How to crop for camera club PDI's

[Paul Wright]

Hi there,

I have just started to use Affinity Photo after switching from PS and LR and so far I am loving it. However as I am a member of a camera club we have to crop our images to a certain size with a black background to them. And I am wondering how to go about setting up a preset, or macro to do this.

The sizes are 1600px x 1200px @ 96ppi with the black background colour. I used to do the black background colour by clicking on the Black & White squares at the bottom of the tool bar in PS and clicking the 'delete cropped pixels ' box at the top to make the background black.

Please help as I have just deleted my account with Adobe so I will be asking more questions as I use Affinity more and more.

Thanks in advance,

Paul. 

[smadell]

Hi, Paul...

Resizing the photo to the desired dimensions and dpi can be done easily using the Crop tool. As far as the "black background" goes, you didn't say whether the black part is included in the stated dimensions (1600x1200) or exists outside of those dimensions. Either way, this can be done fairly easily.

I made a little video for you, since seeing is easier than reading. It will show you a way to put the black background INTO the photo (so that the photo plus the background takes up 1600x1200) or OUTSIDE of the photo (so that the photo remains 1600x1200 with additional black around it).

In either case, once you've done this use the Export... choice on the File menu to save out a JPG version of the photo.

Also, toward the end of the video I typed the phrase "Rasterize and fill" - that should be "Rasterize and Trim". Oops - not worth re-doing the whole process.

[Paul Wright]

Hi Smadell,

That is just perfect I will have a do at it tomorrow and let you know how I get on. Cheers for your help.

 

Paul

[smadell]

Good luck with it, Paul. Welcome aboard!

[Paul Wright]

Cheers again, and it's all change for me at the moment as I have also gone Micro Four Thirds with an Fujifilm XT1 and an Olympus OM D EM5 mkI from Nikon D7000 because of the sheer weight of a DSLR and to be honest I can still get excellent images from them both. Plus they are a damn sight more portable.