Affinity Photo cropping problem. How to make a real crop? AF remember the original canvas!!! How can this be turned off?

[Sebastian Michael]

Please give me a hint.

How to make a REAL crop in Affinity Photo? AP remembers all of the original canvas, which is super annoying . Many effects (maybe even all of them) are rendered from the original entire canvas, not the crop area. For example: this is the case with the mirror effect. It is centred but relative to the centre before the crop (of course we can move the kaleidoscope point). To render the reflection, graphic areas are used that are no longer present on the canvas !!! PhotoPlus started with the idea of remembering the original canvas, there was an option to uncheck it. It should be similar in AP, I have no idea where?

Edited June 3, 2021 by Sebastian Michael
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[foto-grafic]

After doing the clipping, right click on the layer and choose Rasterize and trim.

[Sebastian Michael]

4 hours ago, foto-grafic said:

After doing the clipping, right click on the layer and choose Rasterize and trim.

I did not pay attention to it at all :-). Thanks for the tip.

Nevertheless, I hope we can enable it permanently. That switch should be somewhere in the options.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Sebastian Michael said:

Nevertheless, I hope we can enable it permanently. That switch should be somewhere in the options.

If you want to request a change to the program, you need to use the Feature Requests forum (after reading the instructions at the top):

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feature-requests-suggestions/

[Sebastian Michael]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

If you want to request a change to the program, you need to use the Feature Requests forum (after reading the instructions at the top):

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feature-requests-suggestions/

Serif has transferred a huge amount of solutions from previous Plus programs to Affinity. There is a switch in PhotoPlus that I am talking about. I hope it's transferred. Then, maybe someone knows where it can be found in the AP options (or knows 100% that it is not there). When I am sure that I am looking for non-existent functions, I will definitely propose changes with an appropriate application.

[walt.farrell]

There is no existing option for what you want.

[Sebastian Michael]

3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

There is no existing option for what you want.

I dug through the entire WorkBook, checked help and didn't find it. However, English is not my first language. There is always the option that I don't understand or miss something. I admit that you may be right.

At the beginning of next week, I will submit proposals for changes.
I will leave the post open. Maybe someone will tell me how to apply Rasterize & Trim .. with one click to all layers.

[carl123]

7 minutes ago, Sebastian Michael said:

Maybe someone will tell me how to apply Rasterize & Trim .. with one click to all layers.

You can't, it has been requested already so we just have to wait and see if they implement it sometime

[Sebastian Michael]

Thanks to all of you for your answers. Best wishes.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Sebastian Michael said:

Serif has transferred a huge amount of solutions from previous Plus programs to Affinity.

Actually, the Affinity apps were developed entirely from scratch using completely new from-the-ground-up core code. This was necessary because unlike the Windows-only Plus apps the Affinity ones were designed to run on Mac, iPadOS, & Windows systems (& possibly others in the future), & to be able to take advantage of certain computing technologies that the Plus line could not use unless they were completely rewritten.

[GarryP]

22 hours ago, Sebastian Michael said:

I dug through the entire WorkBook

I think it’s worth mentioning that the Work Book probably isn’t meant to be a user guide – or manual – for the whole application and, as such, will not document all of the functionalities of that application.
If you want help with a function, the best place to start is in the in-built Help via menu “Help → Affinity <application> Help”.

[Sebastian Michael]

On 6/3/2021 at 7:19 PM, R C-R said:

Actually, the Affinity apps were developed entirely from scratch using completely new from-the-ground-up core code. This was necessary because unlike the Windows-only Plus apps the Affinity ones were designed to run on Mac, iPadOS, & Windows systems (& possibly others in the future), & to be able to take advantage of certain computing technologies that the Plus line could not use unless they were completely rewritten.

I'm talking about solutions with which the end user interacts, about the implemented functions. The programming language is irrelevant to the end user, the program is supposed to work and be functional. I have known Serif for many years, I am their faithful fan and I know the history of the Affinity brand development. However, it is difficult not to notice the common elements between the Plus and Affinity series 😉.

[Sebastian Michael]

On 6/4/2021 at 1:02 PM, GarryP said:

I think it’s worth mentioning that the Work Book probably isn’t meant to be a user guide – or manual – for the whole application and, as such, will not document all of the functionalities of that application.
If you want help with a function, the best place to start is in the in-built Help via menu “Help → Affinity <application> Help”.

Did you find in Help what I'm asking? I haven't found it. As you have probably noticed above, we already know that this functionality is not present in AP. The topic is exhausted unless you have a way to override this feature. Maybe a macro?

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Sebastian Michael said:

However, it is difficult not to notice the common elements between the Plus and Affinity series 😉.

Nevertheless, there are many significant differences, not just in the code but also in the feature set & UI.