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Long-time PS user, new to Affinity Photo. Mostly like what I see so far. BUT, I am having a problem. I don't do a lot of 'graphic' design work but do a lot of cropping and resizing of user supplied images. Nothing elaborate, just very basic. Scenario goes like this...

  1. User uploads image to my website. (I then download to my local computer)
  2. Image loaded into Affinity Photo
  3. Remove un-needed areas around the photo edges via Crop tool.
  4. Resize the document/canvas to add border around photo.

BUT, if I resize the document the cropped area expands to the new size requested. If I resize the canvas, the original canvas (before crop) is shown but with the desired 'border' around it.

Surely I am missing something, but what?

 

TIA for any assistance

jdadwilson

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Hello @jdadwilson, and welcome to the forums.

Cropping is non-destructive. After cropping, apply Layer > Rasterise and Trim.

John

Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo).

CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB  DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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  • 10 months later...

Your tutorial regarding cropping shows an easy simple method, however in my trial version on Mac M1 OS 12 Monterey, there is no visible cropping tool. The tutorial shows it clearly in the tool bar, but I've looked thru out the tools and cannot locate it. Is this a glitch in the OS or the product? I would purchase affinity if it preformed on my system as well as it does in your tutorials. Thank You

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If the Crop tool isn't showing, try
View/Customise Tools
and drag it over to the left. You may also like to increase the Number of columns to 2 otherwise tools can be hidden

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6 hours ago, David in Яuislip said:

If the Crop tool isn't showing, try
View/Customise Tools
and drag it over to the left.

Alternately, even if it isn't showing in the Tools panel you can use the keyboard shortcut to switch to it. By default, it is the C key, but that can be changed in preferences,

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