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


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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

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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.

Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD

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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,

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Your welcome 😀

Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD

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