Enlarging canvas brings back unwanted border I removed

[melonbird]

This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen, and it wasn't happening a couple of weeks ago, but now it's happening in both V1 and V2.

• I open a photo that has an unwanted black border and crop out the black border.
• I enlarge it, either by Document > Resize Canvas or by using crop and dragging the borders out beyond the photo.
• The black border returns.

I've tried saving it after the first step, as a new file, closing the original file in Affinity, and then opening the new file. Still, enlarging the photo brings the border back.

I first edited this photo a couple of weeks ago and didn't have this problem. But I needed to do it in one more size, and this is what's happening.

ETA: I found a workaround by inpainting the borders instead of cropping.

[Dan C]

Hi @melonbird,

When Cropping in Affinity, the Crop is performed non-destructively, meaning the pixel information is retained.

When resizing your canvas to then include the previous cropped content, this is revealed once again - and this is expected behaviour.

If you wish to remove the cropped section of your image, please perform the crop, then right click on the layer and select Rasterise and Trim. This will delete the cropped area that cannot be seen currently, and you should find does not return when using Resize Canvas, or re-cropping the document.

I hope this clears things up

[melonbird]

I understand the instructions, but I have never before needed to do this when cropping, so I'm confused by that. I also don't understand what the use case would be for keeping the pixel information. I would have assumed cropping is always meant to be destructive, and if I cropped something accidentally, I'd use Undo to bring it back.