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[olwen]

i just want to crop, make minor adjustments and convert copies to small jpeg for use on internet. just how hard is that????                         dead easy on photoshop, does it actually exist on affinity?????

[Hangman]

Hi @olwen and welcome to the forums,

Which Affinity app are you using, Photo or Designer... Assuming the former, then yes it is potentially very easy... could you elaborate a little in terms of what you are wanting to achieve...

• What is your source image?
• What have you tried so far that isn't working for you?

[R C-R]

All 3 Affinity apps can 'convert' a document to JPEG & quite a few other formats via the Export function, & AD & AP also have a dedicated Export Persona with multiple options not available via File > Export in the other personas, like simultaneously exporting to several different formats, scales/sizes, etc.

All 3 have many common layer based pixel adjustment capabilities but AP also has powerful live & destructive Filter capabilities. However, PS has more of them than Affinity does.

AP has a document-based Crop Tool that AD lacks, although (perhaps oddly) it is available in APub via Studio Link in APub's Photo Persona if AP is also installed.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, R C-R said:

AP has a document-based Crop Tool that AD lacks, although (perhaps oddly) it is available in APub via Studio Link in APub's Photo Persona if AP is also installed.

But only if you're working on a document that does not have Pages.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, olwen said:

to small jpeg for use on internet

It may be worth to know that Affinity resamples an image in its own (high) quality even if you have only modified 1 character in a Metadata field of an opened .JPG and selected "Save". And, if this opened .JPG did not have a colour profile embedded than Affinity will add one with "Save". – Means, "Save" in Affinity seems to work different than other apps which may result in unexpected file sizes for just "minor adjustments".

[R C-R]

36 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But only if you're working on a document that does not have Pages.

True, in the APub 2 Photo Persona the Crop Tool is greyed out if the document just has one or more artboards but you can still do the equivalent of cropping each of them by selecting the artboard (not its content) with the Move Tool & dragging the handles to get that. 

As with the Crop Tool, to make the crop destructive you can use the rasterize option, at the expense of converting it to a pixel layer.

[walt.farrell]

32 minutes ago, R C-R said:

True, in the APub 2 Photo Persona the Crop Tool is greyed out if the document just has one or more artboards

Not on Windows, to my surprise. Only Pages seem to force the Vector Crop Tool for the Photo Persona of Publisher (1.10, or 2.1.1 or 2.2.0.1903 Beta). Artboards don't matter.

[R C-R]

21 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Only Pages seem to force the Vector Crop Tool for the Photo Persona of Publisher (1.10, or 2.1.1 or 2.2.0.1903 Beta).

What do you get in the Photo Persona for this APub V2 1 page only.afpub example? It has just a single page but for me the regular (non-vector) Crop Tool is available in that persona.

Likewise for this 1 artboard.afpub example, there is just a regular (non-vector) Crop Tool option for me but it is greyed out.

For neither file do I have a Vector Crop Tool in the Photo Persona's Tools panel. That is available only in the other 2 Personas.

Edited July 29, 2023 by R C-R

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, R C-R said:

What do you get in the Photo Persona for this APub V2 1 page only.afpub example? It has just a single page but for me the regular (non-vector) Crop Tool is available in that persona.

Interesting.

For "1 page only" I have the normal Photo Raster Crop Tool:

I thought I had tested that, but perhaps I mistakenly had a Master Page, too.

12 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Likewise for this 1 artboard.afpub example, there is just a regular (non-vector) Crop Tool option for me but it is greyed out.

For neither file do I have a Vector Crop Tool in the Photo Persona's Tools panel. That is available only in the other 2 Personas.

Still has the Raster Crop Tool, in the Photo Persona:

[R C-R]

19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Still has the Raster Crop Tool, in the Photo Persona:

So do you ever get the Vector Crop Tool in that persona?

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, R C-R said:

So do you ever get the Vector Crop Tool in that persona?

Yes, with more than 1 Page (Master or document) in the document.

[R C-R]

30 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Yes, with more than 1 Page (Master or document) in the document.

Aha! I get the same thing ... except the tool's tool tip is labeled "Crop Tool" even though it is really the Vector Crop Tool, judging by how it works.

2 Pages.afpub

[smadell]

Talk about "too much information"! I assume (since you are thinking about moving over from Photoshop) that your Affinity application of choice will be Affinity Photo. And, to answer your question in the simplest manner, what you want to do is exquisitely simple. You can start Affinity Photo with the "sublime" and progress all the way to "the ridiculous" (not really ridiculous, but AP is certainly capable of things such that no single person would need all of them). Since a picture's worth a thousand words, watch this…