Hanan78 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Hi I've been having trouble with cropping tool in designer. when I open an image file that I need to crop, there will be no up-down arrow key and the grab hand doesn't appear. I watched tutorial clips in YouTube and it seems that my cropping tool not working properly. I'm using iMac 2013 with Catalina and I installed affinity suit v2 I will be grateful if someone show me how to fix this problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanan78 Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 (edited) I forgot to mention that nothing appear in the toolbar aswell Edited March 30 by Hanan78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Hanan78. You say that you’re trying to crop an image file, but you mention Designer. I wonder whether you’ve been watching tutorial clips for Photo. Its Crop Tool is canvas-based, unlike the Crop Tool in Designer which is object-based (so before you use it you need to select the object/layer that you want to crop). Open your image file in Affinity Photo and try using the Crop Tool there. Post back, of course, if you’re still having difficulties. Hangman 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanan78 Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 yeah you are right the tutorial is for Affinity photo, and it is working fine thank you for taking the time to reply back to this fool here Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 3 minutes ago, Hanan78 said: thank you for taking the time to reply back to this fool here I’m glad I was able to help, but there’s no need to brand yourself a fool! We all have to start somewhere, and many new users are … er … fooled(!) by subtle differences in functionality between the apps in the suite. Komatös 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarinC Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Maybe I'm missing something but I can crop an image in Designer (in Windows) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 22 minutes ago, KarinC said: Maybe I'm missing something but I can crop an image in Designer (in Windows) As Alfred said, you can crop in both Photo and Designer, but the Crop Tool works in different ways. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 1 hour ago, KarinC said: Maybe I'm missing something but I can crop an image in Designer (in Windows) 46 minutes ago, PaulEC said: As Alfred said, you can crop in both Photo and Designer, but the Crop Tool works in different ways. As I mentioned in my earlier post, since Designer’s Crop Tool is object-based you need to select the target object in order for the tool to do anything. Either click on the layer in the Layers panel or drag a marquee around the entire canvas in the workspace, and then move the corner or side adjustment handles to crop the selected object. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 1 hour ago, KarinC said: Maybe I'm missing something but I can crop an image in Designer (in Windows) That will depend on what you mean by an image, and your exact document structure. And also, how you expect the tool to work, which was the issue here. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarinC Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 25 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: That will depend on what you mean by an image, and your exact document structure. And also, how you expect the tool to work, which was the issue here. I tried both a jpg and a png in an artboard which is usually how I work in Designer. It seemed obvious to select it first then select crop. Like I said, I was probably missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarinC Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 35 minutes ago, Alfred said: As I mentioned in my earlier post, since Designer’s Crop Tool is object-based you need to select the target object in order for the tool to do anything. Either click on the layer in the Layers panel or drag a marquee around the entire canvas in the workspace, and then move the corner or side adjustment handles to crop the selected object. I just purchased Photo yesterday but haven't installed it yet so I have not tried it. When cropping an image in Photo you don't have to select it first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 24 minutes ago, KarinC said: I tried both a jpg and a png in an artboard which is usually how I work in Designer. It seemed obvious to select it first then select crop. Like I said, I was probably missing something. So you have (probably; hard to tell without screenshots) an Image layer in an Artboard layer, though you might also have a Pixel layer in an Artboard layer. In either case, you have layers, and so the vector Crop Tool in Designer, which is designed to crop layers, can work on them. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian_J Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 20 minutes ago, KarinC said: When cropping an image in Photo you don't have to select it first? The Crop Tool in Affinity Photo affects the entire document (canvas) — selecting layer(s) has no effect on the crop. The Vector Crop Tool in Affinity Designer is object-based, as Alfred mentioned, so the object must be selected to perform the crop. The Affinity help pages may help your understanding of the differences: Photo Crop Tool https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html Designer Vector Crop Tool https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html Quote Windows 10 22H2, 32GB RAM | Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 (MSI/EXE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 4 hours ago, Hanan78 said: when I open an image file that I need to crop, there will be no up-down arrow key and the grab hand doesn't appear. 34 minutes ago, Brian_J said: The Crop Tool in Affinity Photo affects the entire document (canvas) — selecting layer(s) has no effect on the crop. The Vector Crop Tool in Affinity Designer is object-based Nevertheless, also in APh you can use AD's cropping method of a masking shape/curve object, and fully regardless of the layer type, it works with "Image", "Pixel" or a selected "Group" layer, too, and thus it may affect an entire document as APh's Crop Tool does: Start: 1. Add masking shape, e.g. 'Rectangle': 2. Choose "Clip Canvas": Result: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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