Affinity Designer, export selection to JPEG problem

[AndyS1966]

I'm hoping this is a simple User error, I select part of a drawing in Affinity Designer. I then try to EXPORT the selection as a JPEG (I select EXPORT selection only). Everything works as expected, but the final image far exceeds the selected drawing, in fact I get a much taller image, as-in much more vertical than horizontal. The select portion ends up being a small portion squashed into the bottom right hand corner and the rest is a white background. Have I selected something wrongly?  Once in this mode the drawing can't be reset and all JPEG export have this problem. A little hard to see below, but notice lots of white before the image itself.

Edited December 31, 2022 by AndyS1966

[Komatös]

Hi @AndyS1966

I was lost in translation. Sorry for that!

 

Rookie mistake. You probably did not set a background.
Affinity Designer shows a white canvas but that is not a background layer.
Create a rectangle that is a little bigger than the document and place it under the other layers as background.
Now the export should work without errors.

Edited January 1, 2023 by Komatös

[thomaso]

Hi @AndyS1966 ,
welcome to the forums!

To know what is going on here it would be required to see the layout together with the Layers Panel and its fully expanded contents. Your amount of objects may make it more useful to upload the document instead for a detailed look.

Note that the selected bounding boxes not always represent the export area, for instance if a blur or shadow effect is applied (even with no colour = invisible) or a text frame without a background colour.

It may be more easy to create a separate rectangle in the desired size anywhere in the layers hierarchy while a fill or stroke is not required, respectively a stroke may get set outside aligned to not appear in the image. Then with only this 1 object selected choose "Selection Area" instead of "Selection Only".

[Old Bruce]

19 hours ago, AndyS1966 said:

I'm hoping this is a simple User error, I select part of a drawing in Affinity Designer. I then try to EXPORT the selection as a JPEG

How are you selecting? And which part of the large image are you wanting to be the JPEG?

[carl123]

On 12/31/2022 at 10:37 PM, AndyS1966 said:

I select part of a drawing in Affinity Designer. I then try to EXPORT the selection as a JPEG (I select EXPORT selection only).

A common misunderstanding is that the export selection options in the Export dialog refers to a pixel selection, which it does not. A selection refers to which layer(s) are selected in the Layers panel

Can you clarify exactly what you are trying to do?

Uploading the document may help if you still can't figure out the issue

[Catshill]

I often use Artboards to define my area for export. It also becomes the default in the export window so is a time saver too.