How can I crop a document

[FEnity Designer]

I've been working on a design and now I feel it is larger than what I require. So, I wish to select an object in my design and crop the entire document to that size. How can I do it?

[Dan C]

Hi @FEnity Designer 

Could you please confirm for me, which Affinity application are you using?

Are you looking to isolate one object and only have this shown/crop the canvas to this object? If you could provide a screenshot of your document/layers panel this may help us provide more specific advice!

[FEnity Designer]

Here you go.... I am using Affinity Designer. 

 

[Dan C]

Apologies for the delayed response! Which Affinity app are you using please?

In Affinity Photo, you can use the Crop tool, or hide all other elements and use Document>Clip to canvas.

In Designer or Photo, you can select the object, copy it and then use FIle>New From Clipboard to generate a new document with this object only, at the correct canvas size.

In any Affinity app, you can draw a new rectangle above all your layers, the size of the area you want to keep, then nest and clip all the layers you want inside this object - anything extending beyond the objects bounding box will not be drawn. I've attached a screen recording showing these steps below -

I hope this helps!

[FEnity Designer]

It worked well.

Can you tell me how can I 'nest' and 'clip'? Where do I find these commands?

[walt.farrell]

48 minutes ago, FEnity Designer said:

Can you tell me how can I 'nest' and 'clip'? Where do I find these commands?

They are not commands. You drag layers within the Layers panel and drop them appropriately onto other layers.

This tutorial should help: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/318402519/

[FEnity Designer]

On 5/10/2020 at 8:57 PM, walt.farrell said:

They are not commands. You drag layers within the Layers panel and drop them appropriately onto other layers.

This tutorial should help: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/318402519/

Thanks for the help

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome

[Barbasol]

I came here to look this up because coming from Adobe stuff it's tripped me up multiple times. I always go to Document Setup and run into a lot of trouble.

I suppose selecting a "top" object and File->New From Clipboard is a reasonable solution. But then you have a new document and have to save over your previous document, etc.

I think it would be much more intuitive to just have a Document Crop command somewhere. Not sure exactly where but "New from Clipboard" seems like a weird workaround and not an elegant command. Maybe a second Crop tool (click and hold Crop on the toolbar to switch)?

I guess I should post in Suggestions but posting here to see if there is a more elegant way I am missing. I not sure I'll always have a top object I want to crop to.

Thanks.