Overlay?

[JBell]

Hi, hoping someone can help.  I'm new to Affinity (and photo editing in general).  I'm trying to crop and resize an image to match an other image so they are the same dimensions / same ratio etc.  Someone mentioned that I could use the goal image behind my new image so I can zoom and crop the new image over the top to match.  I've been searching for hours and can't seem to find how to do it, probably because I'm not explaining it very well!  Essentially I want to take a photo like this:

 

and crop it to the same dimensions/same amount zoomed in etc as this:

 

 

 

Without just doing it by eye.  Apologies I imagine this is a very mundane question for all the experts but any help is greatly appreciated :)

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @JBell.

Please confirm which Affinity application you're using, and whether you're using release 1.10 or 2.1.0.

[dominik]

2 hours ago, JBell said:

Essentially I want to take a photo like this:

 

and crop it to the same dimensions/same amount zoomed in etc as this:

 

 

Hello @JBell, welcome to the forum.

I am not sure if your question is about croping at all. By looking at the differences between your picture and the sample I see some reasons why you won't be able to achieve the same result, no matter how you treat it in Affinity Photo.

• the perspective looks a little from above towards the jewellery and this is something you can't change afterwards. You have to take care during the photo shoot.
• in the background the texture does not fit the sample image. You cannot achieve the same effect of fading away the texture against an even more distant background.
• while the lighting in your photo is not bad it is not as brilliant as in your sample.

With this in mind I think your task is not only on how to crop the image in APh even more on how to create an image that makes this process possible, at all.

Once you have a photo that itself looks somehow similar to your sample cropping should be very easy in APh.

I do not want to sound harsh. I want to provide constructive feedback. I hope that helps.

d.

 

[Old Bruce]

Is this the sort of thing you are wanting?

[thomaso]

For instance: If you place both images on top of each other and reduce the opacity for the upper you can adjust its size and position. Then you can crop it as wanted with one of the various methods available in Affinity (here for instance in APub with the Vector Crop Tool = a rectangular vector mask). If finished export the result with 100 % opacity.

Note, the pink arrow marks the area where the image in question does not have enough pixels. You can simply add them with one of the various Affinity options, for instance with a layer copy that gets clipped to the upper area and then slightly vertically stretched. Some users might prefer the Clone Tool in APh to paint the missing area as copy. Another approach could be to use the background of one image and blend the other one with a transparency gradient, which also would achieve more common look in the two images, for instance:

[JBell]

Wow thank you so much for all your help, I really wasn't expecting so much and so quickly.  And after realising I hadn't explained it well at all.  I totally agree that the shots are quite different and not a match to start with but they are from shoots done a while back which we can't retake so we're just trying to get them looking as uniform as possible.

Thomaso this looks to be exacly what I need so I am going to work my way through your notes and have a go.

 

Thank you once again everyone for taking the time to help me out here.  It's truly appreciated

[thomaso]

40 minutes ago, JBell said:

but they are from shoots done a while back which we can't retake so we're just trying to get them looking as uniform as possible.

Another option to get them closer could be to create one ore more backgrounds (e.g. from the existing images) and use those to place the rings on, either isolated or partially with their shot backgrounds, merged by a soft edge with a new, common background. Whether this works and is worth the work depends on the number of available and required images, especially if you want to avoid an artifical, technical look. (if the rings would get used isolated s in the sample below then the ring shadows obviously would need extra effort for the mask, respectively a separate layer that could be used in a multiply blend mode).

[JBell]

Amazing thank you, your first suggestion has worked a treat but will have  a play around with your suggestion above also.  Serious thanks to you for your help.