy perspective that probably no one cares, sometime me neither, but when i wish center in center i like to do it perceise 2. same hotkey modifier to keep constrains like when you scale any object. Its pain to set it on top menu. 1&2 how to explain - i just see some rectangle (as crop tool) which would be nice to handle like rectangle object - scale from center, not from one side, keep proportion without resetting ratio and size, etc. 3. way to avoid empty canvas when rotated or moved - as an option. Like in apple's photos you can't do photo with empty corner.) 4. sorry for complaining I love this software so much!

I'm trying to select a new application to migrate from Fireworks which sadly hasn't been updated in years. Affinity Designer looked promising but after using it for a little bit I am absolutely getting frustrated by the number of steps to perform a seemingly simple action. In fireworks, once I have drawn a selection around an object, to destructively crop it required three clicks: Right click the crop area Select "Crop Selected Bitmap" Double click to finalise the crop Simple. I've tried to read a number of guides on cropping in Affinity Designer and the best I could come up with is after drawing a selection around an object in pixel persona mode: Click the refine button from the top bar Wait for the screen to redraw (approx 1 second) Untick matt edges (because it seems to make a horrible mess of the image borders) Click on the output drop down box to display a list of options Select "New Layer" from the list Click apply Find the original image in the Layer list (may involve scrolling) and click it Press the delete key to remove the original Sorry but that is two to three times as many steps as Fireworks and is unnecessarily frustrating. Why does it have to take so many clicks to do this? Why can't you just add an option to the right click menu after you've drawn your selection like most reasonable applications? I haven't even figured out if it's possible to crop the document size to the bounds of the selection yet. Again, an option that could be selected obviously and easily in Fireworks at step 2. I'm just about to give up on Affinity Designer and move on to the next product which might be able to take the place of Fireworks unless I'm missing something here. Also, it's all well and good to say not to use a destructive crop but in some circumstances that's what I want to do. For example, working with an extremely high resolution image (12000+ pixels across) and I want to crop elements from the image into their own movable objects, imagine the file size if every time I had to make a new copy of the image with a mask (100+ copies of a 12000+ pixel image).

Hi, I was trying to create a shape by overlapping a circle shape with another circle shape (the 2nd circle was only the stroke and with no fill) when I tried to crop (subtract) the first circle with the 2nd circle the program cut the shape as if there 2nd circle had a fill and ignoring it was only the stroke (see attached). I had to convert the circle in to a donut to perform this. Thanks

It is possible to see how the Histogram for an image works on parts by using the Crop tool with the Histogram open, but the histogram is only updated when the crop is committed, so trial attempts have to be made with the crop tool, and any which don't look good enough have to be reverted with Undo. Would it be possible to make a tool which works this way (doesn't have to be Crop) but which allows trial measurements on selected areas? It is possible to have the Histogram open as well as one of the Scope tools, but would it be possible to have more of the Scope tools open at the same time? Not so good on a laptop, but on a large screen would be little problem. Lastly, re the selective measurement (crop) idea above. Some of the Scope tools don't work so well with a reduced area - unless the Gain is turned up. The max gain seems to be 500% which might not be enough for some small areas. Is there anyway of automating this so as to avoid having to manually turn up the gain in order to see any useful result? Should be possible, surely.

Please could you make the cropping tool and 'darken border' sticky, so that they remember selections from one edit to the next. I invariably crop to original ration and darken border. When I have 20 or so photos to crop that is 2 extra selections per photo and cropping ratio is on the left side of the screen and darken border is on the right. A lot of extra work. The export function is brilliant, it remembers the previous selection for the whole of the session, please do the same for cropping. Thanks.

Hello everyone, I'm new in affinity photo and I try to find on Youtube tutorials or here on the forum how to perspective crop an object, keeping the aspect ratio of that object. I have to crop some paintings from photo and if I use the perspective crop tool it lengthens my result. I do something wrong or this future is not available in Affinity yet? I attach 2 examples. Normal one is cropped in Photoshop, second in Affinity. I really like Affinity Photo but there are some future missing, or I didn't discover it yet.

By default, Affinity seems to have the Rule of Thirds and the Golden Spiral - is there a way to add or turn on a Phi grid overlay?

Hello, I'm slowly trying to ween myself from Photoshop. It's only a matter of time my copy will not run on my Mac. One feature I often use is the ability to create an image, usually with transparency. I select all the pixels and crop the file from the selection. This gives me a clean file with no extra canvas space. I don't see that ability in Affinity Photo. Possible or should I request that as a feature?

When I have a lot of photos to edit, it's great that the export settings are remembered from the previous export. Can you make the cropping tool and 'darken border' selection behave the same way please. It will make my workflow so much easier and quicker. Thanks for a brilliant product.

Hi there, Affinity Photo does not use crop when displaying the small preview pictures of default filter options (left side). The picture itself on the right side is shown correctly (with crop).