How to easily resize, crop and edit Layers on a canvas?

[pmcl77]

Hi,

I am currently on my trial trying to decide whether or not I should buy Affinity Photo. While I have watched most of the official tutorial videos, I have a hard time getting my grip on some basic task.

Basically I want to add a canvas in A4 (because I have A4 photo paper for print) and then add several Images on that canvas and make a few adjustments/edits to each of the images.

• Crop each image/layer
• resize each image/layer to a specific size
• make some adjustments and edits to each layer/image

While I could make some adjustments (like brightness contrast etc) I find doing cropping and resizing/cropping of layers not intuitive at all.

Maybe someone can direct me in the right direction on how to accomplish those (normally easy) tasks.

Thanks and best

phil

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums @pmcl77,

Have you viewed the tutorial video on Clipping vs Masking  or Placing Images ?

You can crop the entire image/document, but not individual layers. That's where the Clipping can be used.

Also keep in mind that the Adjustment Layers have their own built in masks. There's no need to add a mask to an adjustment.

[pmcl77]

Thank you @Ron P.

I actually missed the video on Clipping vs Masking, and that's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot!

Regarding masks, I have been watching some YT videos that use curve layers to apply Dodge & Burn nondestructively... Will play around with that and other adjustment layers to see how the masking works.

Best,

[Ron P.]

Your welcome 😀