How to crop within a picture?

[StormyPluto]

Hi,

 

I am trying to effectively straighten out an image via cropping. I only need a small area of the image itself, and the area I need should be rotated slightly. In AI/PS, this was fairly simple, but in trying to do this in APhoto or ADesigner, I can only crop the image from the edges, not WITHIN the image. I'm including the image, I only need a narrow strip, but it needs to be horizontal. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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[Komatös]

Hello @StormyPluto and welcome to the forums.

You can use the Crop Tool. If you move the mouse pointer outside the area to be cropped, the mouse pointer becomes a rotation symbol. 

[StormyPluto]

Thanks, however as you can see in your rotated image, there are now regions without data. I want to crop out the long image and rotate it a few degrees to make it flat.

 

For your example, lets say in the top image, you only wanted the leg of the bee/wasp, and you wanted it to lay horizontally. How can you do that?

[jdvoracek]

Do you mean like this?

Of what is the gel if you don't mind?

[smadell]

I think the best way to straighten out that line (is that an electrophoresis?) is to use the Mesh Warp tool. You can selectively straighten out the angled portion without affecting the rest of the image, and without leaving transparent corners. Here's a really quick video:

[firstdefence]

This is very straight forward once you know how it works, @jdvoracek pretty much nails it with screenshots but I just made a video to show how easy it is.

When straightening/rotating in Adobe Photoshop the crop tool trims automatically.

 

[Brian_J]

In addition to what others have provided, when cropping, there’s a straighten option that may be helpful.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/366761378/

[StormyPluto]

All, thanks for the help. I was able to do it in APhoto after some tweaking. However, it would be nice if I could do it in ADesigner instead. What jdvoracek suggests is what I used to do in Adobe Photoshop, but then they made that functionality in Adobe Illustrator and it made my life even easier since I didn't need to switch between the two programs. Still, its a solution and I'll use it for now.

Completely unrelated, in Adobe Illustrator, if I want to grab multiple objects, I can just drag the little red boxes ANYWHERE over the objects (I don't have to go outside the bounds of the objects). Is that doable in ADesigner?

[Brian_J]

14 minutes ago, StormyPluto said:

in Adobe Illustrator, if I want to grab multiple objects, I can just drag the little red boxes ANYWHERE over the objects (I don't have to go outside the bounds of the objects). Is that doable in ADesigner?

In Preferences > Tools there's an option Select object when intersects with selection marquee. I think enabling this option will give you what you're looking for.

[StormyPluto]

11 minutes ago, Brian_J said:

In Preferences > Tools there's an option Select object when intersects with selection marquee. I think enabling this option will give you what you're looking for.

DYNO-MITE! Thanks!

[Fixx]

Now if we could also toggle the behaviour with a simple modifier key when using marquee ... *wish*