Cropping in Designer

[monzo]

Hi,

 

I have Affinity Designer and Photo for the Mac, and just purchased the Windows edition of Designer - and pretty happy overall. However I came across the following issue when using Designer:

 

I'd created a simple bit of artwork, and rather than save the whole page, wanted to crop the page down before exporting as a .jpg, which I was then going to send to my client. But unless I'm missing something obvious, there doesn't seem to be an option for this. I can see the Vector Cropping Tool in the Draw Persona, and Slice Tool in the Export Persona, but no standard, simple option for cropping my artwork before exporting.

 

In the end I exported the whole thing, and then opened and cropped it in Photo - but this seems a long way round to do something pretty straightforward.

 

Is there an easier way of cropping artwork before exporting? Or would I have to export the cropped image as a slice?

 

Thanks.

[My Strawberry Monkey]

Hi Monzo,

 

You are correct, there is no crop on export. The workflow to photos is certainly a long way round. If you want a client to only see part of your design I would use the export persona and create a slice using the slice tool and just export that.That way your design isn't affected, and you have control over how the crop/slice looks.

 

 

Allan

[monzo]

Hi Monzo,

 

You are correct, there is no crop on export. The workflow to photos is certainly a long way round. If you want a client to only see part of your design I would use the export persona and create a slice using the slice tool and just export that.That way your design isn't affected, and you have control over how the crop/slice looks.

 

 

Allan

 

Hi Allan,

 

Thanks for the reply, I'll use the slice option as you've suggested.

 

Cheers,

 

Monzo