Can you drag and crop in affinity photo?

[Sharon Young]

Hi everyone, After selecting the crop tool, can you drag and crop? Or, do you need to crop by moving the corners? Hopefully this makes sense to someone😊

 

Many thanks in advance

 

I've sussed it out! Sorry I am very new to this. It won't do it in the photo persona, only in the develop persona😀

Edited March 4, 2021 by Sharon Young
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[v_kyr]

30 minutes ago, Sharon Young said:

Hi everyone, After selecting the crop tool, can you drag and crop? Or, do you need to crop by moving the corners?

Usually yes, see the bottom status bar which tells you what can be done. - You have to drag from inside the crop area rectangle.

[user_0815]

You can do both. When you use the crop tool, there will be a default crop-frame that you can adjust. But you can also just click-and-drag anywhere and the crop-frame will be that selected area.

[Sharon Young]

Thanks for responding but I can't seem to to do it. When I choose the crop tool, the bounding box appears but what I want to do is start cropping from a different part of the image without needing to drag from the corner of the bounding box. It's a function that is available in photoshop and makes cropping much quicker but it's maybe not possible in affinity photo.......

[Alfred]

The bounding box will move if you drag inside it, so you might have to free up the desired starting point by dragging elsewhere first.

[Sharon Young]

Thanks Alfred

I've sussed it out! Sorry I am very new to this. It won't do it in the photo persona, only in the develop persona😀 I think!

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

You have to drag from inside the crop area rectangle.

[h_d]

Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but...

In Photo Persona, if you choose Unconstrained or Resample as the cropping mode you'll get a fine crosshair which can be used to re-draw the cropping area like this:

 

 

Once you've re-drawn that cropping rectangle and released the mouse/trackpad, you'll get a thicker crosshair cursor which you can use to move or resize the cropping rectangle, but not to re-draw it. 

If you need to re-draw the cropping rectangle a second time before committing, then clicking the Reset button in the contextual toolbar:

will bring the cropping rectangle back out to the dimensions of the image and let you repeat the process with the fine crosshair.

If you're in Custom Ratio or Original Ratio mode, clicking Reset switches you into Unconstrained mode, which may not be ideal.

Cheers,

H