PeteS Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 When using the cropping tool, if I select 6" x 4" the aspect ratio is not maintained when changing the size of the crop area. If I select 5" x 7" for example the ratio is maintained when resizing. I am new to Affinity and I am not sure whether I am using this feature correctly. Many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 10, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 10, 2016 Hi Pete, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) The 6" x 4" value you find in the Mode dropdown is not a ratio but an absolute dimension (6 inches x 4 inches). You can change it to any other dimension you wish because there's no ratio implied when working with absolute dimensions in the Crop Tool. 5 : 7 on the other side is a ratio (note the colon separating the values and no unit specified). You can scale it up or down changing the dimensions accordingly but the relation between the two dimensions (ratio) is always kept the same. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference | Call for Camera Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asha Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 The UI for this is a little counterintuitive...I would suggest for the size constraints that the units default to pixels. In an example file I'm using, if I select a 4" x 6" area to crop, the units say 25" x 16.667". It would also be nice if we could specify pixels per inch in the absolute crop size. It looks to me like it defaults to either 72 dpi or the native dpi of the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shobby Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I'm quite new to Affinity and to digital photography and retouching and so cannot answer this question. However I have one of my own on cropping. For some reason the crop tool, although appearing as a grid, no longer allows me to resize any edge of a picture. I have had many pictures open at once and also a single one. I have come out of Affinity (without saving the images) and re-booted it but the problem remains. Does anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteS Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 Many thanks for the responses. I hadn't initially noticed the different options for absolute dimensions and ratios. I have now created a custom ratio of 6 : 4, which I use mostly for printing, and saved this as a preset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barninga Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 @shobby, i can't reproduce your problem in any way. the only advice i can thik of is to reset the application. hold the CTRL key when launching the app then click "Select All" then "Clear". Quote take care, stefano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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