Kyri Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Hi Affinity team, I'm not very knowledgeable on Affinity photo as of yet but I have chosen it as my choice of software for cropping and repainting layers that will be used for animations for some time now. The issue I have found and have not been able to find a way around it without hurting my selection when cropping with the freehand selection tool, is that the cuts are too 'aggressive', I do not know the correct term for this. This is not an issue when editing a file, but when it comes to animating those 'aggressively' cropped png layers there is a visible distortion in the movement of the cropped bits of the png layer. I used to use pixlr e online as an alternative before getting Affinity, but I always find my way back to it to crop my layers after repainting them in Affinity, which has become very inconvenient. Pixlr e online cropping is a lot 'smoother', again, I do not know the term. I will attach the examples of Affinity photo's cropping and Pixlr e to compare. Again I apologize if there is an obvious way to fix this and for my inexperience, any help is appreciated. Finally, Affinity photo is an amazing software and I am very happy with this purchase overall, good job Affinity Team! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 The term you are looking for is antialiasing, antialiasing is a method of smoothing edges. In your examples above the top image appears to have no antialiasing. When you select the Freehand selection tool, there is a context menu bar that appears just above the workspace, on there is a checkbox for antialias, this should give you a smoother selection. Kyri 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyri Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 Thank you so much! Tried now and looks great, don't know how i didn't figure it out for so long. @firstdefence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Glad to help, hope the animations go well 🙂 Kyri 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.4.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 In addition to the earlier advice, if I understand the problem properly, you can alternatively (or maybe together with Antialiasing) add a Feather of non-zero – on the Context Toolbar – before you do your freehand selecting. Note: Changing the Feather setting after making a selection doesn’t add a feather to that existing selection. See my attached video to see the difference. 2021-10-24 13-20-50.mp4 Kyri and Lisbon 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyri Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 Thank you for the additional advice ! @GarryP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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