Cropping, -excess doesn't disappear

[Madame]

Hi, I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I can't find it.

 

I have a photo, cropped and I want to extend the canvas. 

The excess is "coming back" no matter how I try to do it.

 

This has happened to me before when I tried to make a composite. 

 

My workaround is to copy and make a new document, but.. when I'm compositing, it's no solution.

 

If there's something I can do in preferences, I'll be happy! I'll attach some screenshots, but I'm unsure of the order.

 

 

 

[Paul Bravery]

Hi Madame,

Have you tried using a mask to define your image area & then enlarging the canvas?

Paul.

[Madame]

Hi Paul!

 

That's a little different. Thanks for the tip.. but that takes a lot of guess work, doesn't it?

I have to guess how many pixels the new mask/crop is (ie. if I don't want to keep the with, and just extend the height).. -or?

 

I think it's more difficult to make the rectangular marquee tool exactly the size I want it. (Doesn't it require you to refine selection to tweak it a little?)

I wish the flexibility of the crop tool.

I'm sure I'm missing something? Please forgive me for beeing so thick. ;)

[A_B_C]

Rasterise the layer after cropping and before resizing the canvas … that should help …  :)

[Paul Bravery]

Hi Madame,

Alternatively you could draw a rectangle shape with the rectangle tool, using the Transform info tab for sizing.

The image can either be pasted inside the shape or the shape can be made into a selection to make the mask.

 

Paul.

PS I think A_B_C just beat me to it!

[A_B_C]

LOL … that wasn’t my intention … but I see no other direct way than rasterising, Paul … do you?  :)

[Paul Bravery]

Rasterising is fine, I just prefer a non destructive method, just in case I want to change the cropping. Either way there is always more than one way to skin a cat!

[Madame]

Thank you both. Now I have the tools to skin the cat. ;)

 

Well, I didn't think of rasterizing. I think that was what I needed in this case.

 

EDIT:

I still get the excess.. Well I don't get the pixels, but the size still stays the same.

Steps: Crop, apply crop, rasterize, extend canvas.

The size of the original background layer is still there. I have to crop it one more time (or guess the with of the cropped canvas). Then I have to use the fill tool and the marquee tool to get the extended canvas the colour I want. I's a little timeconsuming, I think.

 

EDIT: When I unlock and rasterize before I'm cropping, I just get the straighten tool.

[Madame]

This is what I'm aiming for. 

 

Here I used the mask and marquee tool. I still got the excess pixels and had to crop afterwards. 

And make a selection to fill the extra canvas.

 

Sorry to be so difficult. 

[A_B_C]

Now I believe to see your point, Madame, let me apologize. You don’t want to have the empty margins to the left and to the right of your image, do you?

So you have to untick the Proportional Resize option (padlock) when rescaling the canvas. Then you can enter values independently. If you don’t mind being destructive, then you could do the following:

• Crop your image
• Rasterise
• Rescale the canvas, untick the padlock, enter desired values
• Recolour the excess

Does that help? 

[A_B_C]

Hey Madame, I made some edits to my last post … let me apologize once again for my misunderstandings … here’s a quick video of the process I tried to describe … does that help? 

EDIT Deleted attachment due to upload limits.

[Madame]

Yes, thank you so much! :) What a helpful forum this is! :)

 

Please don't apologize, It was me that wasn't clear.

[Paul Bravery]

Hi Madame, 

 

I haven't tried it yet, but it occurred to me that you could flatten the layer after cropping and then extending the canvas? 

 

Paul.  :rolleyes:

[Madame]

Thanks, Paul, I'm not sure eighter.

But I think A_B_C cracked the code for me. At least for this picture/action. 
 

[H-Mark]

I have been struggling with this for hours.

I want to crop a figure in Affinity Photo to remove all of the excess (i.e. I only want the area inside the crop margins to remain and nothing outside).

 

When I crop the figure and then paste into another composite figure I am putting together in Affinity Designer it brings all of the excess that I don't want.

It seems to be simply restricting the area that is visible, but not removing anything.

 

Any advice on what I am doing wrong or alternatives ways of destructive cropping of a figure?

 

Thanks 

 

 

 

[David in Яuislip]

After cropping, right click on the layer and choose Rasterise & Trim

Or you can access the same choice from the Layer menu

[H-Mark]

Perfect.

Thanks so much