FEnity Designer Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted May 3, 2020 Staff Share Posted May 3, 2020 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! Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FEnity Designer Posted May 3, 2020 Author Share Posted May 3, 2020 Here you go.... I am using Affinity Designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted May 6, 2020 Staff Share Posted May 6, 2020 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 - 2020-05-06 16-11-13.mp4 I hope this helps! FEnity Designer and staughost 1 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FEnity Designer Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 It worked well. Can you tell me how can I 'nest' and 'clip'? Where do I find these commands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 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 and Dan C 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 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. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FEnity Designer Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 You're welcome Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 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. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbasol Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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