Does Photo have a trim option?

[Chris Christner]

Photoshop has a trim option that automatically crops an image to remove extra white space, is there an option for that in Photo?

[Aad Slingerland]

I'm not sure I understand you question. Do you mean an image with a white or transparent border that should be removed? Or the cleanup needed when 'straighten' an image with the crop tool (which will result in tranparent pieces at the borders). Could you upload a sample image to this thread..

[Chris Christner]

I meant a picture that has a large area of white surrounding the main part of the image (maybe you started with a large image and sized it down leaving a lot of whitespace behind). In Photoshop, you click on Trim, hit return, and it automagically removes the excess leaving just the main image, as shown in the attached graphic. Beats having to use the crop tool.

trim_example.tif

[Alfred]

Try the method suggested here:

 

[Chris Christner]

5 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Try the method suggested here:

 

Whoa! That was fast. Appreciate the help, but the workarounds on that thread require too much time or too many steps. The Photoshop trim tool is a nice timesaver, because it's faster and more reliable than cropping an image by hand. That said. cropping is the next best option for my workflow.

That thread helped a lot in that one of the Affinity staff said there is no Trim tool.

[prophet]

Man oh man. I miss the PS trim transparency function almost every week in my regular workflow. Having gotten the hang of most of APs masking and adjustment layer quirks, I literally only open Photoshop to quickly trim transparent pixels from some AI mesh/warp rendering exports that have an inexplicable transparent margin around them.

[zebeebee]

On 11/6/2020 at 6:01 PM, prophet said:

Man oh man. I miss the PS trim transparency function almost every week in my regular workflow. Having gotten the hang of most of APs masking and adjustment layer quirks, I literally only open Photoshop to quickly trim transparent pixels from some AI mesh/warp rendering exports that have an inexplicable transparent margin around them.

I think both of us are in the same boat coming from photoshop and using the trim feature.  I found the option if you haven't yet.  Click on Document then - Clip Canvas.  It was in and older forum post.  I hope this is what you were looking for

[prophet]

5 hours ago, zebeebee said:

I think both of us are in the same boat coming from photoshop and using the trim feature.  I found the option if you haven't yet.  Click on Document then - Clip Canvas.  It was in and older forum post.  I hope this is what you were looking for

By Jove! Exactly what I need. Well spotted @zebeebee!

There is still the odd occasion where trim to top left or bottom right pixel color would be handy, and I'm still waiting for "crop to selection" functionality, but this gets me 99% off PS!

[JulieG]

Copy and File then New from Clipboard!