Crop to Postcard with Round Corners

[Cheshire]

I want to crop the scan to the borders of the postcard, including the round corners. I have Googled, searched the help and YouTube videos and I still don't know how to do this. 

I'm using the latest version of Affinity 2. 

Thanks for your help!

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Cheshire

I’ve attached a quickly-made video showing one way to do what you want but there will probably be lots of other ways. (You will need to put more time and effort into the various actions to get a better result.)

If you can be more precise about exactly what you want keeping in the image and what you don’t want keeping then you should get solutions which are more suited to your specific needs.

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Cheshire.

If you use the Rectangle Tool to create a rectangle of a suitable size and position it on top of the photo, you should see controls (both on the shape itself and on the Context Toolbar while the shape is selected) for adjusting the roundness of the corners. The photo is very slightly rotated, with the top left-hand corner lower than the top right-hand corner, so you’ll also need to rotate either the rectangle or the photo before cropping. Once the rounded rectangle is exactly covering the photo, go to the Layers panel and drag the rectangle layer onto the thumbnail of the photo layer.

By the way (not that it matters in this particular instance) in general it’s a good idea to state which Affinity app you’re using.

[Dan C]

Hi @Cheshire,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums

I'm unsure which specific Affinity app you're using, but assuming this is Affinity Photo there are a few options here:

Firstly, you can simply use the Crop Tool to crop the canvas to the postcard borders, though this will apply a rectangular crop without 'rounded corners' -

Secondly, you could use a Rounded Rectangle Shape to clip the image to the shape boundaries, effectively cropping the image -

 

However your canvas, and exported raster document will always have squared corners. I hope this helps!

[Dan C]

My apologies, it appears as though both Garry and Alfred have suggested the same options as above within the same minute 

[Cheshire]

22 hours ago, Dan C said:

However your canvas, and exported raster document will always have squared corners.

Thanks to you all, very helpful 

Regarding the square corners, I guess the only way to hide these would be to delete the background and export to a png which preserves the transparency.