kanihoncho Posted May 17, 2023 Share Posted May 17, 2023 Is there any way to do a simple edit, such as cropping a photo, and "collapsing" (for lack of a better term as there are no layers at all) a photo without having to export a new version and then deleting the original? There are no other data, color changes, effects, etc. that affect the photo. Why can't I just crop a photo and save it? I even tried restoring and trimming the photo to no avail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 You can, assuming you start with a standard JPG, TIFF, or PNG file. Just Open, Crop, Rasterize & Trim, and Save. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanihoncho Posted May 18, 2023 Author Share Posted May 18, 2023 are you saying that a non-standard form of each of these formats could be causing the trouble? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 No, you just need to rasterize the final result to be able to save the file in its initial file type. As soon the document has more than 1 layer it will save as an Affinity document only. Note, if you save in the initial file type (e.g. opened JPG saved as JPG) it will save in a different, usually higher quality and thus results in a larger file size (depending on your edits). Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 18, 2023 Share Posted May 18, 2023 9 hours ago, kanihoncho said: are you saying that a non-standard form of each of these formats could be causing the trouble? JPG and TIFF files can contain additional data, that might affect this. But if you're having problems the likely reason is that you didn't Rasterize & Trim. Without seeing your document, or a screenshot or recording, we can't say for sure. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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