Crop Tool problems

[Mariusz_F]

macOS Ventura v.13.2
Hardware acceleration ON
Problem description:

1. Using the Crop Tool when changing the first left value of the Mode: Custom Ratio settings and pressing the tab button, the cursor is not skipping to the right value, but settings are sets immediately to the image. To change the right value you have to make additional click on it by the mouse.
Problem do not appear in Affinity Photo V1

2. The Crop Tool do not remember last crop settings, even after control-Z.
Remark: The Crop tool remember its previous settings but only for some values, eg. 5x4 at Mode: Custom Ratio, but not eg. for 4x5 (why?)
The same problem appear in Affinity Photo V1.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report!

On 2/11/2023 at 2:21 PM, Mariusz_F said:

Using the Crop Tool when changing the first left value of the Mode: Custom Ratio settings and pressing the tab button, the cursor is not skipping to the right value, but settings are sets immediately to the image. To change the right value you have to make additional click on it by the mouse.

I can confirm I am able to replicate this issue here and have logged it with our developers

On 2/11/2023 at 2:21 PM, Mariusz_F said:

The Crop Tool do not remember last crop settings, even after control-Z.
Remark: The Crop tool remember its previous settings but only for some values, eg. 5x4 at Mode: Custom Ratio, but not eg. for 4x5 (why?)

However I'm unable to replicate the above currently. All values were recalled when using CMD+Z / CMD+Shift+Z for me - are you able to provide a screen recording of this for me?

Thanks in advance!

[Mariusz_F]

Hi Dan,

Please find screen shots for this issue :

"Remark: The Crop tool remember its previous settings but only for some values, eg. 5x4 at Mode: Custom Ratio, but not eg. for 4x5 (why?) "

 

Steps por the 4:5 ratio:

1. Click Crop tool and set Custom Rate 4:5

2. Apply Crop tool

3. CMD+Z and click Crop tool again (or just click Crop tool again) -> Mode is in the default settings and do not remember last 4:5 ratio

 

Repeat this steps for 5x4 ratio:

4. Click Crop tool and set Custom Rate 5:4

5. Apply Crop tool

6. CMD+Z and click Crop tool again (or just click Crop tool again) -> BINGO! Mode remember last 5:4 settings!

 

[Dan C]

Many thanks for providing that for me - my apologies as I was not 'applying' the crop before undoing, but with your above steps I'm able to replicate this behaviour and I'm logging it with our devs now

[BigStef]

@Mariusz_F I agree with point 1 : Using tab to modify value in crop tool is weird. This issue is also in other apps of the suite, but sorry i had this issue this morning and can remember in which app for which window.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Crop Tool - tabbing from one input box applies value, does not highlight next input box" (REF: AF-160) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.2.0 Release".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

[SS Gilbert]

OK, I've never been able to figure out the crop tool in Designer. After I drag handles to my selection, I don't see SELECT in the context bar. (Always works great in AP.)

What am I missing?

Mac OS Ventura 13.6.1

AD 2 v 2.2.1

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, SS Gilbert said:

OK , I've never been able to figure out the crop tool in Designer. After I drag handles to my selection, I don't see SELECT in the context bar. (Always works great in AP.)

What am I missing?

You're missing that the usual Crop Tool in Photo provides a raster crop of the canvas, but the Crop Tool in Designer Crops a vector object, and the two tools work differently.

[SS Gilbert]

Let me rephrase the question: how do I select the crop in AD v2?

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, SS Gilbert said:

Let me rephrase the question: how do I select the crop in AD v2?

I'm not sure what you mean by select. But basically, you drag the marked corner or edge nodes.

[SS Gilbert]

4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm not sure what you mean by select. But basically, you drag the marked corner or edge nodes.

Having done that (first image above), how do I get the selection to crop?

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, SS Gilbert said:

Having done that (first image above), how do I get the selection to crop?

It is cropped automatically. There's nothing further to do.

[SS Gilbert]

14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It is cropped automatically. There's nothing further to do.

Thank you, Walt, but it is not automatically cropped or I wouldn't have started this feed.

Anyone else is free to comment here! The issue is extricating my cropped selection from the background so I can use it.

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, SS Gilbert said:

Anyone else is free to comment here! The issue is extricating my cropped selection from the background so I can use it.

As I said, in Designer, you have a vector crop tool that crops a vector object.

Is that what you're working with, or do you have a raster design?

[walt.farrell]

For more on what the Crop Tool does in Designer: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html

I suspect, @SS Gilbert, that you have a raster design and you should be making a pixel selection in the Pixel Persona of Designer, then Copying that. But without more information about your design it will be hard to say more. For example, it would help to see the Layers panel.

[carl123]

2 hours ago, SS Gilbert said:

Having done that (first image above), how do I get the selection to crop?

In your image it looks like you don't have that layer selected in the Layers panel

It looks like you may have a different layer selected (one below that shown image)

A full-sized screenshot, showing the Layers panel and the crop tool selected or a video recording may help see what you are doing