Move nodes independently to get non rectangular crop

[ngolay]

I was hoping there was a way to adjust individual nodes in the crop tool so I could crop non-rectangluar shapes, but I don't see how to do that. Is it not possible in affinity photo 2?

[Old Bruce]

4 minutes ago, ngolay said:

I was hoping there was a way to adjust individual nodes in the crop tool so I could crop non-rectangluar shapes, but I don't see how to do that. Is it not possible in affinity photo 2?

The canvas will always be rectangular. It is possible to 'clip' shapes with other shapes which can be made by the various Shapes or the pen tool drawing curves. This may help

 

[ngolay]

Thanks you for your reply. I will look into this, It's not exactly what I meant. I just wanted to be able to do a quick crop. Straight lines but not necessarily rectangular. SO I just wanted to select the nodes independently and I couldn't figure out how to do it. But I appreciate your response, and I see what you mean obviously if I am cropping I am also dealing with the canvas which is rectangular. I seem to recall maybe in photo shop a tool that would allow me to manipulate the nodes and then compensate for the shape... maybe it was some kind of perspective tool in the crop tool or something. I am currentling playing around with the affiniti perspective tool in conjunction with the crop tool and that will do the job today.  Sorry dumb question.

 

 

[Ron P.]

For Clipping, you can use any shape, even make your own. Then convert the shape to Curves, and using the Node Tool, move the nodes, add nodes, to get the desired shape to "crop". You're actually using a Clipping Mask, but the end result is about the same.

Here's a real fast example, starting with the Polygonal Tool. I essentially cropped to the flowers. If you want just the clipped portion and to remove the outside, you can opt to Rasterize and Trim.