Crop workplan from selection...

[mlb]

Hello Affinity Team!

I'm a happy Affinity Designer v1 user since many years, and new user of v2.
The new features of v2 are cool, but for me it still missing some very basic & handy contextual menus.
And the one I miss most is this simple function: Crop workplan from selection

Like "Image > Crop" in Photoshop at 0'45: 

 

I don't understand why this action can't be made easily in Affinity Designer.

Am I missing something?

A right-click contextual menu with "Crop from selection" would be very useful.

Thank you

[loukash]

1 hour ago, mlb said:

Am I missing something?

Yes.
In Affinity Photo:

1. make your marquee selection
2. press C to switch to the crop tool
3. fine tune as you see fit or press Enter/Return to commit
4. voilà

What you also might be missing:

• Affinity crop tool is non-destructive. 

Edited April 16 by loukash
see below

[loukash]

1 hour ago, mlb said:

in Affinity Designer

^ Hm… I just noticed this.

How did you come to the conclusion that Designer should behave like Photoshop, of all things?
If you want behavior similar to Photoshop, use Affinity Photo.

[loukash]

What has "confused" you, @Bound by Beans?

[Petar Petrenko]

It would be nice if crop tool in Photo works the same way it works in Publisher -- to crop the selected object, not to resize the whole document.

[loukash]

@Petar Petrenko: Use a good old plain blank vector shape as a clipping object. The result will be the same.
(Or vice versa: That's what I'm also using in ADe and APu anyway. I've always found the Vector Crop tool pointless. But that's just me… )

[Petar Petrenko]

2 minutes ago, loukash said:

@Petar Petrenko: Use a good old plain blank vector shape as a clipping object. The result will be the same.
(Or vice versa: That's what I'm also using in ADe and APu anyway. I've always found the Vector Crop tool pointless. But that's just me… )

I work with clipping objects, but IMO crop tool should work the same in all apps.

In Photo you should define (final) document size when creating a new document and then use crop tool to fine tune the elements on the layers.