RuudW Posted February 23, 2020 Posted February 23, 2020 Hi, I am new to Affinity Photo, so I got a few tutorials on Udemy. The crop tool is supposed to have the option for Absolute Dimensions. The manual here also refers to it, but I don't seem to have that option with a fresh installation of version 1.7.3. Has this feature changed? What am I missing? Best regards, Ruud Quote
GarryP Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 Welcome to the forums. The Udemy tutorials may be for a previous version of Photo. There’s a short discussion of the subject here https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/87391-crop-absolute-size-only-offers-ratio-not-absolute-size/ but it doesn’t say – as far as I can tell – how to use the “new” Absolute Mode. Hopefully someone else can provide a more detailed explanation. Quote
walt.farrell Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 The new Resample mode for the Crop Tool works as follows: You specify the desired output size in the Context Toolbar (width, height, units, DPI). The ratio of width to height that you've specified determines the aspect ratio of the crop box. You adjust the crop box size and position to encompass the part of the image you want to keep. Your chosen aspect ratio will be maintained automatically during this operation. When you press Apply Photo will resample the area within the crop box as needed, and produce an image of the size and DPI you requested. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
R C-R Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 On 2/23/2020 at 7:32 AM, RuudW said: The crop tool is supposed to have the option for Absolute Dimensions. At least in the Mac version of AP (including the latest beta) there no longer is an Absolute Dimensions crop mode. As best as I can tell, that mode has sort of been moved into the Unconstrained crop mode, with one difference: the Units field is greyed out so it looks like you can't enter the dimensions in any units other than pixels ("px") in the context toolbar. However, you can do that by including the units in whatever you type into the width & height fields, so for example if the width is showing "1024 px" in a document set to 72 DPI, you can replace that with "10 in" & when you tab out of that field it will be converted to "720 px." But unless I am missing something, that cannot be saved as an 'absolute dimensions' custom preset that does not involve resampling -- in the popup submenu for the Presets, "Create Preset" will be greyed out: Apparently, only ratios & resampled 'absolute' dimensions can be. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
RuudW Posted February 24, 2020 Author Posted February 24, 2020 Thanks, your answer is in line with what I kind of figured myself. Thanks for confirming. Quote
h_d Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 In line with @walt.farrell's explanation of Resample mode, as far as I can see it works exactly the same in the most recent beta for Mac (GM 1.8.0.168). Set your units to whatever you want, change resolution if required, specify crop dimensions, adjust your cropping rectangle and click Apply (or press enter). The only UI element that sticks to pixels is the "Crop" indicator (under Status in my screen shot). The units in the input boxes and the Units popup remain as set by the operator. So I reckon Resample is the new Absolute. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
R C-R Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, h_d said: So I reckon Resample is the new Absolute. But what if you want to crop without resampling? My assumption is that resample is destructive, whereas Absolute Dimensions was not. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
walt.farrell Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 15 minutes ago, R C-R said: But what if you want to crop without resampling? My assumption is that resample is destructive, whereas Absolute Dimensions was not. If you don't want to resample, then don't use the Resample version of the Crop Tool. Use Unconstrained. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
R C-R Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 3 hours ago, walt.farrell said: If you don't want to resample, then don't use the Resample version of the Crop Tool. Use Unconstrained. But Unconstrained does not allow the document DPI to be changed, nor can a custom preset be saved in that crop mode. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
walt.farrell Posted February 25, 2020 Posted February 25, 2020 Just now, R C-R said: But Unconstrained does not allow the document DPI to be changed, nor can a custom preset be saved in that crop mode. True. There is no doubt that some crop functionality was lost, and some gained, in the transition from 1.6 to 1.7. Many users were asking for the Resample mode (from what I read in the forums) and Serif provided it. I don't know why the other functions were removed. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Trljr Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 I fully agree with this topic. I personally would like the presets to be able to be saved and applied quickly into the non destructive mode as well. It can keep its current function otherwise if you want to simply resample quickly, but in some photos I would like to be able to move the crop window around before final say and to have a quick preset available that I set for the resolution size would be extremely helpful. As it stands right now in 1.8.3.641 I can only use the presets for resamples or ratios. If you try in Unconstrained it is simply grayed out. Quote
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