Lamont Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 With some inagesm I cannot get the canvas size to work. Instead I get a reverse crop oa crop I have done peviously to the image. Let's say I have an image that I have cropped to my liking. Now I rescale it to 5x3.75" @300 ppi. I resize the canvas to 6x4" for convenient printing of the image with a white border. However, resizing the canvas instead uncrops the image a bit. It does not revert the crop completely and it does not revert the image size (pixels by pixels), and the canvas size does not change. Happned to 2 out of my last 5 Images. I had another person try to rule out user error. Same result in 1.3.5 and 1.3.5.5. What gives? 1104BonitaVon and AltisKa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 You have to go to "layer > flatten" before you resize/ expand the canvas because the crop is non destructive by default. Hope I got it right ;) Leigh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamont Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 The images in question have only one layer (Background). There is nothing to flatten, so that's not it. You nention crops are non-destructive. I did not realize this. How does one undo the crop after saving a cropped image as .afphoto? But you bring up another unrelated issue I find weird and confusing: In an image that has only one layer (Background), if I choose "merge visible" I get a new layer (Pixels). I find this utterly befuddling. What is that all about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 It actually just works that way. It's logical as it merges the layers and produces a new layer .... So that's a perfectly fine behaviour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 You could also use a 6x4" rectangle and use it as a clipping mask. Then you don't have to flatten the document because the resizing is done through the clipping mask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 3, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 3, 2015 Hi Lamont, Alternatively, right-click on the Background layer in the Layers panel and select Rasterise... to get rid of the hidden cropped data before resizing the canvas. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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