kakehy5 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Please instruct me on how to crop a photo / illustration in Affinity Designer. I've tried everything I could and searched forums and videos for a long time. I'm sure it's something obvious that I will say, "ohhhhh...that's how." This is what I've done: With a working file (or a Jpeg that I open) I click on the rectangle tool to get the crop area I want. Then I click on crop tool and crop lines appear. What do I do next? I've read double clicking is the trick but where do I double click? On the crop tool? On the image I'm trying to crop? Crop lines disappear and I'm back to square one. I've also tried clicking only on crop tool to make crop marks appear and I get same results. I see crop lines but it doesn't crop. Single or double clicking on crop tool or image or hitting enter doesn't crop. Also, sometimes the crop lines are there and locked and I can only move the image moves around within the crop lines. But still no crop. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 9, 2015 Hi kakehy5, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) The Affinity Designer Crop Tool is object based rather than document based (as in Affinity Photo). This means that it only crops the selected object/layer/group. So if you draw/select a circle and change to the Crop Tool, you will see four small rectangular handles in the middle of the sides of the bounding box. Just drag them to crop the object (circle). They are non-destructive, so you can revert back or edit their position whenever you want. It works exactly the same if you select an image instead of a shape. Just drag the handles to crop the image and it's done. There isn't a document based Crop Tool in Designer. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakehy5 Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 Thank you for clarifying! I may need to get Affinity Photo as well :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 10, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 10, 2015 You're welcome ^_^ Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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