Cropping not deleting rest of image

[gumbo23]

I have opened a jpg, cropped it, and found that the rest of the area is still there. 

 

I'm pasting it into another project, but it only pastes with a huge invisible area around the cropped section.

 

How do I fix this?

[MEB]

Hi gumbo,

If you paste a cropped layer into another document it should paste the full image (non-cropped).

To avoid this you must rasterise the cropped layer before copy/paste to another doc. To do it right-click on the layer and select Rasterise... in the Layers panel.

[Fixx]

This should work differently. It should not make any difference if the layer is unrasterized as it anyway contains pixel data.

[R C-R]

Fixx,

 

It makes a difference because cropping is normally non-destructive -- it affects the entire document. The pixel data outside the cropped area is still there, which means you can return the document to its un-cropped state later on. In AP you do this by selecting Unclip Canvas on the Document menu.

[Fixx]

Let's rephrase that if you make a selection and try to copy/paste that it will be the whole layer. Obviously it should be only the selection area.

[R C-R]

If I make a selection in AP & copy that, I do only get the selected area. Copying a layer is a different operation.

 

Try it for yourself: use any of the selection tools to create a "marching ants" selection, copy that (from the edit menu or with a keyboard shortcut), & paste it into another document, or use Affinity's or Preview's "New from Clipboard" menu item to make a new document, etc.

[MEB]

This depends on the type of layer you are working with. If it's a Pixel layer (type), selecting and pasting an area will copy/paste the selection contents only. If it's an Image layer type it will copy/paste the entire layer.

[R C-R]

This depends on the type of layer you are working with. If it's a Pixel layer (type), selecting and pasting an area will copy/paste the selection contents only. If it's an Image layer type it will copy/paste the entire layer.

True, but either way this doesn't have anything to do with cropping, which affects the entire document, & thus does not seem to be the best tool to use if all you want is to copy/paste a part of it for use in another document.

[MEB]

Yes, it doesn't have nothing to do with the Crop Tool. I was just clarifying what happens when you copy a selection from different layer types because that was what you were talking about from post #5 onwards.

[R C-R]

My apologies. I should have made it clear I was considering only pixel layers, presumably like what one would be working with if they opened a JPEG file like gumbo23 said he did in the first post.