Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 The cropping tool is marvellous, but I don't seem to be able to crop just a layer. Is there something I'm missing? Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
GarryP Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 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.) Quote
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 15, 2024 Author Posted April 15, 2024 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. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
NotMyFault Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 If you want to crop a layer in Photo: 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 If you want do destructively remove the cropped area, rasterize and trim layer. It will bake in the current document DPI, too. Paul Mudditt 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
bbrother Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 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. Quote
carl123 Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 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 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Paul Mudditt Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 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. Screen Recording 2024-04-15 at 12.50.52.mov Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.6 on macOS 15.4 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.6 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.6 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18.4 Recommended Fan based Affinity Support Groups on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Mud’s Macros Library:- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/156842-muds-macros-v11-library-content-aware-move-added/
RichardMH Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 I've always used the Rectangular Marquee Tool, copy to a new layer then the Move Tool to resize. Quote
Pšenda Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 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. https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html It is only described in the note in the chapter about "cropping". 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. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 15, 2024 Author Posted April 15, 2024 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. https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_crop.html It is only described in the note in the chapter about "cropping". 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. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
walt.farrell Posted April 15, 2024 Posted April 15, 2024 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. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Staff Chris B Posted April 23, 2024 Staff Posted April 23, 2024 Hi all, I have just logged this as a feature request. I've asked to either add the Vector Crop Tool as an option that we can add from Customise Tools or potentially add a Vector Mask option with the existing mask options. Affinity-Inspiration 1 Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials
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