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Help.... complete beginner! I am following the first tutorial video and I can't find the apply button as shown once an image as been cropped. I've tried looking in all the settings in case it was disabled but there is nothing obvious - what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance

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If you mean the Apply button for the Crop Tool in the Photo Persona, it is in the Context toolbar below the main toolbar when that tool is selected.

 

EDIT: As Fixx suggested, If you don't see the Context toolbar, enable it in the View menu.

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Why is my Context Toolbar empty?

I have Affinity Designer version 1.8.3.641

The 'Show Context Toolbar' is checked in the View pulldown menu, and the entire bar is empty.

I also unchecked and rechecked... still empty.

I also closed and reopened... still empty.

Also, I attempted to included a link to a screenshot image, but the "Insert image from URL" would not let me.

 

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You are using Designer... there is no Context Toolbar for the Crop Tool in Designer as it works differently to, say, the crop tool found in Affinity Photo

The Crop Tool in Designer is a Vector Crop Tool which allows you to select an object and crop that object directly, it does not allow you to crop the entire document like a "normal" crop tool does.

 

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I too have this problem. I am new to affinity bought it last week. likewise Ive watched tutorials bought 2 books @ £25.00 each followed instruction to the letter, but when I click on the crop tool in "Photo Persona" I do not get the "Straighten" button like it shows in videos, also I do not have the Apply button as shown in tutorials, and finally my context toolbar is always empty!! I am using Affinity Photo 2.

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16 minutes ago, journeyman4 said:

I too have this problem. I am new to affinity bought it last week. likewise Ive watched tutorials bought 2 books @ £25.00 each followed instruction to the letter, but when I click on the crop tool in "Photo Persona" I do not get the "Straighten" button like it shows in videos, also I do not have the Apply button as shown in tutorials, and finally my context toolbar is always empty!! I am using Affinity Photo 2.

Please give us a screenshot of the complete application window, with the Crop Tool selected, and the Layers panel (and the layer you want to crop) visible in it.

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9 minutes ago, journeyman4 said:

Here is what I am getting in Photo persona with crop tool selected

Thanks. You have hidden the Context Toolbar. It also looks like the Status Bar at the bottom of the window is missing, so perhaps at some time you pressed Tab which hid the entire UI (User Interface), and then you've reactivated parts of the UI piecemeal using the View menu. I would suggest pressing Tab again, as the Status Bar is (in my opinion) important. But alternatively, you could just use View > Show Context Toolbar.

 

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    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.
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Hi,

Thank you very much for your reply, I saw about the tab button and what it does, I did,nt realise that I had obviously pressed it, so with doing that, then as you suggested "View" Show context toolbar it has worked a real treat, I now have the Apply, and Straighten buttons.

Thank you so very much for your help greatly appreciated, thank you.

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