(AFphoto v2.1b MacOS) Sometimes the Crop tool Crops, sometimes it don't

[Mike Swartzbeck]

So, I duplicate a layer (copy/paste) so that I can stretch it to include a certain small detail on the canvas, and crop the rest. With that layer selected, I selected the Crop tool, the grid appears over the canvas, and I double-click it.

All the other parts of the layer I copied are still there — that is, when I zoom way out, I still see the original canvas-sized outline of the image I copied/pasted to a new layer, stretched, and wished to crop all the unwanted parts out... y'know, like, make all the pixels outside the canvas area just go away, stop existing, go to that place that all good pixels go to.

Why doesn't the Crop tool crop the parts of the pasted image layer that I stretched outside the canvas and want to get rid of? This has always puzzled me ever since v1 — make everything outside the canvas boundary just... be cropped. Not leave the entirety of the pasted image still hanging out over the edge of the canvas.

[R C-R]

By design, the Crop Tool crops non-destructively so if you want to get rid of the cropped out part, select its layer & use rasterize & trim to destructively remove the cropped out part.

[Mike Swartzbeck]

Ah, OK. Thanks.