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When I crop an image, the initial Crop Overlay defaults to the Golden Spiral. This is in a 'pristine' installation of APhoto 1.8, no prefs changed. 

I don't personally mind, but it could well throw users who might expect the more usual "None" or "Grids Third".

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3 hours ago, h_d said:

This is in a 'pristine' installation of APhoto 1.8, no prefs changed. 

And no prior beta of Affinity Photo installed? Preferences would carry over from a prior installation of the 1.7 beta, or a 1.6 beta, etc.

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Not sure if I ever installed a prior beta. My preferences file was created today (which is a bit odd as I installed 1.8 a couple of days back):

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36 minutes ago, h_d said:

My preferences file was created today (which is a bit odd as I installed 1.8 a couple of days back):

There are, on Windows, many different files holding portions of the Preferences and tool settings. Mac may be setup similarly, and you may not be looking at the right file.

Or, you may have found a problem with the Mac beta.

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    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
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I couldn't replicate this on my Mac. In my case there's no overlay, e.g. None. Most likely this also was the setting i used in earlier betas.

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3 hours ago, RNKLN said:

I couldn't replicate this on my Mac. In my case there's no overlay, e.g. None. Most likely this also was the setting i used in earlier betas.

Yes, it does sound the most likely explanation.

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3 minutes ago, Chris B said:

The app should just remember whatever Overlay you used the last time you accessed the Crop Tool.

It's quite possible that I ran a previous Beta at some point in the past and that I used the Golden Spiral cropping overlay.  I'm afraid I can't remember, though -  I was just a bit surprised to see it pop up as what appeared to be the default in 1.8.

Case closed though, I reckon.

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