New from clipboard and crop to selection

[Alan O Neemas]

The two main reasons I can't use Aff. Photo for work on either Mac or Windows (I purchased all three products for both platforms) are the inability (AFAIK, hopefully I'm wrong) to do these two simple things.

1) When I've copied a bitmap graphic to the clipboard, I should at least have an option to make the canvas the same size as the clipboard, ESPECIALLY because...

2)... There doesn't seem to be an option to crop to selection, something that MS Paint has had since before most of us were born.

I hope I'm wrong and that you support both of these, but I cannot find how to do either. 

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

[John Rostron]

8 minutes ago, Alan O Neemas said:

When I've copied a bitmap graphic to the clipboard, I should at least have an option to make the canvas the same size as the clipboard

After copying to the clipboard, then enter File > New from clipboard. This gives you a new image on a new, snug-fitting canvas.

John

[carl123]

10 hours ago, Alan O Neemas said:

2)... There doesn't seem to be an option to crop to selection

 

[Alan O Neemas]

On 2/15/2022 at 12:32 PM, John Rostron said:

After copying to the clipboard, then enter File > New from clipboard. This gives you a new image on a new, snug-fitting canvas.

John

Thank you John, this is exactly what I was looking for in part 1!

[Alan O Neemas]

Thank you Carl. This does not work. If I do what you suggest, I lose all layers. I just want to select something, and crop based on selection. There's got to be a better way that that workaround. If not, please Affinity, enable this - it has got to be trivial if Paint implemented it 20+ years ago. I could literally write that functionality in JS with the Canvas API in under an hour or two. Please, please, add this basic functionality to your three (desktop) apps.

[Alan O Neemas]

On 2/15/2022 at 11:14 PM, carl123 said:

 

Thank you Carl. This does not work. If I do what you suggest, I lose all layers. I just want to select something, and crop based on selection. There's got to be a better way that that workaround. If not, please Affinity, enable this - it has got to be trivial if Paint implemented it 20+ years ago. I could literally write that functionality in JS with the Canvas API in under an hour or two. Please, please, add this basic functionality to your three (desktop) apps.

(I'm posting this a second time because last time the "Quote" no longer worked after I used it to reply to John)