LaPellesFactory Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 The crop tool seems to behave differently in two different kinds of Affinity Photo files. In one file, a simple jpg, it works as advertised in the affinity.help guide. The other file has several layers, including a group that contains both type and objects (rounded rectangles). In this second file, the crop tool, when selected, shows a blue outline; there is no context menu and no grid into which the image is usually divided. When I click and drag to select an area, the crop tool only selects one of the objects in the group. Hitting the return key has no effect. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how I can get this tool to work. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Application screenshot? Workaround video? Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 4 hours ago, LaPellesFactory said: The other file has several layers, including a group that contains both type and objects (rounded rectangles). In this second file, the crop tool, when selected, shows a blue outline; there is no context menu and no grid into which the image is usually divided. When I click and drag to select an area, the crop tool only selects one of the objects in the group. This sounds like the (object-based) Crop Tool in Affinity Designer. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 It sounds like you may have opened a Designer file containing Artboards, or a Publisher file containing Pages, in Photo. That would give you the Vector Crop Tool rather than the usual raster (canvas) Crop Tool. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaPellesFactory Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 Thanks Alfred and Walt. That indeed appears to have been the case, as the original file was from Publisher. I worked around the problem by exporting to a jpeg, which I could then crop. Looks like I'll have to brush up on that vector crop tool. walt.farrell and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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