Change picture frame size without changing the content on Affinity Publisher

[Peachy]

Hello together,
I'm once again at a loss for a basic function because I don't have enough experience with the Publisher. FAQs and other sources have not helped me.
I have a picture frame in which a picture is placed that is much smaller than the picture frame. I would like to resize the picture frame WITHOUT resizing the picture placed in the frame. How do I do this again?
Thank you very much for your help.

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For the german members:

Hallo zusammen,
ich verzweifele mal wieder an einer Basic-Funktion, weil ich zu wenig Routine im Publisher habe. FAQs und andere Quellen haben mir nicht weitergeholfen.
Ich habe einen Bilderrahmen in dem ein Bild platziert ist, das wesentlich kleiner als der Bilderrahmen ist. Ich möchte nun den Bilderrahmen in der Größe ändern OHNE das im Rahmen plazierte Bild in seiner Größe zu ändern. Wie geht das nochmal?
Danke vielmals für Eurer Hilfe.

[nwhit]

In Publisher, you can select the Picture Frame, then check the Contextual Menu area for the Properties button. Change the Properties to None as far as scaling. Then using any of the corner points, you can resize only the frame. Also in this mode, when selecting the Picture Frame, the bottom right will now have a scaling dot that you can use to scale both the pic and frame. 

[Ove Steen]

I am looking for help I think with the same problem. The pictur frame i s too big for the content - or it could be: I do not want to show the whole Picture. I want to cut a bit of it. 

The help menu talks about a tool called: Size Picture Frame To Content.

That might be what I am looking for. But where is that tool. It does not exist in "Customize tool".

Or what about the answer from November 12? "Select the Picture Frame, then check the Contextual Menu area for the Properties button."

Select with the Move Tool? Yes, there is a contextual menu, but no Properties button.

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, Ove Steen said:

Or what about the answer from November 12? "Select the Picture Frame, then check the Contextual Menu area for the Properties button."

Select with the Move Tool? Yes, there is a contextual menu, but no Properties button.

It might help to have a screenshot of what you're seeing. It should include the complete application window, and the Layers panel with the relevant layer selected.

[thomaso]

7 hours ago, Ove Steen said:

I do not want to show the whole Picture. I want to cut a bit of it. 

Then the auto-properties scale/fit/stretch don't help. Choose "None" and click the large (≠ white) anchor point to hide it. Then you can simply drag-move the Picture Frame handles to crop the image.

[Ove Steen]

I just want to do this (see the inclosed file). 

It is very hard to search the solution in the help menu (as I do not know what you call the assignment).

But maybe it is just the vector crop tool?

[Pšenda]

3 minutes ago, Ove Steen said:

But maybe it is just the vector crop tool?

APhoto and Crop Tool?

https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/SizeTransform/cropping.html

[walt.farrell]

51 minutes ago, Ove Steen said:

But maybe it is just the vector crop tool?

As I said earlier:

17 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

It might help to have a screenshot of what you're seeing. It should include the complete application window, and the Layers panel with the relevant layer selected.

 

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, Ove Steen said:

I just want to do this (see the inclosed file). 

 

On 3/2/2023 at 9:07 AM, Ove Steen said:

The pictur frame i s too big for the content - or it could be: I do not want to show the whole Picture. I want to cut a bit of it. 

Using your Screenshot here is what I achieved with just the Picture Frame tool in Publisher. I assumed you are using Publisher because you say "pictur frame". Use the Picture frame tool and just have the Picture Frame selected in the Layers panel, not the actual Picture inside the frame.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Ove Steen said:

It is very hard to search the solution in the help menu (as I do not know what you call the assignment).

It appears you are quite aware "what you call the assignment" :

On 3/2/2023 at 6:07 PM, Ove Steen said:

Picture Frame

… which leads in a search for »Affinity "Picture Frame"« to this tutorial for instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5AdspeJ8j0

[Ove Steen]

I am a Danish amateur who has used PageMaker and then InDesign for 30 years.  Since they now only provide access via subscription, I have switched to Affinity Publisher.  I can see that the program contains a lot of exciting possibilities.  But they also take pride in organizing well-known, simple features as differently as possible compared to Adobe and often unnecessarily complicated.

Thanks for the help and good advice.

[tombro]

On 11/12/2022 at 12:29 AM, nwhit said:

In Publisher, you can select the Picture Frame, then check the Contextual Menu area for the Properties button. Change the Properties to None as far as scaling. Then using any of the corner points, you can resize only the frame. Also in this mode, when selecting the Picture Frame, the bottom right will now have a scaling dot that you can use to scale both the pic and frame. 

I am trying to resize a frame rather than the enclosed picture, but I don't have the 'Properties' button. How do I get it?

[tombro]

I have just figured it out, it wasn't a picture frame apparently. I right-clicked and chose "Convert to picture frame" and can now change it.

[SproetS]

Coming from Quark, PageMaker and InDesign (more than 20 years everyday work), indeed some basics are not intuitive. Steep learning curve it is. Try to float away from Adobe is not easy...