AshBoio Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Hey guys, I'm fairly new to Affinity and was wondering if there is a way to crop or mask a selection slightly less than the actual selection itself. What I mean is, when you mask a shape, it leaves a slight layer of the background pixels on your cropped image. I have tried to 'refine' this, however, this does not work effectively enough. Just looking for something which will save me going around the entire image with a small eraser. Thanks very much, Ash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 10, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 10, 2017 Hi Ash, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Go to Affinity Preferences, Performance section and tick Use precise clipping. This should help in some situations. Regarding masking/cropping can you post a sample afdesign/afphoto file so i can see what's going on? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 MEB, Could you explain a bit more about what Use precise clipping affects? What is the downside of enabling it vs. the upside? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted January 10, 2017 Staff Share Posted January 10, 2017 Hi R C-R, Take a look at the screenshot below. I've clipped a green shape inside a black shape. The downside is the performance of the program is affected if you have lots of clipped objects. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshBoio Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Hi, Thank you for the reply. I have attached 2 images. One before the cut / mask / whatever you want to call it, and one after. As you can see from the second picture, there are white pixels left from the background. I have tried refining and things but nothing works except goind around the whole image with an eraser. I was just wondering is there an option where you can reduce the selection size of the selected pixels. Sort of squashing them in just a mm or two inside the image to avoid cropping some of the background of the original image. Thank you for your help. Kind regards, Ash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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