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The cropping tool is marvellous, but I don't seem to be able to crop just a layer. Is there something I'm missing?

 

 

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What do you mean by “crop just a layer”, and which application are you using?

The Crop Tool in Designer and Publisher works differently to the tool with the same name in Photo.

(You might also be able to use clipping but that would depend on what you have and what you want to do with it.)

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22 minutes ago, GarryP said:

What do you mean by “crop just a layer”, and which application are you using?

The Crop Tool in Designer and Publisher works differently to the tool with the same name in Photo.

(You might also be able to use clipping but that would depend on what you have and what you want to do with it.)

Ok, I mean if I have an image on a layer, can I just crop that image? Because selecting the Crop tool (Photo) selects the whole document.

 

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If you want to crop a layer in Photo:

  1. use a rectangle shape to define the crop area, either as mask (nested) or clipping path  (used as parent). You can use this layers, it is non-destructive 
  2. If you want do destructively remove the cropped area, rasterize and trim layer. It will bake in the current document DPI, too.

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1 hour ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

I mean if I have an image on a layer, can I just crop that image?

No, you can't. APh (Affinity Photo) cropping is document-based (globally), as you've already noticed.

But personally I like to use masks to hide unwanted areas of the layer (as @NotMyFault suggests👍).
Mask copes with this task very well. That's why I don't have the urge to implement object/layer-based cropping.

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1 hour ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

Ok, I mean if I have an image on a layer, can I just crop that image? Because selecting the Crop tool (Photo) selects the whole document.

If the image is Linked (not embedded) you can select the image layer and Edit Image in the context toolbar. You can then Crop just that image

Bear in mind that this is destructive and will crop the original image (JPG) so masking is usually best, unless you don't mind cropping the original

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2 hours ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

Ok, I mean if I have an image on a layer, can I just crop that image? Because selecting the Crop tool (Photo) selects the whole document.

As I mentioned on the other thread, use rasterise and trim after nesting to any shape you want to destructively clip a layer in Photo.

 

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2 hours ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

Ok, I mean if I have an image on a layer, can I just crop that image? Because selecting the Crop tool (Photo) selects the whole document.

Hi @Patrick Connor (I didn't know who exactly to direct the Help comment to).
The current description about Crop tool in Help is not clear - it is not clear if it is an image as a whole document or an image placed on a layer.

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https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html

It is only described in the note in the chapter about "cropping".
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https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/SizeTransform/cropping.html

Thus, a proper understanding of the crop tool's functionality requires a detailed reading of several Help articles, which is probably not optimal.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Hi @Patrick Connor (I didn't know who exactly to direct the Help comment to).
The current description about Crop tool in Help is not clear - it is not clear if it is an image as a whole document or an image placed on a layer.

image.png.f61dd37ab6a9ac81da68b9e1a444f2a4.png
https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html

It is only described in the note in the chapter about "cropping".
image.png.82bff65d917c29f7a985162ff0eb606c.png
https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/SizeTransform/cropping.html

Thus, a proper understanding of the crop tool's functionality requires a detailed reading of several Help articles, which is probably not optimal.

It is a bit odd. Designer seems to have the ability to crop a layer image, with its Vector Crop tool, but Photo doesn’t. It’s crop tool only has the ability to crop the entire document.

I can live with that but if you don’t have both apps it needs a bit of a work around.

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

It is a bit odd. Designer seems to have the ability to crop a layer image, with its Vector Crop tool, but Photo doesn’t. It’s crop tool only has the ability to crop the entire document.

I can live with that but if you don’t have both apps it needs a bit of a work around.

The Vector Crop Tool in Designer basically clips/masks the layer within a rectangle. It's a little harder to do that with Photo, but it's the same thing in the end as you'd get in Designer, just done by manually creating the rectangle and doing the clipping/masking via the Layers panel.

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